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Ijove Anions' tlio 4Jlovoi-< 



Over and over the purple clover. 



Under the mcciiw.KKl tree. 

 Sweet Ilessu' ciniiL'struyiuK.for wild tiawers Mayini^, 

 And sun^' in her iu;iidon glee : 

 "Obey. O hn 1 

 There's n laddy I know 

 Who joys niv face to .sec. 

 Fair blossoms. I pray, what shall I say 

 When llobin comes wooiny u' me. 



Dear heart- 

 When Uobin comes wooing o' me ?" 



Dver and under the boughs asnnder. 



Through the wood came Robin ere long ; 

 In the olden fashion he caroled liis passion, 

 And the liuwthorn swayed to his sont; : 

 "O bey.O ho! 

 The way I know- 

 She droi)ited me this flower to tell ; 

 But wliat she will say this blossomy day ? 

 Would tbat Iknew itaswell. 



Dear hearts 

 Would that I knew it as well." 



Over and over the fragrant clover 

 The bees were bumming till late. 

 And where is the laddy, and what luck had he, 

 A-woointr his blithesome mate ? 

 O hey, O ho ! 

 They walk so slow. 

 Brown Rnbin and blushing Bei^s ; 

 But what did be say in the woud to-day 7 

 I think 1 will leave you to guess, 



Dear heart— 

 I think 1 will leave you to guess. 



— SAMCTEL M. Peck. 



Replies. 



Carniolan Bees — Are tlicy Supe- 

 rior to Italians i 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



QuERT 713. — 1. What are the objections 

 to the Carniolan bees? 2. Wherein are 

 they superior to the Italians? 3. Is it a 

 fact that they rear more drones? — G. W. 



I have never tried them. — J. P.H. Browx. 



See my article on page 39. — A. J. Cook. 



I have had no experience with them — R. 

 L. Tatloe. 



I have had no experience with them. — 

 Mks. L. H.iUEisox. 



I have had no experience with Carniolan 

 bees. — J. M. Hambaugh. 



I cannot answer either question. I have 

 had no experience with them. — M. Mahix. 



1. Their color. 3. Comb honey stored 

 by them is whiter than when stored by 

 Italians.— A. B. Mason. 



1 have not had enough experience with 

 tJiem to give a just answer.— Eugexe Secok. 



1. As yet I see no objections. 2. There 

 is a gi-eat difference in Italians. 3. Not 

 with me. — H. D. Cuttixg. 



1. They are black, and it is impossible to 

 detect whether they are pure. 2. In no 

 way that we know. — Dad.ixt & Sox. 



1. There are none. 3. They rear no more 

 drones than other races, under similar cir- 

 cumstances. — C. H. DiBEERN. 



I never had any. The stories of their 

 swarming seared me. Besides, I am afraid 

 I could not tell them from blacks or hybrids. 

 — C. C. Miller. 



1. They cannot readily be distinguished 

 from the German bees. 2. I do not think 

 that they are. 3. Drone-rearing is con- 

 trolled by the amount of drone-comb 

 allowed in each hive, — G. M. Doolittle 



1. "Excessive swarming," I believe. 2. 

 In early and steady brood-rearing ; in non- 

 use of propolis, gentleness, and superior 



honey-gathering <|ualities — working earlier 

 and later. 3. I think not. — W. M. Bakni.m. 



1. None that I know of. 2. They cap 

 their combs so as to appear whiter. 3. 

 They do rear nioi-e drones even when no 

 drone-comb is given to them ; but I may 

 not have had the best strains on trial.— G. 

 L. Tinker. 



1. I do not know that there is any ob- 

 jection to them. 2. I do not think them 

 superior to the Italians ; they are said to hie 

 better tempered, and not to stick to the 

 combs as closely as the Italians. 3. I have 

 never heard tbat they reared more drones, 

 but they are said by some to swarm too 

 freely.— J. E. Poxd. 



I will not try to answer this question for 

 I have not had enough experience with 

 Carniolaus. I lielieve, however, to-day, 

 that a judicious and well bred cross be- 

 tween the best strains of Italians and 

 Germans, are superior to any other race of 

 bees or cross breed of bees yet known to 

 bee-keepers. — James Heddon. 



1. My chief objection is that they belong 

 to the dark races of bees, and there is no 

 distinguishing marks that will certainly 

 identify them as pertains to purity. 2. 

 That is the question exactlj-. Are they 

 superior to the Italians ! It is best to wait 

 and see " wherein they are superior." 3. 

