514 



GliEANINGS IN BEE CULTURti 



Lucille Miller, "Before and after taking" (a sting). Lucille is three years old, and a great lover of 

 bees. She has been stung a number of times, but doesn't get scared. She usually says. " Papa, look what 

 the bees did to me." I have a large yard of lees, and she likes to see me work with them. 



G. M. Miller, Danvers, 111. 



There are 2400 acres under cultivation 

 here, all cotton, so you will readily see that 

 cotton is my honey-plant. Well, there are 

 a few fruit-trees scattered around, and a 

 little clover in places that the plow can't 

 reach, that help out in early spring; but if 

 any one were to ask from what source my 

 bees get their nectar I would point with a 

 proud finger to the millions of cotton- 

 blooms. 



From my twelve hives last season I took 

 off an average of 96 lbs. of comb honey, and 

 if I were to return all unfinished sections 

 and apply the feeders I feel sure that my 

 colony average would be considerably over 

 100 lbs. Now, I do not know ; but it strikes 



me that I have made my bees do pretty well, 

 and the drouth we have had too was against 

 me to a certain extent. 



The Danzenbaker is the hive here for the 

 production of comb honey. I have tried 

 other makes, but they all slij) a cog some- 

 whei'e, though every thing is seemingly all 

 right. 



I am sending a picture of some of my 

 honey. The picture was taken in June as a 

 booster for Jefferson County, Ark. The 

 strained honey in the picture is some I ob- 

 tained from leaky and broken sections. The 

 honey shows up a little too dark in the 

 picture. 



Corner Stone, Ark. 



REQUEENING WITHOUT DEQUEENING 



BY J. B. MERWIN 



That Mr. J. E. Hand, p. 292, April 15, 

 may not be misled in regard to my article 

 on requeening without dequeening, p. 851, 

 Dec. 1, I should like to try to make it a little 

 plainer in some points. We do not try to 

 introduce virgin queens by this method, and 

 I have yet to learn of the old queen and the 

 virgin queen fighting when reared by natural 

 supersedure. 



There is a similarity in nearly all things; 

 and for example I will take a choice shade- 

 tree in the latter part of summer when it is 

 covered with a dense foliage. Nature has 

 sent forth countless numbers of leaves; but 

 wait until after the first frost, and they will 

 begin falling — only a few at first each day, 

 gradually increasing more and more until 

 the tree is completely devoid dl' all its foli- 



