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these were from a number of different 

 plants 



"This work of Dr. Planta's, we think, 

 conclusively proves that the food is not 

 a secretion, and that the nurses have 

 the power of altering its constituents as 

 they may require for the different bees. . . 



" Royal jelly is, therefore, chyle food, 

 and this is also most likely the food 

 given to the queen-bee. Schoenfeld has 

 also recently shown that drones are like- 

 wise dependent upon this food, given to 

 them by workers, and that, if it is with- 

 held, they die after three days, in the 

 presence of abundance of honey. 



'=This, bethinks, accounts for the quiet 

 way in which drones perish at the end 

 of the season. It will now be easily 

 understood, that, if weaning of the 

 worker larv£e does not take place at the 

 proper time, and that the first nourish- 

 ing food is continued too long, it may be 

 the cause of developing the ovaries, and 

 so produce laying workers, just as the 

 more nourishing food continued during 

 the whole of the larval existence in the 

 case of a queen develops her ovaries, or 

 even in the absence of a queen the feed- 

 ing of workers on this rich food may 

 tend to have the same effect. This, then, 

 is the solution of royal jelly and brood 

 food." 



I would say, in conclusion, that I 

 enjoyed greatly studying up this subject. 

 It used to be an old passion of mine ; 

 but it took such an immense amount of 

 time, and caused such a severe strain on 

 my eyes, that I abandoned it. — 

 Oleanings. 



km\\m\ Notes from klMm, 



EDW. CLARK. 



Bees are working on the wild grape 

 and chestnut bloom. 



The persimmon trees did not yield 

 much honep this year. 



I have had 4 swarms this season, and 

 divided the first one a few days ago. 



Golden-rod yields no honey here, 

 although there is a great deal of it in 

 this vicinity. 



Honey-dew has been quite plentiful 

 for the past few weeks, and the bees 

 have been filling their combs .very fast 

 with it. 



The prospects are fine for a good flow 

 of honey from sourwood and horsemint. 

 The former will be in bloom in a few 

 days. 



On account of the dry weather, the 

 poplar bloom did not last as long this 



season as usual, but the bees did not 

 waste any time while it was in bloom. 



Will the editor, or some of the readers 

 of the Bee Journal, please tell me how 

 to make a trap for catching wild bees. 



Nat, Ala., June 13, 1891. 



Wavelets of News. 



Planting for Honey. 



If there was any plant that I would 

 recommend for honey alone, it would be 

 the raspberry ; it continues in bloom for 

 three weeks, and a peculiarity about it 

 is, that bees will be working upon it 

 immediately after a hard shower. The 

 heads hang down, and the rain does not 

 wash the honey out. — R. F. Holter- 

 MANN, in Farmers'' Advocate. 



Paste to Stick to Tin. 



I have found it very difficult to get 

 labels to stick to tin ; have tried many 

 sorts of pastes, but not until recently 

 have I found out how to make a paste 

 that is sure to stick. It seems strange 

 to me that I should have been so long 

 trying different recipes without it once 

 occurring to me to add a little honey to 

 the paste, or mucilage. Since I have 

 added honey the labels stick well to tin 

 boxes. 



I make a paste as follows : Corn starch, 

 one ounce; water, one-half pint ; boil a 

 few minutes, stirring until it thickens 

 slightly, then add 2 ounces of extracted- 

 honey, and mix well. Keep in a cool 

 place. I keep mine in my ice-chest.— Dr. 

 J. W. Vance, in Wisconsin Farmer. 



Stingless Bees. 



The stingless bee, or Mellip07ie, of 

 South America, belongs to a different 

 genus than the Apis or hive bee. One 

 or two European and American bee- 

 keepers have procured a few colonies, 

 but they have usually lost them the first 

 Winter. These bees build comb, store 

 honey, and rear brood differently, and 

 according to all that has been learned 

 of them, are not great honey gatherers, 

 and are not suited to the- production of 

 honey in this country. — American Agri- 

 culturist. 



Have your honey extractor, pails, 

 cans and kegs ready for the honey flow ? 