 They are a prolific race, and this trait 

 insures plenty of drones. I have the stock 

 right from their native home in upper 

 Carniola, and I aver that they are so 

 nearly like some individual hybrids to be 

 seen in any Italian apiary, that no man 

 living can distinguish them. So far as I 

 have tried them, they are the best of all 

 the dark hees I have any knowledge of, but 

 I must wait for further developments. — G. 

 W. De.maree. 



They will not live many days, that is 

 certain, il; no honey fab.solutely none) is in 

 the hive, or to be obtained from the flowers. 

 — G. L. Tinker. 



I do not know. Through carelessness, I 

 have tried to keep them that way in the 

 cellar, but they get miuJ, and that fthe 

 mad; gives them the diarrhea, and they 

 besmear everything they can, and then 

 " up and die."— A. B. Mason. 



A very short time, indeed — only so long 

 as the pollen gathered, has any honey 

 packed with it in the cells. Pollen is not a 

 food for full-grown bees, but only for 

 infants. — J. E. PoxD. 



I do not think that adult bees can subsist 

 on pollen alone. There is likely to be a 

 little honey wherever there is pollen, and 

 hence the e.xperiment cannot be made con- 

 clusive. — G. W. Demaree. 



Until the pollen is used up that was in 

 the hive when the bees began to eat their 

 brood. When no brood is being reared at 

 the time of the failure of the honey, the 

 bees will starve when the honey is gone, 

 pollen or no pollen. — G. M. Doulittle. 



Pollen is not suitable food for full-grown 

 bees — and if there is no honey in the hive, 

 and none can be gathered from flowers, the 

 bees will not live many days — just how 

 long before starvation ensues, will depend 

 upon their activity. — The Editor. 



Bees Living on Pollen in the 

 Summer Time. 



Written for tlic American Bee Journal 



Query 714. — How long will a colony of 

 bees live on pollen alone in the summer, if 

 there is no honey in the hive, and none to 

 be had from the flowers* — Minnesota. 



Not long. — James Heddon. 



I do not know. — H. D. Cutting. 



I cannot say. — R. L. Tatloe. 



Not many days.— M. Mahix. 



I have never tested it. — Mrs. L. Haeei- 



Not but a very short time. — Will M. 

 Baenum. 



I have never experimented along that 

 line. — J. M. Hambaugh. 



I think that they would starve very 

 soon. The exact time depends upon their 

 activity. — A. J. Cook. 



I do not know, but my opinion is that 

 they would not live very long. — Eugexe 

 Secor. 



I do not know, but I do not think that 

 they could exist many days without some 

 honey. — C. H. Dibbeen. 



I never tried it. I have had them starve 

 with plenty of pollen in winter, but I do 

 not know how long they were at it. — C. C. 

 Miller. 



Much depends in this question. The bees 

 have access to water. How do we know 

 that the bees are not getting some honey 

 from the flowers ?— J. P.»H. Brown. 1 



Uoolittle on <tiieen-Re<triDg;. 



Queens can be reared in the upper stories 

 of hives used for extracted honey, where a 

 queen-excluding honey-board is usefl, which 

 are as good, if not superior, to Queens 

 reared by any other process ; and that, too, 

 while the old Queeu is doing duty below, 

 just the same as though Queens were not 

 being reared above. This is a fact, though 

 it is not generally known. 



If you desire to know how this can be 

 done — how to have Queens fertilized in up- 

 per stories, while the old Queeu is laying 

 below — how yon may safely introduce any 

 Queen, at any time of the year when bees 

 cay fly — all about the different races of 

 bees — all about shipping Queens, queen- 

 cages, candy for queen-cages, etc. — aU 

 about forming nuclei, multiplying or unit- 

 ing bees, or weak colonies, etc. ; or, in fact 

 everything about the queen-business which 

 you may want to know, send for"Doolit- 

 tie's Scientific Queen-Rearing;" a book of 

 1 70 pages, which is nicely bound in cloth, 

 and as interesting as a story. Price, $1.00. 



ll^°° The French Government is compell- 

 ing bee-keepers in the Seine and Marne 

 Departments to remove their apiaries from 

 neighboring fields and highways 25 metres, 

 and in Oise Department the distance can 

 be 20 metres, which new order of things 

 compels many bee-keepers to dispose of 

 their bees. 



j;^" If a cellar has a damp smell, and 

 cannot be thoroughly ventilated, a few 

 trays of charcoal set around on the floor, 

 shelves and ledges will make the air pure 

 and sweet. If a large basketful of char- 

 coal be i)laced in a damp cellar where milk 

 is kept, the milk will be in no danger of 

 becoming tainted. — Medical Classics. 



