1871 



THE POMOLOGIST AND GARDENER. 



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stupid, " never able to learn or come to tlie knowl- 

 edge of the truth," bee men. Oh! Dear! what tire- 

 some dummies they are I Thej' want sound spank- 

 ing, like naughty little boys ! Swarms go offv Shoo ! 

 Swarms leave their hives? Bah! Molasses, tin 

 pans, dirt, looking-glass flashes? Scat! Go on the 

 ne.xt ten years, ye elap-lrap cliin! Let all the 

 world learn something, except yoii ; — dear weak 

 minded cripples!! Yet while I thus giggle and 

 laugh, in the merriest fun, let me soberly say that 

 of all men who keep bees well, and who perfectly 

 understand bee.s, are jour intelligent western men. 

 What you western men don't know in bees, in 

 bouse building, and in making the prairie blos,som 

 as the rose, is not worth knowing. It is the stupid- 

 ity of eastern traditions, as they corrupt the high- 

 toned noble western mind, that I ridicule. 



HoTT to Introduce Italian Queens. 



S. W. Cole, Andrew Chappel, Tenn., in a com- 

 munication to the Prarti'r/d ■Fariiitu; gives the fol- 

 lowing directions for managing Italian Queens: 



"Since the introduction of Italiau bee.s, there has 

 been a great many ways devised to introduce Ital- 

 ian queens into colonies of black bees. We have 

 tried almost every plan and have generally been 

 successful, but have sometimes failed and have lost 

 valuable queens. The plan which we generally 

 follow is this : Make a queen cage bj' taking a piece 

 of wire cloth about four inche.s square — having 

 about sixteen meshes to the square inch — and roll 

 it around a round stick, about half an inch in diam- 

 eter, fastening one end by hammering the edge of 

 the wire cloth together. The black queen is now 

 removed from the hive and her head pinched off, 

 and the Italian is placed in the cage and then the 

 end of the cage is securely stopped with cork or a 

 hard piece of wax. It is now put between two 

 ranges of comb containing brood, .so that the bees 

 will cluster on the cage and keep the queen warm, 

 and is so placed thikt when the combs are pressed 

 up against the cage, the queen can have access to 

 unsealed honey, so that .she can help herself if the 

 bees do not feed her. It is best to flatten the cage 

 a little so that it will fit better between the combs, 

 but be careful to have the cage large enough to 

 allow the queen ample room to turn about freely. 

 After waiting forty-eight hours the queen cage is 

 taken out, the piece of wax or cork taken from one 

 and a piece of news paper — single thickness — 

 is dampened and tied over the open end and is 

 returned to the same place in the hive as before, 

 and the bees will soon liberate her by biting away 

 the paper. In about a week open all the queen 

 cells which may have been started while the queen 

 was caged. Later in the season it would be best to 

 keep the queen cage longer, and to be certain of 

 success with a valuable quaen, we should keep her 

 caged in the hive at one least week, cutting nut all 

 queen cells before releasing her, iind to lie .sure of 

 this, the bees should be shaken off from the combs 

 for fear of overlooking some. If any cells were 

 alloived to remain and the young [[ueens hatch out, 

 the introduced queen would be sure to be killed. 

 By following this plan carefully there would be but 

 little cause for failure. 



Sotes atitr ^Itanittjgs. 



Death of a Prominent Hortlcniturlat. 



We are pained to hear of the death of Mr. I. 

 Gould, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, as we do from the 

 following obituary in the We/iiern Farmer. We had 

 not the pleasure of Mr. Gould's personal acquaint- 

 ance, but from years of social and business corres- 

 pondence, we had formed a high estimation of him, 

 both as a gentleman and a horticulturist : 



" Ingraham Gould, one of the be.st known of Wis- 

 consin nurserymen, died at his residence at Beaver 

 Dam, on Sunday, July IGth, after a painful illnes.s, 

 in his (list year. He was a native of Maine, but 

 came to Wisconsin in 1853, with a small stock of 

 trees and shrubbery. In 1855 he began his nursery 

 operations, which continued to expand until, at the 

 time of his death, he owned 70 acres, and had 30 

 acres leased, all occupied with his nursery and or- 

 chards. Mr. Gould was a man of much energy, and 

 seemed very much interested in his business and 

 the pro.sperity of Beave Dam. He was an active 

 member of the AVisconsin State Horticultural Soci- 

 ety." 



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Northweatem Horticultural Society, 



Ed. PomoIjOGist and Gardener : — In the inter- 

 ests of trees, fruits, and flowers, some of the friends 

 of Horticulture met at Freeport, 111., July 6th and 

 formed a society for the advmcement of Horticul- 

 tural knowledge, to be called the NorthiDtstern Hor- 

 ticultural Society, whose special mission will be to 

 develope a knowledge of the hardier and more 

 reliable fruits, trees and flowers. The officers, (tem- 

 porary), are L. K. Scofield, Freeport, III., President; 

 O. S. Willey, Madison, Wi.s., First Vice-President.s; 

 D. W. Adam.s, Waukon, Iowa, Second Vice-Presi- 

 dent ; Col. J. F. Stephens, Minneapolis, Minn., 

 rnird Vice-President ; Arthur Brj'ant, Jr., Prince- 

 ton, III., Fourth Vice President; H. A. McAfee, 

 Madison, Wis., Secretary ; S. W. Woodward, Mar- 

 engo, 111., Treasurer. A fair this fall, and a winter 

 meeting to full}' organize are in contemplation. 

 H. H. McAfee, Sec'y. 



Miulison, Wis., July 11, 1871. 



David Thompsou's (}rapea, 



Ed. Pomoi,oc4ist and Gardener : — Please re- 

 mind your readers, that as soon as may be after the 

 publication of your August number, all western 

 grape men, coming East, should go to Troy, N. Y., 

 cross the bridge there, and in fifteen minutes' walk 

 from the Troj' Depots, reach Mr. Thompson's vine- 

 yard, or rather garden, and see his new grapes. I 

 repeat, David Thompson's grapes. Green Island, 

 ten to fifteen minutes' walk from Troy, N. Y. depots. 



