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filling up the empty space with dummies, 

 but oftener not. The super or supers 

 that had been on were put back on, and 

 covered up, then on top of this I set the 

 new hive, giving it the queen. In about 

 ten days from the time the swarm issued, 

 I took away the old hive and put the 

 new one down in its place. 



Sometimes the colony swarmed a week 

 or two after the queen in the new hive 

 was put down, in which case it was 

 treated just the same as the first time it 

 swarmed. 



The secret of success with this man- 

 agement lies in the fact that when the 

 brood, queen and part of the bees are 

 put in a hive and set on top, all the field 

 bees leave it and go below, no honey is 

 Drought in, and under such circum- 

 stances the idea of swarming is given up 

 and all the queen-cells torn down. And 

 when the bees undertake to tear down 

 queen-cells, they never miss any as you 

 do. 



If there is no one to watch for swarms, 

 you can put a queen-trap at the en- 

 trance. Then when the swarm issues 

 the bees will go back, and the queen will 

 wait in the trap till you are ready to at- 

 tend to her. 



Fine queen-cells will be reared in the 

 frame of brood left without a queen, 

 and when the queen is put down you 

 can set the old hive and its contents on 

 a new stand, and you have a good 

 nucleus started. 



You might think that if the empty 

 space in the hive were not filled up with 

 dummies the bees would build comb in it. 

 But I didn't have trouble in that way. 

 Queenless bees are not much given to 

 building comb. 



But I've done nothing on that plan 

 this year. For this year I've had my 

 wish, and I haven't seen a single swarm. 

 But along with it I've had something I 

 didn't wish for, and I haven't seen a 

 single section of surplus honey. I think 

 I'd rather have the swarms than to have 

 an entire failure of the honey crop. 



Color of Box-Elder Honey. 



What color is box-elder honey ? W. 



Answer. — If any one knows the an- 

 swer to the above conundrum, will he 

 please rise and give it. I confess I do 

 not even know what the honey of any 

 of the maples is like— box-elder is ash- 

 leaved maple. The hard maple and the 

 soft or red maple are considered abun- 

 dant sources of honey, and they are so 

 common that some one ought to be able 



to tell what the honey is like, and it is 

 possible that in some places the ash- 

 leaved maple or box-elder is so abun- 

 dant that its honey can be identified. 



One reason that honey from any of 

 the maples is not so likely to be known 

 is, that it comes early in the season, 

 when it is all used up for brood-rearing. 

 For this same reason it matters very 

 little what its color or taste may be, 

 only so the bees get enough of it. 



Xlie Clover. 



BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY. 



Some sing of the lily and daisy and rose, 



And the pansies and pinks that the summer 

 time throws 



In the green, grassy lap of the medder that 

 lays 



Blinkin' up at the skies through the sun- 

 shiny days ; 



But what "is the lily and all of the rest 



Of the flowers to a man with a heart in his 

 breast 



That has dipped brimmin' full of the honey 

 and dew 



Of the sweet clover blossoms his boyhood 

 knew '? 



I never set hevey on a clover field now. 



Or ifool round the stabk, or climb in the 

 mow, 



But my childhood combs back just as clear 

 and as plain 



As the smell of the clover I'm snifBn' again ; 



And I wander away in a barefooted dream, 



Where I tangled my toes in the blossoms 

 that gleam 



With the dew of the dawn of the morning 

 of love. 



Ere it wept o'er the graves that I'm weep- 

 ing above. 



And so I love clover- -it seems like a part 

 Of the sacredest sorrows and joys of my 



heart; 

 And wherever it blossoms, Ob, there let me 



bow 

 And thank the good Lord, as I'm thankin' 



Him now; 

 And pray to Him still for the strength when 



Idle, 

 To go out in the clover and tell it good-by, 

 And lovingly nestle my face in its bloom 

 While my soul slips away on a breath of 



perfume. — Exchange. 



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