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lows: When the queen is found, pick her 

 from the comb by the wings with the right 

 hand, then pass her to the left hand holding 

 her with the thorax or " shoulders " between 

 the thumb and fore finger, then clip her 

 with the scissors in the right hand. In this 

 way a queen can be clipped every time just 

 as one wants her clipped. 



When clipped, take her by the wings with 

 the right hand and place her back on the 

 com b near where she was picked off — and in 

 nearly every case she will act as if nothing 

 had happened. 



The only trouble with the inexperienced is 

 they are so afraid that they will hurt her 

 that they are not likely to hold her firm 

 enough. She should be held firmly enough 

 so that one can at least feel that they have 

 something between the thumb and finger. ' | 



I have nothing to offer in the way of find- 

 ing the queen, as Mr. Dayton has explained 

 it most thoroughly. 



Alamo, Mich. ' May 18, 1894. 



Notes From the Pacific Coast. 



"EAMBLEK." 



It doesn't pay in greedy way 



To live for grabbapre; 

 Nor yet awhile in sloth most vile 



To live a cabbage. 



TT is dull days 

 1 n o w with 

 bee-keepers in 

 ■this sunset 

 country ; e s - 

 pecially in the 

 southern por- 

 tion of it ; less 

 than six inches 

 of rain, where 

 we need twen- 

 ty or more, is 

 a sure precursor of the failure of the honey 

 crop, or at least a light yield. 



The diversity of elevation and climate in 

 our large State will enable some portion of 

 it to give its wonted yield, and that will save 

 us from the humiliation of having a total 

 failure. 



In now and then a locality, we find that the 

 bee-keeper is subject to the nagging pro- 

 cess, and one of the great needs of the bee- 

 keeper has been a person with some author- 

 ity to stand between him and the fruit grow- 

 er, and act as a peace-maker. It causes no 



little rancor between two great industries 

 when things get to such a pass that the fruit 

 man deliberately, under the cover of dark- 

 ness, when evil men do evil deeds, goes to 

 the lone apiary in the foot hills and satur- 

 ating the hives with kerosene commits them 

 to the flames. The bee-keeper might retal- 

 iate by cutting down an orchard or more in 

 the same stealthy way, but to the honor of 

 bee-keepers there is no such a retaliatory 

 meanness on record. Aside from fire there 

 are various other ways in which the bee- 

 keeper is made to feel uncomfortable, and 

 an apiary located where it can be seen for a 

 considerable distance is sure to find itself a 

 sort of a target for the viciously disposed. 

 It is a noticable fact that while certain fruit 

 men are thus disposed, that many of our 

 leading bee-keepers whose colonies are num- 

 bered by the hundreds are also extensive 

 fruit growers ; the interests so conflicting in 

 other places, here run without friction. If 

 the bees eat a few grapes the owners put up 

 with it ; or if the drying raisins are greatly 

 molested the trays are covered with wire 

 cloth or musquito netting screens, and all is 

 harmony. 



It is also noticable that in all of our horti- 

 cultural meetings, from State to county asso- 

 ciations, there is always a discussion upon 

 the noxious parasites and insects that prey 

 upon fruits ; but the honey bee is never dis- 

 cussed in that light, on the contrary if there 

 is discussion at all, it is favorable to the bee ; 

 for some fruit grower has made the discov- 

 ery that his fruits bear better crops if the 

 bee is there to perform the proper and pro- 

 fuse poUenization, the fruit grower thus en- 

 lightened feels it his duty to tell the facts to 

 the assembled association. If, perchance, a 

 bee-keeper is in the audience he verily has a 

 glimpse of a millenial time when, " The lion 

 and the lamb " can lie down together in 

 peace. 



California has needed more of these intel- 

 ligent investigators, and we feel very joyful 

 to think that hereafter more of this quality 

 of men will grow in this climate. 



The bee-keepers of the East thought, and 

 not without reason, that they had lost a good 

 friend of their industry when Prof. Cook 

 left them and came to this sunset country. 

 W^e Californians feel that in this great fruit 

 and honey country the Prof. 's field will be 

 greatly broadened, and the educative influ 

 ence he can exert here, will result in greater 

 good than in any other portion of our coun- 



