The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . unded with com-mon bees. If you practice in the mannergiven above, you can reap the full benefit ofthe Italian blood, even though there arehundreds of stocks of the common beeswithin the range of your apiary. But, if youare going to raise queens for the market,you should buy up or Italianize all the com-mon bee
The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . unded with com-mon bees. If you practice in the mannergiven above, you can reap the full benefit ofthe Italian blood, even though there arehundreds of stocks of the common beeswithin the range of your apiary. But, if youare going to raise queens for the market,you should buy up or Italianize all the com-mon bees within two or three miles of you, *To get rid of black and hybrid drones, seeDrones. ITALIANIZING. 195 ITALIANIZING. in every direction. The more faithfully youdo this, the better satisfaction will you giveyour customers. Your neighbors will verysoon be converted to the Italians, if youkeep right along and let crops of honey,rather than talk, decide the matter, andthen they will be quite willing to pay you for introducing Italian queens into theircolonies. Be sure you do not quarrel, andfoster any bad spirit in the matter, but letthem have their own way, even if it, attimes, is aggravating; and, in a very fewyears, you will succeed in having your wholeneighborhood MR. ir. n. hke-vaud .vnd poultry-iiol>e, neav ha vex, vt. K. KZIVG-BIRDS. Quite a number ofthe feathered tribes have a fashion of eatingbees. Even our common fowls sometimesget into the habit of gobbling them, with aslittle fear of consequences as if they werethe most harmless insects in the world. It isquite likely that birds have a way of crush-ing their prey with their bills so as to pre-vent the possibility of the bees using itssting. It has been siiggested that the birdsand fowls eat only the drones ; but severalexaminations of their crops show that itis, without question, the Avorkers, and it isquite probable that the honey contained inthe honey-sac is the principal inducement. Mr. T.
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