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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 1 



Id such a case as this the observing apiarist 

 will easily discover this loss by an outside 

 diagnosis of such colonies at a later visit 

 to the apiary. This requeening at this time 

 is so easily done that there is no excuse for 

 having poor queens at the out-apiary. 



The reader may think that what is here 

 given conflicts with what I have written in 

 the past about allowing the bees to take 

 care of the superseding of their queens them- 

 selves. With the small and contracted 

 brood- chamber, I still hold that the bees 

 will take care of that matter fully as well 

 as the apiarist can; but with this system of 

 working, and that with ten-frame Lang- 

 stroth hives, a queen will lay nearly as many 

 eggs in two years as she would under the 

 contraction system in three or four years; 

 so that any queen which is more than two 

 years old is almost sure to be played out; 

 therefore I make it a practice with this plan 

 to supersede all queens which are two years 

 old at this time, and in the way given above. 

 This plan is one of strenuousness all the 

 way through, by which we get a multitude 

 of bees in the field at all times during the 

 honey harvests: and even when ordmary col- 

 onies are doing nothing, or securing only a 

 living, these rousing colonies are actually 

 laying up stores. Mast May, when the col- 

 onies as ordinarily worked were living only 

 from hand to mouth, these big colonies at 

 the out-apiary actually laid up from 20 to 30 

 pounds of stores in the combs above their 

 brood And then when other colonies were 

 working a very little or not at all in the sec- 

 tion supers, these were completing their 

 first 44 eections, and well at work in the 

 second super of 44 above. Such work as 

 this is enough to cause the queen to produce 

 all the eggs in her ovaries in about two 

 years; and as the work of superseding as 

 given above is easily done, I think it well 

 pays to kill any queens when two years old, 

 and give a cell to the colony, unless it is a 

 queen that has proven herself of extra value, 

 when I would keep her to breed from the 

 next year, should she live through. 



Having the hives all ready for the buck- 

 wheat harvest, the poor queen matter dis- 

 posed of, and the completed supers on the 

 escape- boards, I next attend to any and all 

 the minor things about the apiary that need 

 attention, when the honey is loaded and a 

 start for home is made. If there is more 

 honey than can be carried at one load, it is 

 left right on the hives over the escape- board 

 till I can conveniently come after it; for it 

 is just as safe there as anywhere it can be 

 left, unless we have a building at the apiary 

 for the purpose of keeping honey, which I 

 do not, nor do I consider it needful. If I 

 feared the work of thieves, I ^ould take 

 this honey to the farmer's house, or go back 

 immediately for it; but »s it is, I often leave 

 it over the escape-boards for a few days 

 or a week, till some convenient time comes 

 to bring it home. 



In the above I have given the reader the 

 work done during the seventh visit to this 

 apiary. 



Bless the Lord, O my soul, who healeth all thy dis- 

 eases.— Psalm 103:3. 



Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy 

 Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are 

 not your own?— I. Cor. 6 : 19. 



Just at the present time there seems to 

 be a great number of "hold-ups," or at least 

 there are a great number of them in our 

 large cities in and around our State of Ohio. 

 These ruffians come to a man and say, 

 "Your money or your life; " and of late the 

 fashion seems to be for two and a great 

 many times three of the ruffians to pounce 

 on one man, generally unarmed and unpro- 

 tected. Of course, they are cowards as 

 well as thieves and blacklegs, and sometimes 

 one man with grit enough has put to flight 

 his two or even three assailants. This is a 

 terrible thing, friends, in an enhghtened 

 country like ours, especially when it is done 

 in broad daylight, where people are around, 

 and sometimes not very far away. But 

 please do not think me extravagent when I 

 say there are worse things than this going 

 on right under our very noses. The outlaws 

 of whom I have been speaking, under the 

 influence of drink, say, "Your money or 

 your life" as they point a loaded revolver 

 at your face. This other class of people 

 that as I have said are still worse, say by 

 their actions, if not words, "Your money 

 and your life." But even that is not all. 

 The windup many times results in not only 

 loss of money and loss of life but also loss of 

 soul as well as of body; and these fiends in 

 human shape take money, body, and soul, 

 and hold up not only men, but women and 

 children as well. Do you think your old 

 friend A. I. Root is becoming extravagant 

 and sensational? Well, let me submit the 

 matter to you. Which individual is worse— 

 the one who points a revolver at you, and 

 says, "Your money or your life," or the one 

 who deliberately sells your boy cigarettes 

 with the end in view of creating an ap- 

 petite so the poor child can not get along 

 without them, utterly indifferent to the fact 

 that he may soon go down to an untimely 

 grave, or go into an asylum, commit suicide, 

 or do something else as bad? 



Notwithstanding all that is being said and 

 done, the work goes on. Our sister State 

 of Indiana has ruled out cigarettes. You 

 can not buy, sell, nor give away nor even 

 smoke one on the streets without getting in- 

 to trouble. May God bless Governor Hanly, 

 and give us more governors like him. In 

 Illinois, however, they have tried again and 

 again to get an anti- cigarette law; and while 

 nine-tenths of the people are in favor of 



