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long before tlie suimnor is through, when 

 managed properly. Keniember it is best 

 to have all colonics strong by having 

 others to assist, when necessary. Do not 

 allow bees to sit outside and do nothing 

 for want of room in tlie hive to store 

 their gatherings. If no room can be giv- 

 en for boxes for surplus or combs 

 to hold honey for extracting, it is best to 

 add to the number of colonies. C'wntinue 

 to examine into tlie exact state of every 

 Live. M. QriNKV. 



St. Johnsouville, N. Y. 



ForllH' AmiM-ican Bee .Ic)urnal. 



Cincinnati Exposition. 



'Mr. Newman — I send you one of our 

 Premium Lists for this year's Exposition. 

 The folhving is an exti'act therefrom 

 relative to Bee matters : 



CLASS KO. 21, BEES, BEE HIVES, ETC. 



277. Best Entomological Display of 

 honey bees, any or all varieties, and their 

 products. Bronze Medal. 



278. Best average product, per swarm, in 

 extracted honey fiom apiary of any num- 

 ber of hives, Bronze ]\ledal. 



279. Best average product, in box honey, 

 from apiary of any number of hives, 

 Bronze ^ledal. 



Note. — In Premiums Xos. 278 and 279, 

 the exhibitor may select the swarm or 

 swarms which he intends to use for com- 

 petition, but they must not be aided by 

 or assisted in any Avay from any other 

 swarm from April 1st to September 8th, 

 and the decision shall be based on the 

 amount of extracted honey taken from 

 those swarms so selected, and from the 

 swarms, if any, produced by them during 

 the time between April 1st and September 

 8th. 



280. Best display of honey, extracted or 

 in comb, or both, Bronze Medal. 



281. Best display of honey in the comb. 

 Bronze ^ledal. 



282. Best display of packages for re- 

 tail, Bronze Medal. 



No. 277 may need some explinalion. 

 We expect under this nuniber to receive 

 cases containing specimens (dried or press- 

 ed), if queens, workers and drones, in 

 their ditlerent stages of development (in 

 the cell and out of the cell) from the egg 

 to the death at maturity; aLso specimens 

 of the ditlerent kinds of cells. The eggs, 

 larvae and fly of the bee mouth etc., etc., 

 etc. in fact any thing belonging or inci- 

 dent to the working of the honey bee in 

 its wild and domestic state. Tiie other 

 numbers explain themselves. 



I suppose that if any entries from a 

 distance, or rather, from those who arc 



not personally present (in Nos. 278 and 

 279) they should be accompanied by an" 

 allidavit (sworn to) of the facts. This, 

 however, is my own opinion only, there 

 is no rule for it, but it would certainly be 

 safer. II. W. Stephen son. 



Cincinnati, O. 



Bee Forage. 



A writer assert? that he has had buck- 

 wheat to bloom in thirty-five days from 

 the time of sowing it, and as it will begin 

 to bloom when os'er six inches in height, 

 if the season is a dry one. For this pur- 

 pose sow about a bushel, never exceeding 

 three-fourths of a bushel, of seed per acre, 

 running over your land with brush simi- 

 lar to that used for putting in wheat, or 

 the ordinary roller Avithout the brush. 



A correspondent savs: If you wish to 

 preserve the plant for forage, after your 

 bees have used the fields for six or eight 

 weeks, you can do so and save an enor- 

 mous yield of nutritious forage. Cut 

 with ordinary scythe, or grass blade, just 

 before the seed begins to brown, and cure 

 as you would coarse characters of grass. 

 The product thus secured will amply re- 

 munerate the outlay of money for seed 

 and time and labor, and give to your busy 

 little friends abundant stores of delicious 

 honey. 



About California. 



W. J. Whitney, of San Barnardino, 

 California, has sent us the following gen- 

 eral directions about emigrating to that 

 State, in answer to the following questions : 



Don't think of shipping bees here from 

 east of the Rocky Mountains, as it will be 

 money and bees Avasted. If you can get 

 half what the hives cost there, you had 

 better sell them than to ship them. 



Now for your questions in regular or- 

 der. 



1st. What can good stands of bees be,, 

 bought for in your vicinity ? A. From 

 $4 to $12, according to condition, style of 

 hive, &c. In Los Angelos, for 12 .50 in 

 Harbison hives, the honey they make there, . 

 not being saleable, since San Diego honey 

 came into market. 



2d. There are two mills dressing, cut- 

 ting up, and putting together (if wanted), 

 at the following prices : 



Harbison's, ready for putting together, 

 $1.80. 



Laugstroth's, ready for putting together, 

 $1.70. 



Watson's improved Langstroth for five 

 section boxes, .$1.9U. 



