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The ^Voria's Fair will be held in 

 some suitable place in 1893 to commemorate 

 the 400th anniversary of the discovery of 

 America. Mr. Aspinwall, upon the pre- 

 sumption that New York will be the place 

 selected, writes us as follows about making 

 a creditable exhibit of bees, honey and api- 

 arian supplies. Such should be done, no 

 matter where it is held, but we imagine that 

 Chicago will very likely put in a strong 

 claim for its location within its spacious 

 borders. But no matter where it is held, let 

 there be a grand apiarian exhibit. Mr. 

 Aspinwall says : 



Fkieni) Newman:— As there seems to 

 be little doubt that In 1892 there will be a 

 grand World's Fair in New York, would it 

 not be well tor our conventions to urge the 

 appointment of some one on the proper 

 committee, to look after our industry ? I 

 understand that in 18T6 the exhibit of bees, 

 honey and supplies was poor. Do not let 

 this be the case in 1892. We should have 

 the grandest exhibit at that Fair of any 

 ever seen in this or any other country. All 

 it needs is some one to look after the thing 

 here, who has the good of the industry, as a 

 whole, at heart. Let us begin right now to 

 do something, and we will show the world 

 that Wiley is a monstrous calumniator, and 

 that American Bee-Keepers and Supply 

 Dealers lead the world. If the conventions 

 see fi.t, 1 will take charge of their recommen- 

 dations, and will see that they reach the 

 proper authorities, as I am constantly in the 

 city. I have already written the Mayor, 

 asking that some one be appointed to look 

 after the industry, but the recommendations 

 of our conventions will have far greater 

 weight. Yours fraternally, 



John Aspinwall. 



Fatal <luarrel.— William Hooper was 

 shot and killed by J. W. Shaw near High- 

 land, Md., Saturday night, Aug. 34. They 

 were farmers. The otlier day Shaw dis- 

 covered a bee-hive on the line between his 

 and Hooper's farm. He began taking the 

 honey away when Hooper objected, claim- 

 ing that the honey was his. Saturday even- 

 ing the quarrel was renewed at Shaw's 

 house. Hooper's pistol missed fire. Shaw 

 then got his shot-gun and discharged a load 

 of buckshot in Hooper's head. 



The above is from the Buffalo News. How 

 foolish it Is for men to quarrel— yet many 

 do it over very small matters. The above 

 was sent to us by Harry E. Hill, of Titus- 

 ville. Pa., as an item of news. It might 

 have been a quarrel over a cat, dog, cow, or 

 horse— or even a spoon or dish. It was 

 foolish, very foolish. 



■Wins-Strokes in a Second.— The 

 following, according to a French physiol- 

 ogist, in regard to the number of wing- 

 sffrokes made in a second by various insects 

 and birds, will be interesting to all : 



The wing of the ordinary house fly makes 

 3B0 strokes in one second ; the wing of the 

 bumble-bee, 340 ; the honey-bee, 190 ; the 

 wing of the wasp, 110 ; the wing of the 

 dragon-fly, 28 ; the wing of the sparrow, 13 \ 

 the wing of the wild duck, 9 ; the wing of 

 the house-pigeon, 8 ; and the wing of the 

 osprey, 6. 



Educated Bees.— A correspondent in 

 Indiana sends an amusing item taken from 

 the Indianapolis News, describing the 

 training of some bees by an "amateur" 

 bee-keeper in Indianapolis. The item reads 

 thus : 



Mr. W. C. Bobbs, the amateur apiarist, 

 has succeeded in training a few bees until 

 tiiey have become interesting pets, and 

 their performances are something unusual, 

 Mr. Bobbs lives on Illinois street, near a 

 large conservatory, and thus his bees have 

 the very best of intellectual food from the 

 finest flowers in the land. One large queen- 

 bee of Mr. Bobbs' apiary, has been trained 

 so that she will turn somersaults on a piece 

 of paper, andean furthermore walk a string. 



Another bee from the same hive takes a 

 peculiar delight in playing "circus" with a 

 large bloodhound which Mr. Bobbs owns. 

 The busy insect is fond of attaching herself 

 under the dog's collar, and working her 

 "stinger " with great industry. 



Mr. Bobbs has learned to charm his bees 

 very successfully, though it required some 

 time, and it was necessary for him to sub- 

 ject himself to many indignities at their 

 "hands." The past week he has been 

 wearing a cold, glittering smile on one side 

 of his face, where the charm did not work 

 very well. 



