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GLExVNINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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Sweet clover that grew luxuriantly near a place where oats had been unloaded from a car, showing 

 that the seed was mixed with the oats. 



under the hive leaving a two-inch space for 

 air. No swarms issued this season. The 

 stake at the left holds a bundle of ripe 

 mullein heads, which is my swarm-catcher. 



The small hives in front are double-wall- 

 ed, and there are three apartments to hold 

 nuclei for queen-raising. 



Fraser, Idaho. 



[If you had located your entrances on 

 opposite sides of the cases, two on a side, 

 Ave do not think you would have much 

 trouble from bees getting into the wrong 

 place. — Ed]. 



SWEET-CLOVER SEED IN OATS 



BY GEORGE REX^ JR. 



The engTaving shows a honey-plant 

 Avliich grows about 5 feet high, and branch- 

 es out freely. It produces Avhite flowers in 

 profusion, which the bees simply swarm 

 over. The flowers are very fragi'ant, and 

 one can smell it from a distance. 



I think it is something of a wild alfalfa 

 clover. It grows at an old abandoned 

 wharf, and covers about half an acre. I 

 )vas informed that at this place western 



oats Avere unloaded from the railroad, and 

 that the seeds must have been in the oats. 

 What do you think it is? 



Stettlersville, Pa., July 24. 



[Unless we are greatly mistaken this 

 plant is the Avhite SAveet clover. — Ed.] 



DO BEES LOSE THEIR STINGS WHEN THEY 

 STING OTHER BEES? 



BY L. P. HOLMES 



An expression in the footnote to Dr. 

 Miller's Straw, p. 540, struck me Avitli sur- 

 prise. It is that "Avorker bees sacrifice 

 themselves as Avell as the drones" if they 

 sting them. I thought it Avas an established 

 fact that bees, in stinging others, do not 

 lose their stings, consequently do not en- 

 danger their own lives. I ask noAv, for my 

 OAvn information, has any one CA'er seen the 

 sting of one bee attached to another that 

 has been stung to death? I never have. 

 Among all the bees stung to death in rob- 

 bing, and among queens that have been 

 stung to death by other queens or by Avork- 

 ers, I have never seen the sting of another 

 bee attached to a dead one. I have coen 

 a virgin queen, upon being introduced to 



