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the cell piiifhiHl together to exclude 

 the air and keep the royal jelly from 

 drying up. 1 have used the food for a 

 number of these cells after keeping 

 them for several weeks — indeed, I 

 have just used some of it to-day (Oct. 

 19), that has been taken from the 

 hives more than a month, and the jellj' 

 was perfectly fresh. Next season I 

 shall try kcei/ing sorue of this royal 

 jelly in a small bottle. 



On one occasion I softened up with 

 water some of tlii.s queen-food that was 

 drj' and hard, and it answered every 

 purpose in the cell-cup. 



The little grubs can be taken in a 

 few moments from the combs of the 

 choice queen, without cutting or injur- 

 ing the combs. This requires very 

 little practice to enable any one to 

 select the grubs, and transfer tliem very 

 rapidly, and frecjuently without remov- 

 ing or disturbing the bees on the comb. 



No Honey from Uolden Rod. 



Golden-Rod in the "blue-grass"' 

 region of Kentucky has never fur- 

 nished any honey, as far as I have 

 been able to learn ; but the asters do, 

 and to-day mj- bees are coming in 

 loaded with honey and lemon-colored 

 pollen from them, and every comb is 

 loaded to the guards with honey and 

 pollen, which insure* every colony to 

 winter perfectly on their ■ summer 

 stands, with six inches of sawdust and 

 a water-proof corrugated iron-cover. 



Winchester, Ky. 



An Open Apple Tart. 



Stew some apples till quite soft ; take out 

 ftny hard pieces, beat them to a pulp, and to 

 half a pound of pulp allow six ounces of sugar, 

 five eggs and the grated rind of a lemon. 

 Beat all these well together, then add gradu- 

 ally five ounces of melted butter. Line a dish 

 with puff paste, pour in the mixture and bake 

 it at once. 



Cliocolate Cakes. 



The whites of eight eggs, half a cake of 

 chocolate grated, one pound of sugar, six 

 ounces of flour. Beat the eggs to a stiff 

 (roth, add the sugar, then stir in the choco- 

 late and flour. Butter flat tins, and drop the 

 mixture thereon; not too closely, as the cakes 

 will spread. Bake a few minutes in a quick 

 oven. 



For Neuralgia, 

 Boil a handful of lobeUa in a half pint of 

 water, strain and add a teaspoonful of fine 

 salt. Wring cloths out of the liquid, very 

 hot, and apply till the pain ceases, changing 

 as fast as cold, then cover with a dry cloth 

 for a wiiilo to prevent taking cold. Two large 

 tablespoonfuls of cologne and two teaspoon- 

 fuls of fine salt mixed in a bottle makes an 

 excellent inhalent for facial neuralgia. Horse- 

 radish, prepared the same as for the table, ap- 

 phed to the temple or wrist, is recommended. 



Europe has "AlO unions of men who sew for 

 i living. The members earn about $3 a week 

 ind live and dress poorly. 



COIVVENTION DIRECTORY. 



,1888. 



Time and Place of Meeting. 



Dec. 4-6.— International, at Brantford, Ont., Canada. 

 K. F. Uoltenuann. Sec, Romney, Ont. 



Dec. 16, 17.— Northern Illinois, at Rockford, Ills. 



D. A. Fuller, Sec, Cherry Valley. Ills. . 

 1890. 

 May 2.— Susquehanna Co.. at Hopbottom, Pa. 



H. M. Seeley, Sec., Harford, Pa. 



ty In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time ahd place of future meetines.- Bd. 



Nebraska Fnir Premiums. 



We have had a splendid fair. I took 



premiums on fruit, grapes, and bees and 



houej' to the amount of over S'lOO. I had 



45 varieties of grapes alone, on exhibition. 



Wm. Stollev. 



Grand Island, Nebr., Oct. 28, 1889. 



iVIoTincT Uecs a l^oiig^ Distance. 



It will be seen by m^' address that I have 

 made quite a move. 1 shipped 48 colonies 

 of bees from Dubuque, Iowa, to Tacoma. 

 Wash. Ter., sustaining a loss of 8 colonies, 

 being IS days on the road. This is the 

 longest shipment that I know of, being 

 nearly 3,200 miles. The possibilities of 

 bee-culture here, I think, are great. Here 

 gi'ass and flowers now look like they do in 

 May in Iowa. C. A. Phenicie. 



Tacoma, Wash. Ter., Oct. 26, 1889. 



Bees in Box-llives. 



I concluded that two of the 7 colonies 

 in box-hives, mentioned on page 652, did 

 not have stores enough to keep them 

 through the winter, so I destroyed them, 

 leaving only 5 good colonies, 3 of which 

 did not have honey enough to satisfy me. 



