what on that subject, I wj]l give her the 
result of my observation. Some eggs mature 
more quickly than others, but the principal 
reason is t-lie difference in the temperature to 
which the eggs are subjected in process of 
hatching. By providing a nest lined with 
wool and giving a hen only six to eight eggs, 
I have succeeded in hatching the eif!ire lot of 
LEMON COCHIN FOWLS, 
HANDLING BEES, 
At the North American Bee Keepers’ meet¬ 
ing at Indianapolis the question, “ Will right 
TUMBLING PIGEONS 
disposition, as we know wrong management 
develops the opposite,” was discussed as fol¬ 
lows : 
Dh. Bohrer of Iowa, said lie had handled 
bees roughly without irritating them, with 
out keeping them .peaceful, lie considered 
that bees had flxed habits, and that they 
acted wholly on the defensive. In one in¬ 
stance he had for six days handled a colony 
of bees continually without their showing 
any anger. On the seventh he opened them 
H. A. King ol' N. Y.—Thought that bees 
should be thoroughly subdued. If so there 
would be no irritabilily. 
Mr. Merrill—B reat hing on the bees would 
irritate them, He had known instances 
where the breath of persona six or eight feet 
off had enraged them. 
Mr. Homer ot Minn.—Bees can be domes¬ 
ticated. Had bees that set by a path that 
became so accustomed to passers that they 
never tried to sting. Believed that they 
could be familiarized and accustomed to 
being handled so that they would be perfectly 
peaceable. 
President Clarke thought Mrs. T upper 
correct in the construction she put on the 
question. It was an interesting subject. It 
was perhaps more so to him than others, from 
the fact that he was bee hated. Why should 
we not improve them ? While there was 
evidently a difference in the temper of the 
same variety of bees it was also true that they 
had their bad moods. They are not always 
alike, amiable. Like men, some you can 
approach at all times with confidence, others, 
you have to find out their moods iirst. A 
mother may produce a quiet progeny, while 
queeus from her may have a vicious offspring. 
As a rule it docs not take as much to arouse 
the black as the Italian bees. 
Hoag land of Penn.—Their being armed 
with a sting was a wise arrangement, as 
without the means of defending their stores, 
they would soon become extinct, Their 
existence depends on their stings, and he 
thought they could not be entirely deprived 
of the instinct to use them. 
Dr. Bohrer thought they could not be rid 
of the disposition to defend themselves. Li¬ 
quid sweets and other means could be used 
to control them, but even then if roughly 
handled they will resent it. 
Ashton Pollen of I1L—Never strike at or 
blow your breath on them. 
Dr. Hamilton of Tenn.—Had a colony that 
was noted for crossness ; but by' being very 
cautious and gentle, and taking time he 
handled them without smoke. 
strychnin. One pigeon which had its brain 
ihus pricked recovered perfectly, but con¬ 
tinued ever afterwards to perform summer¬ 
saults like a tumbler, though not belonging 
to any tumbling breed. The movement ap¬ 
pears to be of the nature of a recurrent spasm 
or convulsion, which throws the bird back¬ 
wards, as in tetanus; it then recovers its 
balance, and is again thrown backwards. 
Whether this tendency originated from 
some accidental injury', or, as seems more 
probable, from some morbid affection of the 
brain, cannot be told; but at the present 
time the affection can lmrdly be called mor¬ 
bid in the ease of common tumblers, as these 
birds are perfectly healthy and seem to eujoy 
performing their feats, or, us an old writer 
expresses it, “showing like footballs in the 
air.” The habit, apparently, can be con¬ 
trolled to a certain extent by the will. But 
what more particularly concerns us is that it 
is strictly inherited. 
Young birds reared in an aviary, which 
have never seen a pigeon tumble, take to it 
when first let free. The habit also varies 
much in degree in different individuals and 
in different sub-breeds ; audit can be greatly 
augmented by continued selection, as is seen 
in the house tumblers, which can hardly rise 
more than a foot or two above the around 
BUFF COCHIN 
would cause a difference between two hens, 
one of which had a good warm nest and the 
other a colder place. New Mexico. 
one, but all of them flew at him, and he was 
not aware of doing anything unusual, or that 
should have irritated them. 
Dr. Lucas of Peoria, Ill., differed with Dr. 
Bohrer. Had seen one Brooks of McLean 
county, Ill,, exhibit bees that he was satisfied 
were tamed. He carried them about to fairs 
UNIFORMITY IN HATCHING 
In your issue of April 12, page 237, M. E. M. 
asks the cause of difference in time of eggi 
in hatching. As I have experimented some- 
Gapes Remedy. —An English remedy is 
C-rive each chicken affected a pill of camphor, 
size of a small pea, every second day till ;■ 1 ■ ( 
