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and nobody else's swarmed as much as 5 

 per cent. If you want to keep bees 

 from swarming (and get no honey) keep 

 black bees. Jake Everman. 



North Middletown, Ky., Sept. 15. 



Prof. Cook very kindly replies to the 

 foregoing, as follows: 



The insects sent by Mr. Everman are 

 robber flies, Mallophora orcinn, described 

 and illustrated in ray " Bee-Keepers' 

 Guide," page 417. They do much 

 towards reducing the force of the hives, 

 especially in the South. Yet they do 

 very much good, killing noxious insects, 

 and so perhaps a true record would bal- 

 ance in their favor. A. J. Cook. 



Hiving Swarms with Colonies. 



Would it be practical for me to hive a 

 new swarm of bees in a hive whose col- 

 ony had cast a swarm a few days pre- 

 vious ? Would they destroy the queen- 

 cells? I do not wish to increase my 

 number of colonies. J. S. Scott. 



Springville, Utah. 



Answers. — The practice of this plan 

 has been reported as successful. After 

 the first colony had swarmed, and had 

 been regularly hived, the second colony 

 that swarmed was hived in No. 1, then 

 when No. 8 swarmed it was hived in No. 

 2, and so on. Whether the plan gave 

 satisfaction in all cases we do not know, 

 as of late years we have seen nothing 

 said about it. 



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From — 



^ The Stinger. 



"Everybody, good or bad, 

 Has a fancy or a fad ; 

 Has the best red clover queen, 

 Or an automatic bee-machine. 

 Has a great invention to reveal. 

 Or likes to ride astride a wheel ; 

 In fact, no matter what his rank. 

 Every body is a crank." — /Selected. 



The University of California had bet- 

 ter be looking to its laurels, for its great 

 rival near the Golden Gate, the Stanford, 

 Jr., University, might slip in ahead of it, 

 and have an apicultural department full- 

 grown from its inception. 



It was that good Irish bishop. Dr. 

 Berkeley, who, while a resident of this 

 country, wrote that •' Westward the star 

 of empire takes it's way ;" but we never 

 heard that any one wrote about the 



" star of apiculture" taking its course 

 over the same route. And yet it did, 

 for do we not now see the "star of api- 

 culture " hovering over the Golden State? 



Perhaps it will do the State of Califor- 

 nia no harm if The Stinger would get 

 into the bonnets of some of the regents 

 or faculty of the colleges and gently 

 thrust a sting where it would wake them 

 up in a manner that would do more than 

 the professors good. 



The seat of learning at Berkeley, Cali- 

 fornia, threatens to become the great 

 hive of apicultural information. It must 

 be confessed that the State University is 

 slow in starting its school of apiculture. 

 It outlined great things at the bee-keep- 

 ers' convention at Los Angeles last win- 

 ter, yet nothing has been done, that I 

 know of. 



Rambler had a good illustration of the 

 Yucca, or Spanish bayonet, in a recent 

 issue of Oleanings. I am sorry that he 

 did not also give a picture of this plant 

 as it is generally seen on its own heath. 

 A more forbidding looking specimen of 

 the vegetable kingdom than these mon- 

 strosities could not be well imagined. 

 Rambler's taste for the beautiful im- 

 pelled him to choose a fine specimen to 

 show in Oleanings. This plant is also 

 called "the Lord's candle-stick," which 

 name our friend of Oleanings forgot to 

 mention. 



Oleanings is going to get right plumb 

 into the tracks of the "Old Reliable," 

 by commencing to present illustrated 

 biograthical sketches of apiarists. There 

 will be this difference — a difference, by 

 the way, which will not, I am sure, clear 

 bright Oleanings of the charge of being 

 an imitator — that all the members of a 

 bee-keeper's family will be given at the 

 same time. Of course, this is not a bad 

 idea, but as the American Bee Journal 

 started this kind of " picture business," 

 it might have appeared better if our 

 Ohio friends had waited until the former 

 had exhausted the field ; perhaps the 

 American Bee Journal was going to 

 have a swing around the circle In the 

 fashion now proposed by the other jour- 

 nal mentioned. Trot out your pictures, 

 Mr. Oleanings, for we do not intend to 

 sting hard over this little matter. 



A Binder for holding a year's num 

 bers of the Bee Journal we mail for 

 only 50 cents ; or clubbed with the 

 Journal for $1.40. 



