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Jan. 30, iyi2 



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bees are working according to rule. 

 Every little, miserable weed in the coun- 

 try near and far he has entered in a 

 book — when it blooms, how long, and 

 how good for bees, and his talk is bee, 

 bee. bee, tintil I can hear the buzzino;. 

 I do believe he has a personal acquaint- 

 ance with each one. I know he has with 

 the queens, for they each have a name 

 painted on their box : 'Yellow Rose of 



to the house, and two men assisting 

 him (I leave out what he was saying). 

 I ran to him with, 'Oh, Harry, are 

 you hurt? Are you injured, dear? Any 

 bones broken?' I could see he was in 

 much pain, but bless you, he gave me 

 one of those high and mighty looks of 

 his, and his lip curled up in scorn as 

 he fairly yelled: 'Hurt! Bones 

 broken! Injured! Why, woman, I tell 



Al'IARV OF n. KODEXBEBGER, OF MILWAUKEE CO., WIS. 



(See page 68.) 



Te.xas,' 'Southland Queen,' 'The Lone 

 Star,' etc., and if he does not talk to 

 them I am confident they talk to him, 

 lor he can tell by iheir sounds just what 

 they are doing. 



"Some one trom Texas sent him some 

 queens, and his anxiety and expectation 

 l.efore they came, and while looking for 

 them, was somewhat akin to what we 

 experienced before the advent of another 

 little stranger whom yoti know. But 

 when they did come you never saw 

 the like. 'Oil. mother, come look — oh, 

 the beautiful things! — oh, how grand!' 

 I had never seen a queen, and naturally, 

 I expected to see something gorgeous, i 

 looked into the little box he was hold- 

 ing up to me and innocently asked 

 (never dreaming of provoking him) : 

 'Is that little brown thing the queen?' 

 You oueht to have seen the look of dis- 

 gust and indignation I received. 'Little 

 brown things ! Why, woman, where are 

 your eyes? She is two inches long and 

 yellow as gold,' with which, after glar- 

 ing at me, he marched out in the high 

 sulks. 



"Well, pretty soon he came back all 

 smiles and good humor to tell me he 

 had now introduced them. This seemed 

 an unnecessary formality to go through 

 with insects, I thought, but I did not 

 dare to say anything. All he could do 

 then, was t'^ wait a week and see if 

 they had 'took,' or something (may Ic 

 it is like vaccination). 



"At the end of the week here he comes 

 for mv embroidery scissors to cut off 

 their legs or wings or something, anl 

 pretty soon I heard a terrible commo- 

 tion at the barn, and a man came run- 

 ning to tell me he had dislocated his 

 shoulder by a fall. I ran as fast as I 

 could, and met the procession coming 



you mv queen is gone ! What do you 

 mean by talking of bones when I have 

 lost my queen? Just like a woman!' 



"We got him to bed to find his shoul- 

 der wasQisIocated,and it has taken many 

 weeks to get well. It seems his blessed 

 queen got away and lit away up in- 

 side the barn, when he went climbing 

 and clambering up after her, when some- 

 thing broke and gave him a terrible fall. 

 It had no effect on the fever, for it 

 is certainly as bad as ever, a case of 

 'ruling passion, strong in death.' For 

 my part I feel and hear nothing but 

 'buz. buz, buz,' all day long. Do not be 

 surprised if you hear of iny 'swarming' 

 any time." 



Some people may think it was not 

 in good taste for r^" to thus read my 

 good wife's letter and then send it to 

 others, but you see there is a moral in 

 it. I wish to impress upon others the 

 truth of the old adage that "listeners 

 never hear any o'ood of themselves;" 

 besides. I need sympathy. — HoNEY-Bt;G, 

 in the Southland Queen. 



Feeding Back. 



J. E. Hand, who savs he produced in 

 the past season 2000 pounds of extra- 

 fancy comb honev by feeding back, dis- 

 cusses the matter with a friend in Glean-, 

 ings in Bee-Culture. Part of the con- 

 versation is as follows : 



"What do you think of Mr. Doolittle's 

 experience in feeding back?" 



"I am not at all surprised at the re- 

 sults of his experiments. I have had 

 about the same experience, and sc> 

 will any one else who tries to feed back 

 with a frame as dcen as the one he uses. 

 However, I consider his frame about 



