compelled to do so, will, reluctantly, lay 

 worker eggs in drone cells. 



2. They were for some cause, no doubt, 

 unable to produce workers any longer, and 

 hence the drones in the worker comb. 



3. Two sizes of cells only are produced— 

 worker and drone. The latter is preferred 

 for surplus, by some. 



Tou will find such description on page 237 

 of this Journal.— Ed.] 



Montgomery Co., Texas. 



"I inclose a branch with flowers of the 

 wild peach. It is an evergreen; grows 

 abundantly on the margin of creeks and 

 river bottoms. Bees crowd it heavily; I 

 think it very valuable for bees. 



"I also send you a specimen of a plant 

 abundant here. It comes up in the fall and 

 grows slowly through winter, not leaving 

 the ground (like white clover,) covering tlie 

 ground by the first of March; holds dew on 

 the under side all day. In the sunshine the 

 bees work on it all day. I have seen no 

 blossoms yet. I never noticed it before this 

 year. The winter having been very warm, 

 many of my bees ate up their winter supply, 

 and perished during January and February. 

 My summer and fall pastui-age is not good. 

 The spring, till June 20th, is very tine. It 

 closes with the linn. We have very many 

 fine localities for bees in this State. Thi-ee- 

 fourths of south-eastern Texas is woodland, 

 and all creeks and small streams abound 

 with bee pasturage. There are a great many 

 wild bees in the timber and bee hunting is 

 frequent in tiie fall. Some bring in 2 or 3 

 barrels of honey. Thos. D. Leonard. 



fProf. Beal says that the tree with ever- 

 green leaf is Prunus Caroltniana (cherry 

 laurel). The leaves are said to poison cattle 

 which eat them. The small herb he does 

 not know; he would like to see some in 

 flower.— Ed.] 



Boundary City, Ind., May 31, 1878. 

 " I raised 7 queens from tlie imported 

 queen I got of you last fall. They are not 

 as bright a yellow as the mother. I raised 

 one fi'oni a liome-bred queen tliat is of a 

 brighter yellow than either of those from 

 the imported mother. Those from the im- 

 ported mother have two black spots on 

 their backs by the yellow rings— the other 

 one has not. Which are the purest, tiiose 

 with or without the black spots ?" 



D. K. Knoll. 



[Imported queens are procured, usually, 

 to infuse new blood into the apiary, and not 

 on account of their personal beauty. Their 

 American progeny sometimes vary, being 

 either lighter or darker perhaps oftener 

 than of the same color as the mother. — 

 Their progeny— the workers— forming the 

 test of purity. Of these you do not speak. — 

 The black divisions between the yellow 



bands (which we suppose you mean by the 

 spots by the yellow rings) are sometimes 

 more pronounced, but usually less distinct, 

 —they have nothing to do with purity in 

 queens.— Ed.] 



Eminence, Ky., June 17, 1878. 



"Is it practicable to feed extracted honey 

 to bees during the dry summer Weather 

 when there is little or no honey to be had 

 from flowers and have the bees make sec- 

 tion comb honey of it with profit, and how 

 to do so? The theory looks plausible, but I 

 would like to know if it lias been demon- 

 strated, and to what extent it will pay. It 

 seems to me that it would stimulate brood- 

 raising and keep stocks strong and ready to 

 gather large stores from buckwheat and 

 other fall pasturage. If the extracted honey 

 can be changed to section comb honey it 

 would be more salable. 



2. I want some arrangement in the way of 

 a comb-rack that can be worked two stories 

 or one, as circumstances may require. On 

 many of my hives the sections are nearly all 

 full but the honey is not ripened sufficiently 

 to seal over, and the bees want to swarm 

 because of not having room. If I had racks 

 that would suit to just slip one under the 

 almost completed sections, full of empty 

 ones, 1 think the bees would be happy, not 

 swarm, and more clover honey would be 

 secured. I intend to have some such another 

 season. E. Drane. 



[1. Will those who have had experience in 

 feeding honey to bees for the purpose of get- 

 ting them to store it in surplus boxes please 

 report the result of their experiments? 



2. A Rack to admit of " tiering up," is de- 

 scribed on page 240 of this Journal.— Ed.] 



Noblesville, Ind., May 8, 1878, 

 The queen of one of my best colonies has 

 raised one lot of brood but wifll not lay any 

 more eggs, and the bees will not work; they 

 have some honey. Why is it, and what is 

 the remedy? 



With a fair season how many stands 

 ought I make from three good colonies and 

 get 100 lbs. honey? L. M. Wainwright. 



[Of course the queen is disabled and 

 should be superseded. As the colony has 

 no brood, the bees cannot raise a queen un- 

 less you give them a frame of brood or a 

 queen-cell. If you have no surplus queens 

 you should give them a queen-cell or brood 

 at once. One swarm from each colony is 

 sufficient if you want 100 lbs. of honey. So 

 much depends upon the season that no one 

 can give a definite rule.— Ed.] 



Benton Co., Miss., June 10, 1878. 

 " I am troubled by the moth-worm; how 

 can I get rid of them?" L. Z. D. 



[Strong Italian colonies are not troubled 

 with moths. Keep your colonies strong, and 

 they will never become mere nurseries for 

 worms.— Ed.] 



