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drones of the same size. Guess that trap 

 was sot for the "leader" that time, sure. 

 'Twas a Tennessee boy who gave him- 

 self away that time- Well the poor fel- 

 low isn't alone. Hark ye — A New 

 York boy writing on "Missing Links" 

 in queen rearing and citing Brother 

 'Lisha's remarks about "umbilical" 

 cords, says "since the doctor wrote his 

 articles I have examined more closely 

 into the matter and every cell which I 

 could spare since has been carefully 

 opened, only to find in each the tendrils 

 he speaks of as they run from this cord 

 up inside the base to the wax cell-cups, 

 and all under and through the royal 

 jelly in every conceivable direction." 

 What d'ye think of that? Got 'em, and 

 got 'em fust, too! D'ye spose he'll be 



dealers, queen breeders, honey mer- 

 chants, etc-? But their bait is not for 

 bass, but for suckers. "Big Hives," 

 "Small Hives," "Yellow Queens," 

 "Brown Queens," "Wax Extractors" 

 (which don't extract), "Smokers" just a 

 little change from some other, but not 

 worth lighting. Tell W. Z. that fish bait 

 is an invention as old as bee-keeping. 

 You wijl note I said "of nearly all, etc-" 

 Well there are just one or two excep- 

 tions to the rule. 



Shouldn't speak the .truth at all 

 times, did I hear 3'ou say? Harry, Har- 

 ry, is it possible that you are becoming 

 imbued with the spirit of the evil prac- 

 tices of the day? 



Yours as ever, 



John Hardscrabble. 



THE MOST PROMISING AriARY IN THE WOKLD — (PAT's). 



able to find a hole to crawl into when 

 he learns what that so-called "umbili- 

 cal cord" really is? And to make the 

 thing complete Georgie winds up the 

 article with a neat little "ad" of the 

 book describing the system by which 

 only the "Missing Link" may be pro- 

 duced. And this in "The Old Reliable," 

 the "Peoples Champion." 



It calls to mind Grandpa Hutchin- 

 son's expressed astonishment over the 

 versatility of Jimmy Heddon, a bee 

 man, in getting up a fish bait for bass. 

 Bless his dear old heart, don't he know 

 that fish bait is the stock in trade of 

 nearly all the leading bee men, supply 



''The tobacco smoke method of in- 

 troducing queens is giving me better 

 satisfaction again this year than any 

 other method." — Review. 



Of the Messrs. L. L. and T. O. An- 

 drews, subscribers of The American 

 Bee-Keeper at Corona, Calif., the Pa- 

 cific Bee Journal says these gentlemen 

 have harvested about ten tons of hon- 

 ey this year, although the best reports 

 from this section thus far is 20 per cent, 

 of last year's yield. Messrs. Andrews 

 move their bees from place to place as 

 prospects invite, doing so at night. 



