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CxLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



.TrT,Y 1. 



your bees where they will not interfere with 

 your ueighhor. He has tlie prior right, and it 

 should be respected. 

 New York. E. Rambler. 



If bare compliance witli the laws is all you 

 desire, you are right. If you have that new 

 life that Jesus of Nazareth came into the world 

 to bring, you will find it says. " I can not take 

 advantage of the law to do my fellow-man a 

 serious injury." Sit down and think over care- 

 fully all the circumstances of the case. Then 

 put yourself right in Mr. N."s place, and ask 

 the question. - What would I wish and expect 

 an honest man to do?"' Then go and do that 

 very thing. If you should talk the matter ovei- 

 with Mr. N. in "a right spirit, very likely some 

 joint arrangement could be made for running 

 your bees as an out-apiary, which would be bet- 

 ter for you as well as bettei' for him, than trying 

 to buck against his 130 colonies. 



Ohio. N. W. E. E. Hasty. 



If you purchased the place for a home, in- 

 cluding the keeping of bees on it. while your 

 neighbor already had it fully occupied, it is 

 doubtful about the propriety of your having 

 done so: otherwise you need not consult him. 

 I have lately changed the location of my bees, 

 paying ^100 a yeai' for tlie privilege of ground 

 to set them on: but having over 400 hives. I 

 think it too many for one location, and accord- 

 ingly I purchased a location a few miles away 

 to set a part of them on: but as there ai'e three 

 other small apiaries covering the same gi-ound. 

 perhaps 2(X) hives in all. I have set 2.") hives on 

 my new purchase, and am now querying in my 

 mind whether to set more there or to take 

 away what I have there, simply out of defer- 

 ence to the neighbors, although they have not 

 specially objected. 



California. S. R. Wilkin. 



Legally you are right: morally you are wrong. 

 Yet it is not much worse than is done daily in 

 other lines of business. Suppose A keeps the 

 only grocery store in a town, and does it to the 

 satisfaction of all. making a good living at it. 

 B starts another store, and divides tlie trade. 

 The public is not benefited. A is impoverish- 

 ed, and B makes only half a decent living. The 

 right of B to do this is not usually questioned: 

 but, is it right? Your action in moving into 

 N.'s field is somewhat worse than that of B. 

 because B would probably have some difficulty 

 in finding an unoccupied grocery field, while 

 you can probably find an unoccupied bee-range 

 within five or six miles, and any number of 

 them, without mucli trouble. When four-fifths 

 of the honey seci'eted goes to waste for the 

 want of bee's to gatlier it. why rob another of 

 his sha'-e by infringing on his territory? 



Illinois. N. C. .1. A. Green. 



[Why, boys, I actually feel proud of you. 

 Yes. I feel glad to think we have a cabinet of 

 advisers who can collectively compass a mat- 

 ter so thoroughly as you have done in the 

 above. Every shade and phase— legal, finan- 

 cial, and moral— has been touched upon: and 

 there is a good sound ring of " Whatsoever ye 

 would that men should do unto you, do ye even 

 so unto them "' in every one of the answers, if I 

 • am correct. We have had experience in that 

 very matter here. Sevei-al times, even after I 

 assured those who brought bees into our neigh- 

 borhood that thev could not stand any chance 

 with our 200 oi' 3()0 colonic^s, they felt, perhaps. 

 as if I had some selfish motive in saying so, and 

 concluded to try it. But. as Mrs. Harrison says, 

 they all gave it up soonei- or later: and now we 

 have all the bees in the vicinity, unless it is a 



few colonies belonging to some of our hands. 

 We like to encourage our workmen to keep bees 

 —just enough to know how the work on hives, 

 etc., ought to be done. Well. I believe the gen- 

 eral decision is. that bees five or ten miles away 

 do vei'y much better than where there are so 

 many. I have met with a few men who per- 

 sist in such a course as is mentioned in this query. 

 But the man who would bring 7.5 colonies into 

 the vicinity of 120. I sliould set down in my 

 own mind "as a bad man: and I should expect 

 him to be bad in other ways whenever oppor- 

 tunity offered. This is the very sort of men. 

 too. who are always having bad luck. Just 

 look about you, and see if what I say is not 

 trne.l 



Heads of Grain 



FROM DIFFERENT FIELDS 



POLI-EN FROM ONE OF THE GRASSES. 



The following notes, kindly handed me by 

 Dr. W. J. Beal, are worthy of record in your 

 valuable journal: 



Yesterday bees were gathering' pollen from tlie 

 grass Fefttuca nvina, or sheep's fescue. Some years 

 ago I saw bees in great numbers gathering ])ol1en 

 from Festvca elitun: and also from Ptaiitaan Innceoli- 

 ta. About two weeks ago tliey were gatliering pol- 

 len abundantly from Ph)u>< Bavkseana. Tliese plants 

 all yield di'y pollen, wliicli is supposed to be distrib- 

 uted by tlie wind; tliat is, all are Anemnpliihms. 



I can add to the above, that our bees are now 

 gathering i)ollen very rapidly and abundantly 

 from the Austrian pine (P. Auf<triac.n). As the 

 bees alight, a cloud of pollen rises from the 

 plant. It takes a bee only a very shoi't time to 

 load up. I have never seen them gather pollen 

 so rapidly fi'om any thing else. A. J. Cook. 



AgM College, :Mich.. June 3. 



HONORING THE INVENTOR BY ATTACHING IllS 

 NAME TO THE INVENTION. 



I trust Dr. Miller will not take umbrage if I 

 call his attention to a remark relating to name 

 of comb frame, page 457. The Langstroth 

 frame has never had any other name than the 

 revered name of its inventor: and allow me to 

 express the veneration I chei'ish by protesting 

 against designating the greatest invention re- 

 lating to bee-keeping by any other than the 

 name of its inventor. I would not wish to be 

 dogmatic in suggesting that bee-keepers adopt 

 tlie rule of giving the name of the inventor in 

 some way, in connection with tlie invention. 

 In this day of small nnvards. the most endui'ing 

 tribute would not seem too much for a gratef\]l 

 fraternity to bestow. T. F. BiNffHAM. 



Abronia. Mich., June 10. 



CEM,-Bl II-DING IN THE HIVE : HOW THEY DO 

 IT. 



On page 165 of the A B C you give an ac- 

 count of cell-building. You have described the 

 whole process of cell-building. Now, the bee 

 carries the wax under its chin, so as to make it 

 hot enough to stick, and he does not work it 

 when first put on, because it is too hot. It takes 

 a few seconds to cool off', owing to the tempera- 

 ture of the hive: then a bee bends the wax 

 down, then another bends it back. The bend- 

 ing makes the wax thin, and lengthens it. The 

 next wax is put on. and the bending process is 

 repealed. Take a few pieces of wax, and bend 

 them the same as the bees do. and you will see 

 tiie reason one hee does not finish the woi-k at 

 once. The cell is made by bending the wax 

 backward and forward. S. W. B.^rnard. 



Olathe, Kan., June 19. 



