AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



145 



HUMttN ENDURKNCE. 



FLORENCE PERCY. 



How much the heart may bear, and yet uot 

 break 1 

 How much the flesh may suffer, and yet uot 

 die! 

 1 question much if any pain or ache 



Of soul or body brings our cud more nigh. 



Death chooses his own time, till that is shown 



All evils may be borne. 



We shrink and-shudder at the surgeon's knife. 



Each nerve recoiling from the cruel steel, 

 Whose edge seems searching for the quivering 

 life; 

 Yet to our sense the bitter pangs reveal. 

 That still, although the trembling flesh be 

 torn. 



This also can be borne. 



We see a sorrow rising in our way. 



And try to flee from the approaching ill; 

 We seek some small escape, we weep and pray; 

 But when the blow falls, then our hearts are 

 still; 

 Not that the pain is of its sharpness shorn. 

 But that it can be borne. 



We wind our life about another life; ' 

 We hold it closer, dearer than our own; 



Anon it faints and falls in deathly strife. 

 Leaving us stunned and stricken and alone; 



But ahl we do not die with those we mourn— 

 This also can be borne. 



Behold, we live through all things— famine, 

 thirst. 

 Bereavement, pain, all grief and misery. 

 All woe and sorrow. Life inflicts its worst 



On soul and body — but we cannot die, 

 Though we be sick and tired and faint and 

 worn— 



Lo, all things can be borne! 



Queries and Replies. 



Best Time of Year to Rear Queens, 



Query 803. — What is the best time of 

 the year to rear queens ? — T. 



Spring, when drones fly. — Dadant & 

 Son. 



In this latitude, June. — J. M. Ham- 



BAUGH. 



During the Summer months. — G. M. 



DOOLITTLE. 



From the time drones fly freely till 

 the latter part of Summer. — J. E. Pond. 



In the Summer "time." It does not 

 work well in cold weather, — A. B. 

 Mason. 



When the weather is warmest, and 

 the honey-gathering greatest. — R. L. 

 Taylor. 



I should say May and June, but I 

 have had only a limited experience. — C. 



H. DiBBERN. 



When plenty of honey is being gath- 

 ered. There are several good reasons 

 why. — M. Mahin. 



"That depends." The person that 

 l<iiows enough to rear queens success- 

 fully, Icnows just when to do it. — H. D. 

 Cutting. 



When the weather is warm enough to 

 not to chill the brood, and when you 

 have plenty of desirable drones flying. — - 

 J. P. H. Brown. 



The best time is during the honey 

 season. With caution and wise planning 

 and care, any time from May to Septem - 

 berwill do. — A. J. Cook. 



, I do not pretend to be authority, but 

 I should think, for most breeders, the 

 swarming season would be best. — 

 Eugene Secok. 



That depends upon your locality . 

 When the bees do such work is the best, 

 all things considered. — James Heddon. 



During a good flow of lioney ; usually 

 swarming time. Last year (1890) little, 

 miserable "nubs" of queen-cells were 

 built ; this year (1891), fine large ones. 

 — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



I suspect that generally the bes 

 queens are reared at the time of natura 

 swarming, but if conditions are made 

 right, I do not see why they might not 

 be reared any time. — C. C. Miller. 



With our improved methods of rearing 

 queens, whenever it is most convenient 

 during the active working season. It is 

 not easy to rear good queens before 

 swarming time. — G. L. Tinker. 



The best time to rear queens is during 

 the swarming season. But you can 

 rear just as good queens after the 

 swarming season is over, by feeding the 

 cell-building colonies until they feel 

 rich — see V That is the way I do it, 

 when I want to rear queens all Summer 

 — G. W. Demaree. 



Queens may be reared at any time 

 during warm weather. The " best 

 time " is probably when the swarming is 

 on, or when lioney is coming in freely — 

 but an cxperii'ncod qneen l)reeder can 

 make the proper conditions at any suit- 

 able time, — The Editor. 



