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Funny !— A correspondent in the Chi 

 <;ago Daily Herald of Oct. Hi, asks the 

 following questions : 



■ 1. Has any person the legal right to keep 

 ibees within the city limits, to the annoy- 

 .ance of the citizens ; 



2. Can City Councils declare the keeping 

 •of bees in city limits a nuisance ; 



To each question the answer given by the 

 Herald is " Yes." 



That a person has a legal right to keep 

 'bees inside or outride the city limits, is 

 true ; but they should never be maintained 

 there when they become a real nuisance — 

 .and they may become such if kept uncom- 

 fortablj' near a highway, or a neighbor's 

 residence. So the answer of the Herald 

 should be modified a little — but we thank it 

 for its emphatic answer to the question. 



Of course City Councils may '■ declare " 

 the keeping of bees a nuisance within the 

 •city limits as often as they choose, but the 

 "'"law," as well as the decision of the 

 Supreme Court, " declare " that bee keep- 

 ing is not per se a nuisance, and that City 

 Ordinances declaring such foolishness can- 

 not be enforced ! And, more, that for any 

 interference with the business of beekeep- 

 ■ers, by those who attempt to enforce such 

 ■Ordinances, they may be held responsible 

 ior damages. 



We have sent a copy of the Supreme 

 ■Court decision to the editor of the Herald, 

 and commend its perusal before answering 

 any more questions. 



n Restful ■Wish. 



Written Sor the American BeeJmvmal 

 iiv sA.virm. HociicHs. 



Mine be a cot beside the hill, 



A bee hive's hum shall sooth mine ear, 

 A willowy brook that turns a mill. 



With many a fall shall linger near. 



The swallows oft beneath my thatch. 

 Shall twitter near her clay-built nest ; 



Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch. 

 And share my meal — a welcome guest. 



Around my ivyed porch shall spring 

 Kaeh fragrant flower that drinks the dew; 



And Lucy, at her wheel shall sing. 

 In russet gown and apron blue. 



The village cnurch beneath the trees. 

 Where first our marriage- vows were given 



With merry peals shall swell the breeze, 

 And point with taper spire to heaven. 



Return to a Hive of a Queen 

 'ivitli Clipped Wings. 



Written for tlic American Bee Journal 



In These Times ten cents buys a 

 good deal of art and literature. For in- 

 stance, "Frank Leslie's Illustrated News- 

 paper "of last week embraces 32 pages, 

 including the last of the beautifully-illus- 

 trated Texas. It is full of pictures. 



If you have a desire to know 



how to have Queens fertilized in upper 

 stories, while the old Queen is still laying 

 below— how you may safely introduce any 

 Queen, at any time of the year when bees 

 «an fly— all about the difl'erent races of 

 t>ees— all about shipping Queens, queen- 

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

 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- 

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

 170 pages, which is nicely bound in cloth, 

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



Free Trial Trip subscriptions are 

 '•coming in quite rapidly. We thank our 

 friends for this new illustration of their 

 personal interest in the Bn: Joltrxal. We 

 want thousands to read it for a few weeks 

 who did not know of its existence. Do not 

 toe afraid of sending too many names. Let 

 us have the name and address of every 

 person who keeps bees in America. 



Query 736.— Would a queen with a 

 clipped wing crawl back to her own hive, 

 if not attended to, or just as likely go into 

 another hive, if permitted ?— Ohio. 



She is much more likely to go into her 

 own hive. — C. C. Miller. 



I think she would go into the first hive 

 she happened to find. — Eugene Secor. 



If the queen does not get too far away, 

 she will often get back into her own hive. 

 — H. D. Cutting. 



She would go back to her own hive when 

 the bees returned, if she could get there. — 



G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



She would be as likely to enter another 

 hive as her own, if the hives are close to- 

 gether.- M. Mahin. 



She might crawl back ; but most likely 

 get lost and never get back. The best plan 

 is not to clip your queens' wings.— J. P. H. 

 Brown. 



From past experience I find that at least 

 25 per cent, of the queens with clipped 

 wings are killed or lost, by not crawling 

 back. — P L. ViALLOs. 



She would be more likely to go back to 

 her own hive, but might go into another if 

 it was very near. — R. L. Tatlou. 



