Sept. 25, 1402, 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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ejjifiltitinn in Ohio to protect Iiccs Trom tlio 

 ruvii^t'K of foul br'ood, whicli Ims already ap- 

 peiir(!tl in our rnidst. This Slate Is catlHT 

 tardy in looliin^r iiftei- the inteiM'sts of the Itvv.- 

 keepers. It is estimated that tliis county alone 

 contains aliout fiOO apiarists whose interests 

 are worthy of some letjislativc attention. 



\Vm. .1. <ill.l,II..\NI), Sfi-, 



Hamilton Co., Ohio. 



Mountain Mint. 



I send you I)y this mail oiu* of the tinest 

 bee-plants I ever saw. It is a stranj^er to me, 

 and was discovered two weeks ai?o while 

 crossing an old pasture, hy the loud humming; 

 of the l)ees, as if robhinfr, I followed up the 

 "bee-line'" to a plat about 4 sciuare rods 

 which was just alive with bees, setlinp; honey. 

 I went Imck there yesterday to see whether 

 the plants were still in bloom, but could see 

 no dlllerence from my previous visit two 

 weeks before. 



I have been over the country a great deal, 

 but never saw this plant before. It is a mint, 

 and may be the great horsemint of Texas; as 

 I have never been In Texas I do not know. I 

 shall keep my eye on that patch, and try to 

 save the seed, then I hope to " go " the man 

 that has the catnip and sweet clover " one 

 better." W. P. Turner. 



Peoria Co., 111., Aug. 3(5. 



[The specimen is a mountain mint, lirst 

 cousin to the horsemint, and a very valuable 

 honey-plant. The mountiau mint is cpiite 

 common eastward, but has not spread over 

 the middle or western States to any extent. — 

 C. L. W.lI.TON.l 



A Fair Fall Flow. 



We have had a fall honey-How here that is 

 prett.v fair. I will have 3 or 4 hundred sec- 

 tions from 20 colonies, spring count; but uo 

 swarms. D. C. Wilson. 



Linn Co., Iowa., Sept. 15. 



Beard-Tongue. 



I enclose stems and flowers of a perennial 

 plant that grows among the rocks. Can you 

 give the name of the plant '. and is it of value 

 For bee-pasture ? 



The spring and first part of the summer 

 was cold and windy ; it was hard on bees. I 

 had 50 colonies, spring count, all doing well 

 on sweet clover just now. 



M. L. Heltzel. 



Lincoln Co., Wash., Aug. -'2. 



[The specimen is called beard-tongue, Pent- 

 stemou, granditiorus, and belongs to the fig- 

 wort family. The tigworts are, as a rule, 

 honey-plants, and while I cannot speak posi- 

 tively of this one it probably follows the fam- 

 ily trait and well repays the bees for an occa- 

 si Hial visit.— C. 1^. Walton.] 



Rearing and Introducing Queens. 



I have been reading with interest the arti- 

 cles written by Dr. Gallup and also those in 

 reply by Mr. Alley. Now Mr. Miles, a member 

 of the ,1ury, as he puts it, wants to hear from 

 the other members, and I will try to add my 

 mite to the list. 



I have always supposed that natural queen- 

 cells were as good as any, and still think tliat 

 to be the case. I know, too, that good queens 

 can be reared with the cell-cup plan, or by 

 Mr. Alley's method, because I have proved it; 

 and also that poor queens are reared on the 

 best plans used, and from the best breeders 

 you can buy. I think the best plan to follow 

 istosave nothing but the very largest and 

 best cells, no matter what method -you use. 

 The best method to use is the one you have 

 proved to he the most successful, and gives 

 the best result, no matter who thinks differ- 

 ently. 



I will give my way of introducing queens 

 when received by mail : Remove the queen 

 from the cage and put her in a cage that has 

 not been used or been through the mail, so 



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Mr. J. Roorda, of De Motte, Ind., 

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 Messenger, of New Haven, Conn., saj's 

 the queen bought last season produced 

 bees which beat anything in that part 

 of the country. 



