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queens. In many of the practices of ever, I am not alone in my position, 



apiculture the necessity of finding as will shortly be shown in these 



the queens _ is a serious hindrance, columns. M. 



Such searching costs in labor, in dis- 



turbance to the bees, and in other Qne man's deductions from observ- 



ways. Who will devise practica ed facts are often diametrically oppo- 



methods for requeening artificial ^jte to another person's interpreta- 



swarming and other practices which tion of the same facts M Bonnier 



will dispense with looking for the js q,,oted as saying that bees send 



old queen methods which do not call ^^t scouts to search for honey, pol- 



for special apphances-for the bene- jen, etc., and that on their return 



fit of the supply men Don t be bash- f^om a successful quest they inform 



ful, gentlemen, speak right "P; we 11 ^t^er occupants of the hive and di- 



P"""^ "• ^^^^^- rect them to the treasure. The writ- 



T , • , , er ventures the assertion that the in- 

 Let me again urge bee-keepers par- dividual bees start forth each of her 

 icularly the "httle fellows," to strive ^wn volition and that when one re- 

 o produce high quality honey rather ^^^^^ j^^^^^ ^j^j^ ^ . 

 than great quantity. It is more profit- fi^ld, the odor of her load excites 

 able and more satisfactory to sell a ^^her bees who start out seeking the 

 ew score boxes of honey of excep- ,^^^ ^j^, ^s their sense of fmell 

 tional quality and appearance than jg exceedingly acute, it is quite pos- 

 several score niore of indifferent ^jbi, that one or more bees will fol- 

 merit. The first quickly advertises i_„, ^„ . . ^^ .^^ , , f " .' 

 ., J J u 'ow and keep track of a bee sfoiner 

 the producer and he can soon com- f,._^ i.u„ v,- 'I .„ ., \^ ? i. ^ 

 J r ,■ irom trie nive to the source of her 

 mand a fancy ^nce — sometimes even plunder ^^^^^ (m{ 



double the market value for every ' _^ *■ ^" 



box he can produce — and have it atitat>ta>t t^t^t.,^-.t^^ „ 

 spoken for a season ahead-while tha APIARIAN DEMONSTRATOR 

 inferior sort is of slow sale and at WANTED, 



small price. (M.) a . , . , 



-■ At the next meeting of the Colo- 



A Pennsylvania correspondent wrote ''^^o State Association, it is desired 



on May nth that they had ten inches ^° P''^?^"} a practical demonstration 



of snow. The same date another °* methods of handling live bees, the 



wrote from Connecticut, "Never saw operators to illustrate their methods 



such a cold spring. Apple blossoms °f increasing colonies by artificial 



not yet out at all. I am usually put- means; treatment of foul brood, 



ting on sections May loth." And all manipulating supers in com^b honey 



this time South Florida has been production, and other exercises that 



sweltering in torrid, drouthy heat of may tend to interest and instruct the 



unusual degree. Conditions seem to public. 



be quite generally abnormal this sea- -.^-^^ any reader of The American Bee- 

 son. May be we may have an "ab- •^^^P^'',/^ '".a. Position to make a 

 normally" heavy honey harvest lin creditable exhibition on this occasion, 

 some sections. Florida, however, will along the specified lines, write to 

 not be in it. (H.^ Secretary S. Francis, Erie, Colo. The 



' present is none too early to take up 



So Mr. D. M. MacDonald still con- \^^ "?\"^^ ,w^th Mr. Francis, and 



siders the bee a most industrious in- formulate plans for a thoroughly 



sect. Much as I would Hke to have ^°°d demonstration. (H.) 



Mr. MacDonald on my side. I cannot 



change my position on the bee's lack JUDGING COLONIES FROM 



of industry, on the contrary, each THE EXTERIOR 

 day's observation but strengthens my 



conviction that she spends the great- Let this season's close fi;id you 



er part of her short life in idleness, better skilled in judging the condition 



Mr. Latham acknowledges that she of your colonies by external appear- 



is_ often "idle," but never "lazy," a ance or by mere superficial exami- 



distinction as applied to the bee nation from top and bottom of hive, 



comparable to the difference between To have all your colonies of one 



tweedledee and tweedledum. How- strain of bees and to know the 



