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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



thus hived did not work as well as those 

 hived by any other plan. 



So far as the prevention of swarming 

 is concerned, I see no difference between 

 a clipped queen and one with wings, 

 and did not think that any one advo- 

 cated clipping for the prevention of 

 swarming. It simply prevents the 

 swarm from flying away, provided the 

 apiarist is not present. 



In regard to the practice eventually 

 resulting in the deformity of the wings 

 of queens or workers, I would say that 

 the practice of purchasing queens fre- 

 quently for improving one's strain of 

 bees, will overcome this imaginary evil, 

 as none of the queen-breeders send out 

 clipped queens, and this is of itself a 

 safe-guard against the probability of 

 such a misfortune. 



The bee-keeper who will not instill 

 new blood into his apiary by purchasing 

 a select breeding queen from some re- 

 liable breeder occasionally, ought to 

 have a deformed strain of bees. 



Bluffton, Mo. 



Wong Lung's Honey-Flies, or a 



Celestial Apiarist's << lips and 



Downs " in Bee-Culture. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY WONG LUNG. 



Mister Newsplaper-Man : — Me long 

 time thinkee send you of my sugar-flies 

 — Melican man call him "bee," eh ? 



Well, in flirst place, you sabbe I come 

 from China where I was born, and work 

 in lice fields, and thlee year washee 

 clothes in Slan Flanclisco. Bimeby we 

 laise legitables close by near Oakland. 

 One day heep lot sugar-fly come my 

 house, and go in tea-box. My plartner, 

 Jim, he no likee — too muchee bite. I 

 likee sugar-fly heep muchee — him sugar- 

 fly belly nice, heep sweet. 



I fixee tea-box in sun and watchee 

 honey-fly go and come. Thlee week him 

 heep fly out — me thinkee allee my sugar- 

 fly go away. What for ? Me no sabbe. 

 Me belly good to him. No hurtee him. 



Melican man come and he say, " Lung, 

 your bees swarm belly good. Bimeby 

 you heep big bee-man ; all same one 

 mandarin. You catch box when bee go 

 on tlee, and put him in box, and you 

 have two swarms." 



So me heep glad. Me get belly rich. 

 Plenty sugar-fly — heep sugar — muchee 

 money ! Allee samee me go back 

 blimeby to China, heep big man. Me 



all-a-samee big Mogul — me thlink you 

 call him "big-bug" — heep "swell." 



Sugar-fly catchee on chelly tlee and 

 all quiet. I takee tea-box and call my 

 plartner — him samee Jim. I say, " Jim, 

 you hold box, so." I show him — hold 

 him over his head so that sugar-fly fall 

 into him box when I shakee tlee. 



Jim, he belly good man. He my wife's 

 cousin — my wife in China. Jim hold 

 box way up high. Pletty soon I shake 

 tlee and honey-fly fall down — whew ! 

 him go more on Jim than in blox. Jim 

 he jump heep high, and yell — yes, he 

 yell like h — 1, all samee Melican man 

 say, you sabbe. That man he lun, and 

 honey-fly get on horsee. Horsee klick 

 likee blazes, and tear allee over glarden. 

 Lose too muchee money — onion allee 

 spoiled. Cabbage bloke down. Garlic 

 trampee on — belly bad, belly bad muss. 

 Horsee muchee scared. 



Melican man catchee horsee. Me give 

 him four bittee. Jim come back and 

 me say, "Jim, you heep no good, let 

 blox fall. Horsee lun way and bloke too 

 muchee glarden sass." 



Jim, he say, "Me no care. Sugar-fly 

 heep bite. Him sting me evlywhere." 



All-a-samee me get sugar-fly in blox 

 and have two blox flies. 



Two more months me tell Jim me likee 

 sugar. Jim say, " All light, you catchee 

 him." 



Me say, no sabbe muchee. Me tly to- 

 morrow. 



To-morrow one Ilishman come long — 

 him Ilishman own heep land. Him too 

 smart. He say, " John, what you do to 

 your bees ?" 



Me no likee Ilishman, and me say, 

 " None your blizness." But Ilishman no 

 go way. He laughee me, and he say, 

 " John, you bee bite heep muchee. You 

 no sabbe fix him. You like me show 

 you ?" 



Me say, "All lite." 



So, Mr. Mulphley take blox into my 

 bedroom (he say Dr. Piller — one big 

 honey-fly man — talkee allee samee belly 

 good place to fix bee, cause makee bed 

 heep warm). 



Well, Mr. Mulphley blake bloard off 

 blox and heep fly come out and bluzz 

 evlywhere. Him get into me shoes and 

 up my — what you eall him — pants '? 

 Him also get heep into bed. Mr. Mulph- 

 ley take four or five pieces of sugar and 

 put on pan ; then fix blox allee lite and 

 put him outside, near the other blox. 



Mr. Mulphley belly good. Me give 

 him lot onions and oneblook, me thinkee 

 come flom Mr. Loot, about chewing 

 tobacco. 



