Oct. 9, 1902. 



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tini Imi) one that woiiUl coiiiu ii]> lo Ihusu Ibut 

 I rear in Kwiii'iiiin^^-llnie. 



Now, Mr. Alli'v. I wiiiit t iiku a tnide 



Willi voii I'oi- lllll i)f voiii' c|ucciis; I will jrivci 

 you si)i() iii()rc llnii) you usk Un IIumii, if you 

 will ^riianirilce lliul your UNI i|'"'>'>is will ijro- 

 tluec more honey, reared in lh<jse boxes, than 

 Miy queens Ihiit I rear in swarruinn-lime. I 

 will funilBli everytliini;, and |iay your man 

 SJO |n'r iiioMlli and lioiiril liiiri. Ship your 

 <luoens Ihroii^'h the mail; I will furnish the 

 hives to put Iheni in ; 1 to jrel all of the honey 

 and tlie i|neens if you do not iref the most 

 iujney. I will lake eare of them I he llrsl year; 

 you eau select your man. Now, I think this 

 is the cheapest way lo start an out-yard. 1 

 will pay for all the hives, foundation, paint 

 and e\erythin;^, except the (lueens. I will put 

 out 100 colonies with (pieens reared iu swarin- 

 infr-iiine, and you are to rear yours in those 

 ' little boxes ; I am to set the honey and queens 

 if yt)ur man dt)es not ;xet the most honey. 



1 have about JWOO worth of honey from 

 rjo colonies, sprin); count; 200 acres in culti- 

 vation, and l-'.T acres in corn under irri;;alion, 

 und as line as I wish. I have no queens 

 for sale, nor anythinj; else exceptint; honey 

 and wax. I just want to start auotherout- 

 yard, and I take this step as I think it will be 

 a good invostmeut. I don't want any one to 

 write to me; if you do, you will lose your 

 time and postajje stamp 



KnwARI) SCROGGIS. 



Eddy Co., New Mexico, Aus- -^. 



Sweet Clover— Wood Sage- 

 tridge Pea. 



Pap- 



Knclosed find what is said to be sweet clover, 

 but it is not according to Dr. Miller's descrip- 

 tion of sweet clover. Also No. 1 and No. "J; 

 they are purple and pink, and conuiience to 

 bloom about .June 1. The purple one has not 

 yielded any honey this season. It has been so 

 wet that the tubes are much deeper than com- 

 mon. No. 3, the yellow sample, yields pollen 

 and some honey, and commences blooming 

 about .July 15, and will continue a week or 

 ten days longer. Chas. M. Daurow. 



Vernon Co., Mo., Sept. 1.5, 



[The specimen you call sweet clover is 

 surely the genuine article. I cannot account 

 for the discrepancy between the Doctor's 

 description and your flower. Consult "The 

 Bee-Keeper's Ciuide,'' page 417. I have not 

 been able to identify No. 1, as no flower was 

 on the plant. You might send a sample to 

 l^rof. Cook. No. 1 is a Wood-Sage, which be- 

 longs to the mint family, and is a good honey- 

 plant. No. 3 is the Partridge Pea, a really 

 valuable bee-plant. In Prof. Cook's Manual, 

 |)age 429, is a drawing of it.— C. 1.. Walton.] 



Intpodueing Queens — Detepmining 

 Sex, 



I wish to give my way of introducing 



■ lueens. During the last days of .June I re- 

 ceived a California queen worth .*2.50, which 

 1 took from the shipping-cage and placed her 

 in another cage, giving her some young bees 

 about three days' old, from the colony to 

 which I intended to introduce her. I corked 

 up the cage and hung it in the hive for one 

 hour, then pulled out the plug. 



On .July 1 1 got another queen from Ohio— 

 a i;4.il0 one— and introduced her the same 

 way. ^ 



On July '21 received a $5.00 queen from a 

 New York breeder, and introduced her the 

 same as the others. 



About Aug. 15 I received a long-tongued 



■ lueen from an Illinois dealer, and introduced 

 her as follows: 



I brought a comb into the house for the 

 purpose of getting young bees to place in the 

 cage with the queen. The bees on the comb 

 began to cry for a queen, and 1 turned her 

 loose among them. They met her in a 

 friendly manner, shook hands, then treated 

 her to California white honey and escorted 

 her over the comb ; crossed to the other side. 

 Then I placed the comb back in the hive, 

 queen next to the wall, with the division- 

 board on the inside of the frame, and left a 



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