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Egg-Eating Dogs— Not Much Surplus. 



For the benefit of Dr. Hachenberg 

 (see page 538) and others, I will give 

 from experience a sure cure to break a 

 dog from sucking eggs. Grease an egg 

 with hog lard, and put equal parts of 

 turpentine andcroten oil on the egg, and 

 put it where the dog can find it. 



Our honey-flow comes mostly in Sep- 

 tember. It was so dry that we diA not 

 get much surplus. Bees have plenty of 

 honey to winter on. A. J. Rich. 



Kenesaw, Nebr., Oct. 24, 1892. 



Bees Well Supplied for Winter. 



My bees have not done very well this 

 season. Last fall I put into the cellar 

 24 colonies, and took out 23 alive in 

 the spring, but they dwindled to 10 by 

 the time they could get enough to live 

 on and multiply, so this fall I have 20 

 strong colonies, and will have some 300 

 pounds of comb honey, more than half 

 of which was gathered in September 

 from heart's-ease. They are well sup- 

 plied for winter. I have 3 colonies of 

 Carno-Italians, and the rest are Italians. 

 D. C. Wilson. 



Viola, Iowa, Oct. 21, 1892. 



Wheat Turning to Chess — Challenge. 



On page 538 of the last issue of the 

 " Old Reliable," I notice that Mr. G. B. 

 Replogle speaks of my last article as 

 being " mythical," and on the line of 

 "guessing." I will here say that all I 

 have said about drones is actual experi- 

 ence, and no "myth" about it. I do 

 not pretend to know everything about 

 bees — if I did, I should feel sad to think 

 there was nothing more for me to learn. 



With reference to going to Ames, 

 Iowa, I may frankly say that I am 

 hardly ready to go over there and re- 



main until harvest next summer, for the 

 paltry sum of $25. Any agriculturist, 

 bee-keeper or gardener who may be 

 skeptical with reference to wheat ever 

 changing to chess, can try the following 

 experiment : 



Construct a tank 10 feet square and 

 2 feet deep ; fill the tank to the depth of 

 18 inches, with soil such as will be found 

 in a thickly timbered forest where 

 beech, sugar and elm wood grow. Prairie 

 soil will not do. Select the soil where 

 no tame plant has ever grown. Plant a 

 single kernel or grain of wheat every 

 foot apart, and keep the wheat perfectly 

 clean. As soon as the wheat begins to 

 stem, or stalk, fill the tank with cold 

 water so as to almost keep the wheat 

 covered with water. Once or twice a 

 week the water can be turned off, and 

 the tank refilled with fresh water. 

 Some care must be taken so as not to 

 keep the wheat wet enough for so great 

 a length of time as to kill it. When the 

 stalks are nearly heading, keep all water 

 off, and see what you have produced, 

 wheat or cheat. If the season be late, 

 bunches of wheat may be transplanted 

 from some field. 



The above has reference to winter 

 wheat. W. P. Faylor. 



La Porte, Iowa. 



Overwhelming Testimony for Italians. 



The Illinoies State Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation has issued its first " annual re- 

 port," and in answer to question 22 of 

 Secretary Stone, " What strains or 

 strain of bees have you? and which do 

 you prefer ?" sixty-five answers have 

 been published. One prefers Cyprians ; 

 two, black bees ; while 62 out of the 

 65 prefer Italians or their crosses. To 

 be sure, there are a few Italian queen - 

 breeders who answer, and as a Justice 

 of the Peace I do not consider their 

 testimony as free from selfishness, yet it 

 might be truthful. But nearly all who 

 have answered are honey-producers only 

 so far as apiculture is concerned ; but 

 what an overwhelming testimony is 

 there in favor of the blood of the Italian 

 bee ! James Hamilton. 



Beason, Ills. 



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