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Now there is some cause for this, and I 

 must And out what it is. Our honey con- 

 sists of white clover and basswood. and 

 goldenrod. mostly, and I don't know of 

 anything that they gather from but what 

 is good honey. 



Where a colony of bees has had the diar- 

 rhea during the winter months, and some 

 of the honey used for winter stores of an- 

 other colony the following winter, will it 

 cause diarrhea, where the bees are housed '. 

 Or is such honey contaminated with the 

 disease ? H. M. 



Rush City, Minn. 



Answer. — Diarrhea may occur with the 

 best of stores, the disease arising from 

 some other cause than the character of the 

 stores. In such case, if what stores are 

 left are used the following winter, It is con- 

 sidered all right. 



If, on the other hand, the honey itself is 

 bad, then of course it will be unhealthy the 

 second winter as well as the first. 



Possibly it might be a good plan for you 

 to try part of your bees in the cellar an- 

 other winter, although some succeed well 

 in your State with bee-houses specially pre- 

 pared. 



A Qiueenless Colony. 



Looking over my bees a few weeks ago. I 

 found one of therii queenless. Would it be 

 best to send for a queen and inti'oduce her 

 now, or wait until fruit-bloom ? The bees 

 seem to be strong yet. S. B. W. 



Geneva, N. Y. 



Answer.— Probably it is better to give 

 them a queen as soon as possible, although 

 so long as the weather is such that they 

 cannot fly out, they will hold their own all 

 right. Still, they would be better to be 

 rearing brood so as to be on the gain. 



Honey Candying — Quilts on Hives. 



1. Is the candying of honey a sure sign 

 of its purity ? 



2. Does honey ever candy in the cells 

 when sealed over ? 



3. Is it necessary, and do most bee-keep- 

 ers use. a quilt of any kind under the cover 

 of the dovetailed hive ? W. K. R. 



Portland, Oreg. 



Answers — 1. No. Some pure honey does 

 not candy, and honey mixed with other 

 substances, as glucose, will candy. 



2. Yes. 



3. In general, I think no quilt is used 

 under the cover of a dovetail hive. Possibly 

 it might be a good thing for winter. 



Honey as^ Food an<I iVIediciiie 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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No. 70.-0. L HersMser. 



The subject of this sketch was born at 

 Shelby, Richland county, Ohio. When 

 quite small his parents removed with 

 him to a farm in Williams county, Ohio, 

 and shortly afterward to Bryan, the 

 county-seat. At the age of 11 his peo- 

 ple again removed to the farm, where he 

 remained until he became 21 years of 

 age. He entered college at Lansing, 

 Mich., shortly after with the class of '84, 

 with which class he graduated. He 

 taught country schools during winters 

 throughout the time he was a student in 

 college, and four winters after grad- 

 uating. 



In the fail of 1884 Mr. Hershiser 

 spent several weeks with Mr. D. A. 

 Jones, at Beeton, Ont., learning what 

 he could of bee-keeping on a large scale. 

 During the summer of 1885 and 1886, 

 he superintended a large apiary for Mr. 

 E. C. Hubbard, at Water Valley, Erie 

 county, N. Y. During the summer of 

 1887 he conducted his own apiary in 

 connection with the apiary of Mr. W. T. 

 Falconer, at Falconer, N. Y. 



In the spring of 1888 Mr. H. removed 

 his apiary to Big Tree, Erie county, N. 

 Y., three miles from Buffalo city limits, 

 where he still resides. In March, 1889, 

 he began studying law in Buffalo, still 

 conducting his apiary at Big Tree. 



He was appointed superintendent of 

 the apiarian department of the Buffalo 

 International Fair, and the Detroit In- 

 ternational Fair, for the fall of 1889. 

 He was admitted to the bar on June 5, 

 1891. 



At a meeting of the New York State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association he was ap- 

 pointed one of a committee to endeavor 

 to secure an allotment from moneys ap- 

 propriated, or to be appropriated, for 

 the State exhibit at the World's Fair, 

 for the benefit of the New York State 

 bee-keepers in making their exhibit. Iti 

 1892, as is well known, Mr. Hershiser 

 was appointed superintendent of the 

 New York State apiarian exhibit at the 

 World's Fair. 



