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THE AMERICA}} BEE-KEEPER. 



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a bee as the most cranky and pesti- 

 ferous thing alive. 



Yet, as Mr. Snyder explains, there is 

 an excellent reason for taking the bees 

 to the country, and it is really no more 

 remarkable than taking cows to pas- 

 ture. The principle is in the main the 

 same, although by moving the bees, 

 color and quality of the honey they 

 make is thus controlled. It is a fact 

 well known to bee fanciers that bees 

 will only go about three miles from 

 their home to gather honey from the 

 flowers. Another fact equally well 

 known is that there is in buckwheat 

 flowers a larger amount of honey 

 than in any other flower that grows in 

 any quantity. This hbney, although 

 dark in color, has a very agreeable 

 flavor, and is preferred to any other. 



Buckwheat is not very plentiful 

 within three miles of Mr. Snyder's 

 apiary and therefore he is moving 100 

 hives of bees to a location in the coun- 

 try where they can find plenty of it. 

 Half of these bees are taken to Kyser- 

 ike and the other half to a place about 

 two miles north of Stone Ridge. When 

 the buckwheat has died off the bees 

 will be brought back to their home in 

 Kingston. 



Mr. Snyder has kept bees for twenty- 

 five years and has made a study of 

 their habits, which fits him to care for 

 them with the required profit. When 

 asked if his bees would not get lost 

 taking them into a strange country, he 

 said: "No; there is no danger of that, 

 if the hives are always moved while 

 the bees are in them. But if, while the 

 bees are out in the fields gathering 

 sweets, the hive is moved, they will re- 

 turn straight to the place where the 

 hive was and cluster there. A bee re- 

 turns on a route 'straight as a bee line' 

 to the place it starts from, and as the 

 queen bee remains in the hive, the bees 

 go right on making honey in this hive, 

 according to their nature." 



It is said that the idea of moving 

 bees to pasture is carried on to a large 

 extent along the Mississippi, where the 



hives are taken from place to place 

 down or up stream on fiat boats, that 

 anchor during the day and are moved 

 on at night while the bees are all in the 

 hives, thus keeping them in fresh pas- 

 ture all of the time. — New York Herald. 



Days Gone By. 



( ), the ilays gone by! O, the days gone by! 



The ai)ple in the orchard and the pathway through 



the rye: 

 The chirrup of the robin, and the whistle of the 



quail. 

 As she piped across the meadows sweet as any 



nightingale: 

 When the bloom was on the clover, and the blue 



was in the sky, 

 And ray happy heart brimmed over in the days 



gone by. 



In the days gone by, when my naked feet were 



tripped 

 By the honeysuckle's tangles, were the watei- 



lillies dipped, 

 And the ripple of the river lipped the moss along 



the brink. 

 Where the placid-eyed and lazy-footed cattle come 



to drink. 

 And the tilting snipe stood fearless on the truant's 



wayward cry. 

 And the splashing of tlie swimmer in the days 



gone by. 



O, the days gone by I O, the days gone by! 



The music of the laughing lip, the luster of the 

 eye: 



The childish faith in fairies and Aladdin's magic 

 ring. 



The simple, sbul-reposing, glad belief in every- 

 thing. 



When life was like a story, holding neither sob 

 nor sigh. 



In the olden, golden glory of the days gone by. 

 James Whitcomb Riley. 



BEE-KEEPING IN CHILI. 



Editor Juan Dupont-Lafitte, of "El 

 Apicultor Chileno," the bee-paper of 

 Chili, South America, in a recent letter 

 to The Bee-Keeper, says: "Apiculture 

 hns a grand future in this Chili of 

 ours. It is yet in an undeveloped con- 

 dition, but a new era is dawning and 

 we are at the front of the battle." It 

 is always interesting to read of con- 

 ditions and methods existing in for- 

 eign lands, and we are pleased to an- 

 nounce that Senor Dupont-Lafitte has 

 consented to contribute an illustrated 

 article on bee-keeping in Chilli which 

 we hope to publish in the near future. 

 Mr. Dupont-Lafitte has recently been 

 chosen "correspondent member" of an 

 apicultural federation in Belgium. 



