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literature, is said to have the theory 

 of the pursuit well learned ; and I 

 maintain that, as the pendulum swings 

 between such theory and that other 

 method of procedure — which is noth- 

 ing more or less than driving ahead in 

 ceaseless, wearisome labor in the api- 

 ary, with no thought for new develop- 

 ments, or the plans of others — that be- 

 tween these extremes the successful 

 apiarist will be passed as the pendulum 

 passes the golden mean between them. 

 La Grange, Ind. 



WINTERING. 



Saving Stores in Wintering Bees 

 in Cellars. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY JOSEPH BEATH. 



me, all that might be saved and is not 

 (less the cost of saving), is clear loss. 



I leave out of the question the dis- 

 puted point as to which will come out 

 best in the spring, but I believe, say 

 nortli of 40=", iV^ or 42° north latitude, 

 it has of late years been in favor of 

 the cellar. A large part of the spring 

 dwindling in cellar-wintered bees, can 

 be avoided by letting them alone until 

 warm weather comes, and they can go 

 to work. 



The greatest bee-man that used to 

 be in this county, used to winter his 

 bees successfullj' until about March 1, 

 and then he would put them out, and 

 clean out all the hives, and by May, 

 when they could work, they were half 

 dead ; and finally one spring they all 

 died. 



Corning, Iowa. 



In answer to Query 613, on page 

 101, in regard to wintering bees out- 

 doors, one replies thus : " The extra 

 amount of honey used, is used as fuel 

 to keep the bees warm. Is the fuel 

 you burn in j'our stove, in keeping the 

 house warm, wasted ? If so, had you 

 not better move down cellar with your 

 family, so as to save it ?" 



Now that is precisely what people 

 have done iu Kansas and Nebraska, 

 where both lumber and fuel is scarce, 

 and the soil is generally dry. But who 

 would think of doing it where both 

 fuel and lumber were plenty, and the 

 subsoil full of water ? 



Again, a part of another answer 

 reads as follows : " Honey used to 

 keep the bees in the hive warm, should 

 not be deemed wasted ; wood or coal 

 used to keep humanity warm in houses, 

 is never thought to be wasted — each 

 serves the purpose intended." 



Exactly so ! because a house is the 

 best protection against the elements 

 man has yet been able to devise, and 

 the better that house is built to retain 

 the heat, the less fuel it will t,ake, and 

 the more comfortable the familj' will 

 be. But, suppose instead of going 

 into the house to make the fire, you 

 should go into the back yard, erect an 

 Indian wigwam, build your tire in it, 

 and take jour family there to warm, 

 say witli the mercury at zero ; would 

 not most of the fuel and the comfort 

 of the family be wasted then ? And is 

 not this nearer the condition of a col- 

 ony of bees in a common hive, left out- 

 of-doors in an average Northern 

 winter ? 



Of course, the wigwam was all right 

 for the Indian, for it was the best he 

 could do ; but surely one-half of the 

 men that keep bees, already have cel- 

 lars that they could put them into, at 

 least in the Northern States, where it 

 is profitable to do so ; and it seems to 



§TRONO TEMPTATIOIVIS. 



You might as well say to the bee, 



As she 'Iit;hts on the lip of a flower : 

 "Its beauty you're welcome to see, 



But the lioney must stay and get sour." 

 Do you think she would listen to you long. 



With the treasure just under her eyes ? 

 No ; she'd find the temptation too strong. 



And make a bold dash for the prize. 



Or, supposing a bird on a tree, 



Where cherries were rosy and sweet. 

 And you told it to let them all be, 



For you thought them too pretty to eat : 

 Do you think that the bird would obey. 



And with feasting its eyes be content ? 

 No. "To let such truit spoil," it would say, 



" Was never Dame Nature's intent." 



So do not be cruel and scold, 



And ask me a promise to make, 

 That I'll never partake of the wealth. 



That's forbidden to any to take ; 

 For honey was made for man's use — 



Though the bee may utter "Nay, nay !"— 

 Yet 'tis taken away just the same. 



And not evena " Thank you " we say. 

 —Selected. 



EVOLUTION. 



The Ciroivtii and Atrophy of 

 Animal Organs. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY .T. F. LATHAM. 



In that pearly atom, the ovum of the 

 queen-bee, are stored the concentrated 

 eftorts of nature for limitless epochs, 

 which now develop a perfect insect in 

 sixteen days. The food supplied to 

 the larval bee during the various stages 

 of its growth, bears a strong resem- 

 i)lance to tliat which is supplied by the 

 co-operating agencies, to nature's 

 spontaneous oftspring at a correspond- 

 ing stage of develoimient. The man- 

 ner of receiving that food by glandu- 

 lar absorption is very nearly the same 

 in each. At a certain stage the molecu- 

 lar diet is discontinued, and the organs 

 of generation are bared in their 



growth, illustrating very definftely at 

 what point in the development of 

 cosmic life the same act was consum- 

 mated l)y the hidden agencies of na- 

 ture ; thereljy establishing tlie indi- 

 viduality or duality of the sexes as seen 

 at the present time. 



From this stand-point, which em- 

 braces, so to speak, a view of the 

 sphere of the reproductive agencies in 

 the economj' of nature, the evidence is 

 very nearly aljsolutely conclusive, with- 

 in the scope of our present sense, tliat 

 in their primitive stages of develop- 

 ment, organisms pertainingto animate 

 life were (and arc) androgynous. By 

 discarding conditional conclusions, and 

 assuming this to be a fact, the evidence 

 is as conclusive that the entites of each 

 distinct species would comprise but 

 one gender nominally, but in realitj' 

 possess the germs of botli in a stage of 

 development compatible with the grade 

 of progress to wliieh thej' had arrived 

 in their evolutionary rounds. 



In that occult description of the 

 " creation," delineated in the first 

 chapter of Genesis, we are taught that 

 the waters were commanded to bring 

 forth the moving creature having life, 

 and fowl that may fly in the open 

 flrmanient. Next we are taught that 

 the earth was commanded (admon- 

 ished) to bring fortli the living crea- 

 ture after his kind, cattle and creeping 

 thing, and beast of the earth after his 

 kind ; all in the singular number and 

 masculine gender. 



Again, we are assured that the beast 

 of the earth was made after his kind, 

 and the cattle after their kind, and 

 every creeping thing upon the earth 

 after his kind. Lastly, in the order of 

 progressive " creation," man appeared 

 in the image of his Maker — man, by 

 possessing faculties, or attributes, su- 

 perior to the collective forces of the 

 whole animal "creation" that pre- 

 ceded his advent. 



In the second chapter of Genesis, in 

 review of the first chapter, we are 

 taught that man was formed of the dust 

 of the earth, the breath of life was 

 breathed into his nosti'ils, and man 

 then became a living soul — an intelli- 

 gent being. As this narrative of the 

 "creation" (purported to have been 

 drawn from Acadian and Turanian 

 sources, more tlian a thousand years 

 prior to the compilation of tlie Book of 

 Genesis, as evinced in resurrected As- 

 sj'rian literature), is ,but an epitome of 

 the occultism whieli underlies the de- 

 velopment of modern geological re- 

 search, it requires no stretch of the 

 imagination to grasp the fact that in 

 the lirst stages of evolution pertaining 

 to the present order of things on this 

 planet, in animate organic life, that 

 which is termed sex, was represented 

 in specific language a^ a personifica- 



