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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Ave. 15 



DRONE, QUEEN, AND WORKER; PHOTOGRAPHED BY DR. K. BRUENNICH. 



queen. As to allowing the bees to do their own 

 superseding, I am decidedly opposed to it. We 

 never can improve them as we should while this 

 miserable method is practiced. There is not a 

 particle of science about it. 



FIG. 8. 



-FOOT OF THE THIRD (OR HIND) LEG. 

 i, claws; a, pulvillus. 



When a colony has two laying queens, and thty 

 are separated only by a queen-exciuder, and you 

 wish to have both queens occupy the lower hive 

 only, remove the upper hive and also the ex- 

 cluder as carefully as you can, setting them 

 to one side; then remove two or three combs with 

 the adhering bees from one side of the lower 

 hive, being careful not to disturb their queen; 

 then take as many combs from the upper hive 

 with their brood, queen, and adhering bees, set- 

 ting them carefully in the open part of the lower 

 hive. Replace the excluder and upper hive, do- 

 ing it all without exciting the bees any more 

 than can be helped. In this way each queen will 

 be for some time with her bees and brood; and 

 when the queens do come together, all will be 

 quiet and natural; whereas if you shake them 

 down in front of the hive, the bees and queen 

 will be much excited, and she will run all through 

 the hive, and you will be quite likely to have one 

 or both ^ueens stung. No, don't shake a queen 

 down in front of any hive if you can prevent it. 

 I have several times seen good queens stung by 

 their own bees when this was practiced. It is 

 quite a trade of itself to know how to handle 

 hundreds of queens and not lose any; for so much 

 depends upon certain conditions that a method 

 that will work all right in one case may be awa\ 

 off in another. 

 Delanson, N. Y. 



PURE FOOD IN NEW YORK. 



Commissioner Pearson, of New York, has no- 

 tified all the makers of ice cream in his State that 

 adulteration will not be tolerated. Pure cream 

 must be used. He could very properly drop a 

 hint of the same kind with respect to honey a lit- 

 tle later in the season. w. k. m. 



