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and thy pocket-book shall be filled to 

 overflowing with silver and gold. Yea, 

 verily. 



11th. Under the new dispensation I 

 add this 11th Commandment: Thou 

 shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, and 

 keep the fall honey at home for the pur- 

 pose of spring feeding, and that the 

 apiarist and all who labor with him in 

 the apiary, may rest and worship ac- 

 cording to the dictates of conscience on 

 every Sunday; therefore, shalt thou 

 meet the requirements of the lives, 

 and improve the morals of a large and 

 constantly increasing class of useful 

 citizens. 



By faithfully observing these com- 

 mandments, the apiarist shalt keep a 

 clean conscience, avoid annoying and 

 expensive prosecutions, retain the re- 

 spect of his neighbors, secure a com- 

 petency of this world's goods, live a 

 peaceful life, and in his old age ap- 

 proach the bed of death " like one who 

 wraps the drapery of his couch about 

 him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." 



Austin, Minn. 



Ranchmen as Bee-Keepers— 

 Specialists. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY J. D. ENDICOTT. 



On page 405, Mr. T. I. Dugdale seems 

 to advance the idea of specialties and 

 specialists in all branches of business. 

 According to his theory, what business 

 has a farmer with cows if not with bees? 

 He perhaps will say he needs the cows 

 to furnish milk and butter for his family. 

 Yes, and for the same reason he keeps 

 bees, that he may have honey for his 

 table. 



Why not let the dairyman monopolize 

 the butter and milk business, and all 

 other branches of business be handled 

 by specialists, and let the farmers 

 simply raise their crops, and not be 

 meddling with anything else ? There is 

 not one farmer in fifty that attends to 

 his cows on the scientific plan, any 

 more than he does to his bees. 



I have a very good opportunity to 

 learn how farmers actually manage bees 

 — being a county bee-inspector, I know 

 whereof I speak. I can give the names 

 and addresses of a host of bee-keepers 

 that run large ranches and keep bees, 

 and make a success of both. 'Tis true 

 our ranchmen are a very energetic class 

 I of men — that may account for the dif- 

 ference in the men of the two States. 



if Mr. Dugdale were a dealer in bee- 

 supplies, I dare say he would look at 

 this matter in a different light. "It 

 makes all the difference in the world 

 whose ox is gored." 



Abbey, Colo. 



Longevity in Different Races of 

 Bees, Etc. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY JAS. B. BELLAMY. 



I cannot hold my peace once more be- 

 cause some of the experts in answering 

 Query 891, did not suggest wanting an 

 experiment to test the value of longevity 

 in different races of bees, or bees from 

 different queens. I have experimented 

 a little with great results, and often 

 thought of advertising for queens that 

 were positively 4 or 5 years old, and I 

 would breed from them if doing good 

 laying at such age, and if good in other 

 ways and quiet. I feel that I know 

 more in this line than I can tell. I have 

 had hives with 8 frames of brood full 

 from April until August, and good look- 

 ing bees and queens, but would not give 

 a swarm or store honey, or be over- 

 crowded with bees ; and others, with 

 the same amount of brood in the same 

 time, would have more than three times 

 the quantity of bees and honey in 

 August. 



For some time I thought that careless 

 bees from other hives joined with those 

 that became so extra good, but this year 

 I have proved that such is not the case, 

 and that the bees from certain qneens 

 live and work nearly twice as long as 

 others ; that is, have better constitu- 

 tions. Look at certain breeds of horses 

 — some are useless at 17 years, others 

 are good at 22 years. Now, when bees 

 become us^eless from age, or any cause, 

 the others put them out as they do 

 drones, and when bee-keepers see them 

 putting the old bees out, they think that 

 it was a robber that got in, but jf looked 

 at closely, it will be seen that the bee 

 put out is very small, as are all old bees, 

 and dark. This difference in size leads 

 the keeper to think that they are differ- 

 ent bees, from some bee-tree, or other 

 hive. 



JOYS AND SORROWS OF BICYCLING. 



Then, listen to Gleanings telling all 

 the joys of the "wheel." Now, "Mr. 

 Gleanings," I have seen a great many 

 men and boys buying wheels, and in 

 three months sell them at half price, or 

 want to ; and they tell the joys of it 



