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cuts shown, saying- that "It is an object lesson that will help won- 

 derfully in the matter of grading." 



Another subscriber, Mr. C. S. Gailbreath, of Beresford, Florida, 

 writes : "Those cuts at head of grading rules are just the thing. 

 \Miy was it not done before? \\'e learn more from a glance at the 

 picture than we could from reading the rules many times." 



Mr. R. B. Slease, of Roswell, New ^Mexico, does not favor the 

 pictures as shown. In writing me he says: "I have been intend- 

 ing to write you about those sections of honey you have been show- 

 ing on the grading proposition, ever since I first saw them, but 

 have kept putting it off till now. What you show as fancy is noth- 

 ing more than a fair Xo. 1. Your No. 1 is strictly a No. 2, and 

 should not go in No. 1 under any circumstances, and your No. 2 is 

 a cull not fit to go on the market at all. All such sections should 

 either be cut out and run through the capping can or extracted and 

 used as bait sections." 



Improving Your Bees While Producing Honey. 



GEO. B. HOWE. 



{Contihticd from June iiiiiiiber.) 



Environment has much to do with your queens. Remember 

 that and do not be careless if others are. You will find it pays to 

 do things right, even in queen rearing. 



NON-SWARMING BEES. 



Is it impossible to breed a non-swarming strain of bees? Now 

 let us take this matter up in a sensible way, and look at both sides. 

 Do you think that just because you used an incubator to hatch your 

 chickens, that you would get a non-setting strain of poultry? 



Some seem to think that because we rear our queens artificially 

 by using cell cups that we will soon get a strain that would not 

 swarm. I would like to ask any bee-keeper that don't believe it 

 possible to breed a non-swarming strain of bees, "Hozu long has he 

 been breeding from a strain of bees that are not given to swarming, 

 or seldom swarms?" After breeding bees for six 3^ears, I thought I 

 had got practically a non-swarming strain, as in the six years they 

 did not swarm any to speak of. 



Then judge of my surprise, and I might soy disgust, on the 

 seventh year to have them swarm for a couple of days as though 

 they were possessed. It was a)i unusual season, and was reported 

 one of the worst seasons on record for swarming. 



It rather changed my mind on non-swarming bees, but should 

 it? I knoiif now that I should have expected it, for the reason bees 

 will swarm as well as hens zvill set, if you give them the right con- 



