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growth that bees touch anyway, here, 

 and that is not enough to count on.. The 

 red clover -gag" is about played out. 



8. The only way I know of keeping 

 bees pure is to put drone-traps on all 

 hives within one mile of your bees, and 

 to the hives of all impure colonies in 

 your own apiary, allowing only your best 

 drones to fly at swarmi-ng time. If you 

 allow no increase it is a simple matter to 

 keep the bees all pure, and of the best 

 <iuality, by purchasing warranted queens 

 from some reliable queen breeder, and 

 introduce one to each of your colonies. 

 A good queen will live two years, and 

 often three, so you will not be obliged to 

 replace them all at one time, but pur- 

 chase a few each season to take the 

 places of the oldest ones. The best time 

 to requeen your colonies is after the 

 lioney-flow. — E. L. Pratt.] 



Honey and Pollen on the Same Trip. 



Bees arc doing but little licre now. 

 Do bees bring in pollen and honey on the 

 same trip? Please answer this question 

 in the Bee Jouenal. S. B. Diller. 

 • Albion, Iowa, Aug. 3, 1891. 



[It is a fact that nearly all the flowers 

 which give nectar yield pollen also, and 

 when the bees gather a load of the one, 

 quite often they have some of the other. 

 The honey being carried in the honey 

 sac, and the pollen in the pollen pockets 

 on the thighs, neither one interferes 

 with the other. — Ed.1 



Carniolan Bees. 



With this letter I send a cage of Car- 

 niolan bees. The mother of them was 

 liatched and fertilized in Germany, and 

 imported by me. Please compare them 

 with other bees sent to the Bee Journal, 

 and state the difference in color. I say 

 that Carnolian bees are not golden or 

 ye.llow. I know what I am talking 

 about, for I have imported them at dif- 

 ferent times. If the Carniolian bees are 

 a golden or yellow^ color, I have been 

 humbugged. I will say, further, that I 

 have not sold a queen, -or offered one for 

 sale ; I got them for my own benefit, and 



so far I like them. I have been handling 

 my bees from imported queens all Sum- 

 mer, but never had one attempt to sting 

 me. I use no smoke. 



L. HiGHBAEfiER. 



Leaf River, 111 . Aug. 3, 1891. 



[The bees sent by Mr. Highbarger 

 are distinctly marked with yellow bands, 

 but they are not '• golden yellow " by any 

 means. They arc quiet and contented, 

 and show no excitable motions. When 

 first imported they were called Krainer 

 bees, and several descriptions of them 

 may be found in back volumes of the 

 AMERrcAx Bee.Joukxal. — Ed.] 



Prediction About the Honey Crop. 



I am inclined to think that we liavr a 

 prophet in Tennessee. Mr. Sam Wilson 

 prophesied in .lanuary last that linden 

 and sourwood would be almost a failure 

 j here. With little confidence in the pre- 

 diction I took a note of it, and find it 

 ! true. He also prophesied, in March, 

 ; that early bloom would be good. From 

 ! fruit, poplar and persimmon we had an 

 i excellent flow of honey. He prophesied 

 I for a few other States also, and, from 

 ! what I can learn, he was very nearly 

 I correct with regard to them. I live near 

 the Allegheny mountains. Our bees 

 have been stronger here than common 

 this year. We have had heavy rainfalls 

 here for some days past. My bees have 

 not swarmed much this season, although 

 1 colony increased to 4. 



R. A. Shultz. 

 Cosby, Tenn.. August 4, 1891. 



[Mr. Wilson's predictions have been 

 on record in this office for months, 

 and will be published as soon as we 

 receive a reply to our letter, mailed to 

 him some days ago. All would be inter- 

 ested to learn -how the conclusion was 

 arrived at. — Ed.] 



Tinien ^Writing a letter be sure 

 to sign it. Too often we get letters 

 with the name of the post-office, but no 

 County or State. One such came 

 recently, and we looked into the Postal 

 Guide and found there were places by 

 that name in 18 States. That order for 

 goods will have to wait until another 

 letter comes to give the proper address. 

 Be sure to stamp your letter, or it may 

 go to the dead letter office. 



