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it to the bees hot. To get the syrup to 

 fall in fine streams, pour it through an 

 old tin fruit-can with its bottom punched 

 full of holes by an eight-penny wire-nail. 

 Punch the holes through from the inside. 



Swarming— Queen-Excluding Zinc. 



1. i^uppose I don't want increase, a 

 swarm comes out, I hive them, set them 

 by the parent colony, put a bee-escape 

 on the entrance of the old hive, thus 

 throwing all the flying bees into the 

 swarm ; at the end of four or five days, I 

 open both hives, lift a frame from the 

 swarm, shaking the bees back into the 

 hive, as I do so, put in its place a frame 

 from the parent colony, and continue 

 through the hive in this way, cutting 

 out queen-cells if any. I have now taken 

 from the swarm what comb they have 

 built during the five days, but have 

 given them full frames of comb, brood 

 and bees — will they not work right 

 along without further swarming'? The 

 empty hive could be used lor the next 

 swarm. 



2. Does a queen-excluder lessen the 

 production of honey? 



3. Will bees enter sections as readily 

 with as without an excluder? 



Brookewood, Va. F. T. Bbooke. 



Answers. — 1. We wouldn't like to an- 

 wers very positively a question of this 

 kind, for bees often do quite differently 

 from what we think they ought to, and 

 we have never tried exactly the plan you 

 state. From some experiments on a 

 nearly related line, however, we should 

 say that generally there would be no 

 further swarming, but not always. 

 Furthermore, we should expect that in 

 many cases the bees themselves would 

 destroy the queen-cells if you did not do 

 so. If you should try the experiment, 

 by all means report the outcome. 



2. The general testimony is that it 

 does not. 



3. Probably there is not much differ- 

 ence, although there must be some, for 

 the farther sections are from the brood- 

 nest the more loth are the bees to make 

 a beginning on them. 



Capons and Caponizing:, by 



Edward Warren Sawyer, M. D., Fanny 

 Field, and others. It shows in clear 

 language and illustrations all about 

 caponizing fowls ; and thus how to 

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 Every poultry-keeper should have it. 

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 with Bee Journal one year, for $1.10. 



No. 57 .-&. P. mmm, i. d. 



The bee-fraternity has within its 

 ranks many noted doctors, as well as 

 lawyers and statesmen. Dr. Hachen- 

 berg is one of the first named. He has 

 frequently been a contributor to our 

 columns, hence his name is familiar ta 

 many readers of the Bee Journal. 



We think that his biography will be 

 exceedingly entertaining to those who 

 served in the late War, as the Doctor 

 was a prominent figure in the medical 

 department of the Northern army during: 

 those few but awful years ; and judging: 

 from the enviable record which he made, 

 Dr. H. must have been a valuable ac- 

 quisition. The following sketch tells- 

 something about his busy life : 



The annexed likeness represents Dr> 

 G. P. Hachenberg, of Austin, Tex. He 

 has been a scientific contributor of the 

 American Bee Journal for the last 

 several years, and has one of the most 

 extensive apiaries in Texas. The bio- 

 graphical sketch of this remarkable 

 man is one of intense interest, at least 

 it should be so, to every ambitious young 

 man. He was born in Freeburg, Union 

 county. Pa., on July 20, 1824, and in 

 his early youth received his business^ 

 education in his father's store. At the 

 age of twenty he qualified himself as a 

 dentist, and in that profession defrayed 

 his expenses at Marshall College. 



After leaving college he took up 

 daguerreotyping, and in that art de- 

 frayed the expenses of his medical 

 studies. In 1850 he graduated in the 

 medical university of the city of New 

 York, and for about ton years he prac- 

 ticed medicine in Springfield, Ohio; 

 there he made his debut as a medical 

 writer, in which capacity he served 

 many medical journals of this country. 

 He served as surgeon in the late War, 



