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back to his own country provided 

 among other things with a circular 

 saw with pedal gear, which does 

 excellent work while occupying but 

 little space, with a hole-boring ma- 

 chine which with one single point 

 and movable cutter makes holes of 

 all sizes ; also a machine with en- 

 graved cylinders, which cost one 

 hundred dollars, for making comb 

 foundation. 



One of the Pometta apiaries is at 

 Tenero, three-quarters of an hour 

 from Gordola, another at Gudo, at 

 a great altitude, and about two 

 hours' distance frem Gordola ; the 

 third is at Lavertezzo in the Valley 

 of Verzasco. I did not meet Mr. 

 Pometta at Tenero, but was re- 

 ceived by the amiable Dr. Galletti, 

 in whose house and garden, Po- 

 metta keeps his tools and about 

 one hundred and fifty colonies and 

 nuclei scattered around on the 

 grass. Several of the hives are 

 the same as those of Professor 

 Mono, but the others of a newer 

 make are of the American pattern. 



I found the bees here singularly 

 beautiful with three distinct yellow 

 rings, and the doctor told me that 

 Pometta conscientiously gives great 

 attention to the selection of the 

 queens. The doctor, while showing 

 me some sheets of foundation, said, 

 " It is hardly to be believed how 

 well the bees know what to do with 

 foundation, in the cells of which 

 we often perceive on the second 

 da}', honey and eggs." 



[To he continued.'] 



A GUld]^ tS^ 

 THE BEST 3fATHo£s> OFC 



BEEKEEPING. 



{Continued from p. 177.) 



PRKFACE TO SECOND EDITIOX. 



The necessity of publishing a 

 second edition of this work on the 

 management of bees (the first large 

 edition having been exhausted in 

 two years) must certainly give the 

 author great pleasure, besides be- 

 ing a source of encouragement to 

 him in his work. But still more 

 are the agricultural public and 

 every lover of bees convinced of 

 the excellence of this method of 

 the managing of the bees and ar- 

 ranging their hives in such manner, 

 as not only is practised in tliis 

 countr}^, very often with the best 

 success, so that one already sees 

 apiaries of 30, 50, 100 and more 

 colonies, but also in more distant 

 lands (as the borders of Switzer- 

 land, in Westphalia, Westerwald, 

 Saxon3% Brandenburg, Hanover, 

 West Prussia, and man}' other lo- 

 calities more than 130 miles dis- 

 tant) the value and the worth of 

 this method have been ahead}' 

 tested during the last two years. 



It is known that the two years 

 past, since the first edition was is- 

 sued in 1780, were very poor for 

 bees, by reason of the dry 

 summers and the strong north 

 winds ; still I have received from 

 time to time the news that the bees 

 in my style of hives and with my 

 system of management not only 

 keep strong (while very often with 



