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doubtful. She is considered doubfful iu 

 her purity of mating only as imperrVetly 

 marked bees were seen in her nucleus. This 

 may be due, however, to straying bees from 

 nearby hybrid colonies. 



The apparent success of these matings, 

 even though they were not tested beyonO 

 the limitations of the fall of 1914, suggests 

 at least that there are possibilities in this 

 method of handling queens for pure mat- 

 ing. It is a rather extreme process, yet 

 shows with decisiveness the value of fall 

 manipulation. 



With respect to the candy above mention- 

 ed, it should be stated that this is a varia- 

 tion of the Fuller candy, which calls for 12 



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pounds of granulated sugar. The candy 

 which I used was made witli nine pounds of 

 granulated sugar and tliree pounds of coffee 

 A sugar. I consider the coffee A sugar of 

 value because it tends to keep the candy 

 soft, which perhaps enables the bees to 

 work it for a longer time. 



In summarizing, I wish to emphasize that 

 I am not aware of previous attempts of 

 using candy and foundation alone, or a 

 small piece of dry comb and candy. This 

 process, together with the procedure late in 

 the season, which is explained, tends to in- 

 sure purity of mating, are the three items 

 which I wish to report. 



THE EDITOR'S VISIT TO GRIFFITH PARK NEAR PASADENA, WITH 

 ITS CELEBRATED BEE ROCK AND BEE TREES 



BY E. R. ROOT 



In the last issue I referred to the fact 

 that Mr. F. R. Buchanan, a former travel- 

 ing salesman, and now of Glendale, Cal., 

 took a party of us, including Mrs. Buchan- 

 an, Mr. and Mrs. Frank McNay, and my- 

 self, to Griffith Park, near Pasadena, Cal. 

 This park, as has been stated, has a pecul- 

 iar charm and interest for beekeepers in 

 that it contains a natural curiosity in the 

 way of an enormous bee-rock that has many 

 colonies of bees. This rock Avas shown on 

 the cover of our issue for November 1. 



Fig. 1. — Mr. P. R. Builianan inspect iiij; the 

 Griffith Park, California. 



Besides this rock there are a number of 

 bee-trees ; but two or them had their bee- 

 cavities so near the ground that the bees 

 could be seen going in and out, without let 

 or hindrance. Mr. Buchanan crawled up 

 on a limb of one of the trees where there 

 was one large knot-hole ; and while sta- 

 tioned at that point I went up on a rise of 

 ground, and caught him in the act of look- 

 ing down into the bee-hole — see Fig. 1. 



The other bee-tree is shown in Fig. 2. 

 The entranceway is also within easy reach, 

 and so near the 

 ground, in fact, that 

 Mr. Buchanan on the 

 left and Mr. McNay 

 on the right are look- 

 ing down into the 

 cavity, into which at 

 the time the bees 

 were going back and 

 forth. Both men, as 

 will be observed, are 

 slightly baldheaded ; 

 and had the bees been 

 disposed to be at all 

 obstreperous they 

 might have made the 

 two who were "stick- 

 ing their noses into 

 other people's busi- 

 ness " not a little 

 i rouble ; but even 

 though Mr. McNay 

 put his hand into the 

 ofteninir tliere was no 

 hostile demonstra- 

 tion. 

 Mr, Buchanan 



I'lUranre of a Ijeo Iroc in 



