1904. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 199 



clothing of all passers-by, are eagerly many notes and cross references, but 

 gleaned in the autumn days. there is no numbering as we now use 



Tlie touch-me-not, which scatters its it. There are a dozen or so wood cuts, 

 -iiH'ds in all ditt'ections when touched, is as well as four pages of music most 

 another swamp denizen of value. Some oddly printed, the uppec half of each 

 3f the mustards bloom until late in l»age being printed so as to be read 

 uitunui. St. John's Wort, vervains, fi'om the top, i. e., upside down to the 

 several of the smartweeds, and hound's I'est of the text. 



i:ougue are among the weeds which The book bears witness to his en- 

 swell the list in the last days of pastur- thusiasm, which is scarcely surpassed 

 ige. Some of these are worthy of pro- by that of the most ardent bee crank of 

 ection; others are vile weeds. But to-day. He possessed quite a fair 

 vherever their place, they have their knowledge of the anatomy of the bee, 

 li^e. ' of the various sexes, etc., but did not 



Conneautiville. Pa., Sept. 12, 1904. know that the queen was the mother 



. . of the colony, believing that the work- 



ANCIENT BEE LORE. ers fulfilled that office. Pollen is call- 



. ed Ambrosia or '"grosse houie" but its 



By Arthiu- C. Miller. "'^^ seems to have been understood. 



The securing of the honey, the dif- 

 ^OME THREE hundred j-ears ago ferent grades and its care are treated 

 ^ there lived in Wottou, Eng., one at much length. 



Charles Butler, a bee-keeper and practices which we of this generation 

 bee-lover. He has left us a most have hailed as new, were common with 

 iteresting account of his knowledge, him then and he even had drone traps 

 ehef and practice and of the queer and used them to rid his hives of 

 iperstitions held about bees in that obnoxious drones. He discoursed on 

 ^y- the economy of drones as heat pro- 



The title page to his book reads: ducers for brood rearing, treated fully 



_^ \ swarming, after swarms and artificial 



^•^^ swarms. 



FEMININE MONARCHIE; After reading the book through and 



*'''* comparing it with those of to-dav. one 



THE HISTORIE OF BEES. ig bound to coufess that in matter of 



Shewing arrangement and cross reference it puts 



Their Admirable Nature and Properties, to shame many of the later ones and 



Their Generation and Colonies, that in kuowletlge We are not SO very 



leir Government. Loyaltie, Art, Industrie, far ahead Of those Old bee masters of 

 Enemies, Warres, -viagnanimitie, &c. - Ion*' a°"0 



Together P^-ovldeuce, R. I., Sept. 15, 1904. 



ith the right ordering of them from time 

 to time: and the sweet profit arisins 



thereof HOME-MADE QUEEN REARING 

 ■ DEVICES. 



Written Out of Experience 



By By E. F. At water. 



Charles Butler, Magd: TXrRIXG the past winter I sent for 



1/ samples of various styles of wood 



Plant: in Trucul: Act: 2. Sc. 6. cell-cups, and nursery, hatchery, 



ins est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti and pre-iutroflucing cages ; and, after 



'^^'^^™- some little study. I evolved a cheap 



■ and simple cell-getting nursery, and 



London: introducing outfit that anyone can 



^^^- make at home, yet in all essential 



features, there is no better. 



t is a quainfold book where "U" is To make the wooden cell-cups, get 



Vid for "V" and vice versa, where "S" out strips 3-4x5-8 any length desired. 



I'ks like "F;" where the spelling is with a compass, mark off every .3-4 



c:l and old English words are used, inch. Then at each mark, bore a 7-16 



tit sadly puzzle one not accustoiued hole into the wide side of the strip, 



t ancient writing. The text is full of boring nearly through. Then with a 



Itin quotations and one or two from mitre-box. saw the strips into pieces 3-4 



t- Greek. long, each having in the middle a 7-16 



Tie pages have wide margins with hole. Now you have the blank cell- 



