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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



tlie settled portious of the State hedge 

 rows are appearing, and tliriving. The 

 liedge pUints most used are the liouey 

 locust, the osage orange and the white 

 willow. In some places long hedge-rows 

 of peach trees, from which, frequently, 

 good crops are gathered, may be seen ; 

 and the peach seems to make as good 

 a fence as the white willow. — Correspon- 

 dent. 



For tbe Ameiii-an Bee Jonnial. 



Bee -Keeping in Greneral. 



For years I have had a desire to engage 

 in the bee business, and now have fully 

 determined to do so, next spring, if I can 

 tiud a suitable location. 



I lately made a visit to Mr. Hosmer, 

 who has a large apiary, only a little dis- 

 tance in the country. After some desul- 

 tory conversation, we sallied out to the 

 apiary, and sat down at the side, or rear 

 of the hives to watch the " little busy bee," 

 Avhile Mr. Hosmer gave me much valu- 

 able instruction. 



Mr. Hosmer evidently understands the 

 houey bee, and how to make the most out 

 of its labor. .He took out the frames, 

 one after another, from a number of hives, 

 to show me the honey comb in all con- 

 ditions, and answered my various ques- 

 tions. In this Avay we spent about three 

 hours, and at the close of the interview I 

 felt that I had leai'ued something about 

 bees, and how to keep them. 



I should have said that Mr. Hosmer uses 

 but a trifle of smoke, and his bees seem 

 to understand it as well as he does. He 

 holds the smoke on the wind side, and lets 

 it strike across the top of the frames, after 

 taking ott' the top cover, and the bees, 

 which were on the top, would immediately 

 go inside, and the rest would seem to be 

 paying little or no attention to being 

 handled about and set outside for a time, 

 and then put back, and all the time keep 

 at work. 



Mr. Hosmer is not working his apiary 

 so much for large quantities of honey, as 

 for increasing his beos and raising Italian 

 queens, the present season. 



This has been a good season for bees in 

 these parts. Mr. Durkey and Mr. Dolley, 

 of this town, are among the foremost of 

 bee-keepers, and appear to be meeting 

 witli success. 



I saw by the August number of The 

 .TouRNAi/, that Mrs. M's little child got 

 stung with bees. Oh, how I pitied that 

 dear little thing, when I read about it, 

 and to tliink how much it must have suf- 

 fered, gives me an uneasy feeling even 

 now; and then I thought how easy it 

 would have been for that mother to have 

 given her little one inimediale relief, if 



she had only been prepared, and had 

 known just what to do. 



Now, although I don't give this recipe 

 to the public, for the present, yet for the 

 benefit of Mrs. M., I will send it to her, 

 for it will do a great deal to disarm any 

 one of that nervous fear, to know that 

 they have something at hand that is efTect- 

 ual in killing the virus of the bee-sting. 



If 3Irs. W. M. will send to a Drug 

 Store and obtain a vial filled with pure 

 Spirits of Turpentine, (not Benzine, which 

 is a cheap preparation, and sometimes 

 sold for Spirits of Turpentine) and keep 

 it ready for use, and in case of a sting,, 

 first see that the sting is all removed; 

 then drop on the fluid as fast as it is 

 absorbed and taken into the circulation 

 for a short time, and then a palet of cot- 

 ton may be laid on to the place and kept 

 well supplied with the remedy, and in ten 

 or fifteen minutes the pain will be gone. 

 I have found nothing equal to this, and 

 in no case can it do any harm. 



Minneapolis, Minn. R. D. Buchanan. 



For the Aitierioan Bee Jourual. 



Handling and Quieting Bees. 



Many persons say to me, and I've no 

 doubt others who have read my articles 

 say, you speak about bees as if they did 

 not sting, and of times the results are bad. 

 Of course bees will sting, but if properly 

 handled, will not sting at all, though some 

 persons say that if they go within one 

 hundred feet of a hive they will be stung. 

 When they say that, I feel like telling 

 them that their habits are bad. Bees dis- 

 like bad odors, especially whisky and 

 tobacco, and when such persons visit my 

 apiary, I first give them a veil to put on, 

 and warn them to keep their hands in 

 their pockets, for I know they will be 

 stung. The most successful bee-keepers 

 are men of good habits, for they can go 

 among their bees at all times without 

 fear of stings. Ladies are very success- 

 ful bee-keepers, for they have no bad 

 habits, except a few who will soil their 

 mouths with filthy suuft" — a habit more 

 repulsive than tobacco-chewing in men — 

 as they arc the purer sex, we expect to see 

 all things pnre about them. 



Bees, before swarming, fill themselves 

 with honey to carry to their new homes, 

 for the purpose of making comb, and 

 while thus filling, they are very good 

 natured, and seldom sting without they 

 are hurt. We can take them down from » 

 their swarming place, turn them over, and 

 hunt for the c[ueen, or perform any opera- 

 tion we wish. When thus filled Avith 

 honey or syrup, they are quiet, and this is 

 the whole secret of the charms, secrets, 

 &c., of bee-charmers. 



Many years ago, a celelirated bee- 



