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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



bees traversing from one flower to an- 

 other, and carrying the pollen, stick- 

 ing to their legs and wings, to the 

 next flower, and impregnating the 

 pistils of it. This was the case with 

 the Frenchman's greenhouse. The 

 necessity was seen and planned by 

 the all-wise Creator. He has created 

 the bee for the flower, and the flower 

 for the bee; endowed the plant with 

 the bower of secreting the liquid 

 sweet, and giving the honey-bee the 

 instinct to search after it and treasure 

 it up for his own as well as for man's 

 wants. 



The prejudice against bees injuring 

 the crops has no foundation, and I 

 hope that the day is dawning when it 

 will wholly disappear. — W. S. D. in A. 

 B.J. 



A FEW APIARIAN DOn'ts, 



Don't make a veritable curiosity 

 shop of your apiary, by filling it with 

 a job lot of hives of all the different 

 patterns you can hear of, just to see 

 which is best. 



Don't wait until there is a heavy 

 honey-flow from clover or basswood 

 before you order those new hives and 

 sections. 



Don't write a long, abusive letter 

 to the suffering supply dealer about 

 July 15, asking him why those sec- 

 tions you ordered by telegraph yester- 

 day noon had not arrived at the 

 depot. 



Don't sell your honey in any shape 

 and for any price your local grocer 

 may see fit to pay you. 



Don't make that common mistake 

 of crating the nice white sections next 

 to the glass and the dark ones in a 

 'family group" in the centre. 



Don't put off that little job of Sept. 

 feeding until the following Spring, 

 and then wonder how it comes that 

 some people have such luck with bees! 



Don't leave your bees out so late 

 in the Fall that you have to chop the 

 ice off the the hives before you can 

 house them. 



Don't ; but I know you will — 



some of you. — A. B. J. 



PRESERVING EMPTY COMBS. 



If you have a lot of empty combs 

 on hand, and wish to preserve them 

 for future use, they will have to be 

 looked after carefully when warm 

 weather approaches, else the moths 

 will destroy them. After the combs 

 get thoroughly dry, the best place to 

 keep them is in a cool, dry cellar — so 

 cool that the eggs of the moth will not 

 hatch, aud so dry that the mold will 

 not ruin them. If it is not practical 

 to preserve them thus, they may be 

 saved almost anywhere by hanging 

 the combs about an inch apart. 



Combs are seldom destroyed by 

 worms unless they are close enough 

 together to allow the moth to build 

 their web between. As combs hang 

 naturally in a hive, they are too close 

 to save well without bees on them. 



Spiders are friends to the bee-keep- 

 er, if he has empty combs to preserve. 

 Let them build their web between the 

 combs aud worms will never be seen. 

 Perhaps it will pay for bee-keepers to 

 start a spider farm. They are useful 

 animals. — Eugene Secor in the Farmer 

 and Breeder. 



Clubbing List. 



We will send the American Bee-Keeper with 



the — PUB. PRCE. BOTH. 



American Bee Journal, (81 00) SI 35 



American Apiculturist, ( 75) 1 15 



Bee-Keeper's Review, (100) 135 



Canadian Bee Journal, ( 75) 115 



Gleanings in Bee Culture, (1 00) 1 35 



