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from them surpusf^ofi any I have seon, bot.li In 

 flavor and uolor, boin^; as nearly puru wdlto 

 as it is p(>s8il)l(! to bo, I tliink. 



Owin^^ to tlie liry weatlior last fall, arhl 

 then! iHiint; no clovor lieUls, tbo fall How wiis 

 llt,^!it, but H(t far thu spring: has beisn voi'y 

 favoraiib^ indetiil. I hav« taken otT sevoral 

 sections of nli*e honey, with tho best How yet 

 to follow from sourwood. 



(iEO. W. l*AHKEll. 



Morgan Co., Ala., May 2S. 



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Honey for Horses, 



Molasses ie very iiiiu'li used for mixiiit; with 

 food for stock, and I don't see why our in- 

 ferior i;rades of honey may not l)e i|uite, if 

 not more, beneficial. One thiag: I aceidentally 

 noticed during the past season was that a 

 horse can heoome very fond of honey. I ex- 

 tracted my WyBuleii^h apiary in a tent, and 

 when I finished and had the honey tinned and 

 removed I removed the tent, but through 

 ■want of cartage-room I had to leave the cap- 

 pings, covereil up, for another trip. During 

 the night my horse, which is mischievously in- 

 clined, and does not stop at opening a gate, 

 removed the cover and helped himself. I 

 fastened the box, but the following night he 

 again helped himself by upsetting everything 

 and scattering the cappings all over the yard. 

 ><'eedless to say the bees started working on 

 the caps. That did not interfere with the 

 horse — he rolled the lumps of caps to one side 

 to disturb the bees, and finished the spilt caps 

 during the day. Altogether about 30 pounds 

 of cappings were eaten by him in the two 

 nights. Here is the point: That horse was 

 troubled with an itchy skin, and was con- 

 tinually tearing the hair off his head, tail, 

 aud body, by rubbing on sharp projections. 

 A few days afterwards he got all right and 

 ceased to scratch the hair off. I believe the 

 honey was the cause of the cure, though the 

 ■wax may have had something to do with it. 

 If honey was the cause, could not our in- 

 ferior honeys be used for keeping horses and 

 other stock in healthy condition ! — Editor 

 Pender, in the Australasian Bee-Keeper. 



Long-Tongue Bees. 



"A York County Bee-Keeper" says in the 

 Canadian Bee Journal : 



By the way, Mr. Editor, have you noticed 

 how the '■ long-tongue '' craze is slowly dying 

 out * From the way the queen-breeders went 

 wild over it we could expect nothing else, 

 and then Prof. Gillette's experiment was the 

 " straw that broke the camel's back." Last 

 fall, while talking with a friend, I ventured 

 to predict that in one year from that date, not 

 one queen-breeder in a dozen would mention 

 long tongues. Judging from the ads. up to 

 date, I believe such will be the case. 



The S'warthmore System of Nucleus 

 Management. 



This is reported upon unfavorably in 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture by "Queen- 

 Breeder," who seems to have tried it on a 

 large scale, having as many as 330 nuclei. He 

 says: 



In due time I found, by examination, eggs 

 deposited in about 200 boxes, which I marked 

 for convenience. The remaining boxes were, 

 many of them, queenless, and others with 

 queens evidently not fertilized. I gave vir- 

 gins to the former, and awaited developments 

 with the latter. 



Of the 200 boxes containing eggs, I sup- 

 plied 100 with queen-cards, to be kept until 

 the brood hatched for warranted queens, etc. 

 I had some orders for untested queens to be 

 filled in a short time, and congratulated my- 



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'i'he iM-Ht-liiiil iilMMN of micft unri men unnil nft atfler 

 A til] l4HV<> iiH nltuKbt bul four unti pull) for proriiiiuffl 

 Joy. 



Well, I went to tbcse little eoloiileii, expect- 

 inj;, (j( eotiroe. to find in each a line, healthy 

 queen. Out of the I (JO I took '.i' i|ueen8, all 

 that eijiild l)c found. The reniainlni,' "H were 

 (lueeiileds, and many with i|iiecn-eell8 in vari- 

 ous slucos of consumjition. Here wa» a direct 

 loss of 7^1 (|UeenH. 



He continued his experiments until he had 

 lost more than aoO queens, aud thinks the lose 

 lurirely due to the fact that the bees went 

 vi>i(inK- from one nucleus to another. 



Carniolans and Swarming. 



Here is an editorial from the .Modera 

 Farmer and Kusy Bee: 



A. H. Duff says in the .lournal of Agricul- 

 ture, " Carniolan bees are not i,'iven to swarni- 

 inj; more than the pure Italians, and, per- 

 haps, not as much.'' There is wiiere you are 

 oil, Mr. Duff. If these bees are not properly 

 looked after, if they are left to themselves, 

 they are the worst swarmers we have ever 

 handled. 



No Foul Brood in Foundation. 



Adrian Getaz says in the American Bee- 

 Keeper : 



In discussing the possibility of the trans- 

 mission of foul-brood spores through wax 

 foundation, a correspondent of a German 

 paper remarks that even it the heat of the 

 melted wax did not kill the spores outright, 

 they would be imbedded in it, and never he 

 able to get out, having no means to burrow 

 their ■way through it. A coat of wax will 

 eventtifllly kill any living being anyway, by 

 shutting air and moisture out altogether. 



Points in the Introduction of Queens. 



W. H. Pridgen says in tileanings in Bee- 

 Culture: 



From my experience in introducing queens 

 Ijy using bees from the colonies to which they 

 are introduced. I consider the plan outlined 

 by Mr. Bonney far superior to the usual in- 

 structions that accompany shipping-cages. 

 In fact, I have not attempted to introduce 

 one in years with the cage in which she is 

 received without first releasing the escort and 

 caging some of the bees of the colony with 

 her. which invariably treat the queen kindly 

 if very j'oung, or having filled themselves 

 with honey. It also works equally well if 

 the queen Ije caged in an odorless cage without 

 any bees, but still better to use the bees and 

 odorless cage, or the odorless cage without 

 the bees, tirst scented by allowing the queen 

 to be superseded to remain in it an hour in 

 the hive; out I prefer scenting the cage with 

 the old qneen, and then using the bees with 

 the queen to be introduced, either bv placing 

 her in it and selecting the Ijeesone at a time! 

 or allowing them to go in. which they quickly 

 do in search of their mother, and close theti] 

 up for awhile and then allowing the queen to 

 run in. 



One advantage worth considering in hav- 

 ing bees with the queen is that she is less 

 liable to be damaged tjy the outside bees by 

 getting hold of a leg or wing. I am partial 

 to side-comb cages, as the queen is placed 

 right down in the cluster; but instead of re- 

 lying on hatching brood, young bees are at 

 once put into the cage with the queen, 

 through a hole near one corner, as large as a 

 leadpencii. The hole is stopped a day or two 

 with a curk. and with candy when the cork is 

 removed, thus allowing the bees to release 

 the queen, and combining the good points in 

 the different methods. A great deal of this 

 is too complicated for a novice, and no doubt 

 for that class the usual instructions are best; 

 but befoie being too confident of uniform 

 success by pasteboarding, it should be remem- 

 bered that, when queens are sent by mail, 

 bees, cage, and all partake of the scent of the 

 mails, and from this scource much of the 