1 have fed them some sugar syrup. I pro- 

 pose to leave them on the summer stands 

 all winter, and put corn-stalks around 

 them. Mr. Swezy, a liee-keeper living in 

 Brook Haven, does not give his bees any 

 protection whatever in the winter. He just 

 lets them stay on the summer stands. Out 

 of ti colonies'he hasonly 2 left; I purchased 



2 of them, and 2 died, leaving him only 2. 



O. R. Hawkixs. 

 Bellport, N. Y., Oct. 14, 1889. 



First to i^Iiip Uees by Mai I. 



We have just read the article on page 

 667, in which Mr. C. .J. Robinson accuses 

 Mr. Lungstroth of unfairness, and of not 

 giving him (Roliinsou) the due honor of 

 having been the first to send queens safely 

 l>y mail. 



Mr, Lungstroth is human, and conse- 

 quently has his faults as well as Mr. Robin- 

 son, or any of us; but we wish to say pub- 

 licly, that in this case Mr. Langstroth is 

 nattd he bliimcd at all. AVhen we took the 

 revision of theViook, '-The Hive andHoney- 

 Bee," from the hands of Mr. L., his most 

 emphatic liesire was, that we give honor 

 to whom htjuor is due, and he expressed the 

 ojiinion that we would try, as hard as any 

 one iiossilily could, to do this to the fullest 

 extent. The work of revision had hardly 

 liegun, when Mr. L. took sick with the dis- 

 ease that has so long jirostrated him, and 

 that is even now keeping him from the 

 world. We were, therefore, deprived of 



his help, and of his counsel. When we took 

 up the subject of mailing queens, we 

 searched the oldest volumes of the Ameki- 

 ( AX Bee .JoruxAi, for the names of those 

 who had first shipped liees by mail. If Mr. 

 Roliinsou is there mentioned, we did not 

 see it. Had we fouml it, we should cer- 

 tainly have given him <redit, instead of 

 giving it to Messrs. Townley and Alley. 

 But let Mr. Roliinson's ire fall on us, aud 

 not on Mr. Langstroth, who has nothing to 

 do with it. 



Since Mr. Roliinson has a letter from Mr. 

 Langstroth, acknowledging that he was the 

 first man to shiji bees safely by mail, we 

 stand ready to give him due credit for this 

 in the next edition of the "Hive and 

 Houey-Bee." CiiAS. Dadant & Sox. 



Hamilton, Ills. 



Poor Honey Harvest. 



The honey harvest was a poor one again: 

 this year in Somerset count}-. Pa. I would 

 have had to feed, like I did last season, but 

 buckwheat yielded some honey, and golden- 

 rod also j'ielded well for about three weeks. 

 This was the only honey we have to winter 

 bees on, as almost all the white clover and 

 linden honey was used for breeding. 



D. D. Jonssos. 



Summit Mills, Pa., Oct. 25, 1889. 



Excellent Results. 



The Amehk'an' Bee Jourxal is a vei-y 

 welcome visitor in our family evei*y week. 

 I \viutered 26 colonies in the cellar last 

 winter, lost one, and since I have increased 

 to 40, and have taken off 800 pounds of 

 No. 1 coml) honey, aud 200 lbs. or more of 

 second and third grade honey. The weather 

 has been too wet and cold for good results, 

 so say experienced bee-keepers. With my- 

 self, this is the fourth best season thus far. 



C. GUILFORII. 



Cuba, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1889. 



€<oo«l ¥iel«i of Honey. 



I put 15 colonies of bees in the cellar last 

 November, and all came out in good condi- 

 tion in the spring. They did fairly well 

 through April and May, lint June was so 

 excessively wet that the first half of the 

 white clover bloom gave but little honey ; 

 however, about July 4, the weather cleared 

 up so that the bees did well on the profuse 

 white clover bloom, till the basswood com- 

 menced to bloom, which was about July 15, 

 aud that lusted the balance of the month, 

 and yielded moderately well. Twelve colo- 

 nies,Which I worked for extracted honey, 

 gave about 1,300 pounds of clover and 

 basswood honey, and 500 pounds of fall 

 honey, which is a good yield for this 

 locality. There is a good demand for honey, 

 on account of the scarcity of fruit, and I 

 have sold nearly all of mine at my own 

 door, at 10 cents for the white honey, aud 

 7 cents for the dark. The yield from buck- 

 wheat was light, but I have not known the 

 golden-rod to yield so well in many years. 

 David Hii.i.. 



Warsaw, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1889. 



<iioldcn-Ko«I— <»oo«i Season. 



As "Golden-Rod" is being trieil by a jury 

 of apiarists, suppose we should all give in 

 our testimony. It is very abundant in this 

 vicinitv (Waushara county) and, judging 

 by the "way the bees work upon it, it is a 

 niost excellent honey -plant. I have many 

 times seen several tiees upon a single stalk. 

 There are at h-ust two varieties here, both 

 of which yield honey. In my opinion, 

 golden-rod" has redeeming qualities enough 



