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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



November 



ing; and therefore, if I have any 

 other blood, it is by accident, not 

 from design. 



Well does the editor of The 

 Bee-keeper remember the arrival 

 of that "first Carniolan," and the 

 early demise which followed. Also 

 the tender care bestowed upon the 

 first generation following this 

 initial importation. We are there- 

 fore much interest-^d in this account 

 of the imported Carniolan's off- 

 spring, coming, as it does, fifteen 

 years later. 



here's a dollar for you. 



Peculiar and mysterious things 

 sometimes occur in the experience 

 of the observing bee-keeper. The 

 following incident was recently told 

 in our "sanctum" by a reputable 

 neighbor who, besides having suc- 

 cessfully kept bees himself, wag an 

 associate of G. B. Jones and C. G. 

 Ferris well known to the fraternity: 



Our neighbor had been taking off' 

 section-honey and was brushing the 

 few adhering bees from the sections 

 in the honey-house, and allowing 

 them to escape through an oj)en 

 window. Attached to the ceiling 

 of the room were strips of wood 

 upon which surplus combs were sus- 

 pended. These combs were all old, 

 dry ones, and had been for weeks 

 hanging in their place, overhead. 

 Upon completion of the day's work 

 the said bee-keeper observed a num- 

 ber of bees clustered between the 

 combs above, but paid no jmrticu- 

 lar attention to the matter. Several 

 days later, however, he noticed 

 that the bees were still there; and 

 accordingly instituted an investiga- 

 tion. The result was that he found 

 a queen-cell containing an egg. 

 A miniature colony of bees ap- 

 appeared to have established itself 

 among the combs. 



What was the cause of the bees 

 taking up their abode such a short 



distance from their own hive? 



Where did the egg come from? 



Another peculiar occurrence is 

 related by Dr. Miller, in Gleardngi^. 

 This i** what the Doctor says of it: 



"Some new freak is always com- 

 ing up among the bees. Lately I 

 took a comb out of a nucleus, and 

 found it regularly supplied with 

 eggs except a cluster of cells at one 

 end, each containing five to ten 

 eggs. 'Laying workers,' thought 

 I. But all were worker cells; and 

 directly I spied a fine-looking 

 queen. A few days later it was 

 the same thing." 



What was the probable cause of 

 this action upon the part of the 

 queen? What treatment should be 

 administered to overcome this waste 

 of eggs and brood? 



There are several hundreds of 

 amateur bee-keepers on our list 

 who will not receive this number in 

 a red wrapper. The one of these 

 who first mails to the editor of 

 The American Bee-keeper a reply 

 to all four of the above questions, 

 and answers them all correctly, 

 according to the judgment of the 

 editor, will receive in return One 

 Dollar ($1.00). 



BRIGHT YELLOW BEESWAX. 



Some months since, an exchange 

 observed editorially that the secret 

 of getting wax of a bright yellow 

 color was to allow it to cool slowly. 

 The Bee-keeper for September 

 (page 171) noted the item, and sug- 

 gested that blank space, in a jour- 

 nal which pretended to instruct its 

 readers in practical apiculture, 

 would be preferable to such an er- 

 roneous statement. It appears that 

 our comment, as seen by the Amer- 

 ican Bee Journal J is somewhat am- 

 biguous, and we are requested by 

 our contemporary to rise and 

 explain. After quoting our remarks 

 the Journal inquires: 



