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over the brood-frames, and found out 

 the eye could deceive the judgment. 



The lower frames, the top of which 

 was filled with honey and capped over, 

 had all been consumed, and the bees 

 literally destitute. I bought some sugar, 

 procured quart fruit-cans, made syrup, 

 and filled the cans and placed them over 

 the brood-frames. Cold weather soon 

 set in, and but little of the surplus were 

 taken. Bees were in a starving condi- 

 tion, that is, some of the colonies. I 

 then made taffy and gave that to some 

 of them ; this proved a failure. Then I 

 punched holes with an awl in the bottom 

 of the cans, filled them, and placed them 

 over the brood-frames again, which 

 proved a success, and drowned the bees 

 by the wholesale. 



I lost colony after colony, until I had 

 only 10 left — 2 Italians, one Carniolan 

 (or said to be), 3 blacks, and 4 hybrids. 

 These have averaged 50 pounds of sur- 

 plus honey per colony. They increased 

 to 15 colonies, and are all in good con- 

 dition. Each hive is very heavy this 

 fall — I judged from weight instead of 

 sight. My loss has been quite an item. 

 Experience teaches a dear school, but 

 fools will learn there. 



Brown Co., Ills. 



Opportunities in Apiculture 

 Wheat and Honey. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BT A. O. CALHOUN. 



I have 60 colonies of bees in good 

 condition for the winter, on the summer 

 stands. The honey crop here was a 

 failure this year. I could sell hundreds 

 of pounds more, here at home, than I 

 will have to spare. I have been hand- 

 ling bees for about six years, and like 

 the business. 



What a grand opportunity is afforded 

 in the field of apiculture, for obeying 

 the first command of God to the human 

 family, namely, multiply, replenish and 

 subdue the earth ; or, that we may 

 grasp the thought more readily, we will 

 take it in its natural order. Subdue and 

 replenish the earth, that the fruits 

 thereof may be multiplied to the human 

 family. Now, it is indisputable that in 

 proportion as man has obeyed this com- 

 mand, he has enjoyed the necessities, 

 comforts and luxuries of life. 



There is possibly the necessities of 

 life in the wild grains, fruits and veg- ! 

 etables of earth, but where man has ! 



subdued these and replenished or re- 

 placed them with better grades (and 

 these are to be had by a little thought- 

 ful care and culture), the fruits thereof 

 have been multiplied, and comforts are 

 his that the heathen are strangers to. 

 To such an extent is this command being 

 obeyed in this our day, that we are en- 

 joying even the luxuries of life. 



God has promised that if we are obe- 

 dient we shall eat the " finest of the 

 wheat;" not only the finest wheat, but 

 the finest of the wheat, and we see this 

 promise fulfilled in the fact that we no 

 longer eat for bread a mixture of brand, 

 midlings, germs, and the walls or cells 

 of the grain in which the flour, like 

 honey in the comb, is stowed away ; but 

 under the present system of making 

 flour, all is eliminated except the finest 

 of the wheat. 



Observation will show that a grain of 

 wheat and a hive with bees are much 

 alike in many respects. In the one we 

 have the bran arouud the grain ; in the 

 other we have the hive. A grain of 

 wheat is divided into cells ; likewise we 

 have the honey-comb, and as we find the 

 germ, midlings and finest of the flour 

 stored away in the cells of a grain of 

 wheat, even so we find the brood, bee- 

 bread, poor honey, and the finest of the 

 honey in the cells of the honey-comb. 



How grateful I am that the promise 

 holds good not only in the case of wheat, 

 but in apiculture also ; hence, we are 

 eating the finest of the honey out of 

 pound sections, no longer being satisfied 

 with a mixture of rotten gums, brood, 

 bee-bread, old combs and honey taken 

 from the sanctuary of the floral priest- 

 hood, according to the process taught us 

 by Bruin ; thanks be to God, Christianity, 

 education, and such men as our beloved 

 Father Langstroth ! 



Victor, Mo., Nov. 17, 1892. 



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