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bees were as harmless as flies. What 

 had brought about this change ? He 

 had reached the "confidence point,"and 

 the bees knew it, and recognized him as 

 master. He had become so familiar 

 with the work, so much interested in it, 

 that he forgot self, forgot to jump, to 

 jerk his hand away when a bee started 

 to explore the back of his hand. 



Therefore, let every beginner faint 

 not, but keep up courage and keep at 

 the bees. Without knowing when the 

 change takes place, ho may reach the 

 stage of perfect confidence, and will 

 make light of the stings implanted earl- 

 ier in his own faltering hand. — American 

 Agriculturist. 



Music to Arrest Swarms. 



Boys can now find new use for their 

 drums, mouth-organs, Jew's-harps, etc., 

 and make more agreeable music than 

 the old-time frying-pan and key. We 

 relate the following which occurred in 

 the neighboring city of Pekin : The 

 Salvation Army was parading up Court 

 Street on Sunday afternoon, beating 

 their drums, etc., as a swarm of bees 

 were flying down the street. The great 

 noise made caused the bees to cluster 

 on the window-casing, on the front of a 

 grocery store. A man was standing 

 under the - swarm, when half of them 

 clustered on his right hand. This 

 greatly surprised him, but he laughed 

 and handled them, when pass^ers-by kept 

 their distance from him, fearful of being 

 stung. It attracted considerable atten- 

 tion, but the bees did not sting him. 

 Some one captured the swarm in a box 

 late in the afternoon. — Mks. L. Harri- 

 son, in the Prairie Farmer. 



Robbing in the Fall. 



Robbing always occurs at the close of 

 the honey season. Take precautions in 

 this matter, and do not leave honey 

 carelessly lying around. Do not have 

 hives open, or cracks and crevices in the 

 surplus stories ; the bees always find 

 such, and nothing of the kind escapes 

 their notice. 



Robbing is often started by the api- 

 arist's removal of surplus honey about 

 the close of the season. This should not 

 be done at any time during the day, but 

 late in the evening, or what is better, 

 make a bee "tent" from gauze or fly 

 netting, and place this over the hive 

 before opening it ; thus all will be safe. 

 This tent is an indispensable article, and 



one or more should be in every apiary. 

 When a hive of bees is being robbed, 

 this tgnt should be set over it. There is 

 nothing better to prevent robbing. — 

 Exchange. 



Uniting Weak Colonies. 



If on examination of your bees you 

 find some colonies that are weak and 

 not strong enough to go through the 

 Winter, in safety, something must be 

 done. Unite them. Now is the time. 

 The way to "do it" is this: Between 

 the 2 colonies to be united set an empty 

 hive, spread in front of it a sheet or a 

 large paper, puff a few whiffs of smoke 

 into one of the hives to be united, remove 

 the top, lift out the frames, one at a 

 time, and shake the bees on the sheet, 

 and place the empty combs in the mid- 

 dle hive. Now treat the other hive in 

 the same manner, and if you are careful 

 not to break any honey, you will have 

 no further trouble. — F. H. Petts, in 

 Fajin, Field and Stockman. 



Just What You Need ! 



Xhe Convention Hand = Book 



is very convenient at Bee-Conventions. It 

 contains a simple Manual of Parliamentary 

 Law and Rules of Order for Local Bee- 

 Conventions; Constitution and By Laws 

 for a Local Society ; Programme for a Con- 

 vention, with Subjects for Discussion. In 

 addition to this, there are about 50 blank 

 pages, to make notes upon, or to write out 

 questions, as they may come to mind. 

 They are nicely bound in cloth, and are of 

 the right size for the pocket. We will 

 present a copy for one new subscription to 

 the Bee Journal (with $ 1 .00 to pay for the 

 same), or 2 subscribers to the Home Journal 

 may be sent instead of one for the Bee 

 Journal. 



The Union Scale you sent me was 

 reqeived some time since, and I am well 

 pleased with it. I asked the price of 

 such a scale in our hardware store, and 

 was told that a single beam to weigh 

 240 pounds would cost $4.00. For 

 such I paid you only .$3.00, saving m*- 

 a dollar. — Jacob Moore, Ionia, Mich. 



Clubs of 5 New Subscriptions for $4.00 

 to any addresses. Ten for $7.50. 