It makes no diO'erence to the queen what 

 hive she goes into "if permitted," but she 

 had better not be " permitted " to get into 

 the wrong hive.— A. B. Mason. 



Generally she would, but there is some 

 danger of her being lost in trying to enter 

 other hives. — C. H. Dibbern. 



It is very difficult to tell what she may 

 do. Usually some of the bees find her and 

 remain with her wherever she happens to 

 be. — Dadant & Son. 



Such queens frequently get back to their 

 own hive, but are often lost when they may 

 attempt to enter another hive, if near. — G. 

 L. Tinker. 



No one can tell where she would go. 

 Probably it she went into a hive at all, it 



would be into the first one she found.— J. 

 E. Pond. 



She usually goes back into her own hive, 

 but is quite likely to go into another, or to 

 wander ort' and be lost. — A. J. Cook. 



Should she get some distance from her 

 hive she might crawl into a neighboring 

 hive, and, of course, be killed. 1 do not 

 advocate the clipping of a queen's wing. — 

 J. M. Hambaugu. 



Many times queens with clipped wings 

 will crawl back into their old hives, and 

 many times they will crawl off in the grass 

 and die, or go into other lines. — James 

 Heddon. 



She will usually return to her own hive, 

 where an3- disability prevents her from 

 flying ; but sometimes where hives stand 

 closely together, we have had queens get 

 to the front of the wrong hive and be 

 balled by the workers. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



She will generally find the way back to 

 her own hive, as she is very quick to hear 

 the sound of the returning swarm. The 

 queen's wing should be so clipped that she 

 must crawl if she gets much distance from 

 the hive. I clip off one pair (on one side 

 only) of her wings, half way down. This 

 gives her a whirling motion when she uses 

 her sound wings in opposition to her clip- 

 ped pair. — G. W. Demaree. 



It is difficult to tell what such a queen 

 may do, but she would probably crawl 

 back to her own hive and enter with the 

 returning swarm, unless other hives were 

 very near, or she was destroyed by some 

 bird or other enemy. — The Editor. 



d>irBBir«c} L.ISX. 



We Cliib the Amei'ican Bee Journal 

 for a year, with any of the following papers 

 or books, at the prices quoted in the I..AST 

 column. The regular price of both is given 

 in the first column. One year's subscription 

 for the American Bee Journal must be sent 

 with each order for another paper or book : 



Price of both. ClutK 

 The American Bee Journal Jl 00 



and Gleanings in Bee-Culture 2 00 173 



Bee-Keepers' Guide 130. .. 140 



Bee-Keepers' Review 150 140 



The Apioulturist 175 165 



Bee-Keepers' Advance 130 140 



Canadian Bee Journal 2 00 ... 180 



The 7 above-named papers 3 23 5 00 



and Langstroth Revised (Dadant) 3 00 2 75 



Cook's Manual (1887 edition) 2 25.. . 2 00 



Quinby's New Bee-Keepiug-. 2 50 2 25 



Doolittle on Queen-Rearing. 2 00 175 



Bees and Honey (Newman).. 2 00 175 



Binderfor Am. Bee Journal. 160 150 



Dzierzou's liee-Book (cloth). .■? 00. . . . 2 00 



Roofs A B C of Bee-Culture 2 25. . . . 2 10 



Farmer's Account Book 4 00 2 20 



Western World Guide 130.... 130 



Heddon's book, "Success,".. 150 140 



A Year Among the Bees 1 50 1 35 



Convention HiLud-Book 150. .. 130 



Weekly Inter-Ocean 2 00 175 



Toronto Globe (weekly) 2 00 170 



History of National Society. 130 125 



American Poultry Journal. . 2 25 150 



The Lover (Temperance) 2 00 1 75 



Orange Jufid Farmer 2 00 ... 165 



Farm, Field and Stockman.. 2 00 165 



Prairie Farmer 2 00... 1 65 



Do not send to us for sample copies 

 of any other papers. Send for such to the 

 publishers of the papers you want. 



CoiiTeiitioii IVotice. 



t^~ Thesth semi-annual raeetinp of tbe Susque- 

 hanna County Bee-Keepers' Association will be held 

 at Montrose, Pa., on Thursday. May 7. 1891. 



H. M. Seeley. Sec. 



