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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



September 



and all — in one side of the hive to 

 which the queen is to be given. 

 Place a "dummy" or division board 

 between; leave it for two or three 

 days, when it may be removed and 

 a frame placed in its stead. This 

 plan will usually succeed providing 

 the queenless colony has no queen- 

 cells or unsealed brood. 



Another simple plan for ordinaz'y 

 cases, when some honey is coming- 

 in from the fields, is as follows: 

 Provided with a light hiving box, 

 smoker and the queen to be intro- 

 duced, proceed to the hive selected 

 for her reception. Remove the old 

 queen and cause the bees to gorge 

 themselves with honey by rapping 

 on the hive and gently smoking the 

 entrance. Now re-open the hive 

 and shake the bees from all the 

 frames into the hiving-box. Cover 

 the hive, and jostle the bees about 

 a little in the box, finally dumping 

 them upon the alighting-board ex- 

 actly as you would do Ai hiving a 

 swamn. As the bees pass into the 

 hive, if the new queen is. ■ released 

 among and permitted to enter with 

 them, the colony will have been 

 re-queened without its apparent 

 knowledge, and much less labor is 

 involved than in practicing the 

 more complex methods usually 

 pursued when a very valuable queeii 

 is to be given. 



Harry Lathrop formerly I'egardod its 

 important that a bee-space be provided 

 over the frames for wintering. He uses 

 the dovetailed hive, and his combs have 

 no passage-ways through them ; yet. by 

 cutting pieces of carpet to fit inside, 

 resting directly upon the frames, he has 

 found that the bee-space is not neces- 

 sary, as tliostithus covered built up very 

 rapidly and are among the strongest of 

 his stock. While the item purports to 

 reveal sometliing new in ••wintering," 

 the carpet-quilts weie placed on the 

 liives in the spring. (iletvnimis pleads 

 for further experiment before accepting 

 the results as conclusive. 



LITERARY NOTES. 



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A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE. 



The attention of the Person in the tjuiet Corner 

 was recently arrested and charmed by a taking 

 title in a certain popular periodicals table of con- 

 tents, "Great Writers by Great Writers. Matthew 

 Arnold by Samuel Johnson.'' Had Mr. Lang or 

 John Kendrick Bangs received a letter giving a 

 dead author's confidential opinion about an asso- 

 ciate member of the same society? How interest- 

 ing would be the opinion of the great lexico- 

 grapher, expressed in eighteenth-century diction 

 on the great critic of the nineteenth! Disappoint- 

 ment waited upon the turning of the leaves. Some 

 one had blundered. The article proved to be an 

 extract from Dr. Johnson's estemate of Matthew 

 Prior, and the Person has several times wondered 

 how the editor and proof-reader adjusted their 

 little difference. How do things like this happen ? 

 Is there a quality of intelligence in the types them- 

 selves, not unlike a certain exasperatiiig human 

 order, by virtue of which they .said, in efl'ect, when 

 the word Matthew was 'given them, "Oh, yes,— 

 Arnold, of course."- From Modern Culture Maga- 

 zine for September. 



The .\merican Bee Journal says: "An experi- 

 mental station has been established by vV. Skaryt. 

 ka, in Schletz, Austria, where any one can send 

 bees, hives, etc. for trial and comparison without 

 charge for such trial, providing all are sent pre- 

 paid. Here's a chance for several would-be 

 American inventors to have their ideas tested." 



