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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



for a sore throat, and the quince 

 sliced and baked, mixed with otlier 

 baked fruit is very palatable. The 

 quince kernels are an excellent 

 mitigation for pains when arising 

 from burns, and how excellent they 

 are applied to sore breasts. 



Next, a good beekeeper will keep 

 the ground clean, free from high 

 grass and bushes, and either put un- 

 der and about the hive cement so one 

 can clean well, or put down boards 

 or sand of a coarse quality. This 

 order and cleanliness about the 

 hive have this particular use during 

 the swarming time ; one can find 

 the queen more readily if she, in 

 coming out through absence of 

 wings, or of deficiency, drops in 

 front of it, which causes many 

 swarms to return to their hive ; and 

 if the queen were not found, it 

 would be two or three weeks before 

 another queen could be reared and 

 during which time so many bees 

 are idle and the new swarm comes 

 so much later. 



THE SITUATION OF THE APIARY AS 

 REGARDS SUN. 



The localit}' will perhaps have 

 to decide the position of the apiarj^ 

 as regards sun, but the entrance 

 and back of the hive should not 

 face the evening sun nor towards 

 the southwest much less facing the 

 north, but their entrance should be 

 to the southeast or, best, between 

 the morning and noon sun. Where 

 they have to be placed facing the 

 noon sun it is well to be shaded from 

 the heat, for the bees are not only 

 hindered by the heat from their la- 

 bors, while those in the shade are 



busily at work, but it will sometimes 

 liappen in a 3'oung colon}' wliicli has 

 the combs veiy tender and some- 

 times not fastened securely that the 

 combs and honey will break down 

 and the bees become suffocated. If 

 the combs should break down one 

 should at once put wet bags about 

 the hive and place the hive upon an- 

 other stand. Particularly are young 

 swarms often driven from their 

 hives the second or third day by 

 the sun when they have combs a 

 hand's width in breadth with honey 

 and brood in them, and their owners 

 say the bees had another locality 

 in view. All this can be prevented 

 by a covered and well arranged 

 bee-stand and where the roof in 

 front projects so far that the hive 

 is fully shaded by half of the pro- 

 jection when the sun is at its high- 

 est. The morning sun is valuable 

 for the bees especially in summer, 

 especially the weak colonies also 

 the noon sun in spring, the robbers 

 appear to be the worst before col- 

 onies upon which the sun shines 

 much. 



To be co7itinued.'] 



EDITORIAL. 



Apiculture in America is now 

 passing through a most trying or- 

 deal and one from which it will 

 come forth in better condition, and 

 founded on a more solid basis, than 

 ever before even in more favored 

 times. 



A glutted honey market and de- 

 preciation in the prices of honey 

 are powerful factors that are awak- 



