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went to work to rear a queen. I tore 

 down their cells, as I didn't want any of 

 her stocl< ; kept them queenlBss for 

 about 30 days, until there was neither 

 brood nor eggs In the hive, to be sure 

 that there was no other queen, and then 

 gave thera a golden queen, since which 

 time all has gone well. 



Now, to return to the old queen. She 

 built up a splendid colony of very dark 

 hybrids, and I finally "removed" her 

 and introduced a golden to them. Now, 

 this queen was dipt, and could not raise 

 herself 4 inches from the ground, both 

 wings on one side being dipt dose. Her 

 bees were all right for one year, then all 

 wrong. There is no mistake but it is 

 one and the same queen. Question : Did 

 she remate in the hive? 



The facts as above set forth I can sub- 

 stantiate by another bee-keeper, who 

 watcht the case from start to finish. 



This has been a fine honey-year. I 

 started in the spring with six colonies, 

 in dovetailed hives, have now 13, and 

 have taken 498 pounds of extracted 

 honey. My bees are in good condition 

 for winter, and will average 25 pounds 

 to the colony. I think the honey-flow 

 is over here now, and consequently 1 

 have got all I will get. 



In conclusion I will say that I owe the 

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 The dollar the publishers will get soon, 

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Logan Co., Ark., Aug. 30. 



Poor Season. 



Our season has been very poor here. 

 This month is our best for honey, but 

 the bees are not gaining very fast — aver- 

 age one pound a day per colony. I have 

 39 colonies. A. E. Smith. 



Posey Co., Ind., Sept. 8. 



A Bather Poor Season. 



This has been a rather poor honey 

 season — a scant half-crop of white 

 clover. 



Our prospects for a fall honey-crop 

 were reasonably good, but just now we 

 are suffering from a drouth which may 

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Adams Co., III., Sept. 7. 



Another Case of Laying Worker. 



The bees commenced casting swarms 

 as early as May 15, and from the first 

 swarm one issued June 25. All of the 

 colonies cast three to four swarms. The 

 largest swarm Issued August 12, from a 

 second swarm, making our hpiary con- 

 sist of 25 colonies {starting in Spring 

 with only seven colonies) beside two 

 swarms having nnited and two getting 

 away. 



The main object of this article is to 

 give my experience with a laying worker. 

 In one of my oldest colonies, which 

 swarmed -1 or5 times, I discovered, about 

 two weeks ago, that the colony was very 

 weak (having swarmed about July 10) 

 and upon investigation I found it was 

 queenless— nearly devoured by moth — 

 and only contained about a handful of 

 workers, but lots of honey in the brood- 

 frames. I immediately opened up the 

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 and found two frames containing queen- 

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