AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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The best arrangement for bees is a 

 platform upon posts sunk in the ground 

 at frequent intervals. While a great 

 shock at one end might be felt at the 

 other, yet ordinary mishaps while work- 

 ing over a colony would not disturb the 

 other colonies. 



If the platform have a roof, it makes 

 it all the better for the bees and the 

 bee-keeper during the warm weather. 

 The roof should be portable, and not be 

 put on before June, because bees want 

 all the sun they can get up to that time. 

 After the first or middle of June, accord- 

 ing to the season, bees ought to be in the 

 shade. — Julia Allyn, in Ohio Farmer. 



Ants and Bees as Communistic Insects. 



Never among mankind can we find so 

 absolute and complete absorption of the 

 individual by the social group as in the 

 cities of ants and bees, where individual 

 property has never, it seems, been im- 

 agined. In these republics what one 

 citizeness has for herself belongs to the 

 others. Does a hungry bee meet one 

 laden with booty returning to a city, she 

 lightly taps her on the head with her 

 antennae, and instantly the latter hastens 

 in a sisterly way to disgorge part of the 

 nutriment provisionally stored in her 

 own stomach. 



Ants proceed in the same way as bees, 

 but in addition the ant thus sustained is 

 very careful to show her gratitude. 

 "The ant who feels the need of food," 

 says Huber, " begins by tapping her two 

 antennas, with a very rapid movement, 

 upon the antennas of the ant from whom 

 she expects succor. Immediately they 

 may be seen approaching one another 

 with open mouth and extended tongue, 

 for the communication of the liquid 

 which one passes to the other. During 

 this operation the ant which receives 

 nourishment does not cease to caress the 

 friend who is feeding her, continuing to 

 move her antennas with singular ac- 

 tivity." 



The collective system of property 

 must have existed among ants and bees 

 for many thousands of years, for, apart 

 from cases of demoralization such as 

 may for example be produced among 

 bees by giving them a taste for drunken- 

 ness, these intelligent insects show the 

 most absolute deference and devotion to 

 social property. Their primitive selfish- 

 ness has broadened out into a collective 

 or patriotic egotism. But these very 

 social species, with their more than 

 Christian charity, have not reached this 



high degree of civilization at one bound. 

 In the ant and bee worlds, as in our 

 own, there are savages. There are at 

 the present time certain species of ants 

 ignorant of the division of labor carried 

 so far among their civilized congeners. — 

 Property, its Origin and Development. 



That Advertising- Pays, when 

 judiciously done, no one who has tried 

 it can possibly doubt. An advertiser 

 who had a two-inch advertisement in the 

 Bee Journal for about three months 

 this year, says without solicitation : 



I am satisfied with the result of my 

 advertisement in the American Bee 

 Journal, that anything you issue is 



read by the bee-keepers The 



American Bee Journal takes the lead 

 in everything, especially to the advan- 

 tage of advertisers. 



Another who inserts a three-inch ad- 

 vertisement for six months in the Bee 

 Journal annually, writes thus : 



Every year I have to return money 

 because I have more orders than I can 

 fill, coming from the advertisement I put 

 in the American Bee Journal for six 

 months. 



Friends, if you have anything of merit 

 that you want to sell to bee-keepers, the 

 foregoing shows you how to do it. 



The Ladies' Home Journal, 



of Philadelphia, Pa., is perhaps the 

 finest monthly home magazine in the 

 world. If ordered before Jan. 1st, 

 1893, we can club it with the Bee 

 Journal — both Journals for one year — 

 for $1.50, to a, new subscriber to both 

 papers. If you are now a reader of 

 either the Bee Journal or the " Ladies' 

 Home Journal," we will send you the 

 two for a year for $1.90. Be sure to 

 say whether you have been taking the 

 " Ladies' Home Journal " or not this 

 year, when ordering through the Bee 

 Journal office. If a new subscriber to 

 the Bee Journal, you will receive it the 

 rest of this year free ; and the "Ladies' 

 Home Journal " will begin with the 

 January number. 



