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Late Reared Queens are pronouuced 

 superior by Geo. L. Viual, in Gleanings. 

 He has experimented six years by rearing 

 queens under the same condition, as near 

 88 possible, at different seasons of the year 

 and, as a rule, the late-reared queens have 

 been larger and better developed. They be- 

 gin laying earlier in the spriLg, and their 

 progeny is larger and more industrious. He 

 thinks it is because they are not called upon 

 to lay to their full capacity for several 

 mouths, and are enabled to develop into 

 full maturity before laying many eggs. 



DKyUEENINO COLONIES DUKING THE HARVEST. 



Messrs. Elwood and Hetherington, and a 

 few others, practice removing the queen 

 with a frame or two of bees and brood just 

 at the opening of the swarming season. At 

 the ninth day all of the queen cells are cut 

 out and the bees left hopelessly queenless 

 for a week or ten days more, when the old 

 queen is again given to the colony. This 

 practice prevents swarmiug. 



Mr. T. H. Kloer of Terre Haute, Indiana, 

 has been trying this plan upon an exten- 

 sive scale, and he tells in Gleanings of some 

 of the difficulties with which he had to 

 contend. One trouble was that the remov- 

 ed queens would leave the nuclei and crawl 

 about on the ground, perhaps get back into 

 the old hive. In breaking up colonies for 

 making nuclei for queen-rearing I have 

 often formed a nucleus with the old queen 

 and one or two combs of bees, and I have 

 never experienced the trouble mention- 

 ed by Mr. Kloer. He says that he finds it 

 necessary to fasten the bees in the first day. 

 By the second day they will have cooled 

 down, and will stay at home. Of course, 

 all of the eld bees will leave for the old stand 

 if allowed to do so, but I have never had a 

 queen leave. 



In destroying the queen cells Mr. Kloer 

 finds it advisable to shake the bees off the 

 combs, and in this way he has never missed 

 a cell in six years of practice. 



Mr. Kloer '8 greatest difficulty was in in- 

 troducing the queen again after the bees 

 had been so long queenless. As a rule, 

 hopelessly queenless bees accept a queen 

 with no objections, that is, unless they have 

 been a long time queenless, when it is 

 sometimes well-nigh impossible to get 

 them to accept a queen. Mr. K. says he 

 will tell all about this point in his next 

 article. 



APIS DORSATA. 



W. K. Morrison, of Bermuda, has an arti- 

 cle in (ileanings in which he is inclined to 

 defend Apis Dorsata. The points that he 

 makes in their favor are as follows: — 



"]. A larger number of flowers visited hav- 

 ing deep nectaries. 



'1. A larger area covered by its greater 

 power of flight. 



;{. More wax produced. 



4. Honey to come to us now going to bum- 

 ble-l)ee8. 



.'). A greater power to take core of itself 

 against wasps, etc. " 



It may be different in some parts of the 

 country, but in this locality there are no 

 honey producing blossoms that amount to 

 anything that cannot be visited by our com- 

 mon bees. Red clover was once raised here 

 extensively, but the insects have been so 

 destructive to it that its cultivation has been 

 abando ed and alsike used in its place. 



Does Apis Dorsata have a greater power of 

 flight than our common bees ? That is what I 

 should be glad to know. A larger bird or 

 insect does not always have the greater 

 power of flight. Apis Dorsata iiiay have a 

 greater power of flight than the bees we now 

 have, but what proof have we ? 



If tliey produce more wax how do we know 

 that it is not at the expense of honey ? 



The honey that goes to the bumble bees 

 you can " stick in your eye. " 



Ability to contend with wasps and hornets 

 may be of some value in some localities but 

 would amount to nothing here. 



I don't wish to prejudice people against 

 Apis Dorsata, but I do think it an unwise 

 thing to do to import this race of bees with- 

 out kuowing more about it. 



THE NORTH AMERICAN PROGRAM. — The fol- 

 lowing has come to hand from the Secretary 

 of the North American Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation : 



Station B, Toledo, Ohio, 



July 10, 1S9G. 



Me. Editor: — The fixing of the time for 

 the meeting of the North American Bee- 

 Keepers' Association at Lincoln, Nebr., has 

 been left, by the Executive Committee, 

 with the Nebraska bee-keepers, so that they 

 may be able to arrange for reduced railroad 

 rates, and in a letter just received from Mr. 

 L. D. Stilson, of York, Nebr ( Secretary of 

 the Nebraska State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, who has the matter in charge ), he says; 



