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moved, and empty ones substituted, if i^asturage 

 continues to be abundant. We remove them 

 easily by slightly raising them after dusk, so as 

 to admit air freely, and cooling the interior. 

 During the night most of the bees will withdraw 

 into the main hive, and the remainder can be 

 expelled by means of smoke. Be careful to as- 

 certain that the queen is not in one of the 

 removed boxes. By gently tapping on a surplus 

 honey-box, the queen will be induced to leave, 

 if she happen to be there ; and if found therein 

 after removal she should be immediately 

 restored to the hive, unless she be an old one, 

 for Avhich you can substitute a fertile young one 

 from a nucleus hive. 



It Stings. 



"How pretty !" cried little Sam, as his little 

 fat hand grasped a bunch of white lilac which 

 grew near the gate of his father's mansion. 

 The next moment the child's face grew red 

 with terror, and he dashed the lilac to the 

 groung, shrieking, 



•' It'stings ! it stings!" 



What made it sting ? It was a bright, beau- 

 tiful, and sweet-smelling flower. How could it 

 hurt the child's hand ? I will tell you. 



A jolly little bee in search of a dinner had 

 just pushed his nose in among the lilac blos- 

 som, and was sucking nectar from it most 

 heartily when Sammy'sfat hand disturbed him. 

 So, being vexed Avith the child, he stung him. 

 That's how Sammy's hand came to be stung. 



Sammy's mother washed the -wound with 

 hartshorn, and Avhen the pain was gone, she 

 said: " bammy, my dear, let this teach you 

 ' that many pretty tldngs have very sharp 

 stings.'' " 



Let every child make a note of this — many 



PRETTY THINGS HAVE VERY SHARP STINGS. It 



may save them from being stung if they keep 

 this truth in mind. 



Sin often makes itself appear very pretty. A 

 boy once went to a circus because the horses 

 were pretty and their riders gay; but he learned 

 to swear there, and thus, that pretty thing, the 

 circus, stung him. 



Another boy once thought wine a pretty 

 thing. He drank it, and learned to be a 

 drunkard. Thus wine stung him. 



A girl once took a luscious Bartlett pear from 

 a basket and ate it. "Have you eaten one?" 

 asked her mother. Fearing she should not get 

 another if she said yes, she said "no," got 

 another pear, and then felt so stung that she 

 could not sleep that night. 



Thus you see that sin, however pretty it 

 looks, "stings." It stings sharply, too. It 

 stings fatally. The Bible says : "The sting of 

 death is sin." 



If you let sin sting you, nothing can heal the 

 wound but the blootl of Jesus. If you feel the 

 smart of the sting, go to Jesus with it, and he 

 will cure. After that never forget that many 

 pretty things have very sharp stings, and be 

 careful not to touch, taste, or handle such things. 

 — ^'. *S'. Adoocate. 



The Egyptian Bee. 



ITS ACCLIMATISATION IN THE NORTH OP GER- 

 MANY. 



[Continued from Page 89.] 

 Herr Yogel next discusses whether the Egyp- 

 tian bee is more sensitive in rough weather 

 during summer than the Northern and Italian 

 varieties. In reference to this question he 

 says : " Although the average annual tempera- 

 ture of a countrj'' or place is all that is generally 

 stated wiih regard to its climate, it is not suffi- 

 cient merely to quote the medium annual tem- 

 perature of Egypt and North Germany, in order 

 to judge of the probability of the successful 

 acclimatisation of the Egyptian bee, but a 

 statement of the average temperature of shorter 

 spaces of times becomes necessary. We will, 

 therefore, compare the temperature of Egypt 

 and North Germany for the first five months in 

 the year, according to Reaumur's thermometer. 



January. Fob. Marcli. April. May. 



Cairo(30°N.lat. .10.60 10.72 14.48 20.40 20.5G 



May. June. July. Aug. Sep. 



Berlin 50^ 20^ N. 

 lat., and 31° east 

 long 10.92 13.94 15.04 14.43 11.75 



"Between the temperature of the winter 

 months at Cairo, and the summer months of 

 Berlin, we find a dilFerence of but a few 

 degrees. In Cairo the thermometer in winter 

 sometimes falls as low as 3" below zero of Reau- 

 mur, but only fur a short time. The chief 

 harvest time of the Egyptian bee in its own 

 country is during the coldest months of the 

 year — from January to March. In May the 

 harvest is finished in the lowlands, and 

 many districts in Egypt then look like a 

 dead desert. The Scharaki districts only, which 

 in consequence of artificial watering give three 

 harvests annually, furnish occasionally some 

 pasture for the bees. In districts in Germany 

 which are poor in honey, the chief gathering 

 takes place in May, June, and July, and these 

 months have the same temperature as the 

 Egyptian winter. The Egyptian bee is, there- 

 fore, quite at home in our summer — as happy 

 as 'the little fish at the bottom of the sea.'* 



" At from 10^ to 12- of Reaumur (55^ to 60° 

 Fahrenheit,) the Egyptian bees are in full 

 flight, at which temperature our native bees 

 generally only begin to take wing. When the 

 bees of an Egyptian stock begin to fly, it is not 

 only a few single bees that fly out for some 

 time, but the Avhole stock is immediately in lull 

 flight. The Egyptians always rush forth from 

 the entrance like ants from a hole made in their 

 nest. During mild days in November the 

 Egyptians carried in pollen and honey, and 

 came home in full flight, whilst only a few 

 single bees of the other species were to be seen. 

 I never saw Egyptians chilled. A German or 

 Italian bee is very soon overtaken by an Egyp- 

 tian bee in a race ; the quickness of the children 

 of the Nile is, however, most apparent in the 

 queens. A fertile German or Italian queen 

 walks but slowly and heavily on a comb, Avhilst 

 an Egyptian one runs as quickly from one side 



* "Wie's Fischleiii aut' dein Gruud." — Gokthe ■ 



