THE AMERICAX "BEE-KEEPER. 



Jitnndty 



metal, on one comb, until the brood in 

 the renuiiiiiiig eight or nine combs liad 

 passed the royal age; then removing cjueen 

 and comb and giving a hatching cell 

 Hut I found this plan a little fussv, so 

 abandoned it For a better one, about which 

 I shall write later. 



Perhaps it should be hald that by the 

 above caging plan no cells are ever built 

 on the combs while the queen is confined 

 l>eliind the excluder; therefore all cell- 

 cutting is entirely avoided — bees will sel- 

 dom swarm with a young queen, 3'ou 

 know. 



All}- [jlan tor the pre\ention of swarm- 

 ing, or for any other purpose, that leaves 

 a colon)- queen less for more than a few 

 hours, is woefully wasteful. But, if no 

 cells are at hand at the time of removing 

 the queen the bees may be allowed to 

 build some from the young brood left be- 

 hind the zinc; then either destro\- all but 

 one cell at the end of the twelfth day 

 (when t!ie excluder should be removed), 

 or the cells may be left as they have been 

 built (behind the zinc) until the young 

 queens have hatched, destroyed each 

 other and but one remains; then remove 

 the queen excluder to allow the reigning 

 virgin a wedding flight. 



Another plan and altogether the best 

 one, for young queens are always wanted 

 in a large yard, is to start some queen 

 cells in the queenless seclion, a la Doo. 

 little, and have them going along while 

 the laying queen is confined to the single 

 comb. Under the conditions present at 

 this time the best of queens will be reared 

 at no cost and with very little trouble. 

 Take lieed, however, that no cells are left 

 in this compartment long enongh to 

 hatch, for if the}' should there would be 

 swarming galore, at its very most, too; 

 with virgin queens. 



Now, Mr.Editor,ifthis matter is thought 

 intere.sting to the readers of The Bee-Keep- 

 er I will contiime the subject in the next 

 number and tell how I secure an extra 

 large force of workers and compel them 

 to enter the boxes just at the opening of 

 the honey flow by the U. D. manipula- 



tion, which does away Avith nearly all the 

 internal performances neces.sary in other 

 plans recommended. In fact, my plan 

 is so simple that one man can prepare an 

 out-yard of one hundred colonies in a 

 single day; furthermore, the apiarist may 

 rest as.sured that there will be no more 

 swarming from the colonies thus prepared 

 than from the same colonies worked for 

 extracted honey. 

 Swarthmore, Pa. 



[We shall be pleased to have ''Swarth- 

 more" present his methods in detail of 

 preventi'ng swarming, etc , as suggested, 

 and our pieavSure would be increased by 

 his permission to publish his pen produc- 

 tions over his real and full name. With 

 the possible exception of certain peculiar 

 instances the use of a no)/i cfe />/ awe iendi^ 

 to detract from the interest that the read- 

 er would otherwise take in any communi- 

 cation. — Ed.] 



The Sandy Bend Editor. 



BV EBENEZER SKIES. 



'OOD mornin,' Ebenezer, you haint 



seen nothen of a stray shoat over 



this way, her you?' * 



"Well no, neighbor vSherret, we haven't. 



Will you not sit down a bit. How's all 



the folks with you?'' 



"Tolerable, tolerable, thankee, 'cepten 

 mj' daurter Hannah, .she's got the quin,sy 

 right bad." 



"Quinsy, eh! a very disagreeable thing. 

 What's she doing for it?" 



"Oh nothin' much, "cept eatin' a little 

 salt now'n then." 



"We have had the quinsy several times 

 ourself, and we will tell you what Eliza 

 Jane always does for us. She always 

 gathers some well ripened sumac seeds. 

 That is, when the clusters are at their 

 reddest. Sumac seeds, you know are 

 .sour and astringent. Well, just as soon 

 we feel the quinsy coming on, or, in fact 

 when any of the family gets a bad sore 

 throat, she picks off about a half a pint of 

 seeds and puts them in a pint tin cup and 

 fills it nearl}' full of water and .sets in on 

 the stove, and lets it boil until the water 

 just nicely covers the seeds. She then 



