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particularly before they get it sold. This 

 is what prevents me from getting one. 

 One joker has said that it is good, 

 healthy exercise to carry them to the re- 

 pair shop. 



Now, Oleanings, please tell us the 

 "sorrows" of it — such as "head wind," 

 sudden rain making wet roads, fright 

 to horses, repairing, causing hump- 

 backs, etc. 



"pulled" queens unsatisfactoky. 



Then, " pulled" queens don't suit me. 

 I tried them three years ago. Some 

 would be all O. K., and I think there 

 were some that would have hatched 

 perhaps in 10 minutes, if let alone. 

 Now this year I reversed it, and when I 

 saw queens hatching and putting out 

 their tongues through the first hole they 

 gnaw, I put them back some from 

 hatching, by putting wax over the point 

 of the cell, as the bees do if they can- 

 not swarm when the second young queen 

 is hatching. I think that queens that 

 are kept in their cells for some time 

 after they would go out, have more 

 vigor when hatched, and afterwards. 

 Try breaking the egg shell to let a 

 chicken out, and see a "pulled" 

 chicken. 



API-PHRENOLOGY — A DRONE's BRAINS. 



Dr. Gehring did not tell us the " vita- 

 tiveness"of the drone, and I have no- 

 ticed one thing that leads me to think 

 that the brains of the drone are not all 

 in his head. Once I beheaded a drone, 

 and in 24 hours afterwards I saw him 

 standing on his feet. I turned him over 

 on his back, and he would turn right 

 over and stand on his legs again. I 

 turned him several times, and he would 

 right himself. So he had knowledge in 

 the body without the head. I have 

 often put a drone-comb containing 

 larvaj away in the cellar for three days, 

 to starve it so the bees would clean it 

 out, and found them alive after three 

 days. Others have reported the same 

 to me after six days' starving. 



WRITING FOR BEE-PAPERS. 



This is too expensive a job for me. 

 When I wrote last spring in regard to 

 "Flaring comb baskets for extractors," 

 I felt paid when Dr. Sayler saw it was 

 good ; but after his recommendation 

 came out, it was copied into newspapers 

 here, then manufacturers of extractors 

 wrote, and sent workmen to learn the 

 right slope, etc., which cost me valuable 

 time, and money in postage, to explain. 

 If I had been in the supply trade I 

 could have had pay for ray trouble, in 



selling extractors or baskets. Mr. Muth 

 should have explained this "sloping 

 basket " idea, as I think he sells them. 

 Perhaps modesty prevented him. Like 

 myself, not recommending cedar for 

 hives because I had it to sell. 

 Black Bank, Ont. 



The Prevention of Second or 

 After !Swarni§, Etc. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY R. DART. 



If there is but one part of bee-keep- 

 ing that I have learned to handle to my 

 perfect satisfaction as a bee-keeper for 

 50 years, it is to prevent second or after 

 swarming. It is from the Heddon plan, 

 only I go farther than he recommends. 



Hive the first swarm and place it on 

 the stand of the old hive. Turn the old 

 hive around, facing to the back of the 

 new hive close by the side. The third 

 day from swarming turn the old hive 

 around facing the same way with the 

 new hive. The third or fourth day the 

 young will begin to fly from the old hive; 

 when well out, turn the old hive around 

 facing the back of the new hive. The 

 young bees out will all pass into the 

 new hive. 



The next day turn the old hive around 

 fronting the new one. Repeat this 

 turning around of the old hive every day 

 you see the young bees flying to the 

 seventh or eighth day from swarming, 

 then put the old hive on a new stand, 

 and your swarming is through with for 

 that hive. In 30 colonies handled by 

 this plan, not one cast a second swarm. 

 The old colonies built up fast, and gave 

 me double the honey I ever had from old 

 colonies that were allowed to swarm 

 themselves down to nothing. 



Bee-keepers, this is not half the work 

 you may think it is. Just give your bees 

 a little attention in swarming time, and 

 see if it does not pay you well to prevent 

 this after-swarming. 



Now, who can prevent first swarming, 

 without too much manipulation, in the 

 honey harvest? ' 



My honey crop is a very large one, 

 and the best quality I ever saw — not 

 100 pounds of fall honey — all white 

 clover, and in small sections. There is 

 very little call for honey, and the price 

 is away down. I shall put ray crop on 

 the home market at 10 cents a pound. 

 It would not bring me that to ship to 

 large cities. 



Eipon, Wis., Oct, 8, 1893. 



