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great deal of trouble to do It, too. I 

 pimply jump the queenless hive with a 

 built-up nucleus that has a laying 

 queen; this has always worked well, and 

 is all done at one time, instead of re- 

 peated visits, as in the old way of intro- 

 ducing. 



For the introduction of cells, I use the 

 West cell-protector. 



The claims of advantage I make for 

 this system are these : 



1st. I never have any but prime 

 swarms, or swarms with a clipped 

 queen, so that I never lose my profit by 

 bees leaving my apiary. 



2nd. I seldom have to introduce a 

 queen. 



3rd. The introduction of cells and at- 

 tending to the increase is all done in a 

 small space, or on one or two rows. 



I am in northern Michigan, and after 

 my winter and spring loss and sales, I 

 took 2,000 pounds of honey from 33 

 colonies, and no fall honey, as a drouth 

 came in August, with frost killing the 

 buckwheat and other bloom. The sea- 

 son of 1892 gave me 4,000 pounds of 

 honey from 46 colonies, which I could 

 not have had if I had allowed my bees 

 to go to the woods. 



Manistee, Mich. 



Is Yellow Jasmine Honey Poisonous ? 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY MRS. C. L. RICE. 



I have seen the several articles in the 

 Bee Journal and Oleanings, about the 

 poisonous yellow jasmine honey of the 

 South, and thought I would give our ex- 

 perience with it ; but after seeing Prof. 

 Cook's answer, I thought further com- 

 ment useless, until another article in 

 Oleanings for Jan. 15th, asking for in- 

 formation on the subject, and Dr. 

 Brown's article in the Feb. 1st number, 

 I concluded to write what I know 

 about it. 



In 1883 we cut out comb from our 

 hives, which was filled with pollen (or 

 bee-bread), with a few cells of honey in- 

 terspersed. Five of our children ate 

 freely of this " bee-bread," as it is 

 called by old bee-keepers. In a short 

 while they became so weak that they 

 could not stand, and complained of 

 blindness. In alarm we sent for a physi- 

 cian, who pronounced it an overdose of 

 yellow jasmine. 



We were beginners in those days, and 

 had only one story to our hives, and 

 squeezed the honey. Now we use two 



and three stories, and extract, and so 

 we never get the pollen and honey 

 mixed. 



At the time our children were pois- 

 oned, other members of the family ate 

 of the honey alone, and were not in the 

 least affected. We now use extracted 

 honey without fear of the result. 



Is It not possible that all cases of 

 honey-poisoning could be traced to tha 

 pollen ? I know many old bee-keepers 

 advise eating the "bee-bread" with the 

 " bee-honey," consequently some are 

 made sick, especially by honey taken 

 from the tree at the famous bee-tree 

 cutting picnics. 



The yellow jasmine grows plentifully 

 around us, yet we never have had any 

 sickness, as the result of eating extracted 

 honey. The flowers open in the very 

 early spring, before the orange, and I 

 should think the honey would be used in 

 rearing brood. Dr. Brown says, in 

 Oleanings, that it kills the bees ; but 

 why does it not kill all ? 



I rather think the disease mentioned 

 in Oleanings, ^s bee-paralysis, for it is not 

 the whole apiary that becomes affected — 

 only a few colonies, wherein will be 

 found a quantity of sealed honey from 

 last year's harvest. 



With due respect to the experience of 

 others, I submit the foregoing, hoping 

 to see the subject sifted to the utmost 

 limit. 



Ramsey, La. 



Bee-Keepini in Orange County, Calif. 



Written for the American Bee Journal, 

 BY DR. E. GALLUP. 



I am going to try to give a sort of 

 pen-picture of bee-keeping and its sur- 

 roundings in Orange county. There are 

 a few apiaries located in the Santa Ana 

 river canyon that I know nothing about. 

 Our first start will be up the Santiago 

 canyon. Leaving Santa Ana, we pass 

 Orange, connected with Santa Ana by 

 two railroad lines, also a street car line 

 three miles from Santa. Here is a pleas- 

 ant and prosperous community, with 

 churches, school-house, stores, fruit- 

 ranches, etc. 



The next place is McPherson, on a 

 branch railroad where a large raisin 

 packing establishment is located. Then 

 comes Elmodena, with its settlement of 

 Friends or Quakers, church, stores, 

 school, etc. On the left is Villa Park, 

 with its orange groves, fruit-ranches, 

 raisin vineyards, post-office, etc. These 



