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THE AMERICAN APICULTUBIST. 



demn a queen for not laying until 

 I have tried her in more than one 

 colony. 



C. M. GOODSPEED. 



Thorn IlilL N. Y., Dec. 17, 1883. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Mr. J. P. McElrath, of Asbiiry, 

 AVarren County, N. J., sends the 

 following item for the consideration 

 of Prof. Hasbrouck and Mr. James 

 Heddon : 



" The authors of the ' Maison 

 rustique' impute purging to the 

 bees feeding on pure honey, which 

 does not form a food sufficiently 

 substantial for them, unless they 

 have bee bread to eat at the same 

 time, and advise giving them a 

 honey comb taken from another 

 hive, the cells of which are filled 

 with crude wax or bee bread. — 



Thomas Weldman, 3rd edition, 

 London., 1778. 



We had our last year's subscrip- 

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 until lately that the copyist in 

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We take pleasure in noting the 

 following action of the Maine Bee- 

 keepers' Association regarding 

 Mrs. Lizzie Cotton, and we hope 

 that the time will soon come that 

 our system of associations will be 

 so thoroughly organized tliat every 

 kind of fraud and every danger 

 that threatens the interests of the 

 beekeepers will be speedily at- 

 tended to and not allowed to exist 

 for years. We quote as follows: 



"The work of the afternoon ses- 

 sion, Friday, was opened by a dis- 

 cussion of Mrs. Lizzie Cotton of 

 Gorham. The matter was intro- 

 duced by the reading of a letter 

 from Mr. S. M. Locke of the Am- 

 erican Apiculturist, urging that the 

 Maine Beekeepers' Association 

 take some action expressing their 

 disapproval of the course and 

 teacliings of Mrs. Cotton. In refer- 

 ence thereto the following resolve 

 was adopted and reconimended 

 that it be given the widest circu- 

 lation through the various agricid- 

 tural and other papers of the State. 



Resolved: That the Maine Bee- 

 Keepers' Association here assem- 

 bled denounce in the strongest 

 terms the transactions and teach- 

 ings of Mrs. Lizzie PI Cotton of 

 West Gorham, Maine, and warn 

 all persons from having any deal- 

 ings with said party. — Leiviston 

 Journcd. 



Prof. A. J. Cook sends tlie fol- 

 lowing, and we take great pleasure 

 in placing this law before our read- 

 ers ; it gives evidence of careful 

 study , and should be enforced. 

 While w^e knQiu., as Moses Quinby 

 stated 3'ears ago, and as others 



