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nies of bees, as yet. Well, when I have 

 nothing else to do I sit on my camp-stool 

 and watch those bees, just about as a 

 young mother watches her first baby ; 

 and while I watch, I think. 



"On two different occasions, as I was 

 thus watching and thinking, it suddenly 

 began to thunder, although there was 

 no rain in sight. In a few minutes after 

 the first rumbling was heard, I noticed 

 that the bees were coming in with 

 greater haste, and in greatly increased 

 numbers. On those two occasions there 

 was no rain at all. Now, I want you, if 

 you can, to account for this manifesta- 

 tion of human-like intelligence, if bees 

 can't hear? If they didn't hear the 

 thunder, what made them rush home so 

 furiously? 



" I was going to give you the phre- 

 nology of the worker-bee, for that is 

 really the most important and most in- 

 teresting part of Api-Phrenology ; but I 

 see you are getting tired of my talk. 

 Besides, the wind is rushing and roaring 

 in the trees as though there was a storm 

 near at hand. I must hurry and get 

 home before it rains." 



I awoke. The roaring and rushing I 

 had heard in my sleep was not the wind, 

 but my new swarm of bees. They were 

 all out, and were just beginning to set- 

 tle in a cluster on a limb of the tree 

 above my head. 



"Here is another argument for Mr. 

 Luthy," said I to myself: "If bees 

 can't see, and for that reason run against 

 a person in their way, how is it that not 

 one of the 30,000 or more of that swarm 

 flew against me just now ? I was right 

 square in their way when they rushed 

 out." 



When I went to see why they had 

 come out of their beautifully furnished 

 new home, I found nearly all the comb 

 foundation sheets melted to the bottom 

 of the hive. 



Lawrence, Ivans. 



iSome Bee-Keeping Experiences 

 of Years Ago. 



Written for the A.m.erican Bee Journal 

 BY DK. E. GALLUP. 



When I first moved into Iowa bees 

 were scarce, and I could not get any for 

 " seed " to start with, but an aunt had a 

 few colonies in box-hives, and gave me 

 one with about a pint of bees and a 

 superannuated queen. I moved it home 

 iu February, set it in the cellar, bottom 



up, on a bench, and used to set a pan of 

 coals ufider every night, and stimulated 

 a little with sugar syrup. Well, I built 

 up quite a respectable colony by the first 

 of July. When I received my first Ital- 

 ian queen from Wisconsin, I killed the 

 old " black lady," and introduced the 

 Italian. 



Some time in April I found a colony in 

 a tree, and as soon as I reared some 

 queens I transferred them, killed the 

 old black, and introduced an Italian. 

 Three days afterward I found my Ital- 

 ian dead in front of the hive. 



It was then six days after killing the 

 black queen, on examining the hive I 

 found the combs well filled with eggs, 

 larvEe and brood in all stages. I found 

 no queen-cells, but found a drone-laying 

 queen. The body, head, legs and wings 

 were those of a perfect drone, but the 

 abdomen was a perfect queen's abdo- 

 men, but extra-large. The bees were 

 extra-large specimens from this drone- 

 queen. I always regretted that I did 

 not keep her to see what they would 

 turn out, but I wanted all Italians, and 

 killed her without thinking what I was 

 about. 



I gave the above fact at the National 

 Convention at Cincinnati, and Mr. Laug- 

 stroth stated that he once had a speci- 

 men of the same kind. 



Now the above is a nut for some of the 

 Bee Journal's wise contributors to 

 crack. 



From those 2 colonies, after the first 

 of July, I made 7 good, strong colonies, 

 and that was the manner in which I 

 started in Iowa. In box-hive times, I 

 once made 10 good colonies from one, in 

 one season in Wisconsin ; at all events, 

 they were not movable-comb hives. 

 With the movable-comb hives and a 

 good, strong colony to begin with, I once 

 made 15 colonies in one season — all 

 good, full, strong colonies. But one 

 must know just how, and then it is very 

 easy fun. 



Santa Ana, Calif., Sept. 8, 1893. 



Foul Brood — A Reply to a Com- 

 ment on the $i»ubject. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY WM. M'EVOY. 



On page 334, I see that Mrs. Jennie 

 Atchley seems JDclined to dispute every- 

 thing I say or do in the whole foul-brood 

 business. If Mrs. Atcbloy had charge 

 of the foul-broody apiaries for the Prov- 

 ince of Ontario, and in the last few years 



