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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



was compelled to accept lower wages 

 than her predecessor, who was a man, 

 and dismissed for his incompetency. 

 But we have never found a dealer 

 unscrupulous enough to offer less for 

 a pound of honey, because it was pro- 

 duced bv a woman. — Ex. 



TO PROMOTE BROOD REARING. 



The experienced apiarist manages 

 to have but little honey in his hives 

 at the beginning of the surplus honey 

 flow. By uncapping the cells and 

 placing the combs in the center of the 

 brood nest it is used for brood rearing. 

 If some hives contain more than can 

 be used in this way, probably others 

 will be lacking in stores and an ex- 

 change of combs may be made. 

 Worker combs from box hives may be 

 fitted to frames and used in place of 

 old combs, which may be cut out, 

 rendered into wax and the frames re- 

 filled. Whenever I have tried the 

 plan of getting foundation drawers 

 between frames containing full combs, 

 I always get irregular combs. Colo- 

 nies that contain a large amount of 

 stores at the beginning of the honey 

 harvest will store only about half the 

 surplus they would if the brood nest 

 had been judiciously enlarged. The 

 entire stores may be used for brood 

 rearing and when the surplus cases 

 are put on, frames containing eggs 

 should be placed at the outside of the 

 brood chamber. — J". H. Andre. 



CAREFULLY BRED BEES. 



There is a great difference between 

 the worth of bees that have been bred 

 up for many years by a skilled apiarist 

 and those that are in box hives, that 

 have never given any surplus. I 

 should prefer the former at a good 

 price instead of the latter as a gift. 



The Italian bees are superior to the 

 blacks in every way, unless it is cap- 

 ping the honey to show white. I 

 sometimes think this is caused by their 

 working on the alsike and other plants 

 that the native bees are unable to ob- 

 tain honey from on account of their 

 inability to reach it. Probably the 

 honey gathered from the same flowers 

 by each race would show the same. 

 They are never idle. I have observed 

 them when taking nights in midwinter 

 busily engaged in house cleaning, 

 when colonies of natives close by the 

 side of them were only enjoying them- 

 selves on the wing. Their marked 

 superiority is more noticeable during 

 poor seasons. Some think the progeny 

 of cross-bred queens equal to full- 

 blooded Italians. I prefer the pure 

 Italians in every respect, as they 

 cross-breed soon enough with neigh- 

 bors' bees. — Stockman. 



WORKS OF ART BY TWELVE FAMOUS 

 ARTISTS. 



Sometimes a magazine varies its 

 plan of make-up for a single number, 

 in a way that makes that issue unique. 

 The Cosmopolitan published one num- 

 ber some months ago filled entirely 

 with contributions from women. In 

 the same way the May issue of the 

 Cosmopolitan will be noteworthy on 

 account of the change in the style of 

 illustration. With hardly an excep- 

 tion, the number is entirely made up 

 of original works of art and all by the 

 best artists that could be found. 

 There has never been a number of any 

 magazine that contained so high a 

 class of illustration, and the names of 

 Walter Crane, the English decorator, 

 W. M. Chase, E. W. Kemble, F. 

 Remington, C. S. Reinhart, etc., are 

 enough to distinguish the issue alone. 



