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branch of honey production I want the 

 hive for. If I were working for comb- 

 honey exclusively, I would possibly 

 adopt the eight-frame hive, but do not 

 think I would. I do not like a small 

 hive, especially for the general bee- 

 keeper. They need closer attention; 

 will furnish more destitute colonies in 

 the Fall, and more and smaller swarms 

 than hives of larger capacity. 



If I were running for extracted-honey 

 alone, I would, without hesitation, rec- 

 ommend a large hive ; the only point of 

 limit would be convenience in handling. 

 But for both comb and extracted-honey 

 from the same apiary, 1 have adopted a 

 size of hive suited equally well for both 

 kinds of honey, and of uniform size, 

 viz. : the nine-frame simplicity, single- 

 walled hive, with chaff hive for Winter 

 and early Spring protection. 



In conclusion I want to be liberal ; I 

 want to be found broad in my make up. 

 And I recommend to th.e beginner, and 

 to those who have not got a movable- 

 frame hive, to secure some reasonably 

 good movable-frame hive, with crates to 

 hold one-pound sections, and learn to 

 succeed with it. — Read at the Missouri 

 Convention. 



Metlioils of MMmi Queens. 



J. H. ANDEE. 



A few days after the swarming season 

 was over I noticed one of my colonies of 

 bees showing the peculiar actions of one 

 without a queen. Thinking to examine 

 it in a day or two, it slipped my memory 

 and was forgotten. Three or four weeks 

 afterward I noticed it was not storing 

 pollen, when colonies in normal condition 

 should be storing it plentifully. I exam- 

 ined it and it was not queenless. Having 

 but a few minutes to spare, I smoked it 

 thoroughly until the bees were stupefied. 

 I then smoked the bees in all the small 

 boxes and shook out the bees and queen 

 at the entrance of the hive. The next 

 day I examined the colony, finding eggs, 

 showing the experiment to be successful. 



Another colony of well run hybrids 

 cast a swarm which was returned and the 

 queen destroyed. Some eight days after 

 it swarmed again. The swarm was hived 

 and all bees were driven from the colony 

 the next morning, the frames looked over, 

 queen-cells destroyed, returning the bees 

 driven out, also the swarm, destroying 

 the queens. A laying queen was daubed 

 with honey and run in with the bees, 

 being readily accepted by the bees, not- 



withstanding I overlooked several cells 

 of full grown queens which were de- 

 stroyed and thrown out a few days 

 after. 



Another one which cast a large swarm, 

 which absconded, was treated the same 

 as No. 2 except the queen and a handful 

 of bees were shaken on the brood-frames 

 before the swarm was returned at the 

 entrance. This was also a success and 

 saved at least a week's time the colony 

 would have been without a laying queen, 

 which it would have lost had it been left 

 to hatch a queen. 



Probably one having some knowledge 

 of bees would be successful in introduc- 

 ing either by the thorough smoking plan 

 or by daubing the queen with honey, 

 provided the bees were driven out in the 

 latter case and the queen dropped at the 

 entrance when the swarm was returning, 

 still I only give the experiments for what 

 they are worth, and would not advise 

 beginners to follow them unless they had 

 plenty of queens to experiment with. — 

 National Stockman. 



Specialist— TtiMer—EntMsiasl. 



JOHN B. GREGORY. 



"Things done by halves are never 

 done right." O, that we might all 

 realize what is contained in these 

 words ! 



Under your own observation, and 

 within your own acquaintance, is there 

 not some farmer who always does things 

 by halves ? Does he ever make a study 

 of his business ? Is he trying to learn 

 something new daily about his business, 

 which shall be of service to him next 

 season ? 



Is he what you can call a successful 

 man ? Is he rich or poor ? Is he wise 

 or ignorant ? 



A man to be successful m any good 

 undertaking m ust make a special study of 

 his calling, and go at it as though he 

 intended to get everything that there is 

 in it. He should be a deep thinker, an 

 experimenter, and an enthusiast. But 

 he must not try to learn it all by experi- 

 ment ; he should read the best literature 

 treating on his pursuit ; and not only 

 read, but re-read and study such articles 

 as he thinks will be of benefit to him in 

 any way. 



Is there anything more painful than 

 to see a farmer who does what little 

 work he has to do on the same plan and 

 in the same way that it was done 75 

 years ago ; and were you to ask him 



