PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE W T FALCONER MANFG 00 



VOL. IV. 



JULY, 1894. 



NO. 7. 



Notes on the June Bee- 

 Keeper. 



BY \V. M. BABNUM. 



That was a good article of friend 

 Hills' on "Stimulative Feeding." on 

 page 84. He ably defends the prac- 

 tice, and his reasons are worthy of 

 candid consideration. Stimulative 

 feeding is not dead by a good deal — 

 nor will it die for some little time 

 yet. 



THOSE SWARMING BEES ! 



Thies, "the man from Illinoy," 

 gives a good article in support of nat- 

 ural swarming. He does not consider 

 "after swarming" as natural. He 

 draws the line there : And that is, I 

 believe, the proper position for us all 

 to take. One natural swarm is the 

 proper thing, and means more honey 

 and money ! Thies is sound upon this 

 subject. 



''Wilder Grahame" follows with a 

 very complete and readable essay upon 

 "swarming time." He gives some 

 valuable hints : Among them he ad- 

 vocates the grape vine as a swarm 

 catcher. This I have not found as 

 satisfactory as a low (fruit) bush for 

 instance. The vine has proven un- 

 handy to me, and I therefore do not 

 advocate them as a means of shade 



for the hive ; preferring a light shade- 

 boanl. His article otherwise is full 

 of meat. 



SOMETHING NEW FOR THE UXIox. 



Messrs. Belding, of N. Y., and Evans 

 of Virginia, give good reports, — 

 which is a reliable indication of the 

 live, wide-awake bee-keeper. The 

 latter calls the attention of the Union 

 to the "fraud and humbugery " in 

 the queen breeding line. There is no 

 doubt but what there is considerable 

 of it going on ; but it is a difficult 

 thing to handle. It seems to me that 

 it is a duty of our journals to keep 

 the. craft clear of this "pest," as far as 

 may lay within their power. Those 

 who are bitten should not hesitate to 

 send their complaints to their journal, 

 and the journal should promptly and 

 thoroughly investigate and if the com- 

 plaint be found true — the party 

 should at once be black-listed : a kind 

 of advertising that is not overly relish- 

 ed by birds of this feather. It is a 

 difficult matter to cope with. But I 

 most emphatically agree with Bro. 

 Evans that something should be done. 

 Let us hear from others of the brother- 

 hood. As to the rest of the number 

 it is good all through. The Editor is 

 giving us a good journal. With me 



