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introduce its honey here for several REASON OR INSTINCT IN BEES, 

 years, and, in fact, has sold some of 



it here, but not enogh to make it an J- ^- hand. 



object. 0—t HE DISCUSSION between Mr. 



C. P. Tatum & Co. I Latham and Arthur C. Miller 



■*• in the November Bee-Keeper, 



CALIFORNIA PROSPECTS as to why drone comb is built, is to 



GOOD. me very interesting. 



Chatsworth, Cal., Dec. 12, 1906. For various reasons I would like to 



We have just had several days of accept Mr. Miller's theory, and per- 

 rain which is very favorable for a crop haps could do so regardmg the build- 

 of sage honey. That is if there comes i"g oi drone comb. Yet there are a 

 a few rains later we will be sure of thousand and one other- thnigs, that 

 a crop next year. Nothing but a the bees do, which would seem to 

 long spell of unusually dry weather require even more reasoning power, 

 could prevent. In 1893-4 there was an than would the building of drone 

 abundance of rain in December, but comb just when male bees are needed, 

 scarcely any all the rest of the winter. For instance, how about their build- 

 In 1904-5 there was no rain until about '"g queen cells just when queens are 

 the 1st of February, when it began to "^eded and at no other time? 

 rain. But it was so late that sage did Does it require stronger reasoning 

 not have time to grow. powers to enable them to build drone 



C W Dayton. cells just when drones are needed, 



. than it does to build queen cells 



just when queens are needed? 



GREAT DEMAND FOR BEE Perhaps it is the crowded conditioh 



STINGS. of the hive that compels the bees to 



^ feed the larvae one kind of food to 



Long Sufferers frorn Rheumatism produce a worker bee and another 



Fmd Relief. kind to produce a queen. 



Royersford, Pa., Aug. 24. — J. R. if bees are mere reflex machines, 



Mosteller, a bee raiser, is being be- how are we to account for their mak- 



sieged by persons for the use of his ing preparations for an event that is 



bees for stings for the cure of rheuma- to take place a week or ten days in 



tism. Councilman Howard Buchan- the future, as in preparing to swarm; 



an was the first to try the remedy, and and all at once destroying all their 



the results, he says were so sacisfac- queen cells, and giving up the notion 



tory that other persons have taken the of swarming simply because the hon- 



remcdy. John Anthony declares that ey flow begins to decline? 



he has been given such relief that he If we admit that bees always build 



has dispensed with his crutches. Lew- queen cells when queens are needed 



is Deegan has been aided also. A and at no other time, it seems to me 



business man of Pottsdown, who suf- that the argument is rather in favor 



fered for years, was stung eight times of the theory of a higher order of in- 



by the bees, and says that he has been stinct, very nearly akin to reason. 



benefitted. As there are higher developments 



of reasoning powers in the human 



"Results from my advertisement in race why should there not be a higher 

 the American Bee-Keeper have been order of instinct in the lower animals? 

 VERY satisfactory." — E. H. Dewey, This is indeed a fruitful theme and 

 Gt. Barrington, Mass. one worthy of our best thought and 