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"What Happened to Ted" 



BY ISABELLE HORTON. 



This is a true story of the poor and unfor- 

 tunate in city life. Miss Horton, the author, 

 is a deaconess whose experiences among the 

 city poverty striclien are both interesting and 

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ISABELLE HORTON. 

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there will )m' no Bcoiil from it art there would 

 be In till! rimi; she came In. and leave no work- 

 ers Willi her. Then go U) the hive you wikh 

 to |<ut lier ill, remove the queen they have, if 

 any. anrl iilaoc the r|uccn-eai;c with the queen 

 you wIbIi to introduce, with wire-doth down, 

 on top <jr Ihe framen. flrnt reniovint; the fillp 

 of earil ulf the end of the caife contalninif the 

 candy. Some will object to putlini; the new 

 queen in at the luime time you take the old 

 one out, ijiU 1 do it that way and it Kavefi diH- 

 turbinif the lieCB more than once, and I have 

 lost only one fiueen that was introduced in 

 that way. I huppose Mr. Alley will object to 

 this; but never mind, I can do it that way if 

 he can't. 



I notice a writer in the American Bee 

 .Journal saye '.> out of 10 queens he has tought 

 were worthless. Now that has not been true 

 in my case, and I have Ixjughtquitc a number, 

 and have never had one I CiiUed worthless; 

 but some were better than others, and that Is 

 the case with those you rear. I am not writ- 

 ing this without knowing something about it. 

 I have had queens from h different States, and 

 imported some from Italy twice, and I have 

 no cause to complain. I received a couple of 

 premium queens from Editor York a short 

 time ago that are beauties, and are doing well. 



CHAS. W. ( II.LEV. 



Merrimack Co., N. H., Sept. 4. 



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Age of Queens. 



I indorse what U. M. Doolittle says about 

 replacing queens every two years. If a queen 

 is bad, replace her any time, even if less than 

 a year old, but don't replace an old queen 

 simply 6«((«.sf she is old. I have a queen .5 

 years old that is to-day doing just about as 

 good work as any other queen I have. A 

 sulticient reason against replacing all "2-year- 

 old c|ueens, if there was no other, is that you 

 can hardly decide the character of a queen 

 until she is - years old ; and if she has a good 

 record when 'J years old, every year of good 

 record after that increases her value as a 

 queen to breed from. — Stray Straw in Glean- 

 ings in Bee-Culture. 



Getaz's Plan of Dividing. 



After trying all the processes advised, I 

 simply divide each colony in two, putting 

 two-thirds or three-fourths of the brood in 

 the new one. and leaving the rest on the old 

 stand. Both hives are completed with empty 

 combs or foundation. Three days later I 

 look for the queen. Only the new colonies 

 need be examined, and it takes but little time, 

 since they are not strong in bees. Queens are 

 then introduced where needed, and the cells 

 cut out, it there are any. 



Laying queens can be introduced anywhere, 

 but the virgins, ready to mate, should be in- 

 troduced only to the new colonies ; otherwise 

 there might be trouble. It necessary, take 

 the old queen out of the new colony, and put 

 her back in the old one, and give the virgin to 

 the new colony. — Adrian Getaz, in the Bee- 

 Keepers' Review. 



Stimulative Feeding. 



This has a strong advocate in the editor of 

 the Rocky Mountain Bee .Journal, and what 

 seem to be good arguments are given in favor 

 of it; but it seems that all Coloradoans are 

 not of the same mind. F. L. Thompson says 

 in the Progressive Bee-Keeper: 



Stimulative feeding for spring is one prac- 

 tice whose value is unproved, hence it can not 

 be included in the list of essentials. It has 

 been said lately it is desirable in Colorado ; 

 but convincing proof has not been given. If 

 feeding stimulates that does not prove that 

 the stimulation is profitable. From the view- 



