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Share to be Given when Keep- 

 ing: Bee§ for Olhers. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



Query 021.— Suppose that in theepringl 

 take on thares 40 colonieB of beee in box- 

 hives, and am told to dowiththcm as I please; 

 but I am to give ihe owner a share of the in- 

 crease of bees, in 8-frame Langstroth hives, 

 in the fall, with a slatted honey-board and one 

 Heddon surplus-case on each hive. What 

 share should I (live him? Remember that I 

 pet nothinjr but the bees In the spring, and he 

 gets no honey.— Iowa. 



Your trade is too obscure ; I cannot 

 say. — J. M. Hambaugh. 



If you are to get all the honey, you 

 should give at le.ast half of the in- 

 crease.— J. P. H. Brown. 



I shoidd say that if you give him 50 

 colonies, you would do very gener- 

 ously. — A. J. Cook. 



Make the best bargain yoit can, and 

 stick to it.— Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Make the best arrangements to- 

 gether, so as to satisfy both. — P. L. 



VlALLON. 



If you get all the bees in the spring, 

 and all the honey, you should be will- 

 ing to give him all the increase, if you 

 are allowed to manage the bees, and 

 do it reasonably well. — R. L. Taylor. 



About one-third. I should not ad- 

 vise you to enter into any such ar- 

 rangement. — Will M. Barnum. 



You had better let them alone, un- 

 less you can buy them outright. — H. 

 D. Cutting. 



There are so many circumstances 

 which would widely alter just condi- 

 tions, tliat I would not tiy to answer. 

 — James Heddon. 



No mortal can tell. During the past 

 two seasons, 1887 and 1888, it would 

 have been working "for the fun of it," 

 and paying pretty roundly for the 

 privilege, in most localities. No 

 "Hawkcye " should get caught in such 

 a "take."' — A. B. Mason. 



All depends on the season. If as 

 good as it was here in 1877, you could 

 afford to give him 40 colonies. If as 

 poor as it was in most parts of the 

 United States last year, it woidd pay 

 you well to let them entirely alone. — 



G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



If the 40 old colonies are to remain 

 the properly of the original owncr.and 

 only the increase is to be divided, then 

 I should not give him over one-third — 

 that is, you to fiu-nish all Ihe supplies 

 and do all the work. — C. H. Dibbern. 



Find the value of the bees in the 

 box-hives, and tlie value of bees in the 

 new hives, and give him bees enough 

 in tlie latter to pay the value of the 

 bees in the former. — M. Mahin. 



I do not know. Whatever the ar- 

 raugcment agreed upon may be, it 

 should be fi'ee from conditions, any- 

 thing vague, liable to be misunder- 

 stood, or liable to be imderstood more 

 ways than one. It should be reduced 

 to a writing in duplicate, that each 

 party may have a copy. — J. M. Shuck. 



If I understand the question, you 

 want to know how many colonies of 

 bees in Langstroth hives in the fall you 

 shall pay for 40 colonies in box-hives 

 in the spring. Figure the actual value 

 of each, and act accordinglj-. If the 

 risk of wintering is much, you might 

 give him 40 colonies. — C. C. Miller. 



When bees were more valuable than 

 they are now, some years ago, I 

 thought it a good thing on my part to 

 take them one-half for the other. But 

 now I think it would depend upon the 

 locality, and what one was able to do 

 with the bees. — G. W. Demaree. 



If you return the old hives in the 

 fall, and 20 in the new hives, I should 

 think that both might do well — if the 

 season is propitious, and you know 

 how to ?;j(i?ia(7c them. But if you did 

 not have that many swarms, and no 

 honey, it would be a losing game for 

 you. I believe, however, that both of 

 you will feel better in the fall if a 

 definite number is agreed upon. — 

 Eugene Secok. 



