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authorized to, and shall appropriate the 

 sum of $3.00 per day, and necessary 

 expenses, for the time that the Inspec- 

 tor is actually employed in the perform- 

 ance of his duties, out of the revenues 

 of the several counties. Provided, that 

 in no case, when such Inspector receives 

 compensation from the owner of bees, 

 so infected, for the care, treatment or 

 destruction of the same, as in the Act 

 provided, shall he be paid by the several 

 counties as in this section specified. 



Sec. 8. All Acts and parts of Acts, 

 inconsistent with the provisions of this 

 Act, are hereby repealed. 



M\h as Bee-Enemies. 



J. ANDERSOlsr. 



Last season I discovered that my api- 

 ary was regularly visited by a mighty 

 rover. Thi-ee of my best hives gave evi- 

 dences that some foe relished a supper 

 of Italian bees. 



For a time I was perplexed to know 

 what the enemy was, so in order to put 

 an end to the depredations, a trap was 

 set, and different kinds of bait was used, 

 but the rover preferred insect food, to 

 any thing I offered ; even dead drones 

 was no attraction. My three excellent 

 colonies, instead of swarming, rapidly 

 decreased, and the excrements of the 

 enemy which were here and there in 

 heaps through the apiary, showed where 

 they went. 



At last, I used as a bait a fat sparrow 

 which is now a very great nuisance in 

 this county. The next morning, before 

 I reached the apiary, the peculiar state 

 of the atmosphere conveyed to my mind 

 the interesting intelligence that the foe 

 was caught, and was nothing but a 

 skunk. 



The sparrow's flesh was more enticing 

 to his skunkship than that of the insects 

 on which, for the previous weeks, he 

 had been feeding. 



Tiverton, Out., Dee. 24, 1891. 



Bee-Scouls Selecting a Home. 



IvAWSON HEGI.EK. 



On page 814 (1891), Mr. G. W. Dem- 

 aree says that he does not care to discnss 

 tlu! subject of bee-scouts furtlier, but I 

 will disregard his desire and have my 

 say. 



One morning last summer, I saw bees 



cleaning out a tree, about 200 yards 

 from my apiary. About noon a swarm 

 issued from a hive that I had been 

 watching, and clustered on a tree near 

 by. I hived them, but about 4 o'clock 

 they swarmed again, and without clus- 

 tering they made a line for that tree. I 

 started as soon as the bees, and never 

 lost sight of them. I got there as soon 

 as they did, and saw them go in. They 

 were Italians, and as I paid a high price 

 for the queen, I did not propose to lose 

 them. I cut the tree the next morning, 

 and the inside of the tree was as clean 

 as a kitchen floor, with not a trace of 

 old-comb, stump-water or anything else, 

 except a piece of new comb with a few 

 eggs in it. 



A few days before that, I cut a tree 

 that I supposed contained bees, but as 

 soon as the tree fell, every bee made off, 

 and on examination it was as nice and 

 dry and clean as bees could make it. 



On another occasion I saw a swarm of 

 bees clustered on a bush near the edge 

 of the woods, and the scouts were hunt- 

 ing in every crack and hole in the trees 

 in that piece of woodland, but as soon 

 as they were hived they came to the 

 hive. If there are plenty of flowers and 

 a good honey-flow, bees will hunt a 

 place near by, and go to it ; but if there 

 is a scarcity, they will fly until they find 

 a suitable location, cluster, send out 

 scouts, find a cavity, and go to it. 



I could give other proofs, but I think 

 this will suffice. 



McLean, O. 



Xhe Convention Hand = Book; 



is very convenient at Bee-Conventions. It 

 contains a simple Manual of Parliamentary 

 Law and Rules of Order for Local Bee- 

 Conventions; Constitution and By Laws 

 for a Local Society ; Programme for a Con- 

 vention, with Subjects for Discussion. In 

 addition to this, there are about 50 blank 

 pages, to make notes upon, or to write out 

 questions, as they may come to mind. 

 They are nicely bound in cloth, and are of 

 the right size for the pocket. We will 

 present a copy for one new subscription to 

 the Bee JouKN'AL (with $1.00 to pay for thiic 

 same), or 2 subscribers to the Home Joukna i** 



may be sent instead of one for the Be 



JOIJIINAI,. 



Now is the time to join the National 

 Hee-Keepers' Union. Send to tills office 

 for the necessary Blanks. 



