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horizontal cells belwecn the combs, and in 

 the second place, if a cell for tlie purpose 

 of isolation requires to be lengthened and 

 bent into a new jiosiliou, the bees tind it 

 more easy, because more natural for them, 

 to build it downwards. The position of 

 the cell, though turned upside down, does 

 not affect in the least the embryo. We 

 believe the late Dr. Leitch, of Monomail, 

 ■was the first to intimate to the public 

 the fact of heat playing an important, if 

 not tlie prime part in the evolutit^n of 

 queens. It is really the case that prin- 

 cesses require a mucli higher temiierature 

 for their development than common bees. 



And what is rather curious, bees can 

 command this higher temperature when- 

 ever they please! tlie}' can elevate the de- 

 gree of heat in any i)art of the hive, and 

 localize or confine the heat to that particu- 

 lar place. Thus, if a piece of comb re- 

 quires mending, the temperature must be 

 raised before they can manipulate it, but 

 they can raise a circle of heat around the 

 breakage, and keep the heat there within 

 a limited sphere. 



They can do the same thing to a queen 

 cell. Having isolated it from other cells, 

 they enclose it in a halo of caloric, two or 

 three inches in diameter, and the heat in 

 the halo is much gieater than in any other 

 part of the hive. In a unicomb hive, a 

 distinct warm spot on the glass opposite a 

 queen's cell can be felt by the hand. 



The thick waxen walls of the cradle are 

 designed to aid the bees in maintaining an 

 equable temperature around its inmate, and 

 prevent danger from rapid or easy chill- 

 ling. 



The superfluous jelly filling the bottom 

 of the cell is put in for the purpose of 

 bringing the larva forward to a position 

 where it can be properly attended to, and 

 its softness serves to keep the tender nurs- 

 ling from injury. — Eng. Ag. Gazette. 



A Essey onto the Bee. 



BY P. BENSON, SR : 



wMtcIi the Si', stands for singger. 



The bee is a very smoll animile, but it 

 kan git over a verry hi feus. It belongs 

 to the burd tribe, bavin wings but no fe- 

 thers, and is a verrj- good singger. It 

 lives on hunny and beeswax and ripe froot 

 of different kines. When it eets grapes it 

 olwaze spits out the seeds and skins, or 

 else leeves them hang on the tree. It gits 

 its hunny out of flours when they 1st open, 

 as Shakspeer butifuly expresses it, 



" How dotli the bizzi little bee 

 Improve eecli shinnin our 

 & gelher hunny oil the day 

 Frum every 02>enin flour." 



When a be goze up to enny 1 & kom- 

 meuces to sing, the person to which the be 

 goze up to them, gcnerly makes his hands 



and arms go verry fast and runs away and 

 then the be gils mad bekoz thay wontlis- 

 sen to his song and stings them. 



That's 1 advantage of a tode. He is a 

 verry unpretty animile but he never stings, 

 leastways not uulest you should aggery- 

 vait him verry mutch, and then he mite, 

 but I never hear tell that he did. 



The be is a arislokratick form of guv- 

 erment and has a king be, and elecks a 

 new 1 everry yeer or so. 



The be and the misketo air boath good 

 sluggers ;ind good stinggers. 



The misketo keeps his slings in frunt 

 of lum whair he can see wliat lie is doin, 

 but the be keeps his sting behind whair 

 he kant see what he is about, and is just 

 as like as not to sting sum whair whair it 

 will hurt. 



The be never suckles his young, and in 

 this respeck is simmillar to a snappin 

 turtle. 



They ken be trained to stay at home 

 every nite, but for a trainin to foUough 

 his master around a dog is much supearor, 

 for a be will follough enny 1 else just as 

 quick as his master if thay cum around 

 his hive. The be olwaze lives in a behive 

 and sumtimes in an old hollough log. 



They never swarm in winter, but in 

 summer when its a warm day, and gen- 

 erly thay watch their chance to swarm 

 when fokes ar ofl" to church or sumwhair 

 els. 



If thay swarm when the fokes is to 

 home thay all start out with the dinner- 

 horn, 2 tin pans, the lookin glas, drippin 

 pan, et setteiy, &c., «& maik sitch a out- 

 ragus nois that the swarm kant hear 

 whitch wa to go & settles on the 1st appel 

 tree that cums in tliair wa, and then the 

 fokes shakes them down at a hive with a 

 sheet under it, and thay ameegilly go in 

 and kommens hous keepin. 



When I teech singin skewl I olwaze 

 like to stop over nite whair thay keep 

 bese bekoz hunny agrees with my vols. 



Besides the hunny be thair is the parin 

 be, quiltin be, and varis uthers too teejus 

 to renumerate. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Fertile Workers. 



In July No., page 164, Stephen Hall 

 asks what he shall do to destroy a fertile 

 worker. Either of the two following 

 methods will prove effectual: 



1st plan. — Take a frame of brood with 

 adhering bees from a strong stock and 

 put in hive containing a fertile worker. 



2nd plan. — Change places with a pop- 

 ulous stock. A queen bee or queen cell 

 can now be introduced, and accepted, as 

 the fertile worker will be killed by the 

 strange bees introduced. T. G. McGaw. 



Monmouth, 111., July 22, 1875. 



