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tonr, the colony was fairly strong ; this I 

 wUl call No. 3. 



I knew that one strong colony was worth 

 two weak ones, but how to unite them was 

 a question with me. I moved hive No. 1 to 

 within one foot of hive No. 2. I then moved 

 No. 2 away about 30 feet, and taking each 

 frame I shook and brushed all the bees oS 

 on the alighting-board of No. 1 ; they 

 readily entered (by giving a little smoke), 

 also the returning bees from both hives, 

 that were in the field. Before I had finished 

 the job, a large swarm issued from another 

 hive, and clustered on a brush near by. I 

 at once hived them in No. 2, all filled with 

 brood-combs, and the result is two strong 

 colonies filling surplus sections with white 

 clover honey, which is found here in abim- 

 dance. J. E. Tatlok. 



Orleans, Mass., July 33. 



Old Subscriber — Doing Fairly Well. 



I have been taking the American Bee 

 Jonrnal since Geo. Wagner edited it in 

 Washington, D. C, and I have ever found, 

 and still find, it full of interest to bee-keep- 

 ers. There are many things in every issue 

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The bees in this part of the country are 

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Liberty, Ind., Aug. 3. Johk Clark. 



Too much Rain. 



The season this way has been a hard one 

 —too much rain. It started in well, but 

 cold rains, long continued, spoiled it. I 

 think the tall flowers will build up well for 

 winter. 



I have experimented a little in queens for 

 my own pleasure this season, and have 

 learned one or two things that may be of 

 advantage. J. E. Pond. 



North Attleboro, Mass., Aug. 6. 



Battle of the Humble-Bee. 



A short time ago as I was watching my 

 honey-bees carry into their hives pollen 

 and honey, a large humble-bee. attracted 

 by the fragrant smell of new honey, came 

 buzzing around the hives; it buzzed from 

 entrance to entrance of difi:erent hives, 

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 honey-bees, they would dart at it whenever 

 it attempted to alight. It was loth, appar- 

 ently, to make the attempt. However, 

 the smell of the gathered sweets was too 

 mncb for it, and its appetite got the better 

 of its fears, and it alighted at the entrance 

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 two bees were on its back and wings— one 

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 ground. 



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 haps one quarter of a minute, when it 

 cleared itself from the honey-bees, leaving 

 the three adversaries exhausted and wound- 

 ed on the ground; it flew perhaps six feet 

 and rested on a stone. I watched it as it 



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