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wore men on board. Scliweinfurt adds that 

 all the flotilla which was following him 

 numberinji Ki boats were equally assailed 

 by these reven;j;eful insects. 



Egyptian bees are far worse tlian the 

 races of bees known here and worse than 

 the had hybrids. Nothins can quiet them 

 when their an^er has been aroused. The 

 writer of this article has seen two Egyptian 

 colonies in tiie apiary of Count Barbo, in 

 Italy. For weeks after tiieir hives had been 

 opened for some operation nobody could go 

 within 15 yards of tlieir hives without being 

 stung. 



Every bee-keeper should remember that 

 when a person lias received many stings 

 the first tiling to do is to remove the stings 

 by slipping the edge of a knife on the skin. 

 Pinching the stiiig with the fingers would 

 empty the venom bag into the wound. The 

 best way to prevent evil consequences is to 

 envelop entirely the patient in a thick wet 

 cloth and to cover him with blankets in 

 order to stimulate the perspiratory organs. 

 A tablespoonfnl of common salt should be 

 dissolved in the water to be used, then two 

 or three spoonsfuls of ammonia should be 

 added and mixed. Care should be taken 

 that the patient breathe not too freely the 

 vapors of ammonia. To drink one or two 

 drops of ammonia in a glass of water or tea 

 would greatly prevent the swelling from 

 spreading on the parts of the body that 

 have not been stung. Ch. Dadant. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Growlers. 



Who are growlers? Answer: those who 

 speak against any popular opinion. To 

 speak the opinions ot the majority is patri- 

 otic. To speak those of the minority is 

 growling. Every grand truth through all 

 ilie past ages has been held up by the 

 shoulders of the few. Error sweeps over 

 the land like a mighty flame fanned by a 

 thousand breaths. We very much dislike 

 to see in our journals, personalities or quar- 

 rels between man and man, but those be- 

 tween mind and principles, plans, etc., are 

 the guide-boards to success. 



If to battle, kill, and throw overboard 



Eetted plans is growling, A. I. Root is the 

 oss growler. In "Our own Apiary," for 

 August, "do you find boxes are among the 

 things that were?" No, this was written a 

 few years ago. Novice, do you mean to 

 say that bees will go way up through all 

 these stories of comb and work on top? 

 That's heresy; modern bee-culture says: 

 " pull off and throw away those honey- 

 boards and set your boxes right down on 

 the frames." Why I thought the house 

 apiary was particularly designed for the ex- 

 tractor. I thought the house apiary for 

 comb honey was growled out in a back 

 number We growled out what you now 

 say in regard to one and two-story hives, 

 over one year ago at our State convention. 

 Novice, don't you undertake to steal any of 

 our ancient thunder, such as watching our 

 colonies close, and see that they always 

 have room during the honey months. What 

 do you suppose keeps us, simplicity, old- 

 style bee-keepers busy from 12 to 15 hours 

 per day? Why may I not as well growl 

 against comb foundations now, as for you 

 to growl against stimulative and all kinds 

 of fiquid feeding? Is it a crime to find out 



the error of a system a little in advance? 

 Is that what some of our ajiiarian brothers, 

 who hate a ripple but seem to love the 

 silent stagnant pool, call growling? 



"Let anarchy's broad tnunilcr roll, 

 And tumult do its worst to thrill, 

 There is a silence, to the soul 

 More awful and more starllinK .'5till." 



And here it is, for it tells nothing. 



"My beautiful yellow pets have made 

 some surplus (which we all like to eat), and 

 have increased from 5 to 80 colonies. We 

 have not spent much time nor money with 

 them, and, though this is our first year, we 

 know we can make 500 lbs. out of the dear 

 little creatures. Any one who says we 

 can't, is a growler, and very disagreeable. 

 Long may you wave Mr. Editor. 



Ephkiham Do-easv." 



"Light draughts intoxicate the brain, 

 Willie drinking largely sobers us again." 



Time is a quaint old gent, and carries a 

 sharp reaper and mower, (old style) but that 

 he will never sever the goodwill between 

 all brother bee-keepers is the earnest vrish 

 of your subscriber. Let us seek the naked 

 truth wherever she may be secreted. 



If the black bee has good qualities, let us 

 hear of them occasionally. If it be a fact 

 that movable frames have objections, let us 

 point them out. I am carefully testing 8 

 lbs. of white and yellow foundation from 

 each of Messrs. Perrine and Root, and am 

 sorry to say, up to this date^ they seem to 

 be hunting a seat among the impracticables 

 thrown overboard. Will report in full by 

 and by, and wish to hear from others. 



James Heddon. 



Dowagiac, Mich., Aug. 4, 1876. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Controlling Swarming. 



On page 181 "A Beeasticus" says, "Now, 

 this talk about controlling the swarming 

 propensity of bees is all a humbug from be- 

 ginning to end. If the season is propitious 

 and your bees come out strong and healthy 

 in the spring, they will swarm more or less, 

 and there is no effectual way of preventing 

 it." Now friend B., I say there is a way 

 and we do it every time. When the swarm- 

 ing time came our bees were very strong, 

 hives chock full of brood and bees. We use 

 a frame 11>2X13%, 12 to 16 frames to the 

 liive, and have never had a swarm come off 

 since we left the box hives 5 years ago. All 

 around us the swarms have been coming off 

 thick and fast, one man from 10 has run up 

 to 38 at last accounts, and has sold some. 

 Others have had swarms but not in so large 

 a proportion. You may say it's my large 

 hive that does it. No sir, tor a friend has 10 

 of them, wintered the same, etc., and they 

 have swarmed 4 times. I take care of them 

 for him but could not get time enough to 

 keep them from swarming. All I do is to 

 worlc with them whenever he calls, if I 

 have time. How do I keep them from 

 swarming? Simply by pinching off the 

 queen cells, not only the large ones, but 

 everything even down to the little cups just 

 started, once in every 5 or days, sometimes 

 let them go a week or ten days. We now 

 have 13 strong stocks and three that will be 

 as strong as any in a short time. 



We have had a great deal ,of rain this 

 season and in consequence bee's have done 



