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en supers the other evening and freed them 

 from bees by setting them at the entrance of 

 the hives. The supers were taken off just as 

 the bees had nearly stopped flying. A few 

 enterprising bees came around to see what 

 was " in the wind, " but it was soon too dark 

 for them to fly. 



EXPEBIMENTAL APICULTUEE. 



I am a little disappointed at the small 

 amount of correspondence that has come in 

 on this subject. It does not seem possible 

 that bee-keepers have no interest in the sub- 

 ject. Possibly the leader of last month con- 

 tained all that needed to be said on the sub- 

 ject; if so, well and good. There is one 

 point, however, that I wish emphasize, and 

 that is the necessity of being able to use good 

 arguments before the State Boards of Agri- 

 culture. Unless you can do this, unless you 

 can make a point, there is no use in going. 

 The arguments used before our State Board 

 have already been given, and I would call 

 attention to those used in Dr. Miller's article 

 in this issue, as being very good. If a copy 

 of this article could be placed in the hands 

 of each member of a Board previous to the 

 meeting it would be a good move. 



One thing more. Haven't you some sug- 

 gestions as to what experiments you would 

 like tried? The experiments in regard to 

 wintering can be taken under consideration 

 none to soon. Let's hear from yon as to 

 what they shall be and how they shall be 

 conducted. 



EDITOBIALS ABE NEVEB PAID FOE. 



Sometimes when sending in an advertis- 

 ment the sender will ask that he be given an 

 editorial notice. If one advertiser is grant- 

 ed this favor, all are entitled to the same, 

 and if each were given a notice, where would 

 be the advantage? Samples of implements 

 are sometimes sent witli the intimation that 

 an editorial notice would be the proper thing 

 to give in return. Others even go so far as 

 to say right out fair and square, '* Give me a 

 good editorial notice and I will pay you any- 

 thing reasonable. " I wish it distinctly un- 

 derstood that I have no editorial opinion for 

 sale. I do not mean that I shall never notice 

 and give praise to articles that are for sale. 

 On the contrary I think it is an editor's busi- 

 ness to learn which are the best things and 

 then to say so, but what he says should come 

 about as the result of his own judgement — 



should come out spontaneously without so- 

 licitation. I do not mean that a dealer, man- 

 uf cturer or inventor must never call an 

 editor's attention to the superiority of his 

 wares; far from it, that is all right and prop- 

 er, and then let the editor use his own judge- 

 ment as to what he shall say, if he says any- 

 thing at all, but let it be understood that 

 what is said eaitorially is said freely with no 

 money consideration in connection with the 

 saying. I believe that our bee journals are 

 almost wholly, if not entirely, free from this 

 fault. 



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BEE-PAEALTSIS INHEBENT IN THE QUEEN. 



When discussing bee-paralysis with Mr. 

 Taylor this season he mentioned one fact 

 that goes to show that it comes from the 

 queen. A neighbor called and wanted a 

 queen. Mr. Taylor had none to spare ex- 

 cept the one in a colony affected with paral- 

 ysis. He was going to replace this queen 

 and told the man he might have her until he 

 could spare some other queen. If she turned 

 out all right, well and good — if not he would 

 replace her. When her bees began to hatch 

 out in the colony to which she was intro- 

 duced, and to take their places in this work- 

 a-day-world, the colony became affected 

 with paralysis. 



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WHY SWABMS DO NOT ALWAYS BETUBN TO 

 THEIB OWN HIVES. 



E. R. Root quotes what I said last month 

 in reference to the swarms going together 

 over at the Michigan Experimental Apiary 

 and all returning to one hive. He closes by 

 saying: "Nevertheless, Mr. So and So 

 doesn't give up yet but that swarms are more 

 apf to go back to the old location." Yes, 

 bees are more likely, almost certain, to go 

 back to their own hive if only one swarm 

 is in the air at the same time, but when more 

 than one issues at the same time they are 

 almost certain to unite unless water is used 

 freely to keep them apart. When two or 

 more swarms unite, they become, to all in- 

 tents and purposes, a single swarm, and 

 behave very much as one swarm would be- 

 have. A very few of the bees will eventu- 

 ally return to their respective hives, but the 

 great mass of them will go together, some- 

 where. Some of the bees of one of the 

 swarms will usually begin returning to their 

 old location, then nearly the whole mass 

 of bees will "follow my leader " into this 



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