1898. 



THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



15 



with men to get her ready for repairs. 

 "We found that she had been taken 

 possession of by honey bees," Mitch- 

 ell says, "and in going into her we 

 found every passage and room was ap- 

 parently full of bees. We shut the 

 hatchway and thought we had them 

 imprisoned, but we found a steady 

 stream going and coming through the 

 hole left for a stovepipe in the cabin_ 

 We were on board thirty minutes, and 

 in that time the column of bees con- 

 tinued to move, making a noise like 

 escaping steam. We were unable to 

 work on board until something should 

 be done. We lowered into the hull 

 a tank of burning cedar bark and 

 closed up everything. A great many 

 of the bees were killed, but we were 

 uuable to go into the bark the next 

 day. Some think she may contain a 

 ton of honey or even more." 



HONEY-ANT PIE. 



Savages, we know, indulge in such 

 luxuries as grubs and locusts, but for 

 a civilized white man to finish up his 

 dinner with a dish of raw ants seems 

 too nasty to be credible. Yet in Mexico 

 it is the custom, and a custom adopted 

 by plenty of colonists atxl visitors. 



The ant eaten is called the honey 

 ant, and is perhaps as curious an in- 

 sect as lives. With a tiny head and 

 legs, it has a hugh body as big as a 

 large pea, and this is yellow and 

 swollen with excellent honey. 



In each nest there are 300 or 400 of 

 these honey ants, which are attended 

 by thousands of others. The huney 

 ants hang on to the roof of the cells 

 in the nest while the others feed them. 

 They are, in fact, living storehouses 

 o£ winter food. An observer says 



that if one of the Ijouey ants falls 

 from his perch, a worker will go and 

 pick him up and replace him. This 

 is as if a man were to walk up the 

 face of a cliff carrying a large buffalo 

 or cart horse on his back. 



'A Cilcutta physician who was at- 

 tacked by a swarm of bees," says 

 Popular Science News, "was stung on 

 the hand, head, face and neck, no 

 fewer than 150 stings being afterward 

 taken taken from his neck. For- 

 tunately he had some ipecacuanha 

 powder with him. which he immed- 

 iately made into a paste and smeared 

 over the head, face and neck. The 

 effect was most marked, preventing to 

 a large extent the swelling and pain 

 which invariably follow the bee's 

 stings." 



It is asserted by a correspondent of 

 the Gardener's Chronicle that wasps 

 not only devour ripe fruits, such as 

 apricots, grapes and pears, but that 

 they extend their ravages to rosebuds 

 and blown roses. The blossoms and 

 buds covering two flourishing rose 

 bushes belonging to him were de- 

 stroyed by wasp', in spite of the battle 

 which he waged with the insects for 

 the preservation of his flowers. 



Prices of Sections. 



Prices of sections for the season of 

 1898 will remain as follows: 



No 1. No. 2. No. 1. No. 2. 



Per 100-$ .50. $ .40. Per 1000 @ S3,00 $2.50. 



" 2.51)- .85. .7,5. " 20J0@ 2.85 2.35. 



'• .500- 1.50. 1.25. " 3O00 @ 2.75 2.25 



.5000 @ $2 .50 per M. 



Large quantities will be quoted on 

 application. 



The above prices are the same as 

 are charged by all manufacturers 

 of and dealers in first class sections. 

 Further changes of prices of supplies 

 will be found in our 1898 catalog 

 which will be ready Feb. 1st, and will 

 be mailed free to anyone asking for it. 



