Selling Receipts. — Many have of 

 late written to us to inquire about sev- 

 eral bee-receipt peddlars. There seems 

 to be a host of such now flooding the 

 country. One man in Missouri has paid 

 $5.00 for the following very interesting 

 document, which we print verbatim et 

 literatim. 



Importnat to Bee Owners.— How to 

 keep out the Miller ; Use Smalt's emery or 

 pulverized glass, by sprinkling it on the 

 hive before the paint dries. 



What to feed to raise young broods ; Take 

 one part white of egg, and one part loaf 

 sugar. 



What to feed your bees : Use three parts 

 rye flower and one part salt. 



How to transfer bees ; Blow smoke in 

 the entrance of the bee, knock on the hive 

 and the bees will go up in the hive, let them 

 fill themselves with honey, then turn the 

 hive upside down, and place your empty gum 

 over it and knock on the empty gum. 



How to tell when your bees are going to 

 swarm ; Go to your hive about fifteen days 

 after the bloom has come, and if they are 

 going to swarm you will hear the young 

 queens around the bottom whistling, then 

 prepare your hive as follows : Wash the hive 

 out with sweet or salt water, place your hive 

 ten feet in front of your hive, cover it over 

 with green brush. 



How to hive bees ; Sprinkle about a pint 

 of sweet water over them, let them stand a 

 minute, then take a box and climb to where 

 your bees are, and hold your box over them 

 and tap on the hive, and the bees will walk 

 up, then let your box down and place your 

 hive over it and tap on it and the bees will 

 walk up. 



Home of bees, 18 inches high and 14 

 inches square, side winks 26 inches long 14 

 inches wide and 8 inches deep, slabs 1% 

 inches wide and one-half inch space 

 between. 



It abounds in peculiarities andnonsen- 

 sicalities — such as " blow the smoke in 

 the entrance of the bee," the "whistling 

 of the queen," &c. 



The pulverized glass would not do 

 much harm to anything, but the " egg 

 and loaf sugar " would not raise brood 

 without pollen. Evidently the author 

 of this costly receipt does not know 

 what is meant by " transferring bees." 



The "whistling" he refers to, is only 

 heard before the issuing of after swarms, 

 as a rule, and then with many excep- 

 tions. 



His hiving directions are a hundred 

 years behind the times, and his hive 

 must be a worthless trap. 



New Foundation. — We have re- 

 ceived a package of the new comb 

 foundation, and it is a delight to look 

 at it — so perfect, so transcendently 

 beautiful is it, that one cannot view it 

 without admiration ! 



That with wire, for use in the breed- 

 ing apartment, is from 4 to 6 square 

 feet to the pound. Without wire it is 

 so thin that it will take from 10 to 12 

 square feet to make a pound. Capt. 

 Hetherington says that after two years' 

 experience he would not be without the 

 wire in any foundation he uses in the 

 brood chamber for any reasonable con- 

 sideration. He has about 7,000 full 

 frames of it. 



One thing to be observed is the very 

 fine side walls on some of the samples 

 of the extra thin. The amount of wax 

 in the side walls determines the number 

 of square feet to the pound. This can 

 be changed to meet the wishes of the 

 consumer. We think, however, that a 

 good bold side wall is advantageous 

 enough to compensate for the extra 

 weight of the sheets. 



m° Science, not luck, gives success. 



Hives. — We have received at our 

 Museum the following hives. " Shuck's 

 I Universal 'Bee Hive," described on page 

 96, and " Elvin Armstrong's Centen- 

 nial Hive," described on page 91, and 

 " F. A. Snell's Eclipse Hive." Each of 

 these gentlemen have a hive peculiarly 

 their own, and are energetically at work 

 introducing them. Each one is held in 

 esteem by many apiarists, who favor the 

 peculiarty found in each one. As be- 

 fore remarked, thorough and scientific 

 management have more to do with suc- 

 cess, than any peculiarity in the hive ; 

 for men will differ about the selection 

 of a hive, as they do about selecting a 

 wife, choosing a political creed or embra- 

 cing a religious faith. There are hives 

 enough now in use to please all, no 

 matter how fastidious they may be. 

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|3F° During the past year San Diego 

 county, California, exported 1,490,240 

 lbs. of honey ; (954,480 lbs. of it being 

 comb honey, and 535,860 lbs. extracted), 

 and 24,440 lbs. of beeswax. 