I do not know. If the case were 

 mine, and here, I should make a con- 

 tract that I thought would pay, but to 

 take bees in box-hives to care for and 

 pay back in filled Langstroth hives, I 

 should feel as though I had a hard jol] 

 before me. It will depend, too, upon 

 the season and yield. The better way, 

 I think, would be to arrange the trade 

 upon a basis such that you will give 

 him a certain amount in value in 

 Langstroth hives, the proportion to de- 

 pend upon the success of the under- 

 taking. — J. E. Pond. 



There are too many contingencies to 

 be able to tell what would be exact 

 justice to both parties. Taking into 

 account the uncertainties of the sea- 

 son, if you give the owner a good 

 share of the increase, while you take 

 the honey, it would be as fair an ar- 

 rangement as you can now make. — 

 The Editor. 



f^" There will be a meetlnK of the SuaquehnnnH 

 ('ounty Bee-Keepera" Association at the Court House 

 In Montrose, l"a., on Saturday, May 4, ixsii.at Kia.m. 

 B. M. Seelet. Sec. 



TW The DesMoines County, Iowa, Bee-Keepers* 

 Association will hold its annual convention in the 

 Court Uousc at Burlington, on April 2.'i, lrt89, jit K) 

 a. m. All bee-keepers are Invited. JuHN NAtJ, Sec, 



W The 11th annual session of the Texas State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association will be held in the apiary 

 of W. R. (irahaui. of Oreenville, Hunt Co., Tex., on 

 May 1 and '2, ihhii. All ijee-keepers are Invited. The 

 last meeting was held here last May, and was the 

 best ever held. So wc look forward to a Rood time 

 next May. A cordial welcome and hospitality will 

 be tendered to all who come. G. A. Wilson, Sec. 



PARTHENOGENESIS. 



Some Remarlts on mr. L.athani'!( 

 Article on Evolution. 



Written for t7ie American Bee Journal 

 BY dr. c. c. miller. 



On page 168, Mr. J. F. Latham gives 

 some instruction about queen-bees. I 

 am not scholar enough to understand 

 the whole of what he says — in fact 

 there is a good deal of it that I do not 

 understand at all, and I wish that 

 some one who does, would, for the 

 benefit of us common bee-keepers, give 

 us the gist of it in plain English. 



What are the points in it that we 

 are to know to enable us to rear better 

 queens ? If I get the right bearing of 

 the writer, I am to understand from 

 " the atrophied glands of the queen- 

 bee, that parthenogenesis was, at one 

 period in the existence of her species, 

 a more substantial reality than at its 

 present stage of development." Now 

 are we to understanil that Dzierzon is 

 all wrong, and that parthenogenesis 

 " at its present stage of development" 

 is not a very " substantial reality ?" Is 

 it not a very " substantial reality " 

 that a virgin queen maj- lay eggs that 

 hatch ? 



Another part of the article I think I 

 call understand, but possibly I do not 

 get at the author's real meaning. He 

 speaks of the first and second chapters 

 of Genesis, and then says: "As this 

 narrative of the creation (purported to 

 have been drawn from Acadian and 

 Turanian sources, more than a thou- 

 sand j'ears prior to the compilation of 

 the books of Genesis, as evinced in 

 resurrected Assyrian literature) is." 

 etc. Now I have read the Bible a 

 good deal — I have read every word 

 of it from beginning to end, and I 

 have no recollection of a single pas- 

 sage in it where it " purported to have 

 been drawn from Acadian and Turan- 

 ian sources." On the contrary, there 

 are passages in it that show very 

 plainh' that it purports to be a direct 

 revelation from God himself. Thus, in 

 II Timothy, 3. 10 : "All Scripture is 

 given by inspiration of God." That 

 there are men who do not believe in 

 the Bible as a Divine revelation, I have 

 long known, but this is the first time I 

 have ever known that any one believed 

 or taught that the Bible itself " pur- 

 ported to have been drawn from 

 Acadian and Turanian sources." 



If I might be allowed, I should like 

 to ask, if the narrative was " drawn 

 from Acadian and Turanian sources 

 more than a thousand jears prior to 



