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him. They wanted him to preach that 

 night In Beevilie, but he would not be- 

 cause they had torn his clothes off. 



Charlie says that he has been out with 

 lots of crowds, but the preachers were 

 the liveliest set he ever saw. He says 

 they had him promise to haul them out 

 again a year hence, as they were coming 

 if the Lord was willing, and when they 

 could get as brave a boy as he was they 

 were sure of success. Charles says they 

 were very prompt, and paid him .$1.00 

 per day, besides the premium for his 

 bravery, and he will surely take them 

 out whenever they come. 



The preachers killed so many turkeys 

 that they rottdd on their hands, and 

 they agreed to knock the first one down 

 that mentioned turkey in a month. 



Jennie Atciiley. 



How to Draw Brood, 



It will be understood that we keep 

 some out yards to draw brood from to 

 keep up the nuclei in the queen-rearing 

 yards. We injured some colonies very 

 much by injudicious drawing of brood. 

 If we do not wish to run the colonies 

 down to nothing, we should mark X on 

 the top-bars of two or three brood- 

 frames, and do not take them when we 

 are drawing brood. I find that two 

 Langstroth frames in the center of the 

 brood-nest will keep the colony up pretty 

 well, but three are better — that leaves 

 about three frames to draw on, when 8- 

 frame hives are used, as the two outside 

 combs seldom have brood, or not as 

 much as the center ones. 



The best plan to control an apiary 

 that persists in swarming, is to draw 

 brood from it and recruit or build nuclei 

 with the brood. It would likely aston- 

 ish any one to know how much brood 

 can be drawn from a good queen during 

 the season. I am satisfied that we have 

 drawn as much as 50 frames of brood 

 from a single colony during one season 

 of eight to ten months, and then get 

 some honey, and have a fine colony for 

 winter in the colony we draw from. But 

 if we draw at random, and take any and 

 all the frames, we are likely to ruin the 

 colonies. Jennie Atchley. 



Ilouey as Foo<l and iVIedicine is 



just the thing to help sell honey, as it shows 

 the various ways in which honey may be 

 used as a food and as a medicine. Try 100 

 copies of it, and see what good ''sales- 

 men " they are. See the third page of this 

 number of the Bee Journal for description 

 and prices. 





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Colorof(JiieeiisReprilteofMaliii£. 



Query 907.— If you were buying Italian 

 queens, what color would you expect them to 

 be, regardless of how they are mated ? — Iowa. 



Yellow. — E. Fkance. 

 Yellow, of course. — J as. A. Stone. 

 The color of Italian queens. — Eugene 

 Secok. 



At least three-banded. — J. M. Ham- 



BAU6H. 



Any color from yellow to dark leather 

 color. — M. Mahin. 



That depends upon what breeder you 

 are buying from. — P. H. Elwood. 



I should not anticipate. A leather- 

 colored queen is satisfactory to me. — 

 Mrs. L. Hakrison. 



Italians vary very much in color. It 

 is hard to tell in a sentence, what color 

 they should be. — Emerson T. Abbott. 



The imported are dark, but American 

 skill has bred them "doubtless pure " to 

 a very bright yellow to the tip. — J. H. 

 Larrabee. 



I should expect them to be somewhere 

 from light yellow to nearly black, and 

 should prefer a dark leather color. — C. 

 C. Miller. 



I should certainly expect them to show 

 three well-developed yellow bands, but 

 would prefer the dark, to the very light 

 yellow queens. — C. H. Dibbern. 



If I " were buying Italian queens," I 

 should expect them to be the color of 

 Italians. I prefer such as are known as 

 "leather-colored." — A. B. Mason. 



The color is not sure proof, but they 

 should have three distinct yellow bands. 

 They may be brown, light or dark, and 

 still be Italians. — Mrs. J. N. Heater. 



Anywhere from a light yellow to a 

 full black, and with all sorts of shades 

 and markings between. Queens may be 

 bred so as to be nearly uniform in color 

 and markings, and the same brood, with 



