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AMERICAN BEE JO'ukNAL 



Aug-. 10, 1899. 



here the queen lays her eggs. One eg-g- is put into each 

 cell. After the egg has been laid and food put in for the 

 larva, the workers plaster up the opening of the cell. There 

 is some diiference in the covering of the cells. Those of 

 workers are flat, while the drone-cell caps resemble a mass 

 of bullets, and the entire queen-cell is different. Her cell 

 looks like a bag, and is shaped somewhat like a peanut. A 

 few days after being laid each eg-g^ is transformed into a 

 small, pearly-white larva. 



The queen develops in 16 days, the worker in 21, and 

 the drone in 24. 



The workers seldom lay eg^g-s, but when they do only 

 drones are produced. 



Bees will gather honey for several miles around. The 

 bee flies around the hive several times before it leaves, and 



when it comes back it flies to a certain height, and then in 

 one straight line to its home. 



CD The drones have no stings. The worker dies after 

 using its sting, and the queen only uses hers in killing a 

 rival, if she has any. 



There are about 40,000 bees in a hive, and a strong- col- 

 ony of bees will store about 100 pounds of honey in a g-ood 

 season. 



When the hive is overcrowded, the queen and a great 

 many of the workers fly away and settle on the branch of 

 some tree. This is called swarming, and causes a great 

 deal of excitement in the hive when it happens. 



Anna Sundberg. 



When it is known that the foregoing was written en- 

 tirely from memory, after hearing the bee-talk, it will be all 

 the more surprising that "Anna" was able to get the 

 " story " so nearly correct in every particular. We think 

 she also did well in making- the two illustrations. 



We hope it may all help to encourage others to try the 

 experiment of taking bees into the school-rooms, and tell- 

 ing the children about their (the bees') wonderful habits 

 and work. 



Mr. Wm. M. Whitney, of Kankakee Co., 111., wrote us 

 July 29 : 



" My bees are booming. I have already taken over 70 

 pounds from each of some colonies." 



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Mr. E. S. Lovesv, of Salt Lake Co., Utah, wrote us 

 July 31 : 



" In some favored localities the honej'-flow appears to 

 be all right, but the rule is otherwise this season, ranging 

 from one-third to two-thirds of a crop." 



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Freifr.\u v. Beki.epsch diedJMarch 29, 1899. She was 

 the widow of German\''s greatest writer on bee-culture. 

 Baron v. Berlepsch. She is said to have assisted the Baron 

 very materiallj' in his literary work. Since he died she has 

 alwaj's taken active part in the bee-keepers' gatherings. 

 Dzierzon and Freifrau v. Berlepsch have characterized the 

 Wanderversamralung for i;many years. — American Bee- 

 Keeper. 



R.^MBLEK (J. H. Martin), in Gleanings in Bee-Culture, 

 gives a temperance lesson that is worth repeating. It seems 

 in his ramblings he was compelled to stay over night at a 

 hostelr)- that had a saloon attachment. There must have 

 been a lively time, for he saj's : 



'• During the struggle between the men and the beer- 

 bottles I made my escape to a barber-shop. Here I found a 

 congenial artist, and we straightway fell into conversation 

 upon the hard times and the scarcity of money. 



"'Say, stranger,' said he, 'I have just had my eyes 

 opened about the cause of hard times during this Thanks- 

 giving. We have three saloons here, and each one of them 

 puts up turkeys for a raffle. The poor laboring men all 

 rusht in and raffled away their money, some individuals as 

 much as $5.00, and then getting no turkey ; and (do you be- 

 lieve it?) the saloons in this little one-horse town cleared 

 $100 each. I used to do just such things; but a few years 

 ago l/oinul }>iysel/. Talk about hard times ! just banish 

 the saloon and you would see the best times on record.' 



" I fervently said, ' Amen !' " 



There would be no hard times in many homes if the 

 cursed and cursing saloon were banisht. "The saloon 

 must go " before most of the poverty and suffering of this 

 world leaves. 



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Mr. R. G. Havvn, of Kittitas Co.. Wash., enquires as to 

 the " formula for making candy out of honey — not bee- 

 candy, but candy for the human candy-eaters." He evi- 

 dently is not supplied with our Honey Almanac. Among 

 its many recipes he will find this one — originated by Dr. C. 

 C. Miller, who vouches for its producing something fine : 



" Honey Car.\mei,S. — One cup extracted honey of best 

 flavor, 1 cup granulated sugar, 3 tablespoonfuls sweet cream 

 or milk. Boil to "soft crack," or until it hardens when 

 dropt into cold water, but not too brittle — just so it will 

 form into a soft ball when taken in the fingers. Pour into 

 a greast dish, stirring in a teaspoonful extract of vanilla 

 just before taking off. Let it be |4 or -'4 inch deep in the 

 dish ; and as it cools cut in squares, and wrap each square 

 in parafline paper, such as grocers wrap butter in. 



"To make chocolate caramels, add to the foregoing one 

 tablespoonful of melted chocolate, just before taking off the' 

 stove, stirring it in well. For chocolate caramels it is not 

 so important that the honey be of best quality." 



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The Leahy mfg. Co., as all know, are among our reg- 

 ular yearly advertisers. We notice in the July Progressive 

 Bee-Keeper they have this to say about their present sea- 

 son's business, which shows evident satisfaction on their 

 part : 



" Business at this date is still good, and we are having 

 about all we can take care of in ten hours a day. The last 

 season has been the best in our experience, and our output 

 was a third larger than ever before. From Dec. 15 until the 

 last days of June, we ran overtime continualh', part of the 

 time 22 hours a day, and part IS hours a day. We surely 

 got all the trade we wanted, and then some more, and we 

 took pretty good care of it, too, even if it did come nearly 

 killing us all. Don't believe we ever want so large a trade 

 again to fill in so short a space of time." 



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Editor W. Z. Hutchinson, of the Bee-Keepers' Review, 

 dropt in to see us for about half an hour when in Chicago 

 on his way home from a two-weeks' trip among Wisconsin 

 bee-keepers and bee-supply manufacturers. We regretted 

 that his staj' was necessarily so short. He reports that 

 there will not be a very large crop of honey in Wisconsin 

 this year. 



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It Workt Too Well.—" They say that electricity is a 

 sure antidote for the sting of bees," said the electrical en- 

 thusiast." 



" Yes, I've tried it," said the student. 



"Really? How did it work ?" 



" Well, a bee stung me, and it hurt so that I applied the 

 electricit}'. After that I went over and sat down in a hor- 

 net's nest to see if I couldn't get over the effects of the 

 cure." 



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