THE PRINCIPLES OF BEE BREEDING, 17 
regularly. The whole length of this instrument is 2.75 inches, 
and the greatest breadth 1.33 inches. The shank is .8 of an inch 
broad and .3 of an inch thick. It was found at Corinth, Vermont. 
Fig. 6 seems to be a badge of office, amulet, or something of 
the sort.* It is made of a very pretty breccia composed of light 
and dark material. It is finely wrought and very smooth, though 
not polished. The upper side is worked to a sharp edge, from 
which the sides round outwards towards the rectangular base, 
which latter has a hole at each end running obliquely through the 
ends. The length of the relic is 4.5 inches and the height nearly 
2 inches. This was found about a mile north of Burlington, Vt. 
All these articles, except Fig. 2, are in the Museum of the Uni- 
versity of Vermont. Besides such remains other traces of the 
Indian tribes are seen in the hieroglyphics. At Bellows Falls two 
rocks were found many years ago on which were rudely traced 
heads, a large group on one and asingle head on the other. Some 
of these had rays coming from the top. Near Brattleborough, by 
the side of the river, a large rock was found which was covered 
with tracings of animals, as snakes, birds, etc., in all, ten figures, 
some not recognizable as representing any animal. 
Such are some of the works which tell us of the former occu- 
pants of Vermont. 
THE PRINCIPLES OF BEE BREEDING.+ 
BY FREDERICK WILLIAM VOGEL. 
On the programme of the Sixteenth Annual General Convention 
of German Bee Keepers, held in the City of Nuremburg, on the 
14th, 15th and 16th days of September, 1869, the first question 
was as follows: 
ee ~ this singular form and high = meee been found both in the 
ut never to my knowledge 
have they been mentioned from any New England State before. They are always 
two 
are alike in in their finish, though all AA A a 
above. Squier and Davis is (S. E Contr. Şi 39) sive figures of three of stones under — 
the head of ly for that F.W.P. 
t Translated from the German by Samuel Wagner, Editor of the American Bee Jour 
nal. From the Annals of Bee Culture, for 
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