. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ALONG THE MOHAWK VALLEY queen if she was prolific and her bees pure and good honey producers. Doo- little replied, with a chuckle, " You like to look at a pretty girl, why not at a pretty queen ?" That is true, and pretty queens are not to be despised. Mr. Clark showed me a shipping-cage of his own contriving, arranged for ship- ment to foreign countries. It seems to be the prevalent opinion that queens are often stifled to death in the mail sacks. His cages are square and have openings for air on all four sides and the top and bottom, which
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ALONG THE MOHAWK VALLEY queen if she was prolific and her bees pure and good honey producers. Doo- little replied, with a chuckle, " You like to look at a pretty girl, why not at a pretty queen ?" That is true, and pretty queens are not to be despised. Mr. Clark showed me a shipping-cage of his own contriving, arranged for ship- ment to foreign countries. It seems to be the prevalent opinion that queens are often stifled to death in the mail sacks. His cages are square and have openings for air on all four sides and the top and bottom, which lessens the chances of sufifocation. He has a simple way of preserving combs. We all know that moths rarely lay eggs in a comb which is exposed in the open air. So he has racks under the projecting eaves of his honey house and the combs are hung there winter and summer. A few were there, when we came, and I examined them. They were perfectly free of moths though they had been there since the previous fall. The outside ones looked rather weather-beaten, but sound. For the benefit of those of our read- ers who think it is unworthy of a bee- man to wear a veil, let me say that although their bees are very peaceable, Doolittle wears a veil all the time in the apiary. His veil is fastened to the rim of a straw hat and is held at the bottom by weights at its four corners. In this case the weights were iron nuts of 34-inch size, a very simple fastening. The crop was good and we saw a fine lot of clover honey. There as else- where it was white and alsike clover. Buckwheat is plentiful in the fall. I learned there that bee eggs could be safely shipped quite a distance with- out hatching if kept on ice. They shipped eggs in this way to Dr. Gates, and he reported that they had arrived safely and hatched well, after four to six days. We were entertained with great hos- pitality by Mrs. Clark. Before leaving we visited the Doolittle sugar-bush, a grove of fine hard maples interspersed with
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