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of a house during the night would not 

 be safe to put on in the morning on 

 account of dampness. 



A local apiarist called to-day (Oct. 

 26), and said his bees were bringing in 

 white pollen, which he thought they 

 obtained from the asters, as they were 

 blooming nicely, apparently uninjured 

 by the frost. He said that he had a 

 queen that had lost one leg and one wing, 

 but she was apparently as good as ever. 



x\ neighboring bee-keeper purchased 

 two Carniolan queens, and offered him 

 one ; he took her, and superseded tlje 

 crippled one. After a few days he 

 opened the hive, and found her upon the 

 comb laying. 



After a few weeks he began watching 

 for this new variety of bees, but could 

 see none. Finally, he came to the con- 

 clusion that the bees were dwindling 

 away, and opened the hive to investi- 

 gate. He found the queen upon the 

 comb, plenty of eggs, but neither larvas 

 nor sealed brood. The queen was a 

 large, fine-looking one, and as he held 

 the comb in his hands, she took wing 

 and flew away. In a moment she re- 

 turned and lit upon the hive. Before he 

 had returned the comb to its place, she 

 was up and away, and that was the last 

 seen of her. He thought she might 

 return to the hive, but she did not, and 

 in two days the hive was robbed, which 

 demoralized his apiary. 



This is the first instance which has 

 come under my notice of a queen that 

 laid eggs which never hatched. I have 

 come across a number that laid drone 

 eggs only. It is hardly possible that 

 the bees had acquired the habit of eating 

 eggs ; certainly they did not do so under 

 the reign of the crippled queen. 



The person whom I mentioned as 

 purchasing the Carniolan queen is a 

 hard working blacksmith — working for 

 his daily bread. In purchasing this 

 queen he not only lost the price of it, 

 but a valuable colony of bees. 



Every little while there is a new 

 variety of bees brought into notice, 

 whose good points extend to the skies in 

 the estimation of those who have them 

 for sale, and it would be well to let those 

 experiment with them who have so 

 much money that they have no other use 

 for it. 



Bees that are good workers, starting 

 out early in the morning and working 

 until evening, attending strictly to 

 business, sticking to the combs when 

 they are removed, and are able to defend 

 their homie against the moth, are good 

 enough for me, and all that I desire. — 

 Prairie Fanner. 



Bee-Keejiiii in Netoasia. 



WM. STOLLEY. 



On Oct. 15 my bees in double-walled 

 hives were ready packed, inside the 

 hives, for wintering, and on Nov. 1 

 those in New Heddon hives were ready 

 packed in vaults, with dry leaves, so 

 that I now can send you my report for 

 the season of 1891 in full. 



I lost no bees during the Winter of 

 1890 and 1891, and after selling a few 

 colonies in early Spring, I had, on April 

 1, 1891, 18 colonies in my double- 

 walled hives (American frame), and 5 

 colonies in the New Heddon hives. 



The Summer was exceptionally cold 

 and wet, until the latter part of July. 

 From June 2 until Aug. 27 I had 13 

 swarms ; 7 swarms from the 5 colonies 

 in the Heddon hives, which were worked 

 for comb-honey only, and 6 swarms 

 from my 18 colonies on the American 

 frame, which were worked for extracted- 

 honey. All swarms were returned to 

 the old stands and hives, except 2 of 

 the swarms from the Heddon hives. 



At the close of the season I had 42 

 colonies — 7 in Heddon hives, and 35 in 

 American frame hives, of which 20 

 hives have 10 frames, and 15 hives 14 

 frames each, all provided and arranged 

 with half-depth supers for tiering up. 



I obtained from ray best colony, 143 

 pounds of surplus extracted-honey, and 

 on an average 106 pounds per colony. 

 Spring count. 



From the colonies in Heddon hives, I 

 got 40 sections of comb-honey from the 

 best colony, and 158 sections in all, 

 well capped ; besides a lot of sections 

 fully and partly-filled, but not well 

 enough sealed to be salable. A colony 

 of hybrids gave me the most surplus this 

 Summer. 



Forty colonies are strong in bees, and 

 none have less than 25 pounds of choice 

 stores for Winter, and most of them 

 have 30 pounds each. I winter them 

 as usual on the summer stands, in the 

 bee-shed. 



During the season just passed, I have 

 re-queened my apiary, so that I now 

 have 34 young queens of 1891, one 

 queen of 1890, 4 queens of 1889, and 

 one queen of 1887. Notwithstanding 

 the utmost care taken to breed pure, 

 and only from the choicest of my old 

 queens, once in a while a hybrid will 

 appear,owing to a few colonies of hybrids 

 being kept a few miles distant from my 

 apiary. 



I notice in the Bee Journal of Oct 



