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will continue breeding later. This 

 is a real advantage, and is very 

 noticeable in hives where the amount 

 of stores is large, but these points 

 are of minor value as compared 

 with those before mentioned, partic- 

 ularly if care is used to leave a 

 reasonable amount of honey later 

 in the season. 



The best method of curing honey 

 lias been of much interest to us, 

 and we have experimented largely 

 in this direction. 



When honey is being gathered so 

 rapidly that each good stock is 

 storing from twelve to twenty 

 pounds per da}', one will not real- 

 ize, without close observation, the 

 amount of labor it is for the bees 

 to cure the honey and the conse- 

 quent loss. Actual experiments 

 will prove this to be very much 

 greater than would generall}^ be 

 supposed. 



In all this process, I see only the 

 fact that the honey is spread over 

 a large surface, and bandied over 

 by the bees and subjected to a high 

 degree of temperature and more or 

 less exposure to a circulation of 

 air. With these facts in mind, we 

 have endeavored to produce the 

 same results and relieve the bees 

 of this labor. 



I predict that in the near future, 

 lioney pure and unmixed will be 

 evaporated to the proper consisten- 

 cy and take a high rank as desirable 

 confectionery. 



The bearing this subject of prop- 

 erly evaporated honey lias upon 

 hofding hone}^ from one season to 

 another is worth our attention. 



A thorougli investigation of this 

 subject l)y beekeepers generally, 

 will, in my opinion, prove it to be 

 one of extreme importance. — Bee- 

 Jceejjers' Exchange. 



Electuic Light axd Queen- 

 rearing, BY Kev. Samuel Kues- 

 THARDT. — It seems that the problem 

 of controlling queens mated by 



drones becomes solved by the aid 

 of electric light. A German news- 

 paper says " a certain Mr. Graven- 

 horst, of Brunswick, a prominent 

 beekeeper, brought his colony 

 with virgin queens into large, 

 sufficiently warm rooms, which 

 were lighted with electric light. 

 Tlie bees flew around with perfect 

 ease ; they did not fl}' against 

 windows or walls and so get killed, 

 as no light from outside shone into 

 the room. He raised, in that way, 

 purely mated queens on a large 

 scale." — Gleanings. 



[We think with friend Root that 

 the statement may be a " newspa- 

 per yarn," and yet the matter is 

 worth a trial. Let us see what 

 "yankees" will do with it. — Ed]. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



While in Boston on business 

 July 10, we enjoyed a pleasant 

 visit with Messrs. Crocker & Blake, 

 honey-dealers, and found them will- 

 ing and pleased to impart all the 

 information possible regarding the 

 requirements of the honey-market. 

 They had just received a large 

 shipra'ent (five tons) of fine orange 

 blossom honey from Alderman & 

 Roberts, of Viola, Fla. At their 

 request we sampled it and found it 

 equal, if not superior, to any honey 

 that we have ever seen, most of it 

 being quite heavy, very rich, clear 

 and as highly flavored as orange 

 itself, and to my taste resembling 

 our Alsyke honey, although in color 

 it was not quite as white, being 

 somewhat simihu- in this respect to 

 basswood honey. 



If our Florida brethren can send 

 to market such fine honey as this, 

 we may look well to our laurels. 

 We understand that Messrs. Al- 

 derman & Roberts have taken 



