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such a household. But if {he drone is partly 

 of yellow blood, then the statement may 

 hold. F. A. Lockhart and ('. B. Bankston 

 confirm this — but Ernest sticks his toe nails 

 in and hangs on. Gleaniuys, l(i8. 



An editorial on page ]();") tells how to make 

 a battery for imbedding wires into founda- 

 tion in such a lucid and pleasant way, that 

 all people having that sort of work to do 

 should be thankful. Only I wonder hoiv 

 they let a battery rest ; whether by removing 

 the zinc and carbons from the fluid, or by 

 just leaving the whole thing be, or how — 

 presumably not by giving it a peck of oats, 

 and rubbing it down with a sponge. 



D. D. Hammond thinks the rusty honey 

 alluded to last month is from the pollen of 

 some flower which keeps bees all dabbled 

 over when they work on it, as does pumpkin 

 bloom. American Bee Journal, 181. 



.Teunie Atchley, from her location down 

 near the tropics, reports ten days of cold 

 weather, three irches of snow, and more 

 coming. This makes two winters she has 

 found there unsnited to the reputation of the 

 latitude. .4. B. J., 13H. 



In southern California they think they will 

 always have a crop of honey if they have 

 rain enough to begin on. They have already 

 had three times as much as last season ; and 

 it came gently, and soaked in. First pointer 

 for our next season's market. A. B. J., 1I-52. 



Heddon's (Quarterly for -lauuary contains 

 as an extra sheet one of the ablest and most 

 concise expositions of the whole practical 

 work of bee-keeping which has hitherto been 

 printed. The author's name is not given ; 

 but he knows how to make himself under- 

 stood without waste of words. Nearly every 

 item is conservative and well established. 

 However, beginners who are not going to use 

 the Heddon hive do not want to take it as 

 their " vade mecuvi,'^ as it involves that 

 hive and system continually. Once having 

 got fairly under way, they might find it to 

 their profit to study it carefully, even if fol- 

 lowing some other system. 



I beg the mercy of the other papers this 

 time for giving so nearly the whole view to 

 Gleanings Have been wretchedly behind 

 with my reading ; and being pushed for 

 time, I could read more nearly up on one 

 paper than on all. Don't know but I shall 

 have to change the title of these papers (else 

 abandon them all together ) if my reading 

 continues to weigh down on me so. 

 Richards, Lucas Co., Ohio, March 2, '9i"). 



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Bees ! Scooped! 



1 have at last succeeded in buyius all tlie bees 

 within 2J^ miles of my liomo apiary, except fivo 

 colonies, and thesre 1 have Italianized and liave 

 permission to control tlieir drones. This prac- 

 tically gives me a clear field for breeoing pure 

 Italian queens. I have had over twenty year's 

 experience in breeding and experimenting' with 

 Italian queens and bees, bred from my own im- 

 portations and Doolittle's "Best," and I breed 

 "■ for business." Poor stock is costly as a gift. 



One colony of Italians in single story, S-frame, 

 D. '1'. hive, $6.00; 5 colonies, $27. "lO ; lOcolonies, 

 f 50 00 ; one frame nucleus, $1,^0; two frame, 

 $1.75. Select the queen wanted and add price to 

 the above. During Marcli and April, one tested 

 queen, $2.10. Select tested queen, $3 00. After 

 May Ist, one tested queen, $1 50; :S for $4.00; t> 

 for $7 50 ; select tested, $2 50. Uutt.sted queens 

 as early as the season will permit of their being 

 reared, one for $1 00 ; 3 for .*2.25 ; 6 for $4 00 ; 12 

 for$t).75. 1 have over 100 tested queens reared 

 last summer and fall that will be taken from full 

 colonies to fill extra early orders. 



Contracts lor hybrid and black bees in quan- 

 tities solicited, and if desired will furnish them 

 with tested or untested Italian queens on reason- 

 able terms 



JOHM A\. DAVIS, 



2 95 12 Spring Hill, Maury Co., Tenn . 



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