Clippingr t'>e Queen's Wingf.— A 



correspondent of one of our exchanges 

 gives his opinion thus, on the subject of 

 clipping the queen's wing, so as to prevent 

 the absconding of the swarm, and conse- 

 quent loss and annoyance : 



I would as soon think of cutting wheat 

 with a sickle, or of threshing it with a flail, 

 as to manage bees without clipping one of 

 the queen's wings. Then as the swarm 

 issues, catch the queen and cage her under 

 a tumbler in the shade. This is done in an 

 instant. Now the bees will invariably re- 

 turn to the old hive, or a new one put in its 

 place ; and the hiving is thus done without 

 anxiety or labor. By clipping, we can 

 never lose a colony. The worst that may 

 happen is to lose the queen, which rarely 

 occurs. 



Bees and Cliickens.— In the In- 

 diana Farmer we find the following in re- 

 gard to keeping chickens in connection 

 with bee-keeping. The testimony is valuable, 

 and is stated as follows : 



Mr. Dadant says that he once had an api- 

 ary located on the side of a hill, and fenced. 

 He also had at the same time 500 chickens 

 occupying the same inclosure with the bees. 

 He had his hives raised from the ground, 

 and at night the hens brooded their chick- 

 ens under them. He also taught the chick- 

 ens to eat drones, by feeding them brood 

 and hatching drones. Furthermore, he has 

 seen a rooster pick them off as they have 

 clustered closely together for mutual pro- 

 tection against their female persecutors, as 

 all beekeepers have seen them do, until he 

 could swallow no more, then rest a bit, 

 stretch his neck and go for them again— and 

 if corn was thrown to him, he would not 

 notice it. 



Fine Portraits of "the American 

 Duchess" (formerly Mrs. Hammersly, of 

 Mew York) and the Duke of Marlborough, 

 given in connection with an illustrated 

 article on the famous palace and park of 

 Blenheim, are conspicuous among the pic- 

 torial features of Frank Leslie's Popuhir 

 Monthly for September. This number of 

 the favorite magazine is unusually strong in 

 short stories and poems. 



Ripe-Fruit Beetle.— V. W. Fair- 

 banks, Manchester, N. H., on Sept. 3, 1889, 

 asks the following questions when sending 

 a beetle : 



Enclosed find a bug that I do not know. 

 As I was sitting by the side of a colony of 

 bees this bug came" crawling from the en- 

 trance, and when I touched it, it keeled over 

 on its back and was very hard. When 

 crawling it is % of an inch long. Does it 

 eat honey or bees ? What is it ? I have 40 

 colonies of bees, but have had no honey to 

 speak of— there was too much wet weather. 



Prof. Cook answers this inquiry as 

 follows : 



The beetle is the ripe-fruit beetle— Eu- 

 phoria inda. When flyine it looks and 

 sounds like a humble-bee. The grubs work 

 in the earth eating roots. The beetle often 

 does some damage eating into ripe apples, 

 peaches, pears, and even green corn. It very 

 likely was honey hungry, and so entered 

 the bee-hive. It is strange that the bees 

 tolerated it. 



Among; tlie Valuable Bnlletins 



prepared in the Office of Experiment Sta- 

 tions of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, is one, now approaching com- 

 pletion, which will be found of infinite 

 service to the workers in our Experiment 

 Stations, to Agricultural Journalists, In- 

 stitute Directors, etc. It will be known as 

 Experiment Station Bulletin, No. 3, Part I, 

 and is a very complete digest of the annual 

 reports of some thirty Agricultural Eperi- 

 ment Stations of the United States for 1888. 

 The special feature of this work is the In- 

 dex, which is very full and complete, being 

 not only an index to the digest, but prac- 

 tically an index to the reports themselves 

 which are included in the digest. 



The work, with the exception of the Index, 

 is already in type, and will soon be com- 

 pleted and ready for distribution. It is 

 issued as Part I, the intention being to in- 

 clude a digest of the reports of the remain- 

 ing stations in another volume to be known 

 as Part II. This digest work will there- 

 after be continued periodically, so as to 

 cover all the Experiment Station reports. 



Several Eas's in One Cell.— Julius 

 Moereh, of North Indianapolis, Ind., asks 

 the following question : 



I have a young Italian queen which lays 

 from 3 to 4 eggs in one cell, at the same 

 time. She does this about once in every 

 six cells. She has plenty of room. What 

 will be the be.st to do with her ? 



Either the colony has a drone-laying 

 queen, or a laying-worker, which should be 

 superseded with a good queen, by all means. 



Annual Jubilee.— Being an "off 

 year " from political disturbance, prompts 

 the management to extra exertions in mak- 

 ing the forthcoming Indiana State Fair, 

 Sept. 33 to 28, excel in every respect. More 

 favorable railroad rates are applied for, to 

 give those at a distance the opportunity of 

 visiting the best Agricultural Fair on the 

 continent, and the Capital City with its 

 many attractions. 



