. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 175. Pertinent Paragraphs, Paraphrased and Quoted, with Comment. Fivm Gleanings in Bee-culture. The following paragraph from the pen of that^terse and practical writer. John H. Martin, presents a solution of a little difficulty not infrequently en- countered in the apiary, which may prove of value. "From recent issues of Oleanings I note that not a few bee- keepers, and notably Dr. Miller, page 435, have much trouble in finding the queen. A good sliare of this trouble is from lack of concentration of atten- tion.
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 175. Pertinent Paragraphs, Paraphrased and Quoted, with Comment. Fivm Gleanings in Bee-culture. The following paragraph from the pen of that^terse and practical writer. John H. Martin, presents a solution of a little difficulty not infrequently en- countered in the apiary, which may prove of value. "From recent issues of Oleanings I note that not a few bee- keepers, and notably Dr. Miller, page 435, have much trouble in finding the queen. A good sliare of this trouble is from lack of concentration of atten- tion. The greater portion of bee-keepers while hunting for the queen, scatter their thoughts. For instance, if an un- usually nice yellow drone crosses the vision, the bee-keeper exclaims, 'My ! isn't he a beauty ? Wish I could get a queen mated to him.' Then, with drone in the eye, more drones are seen. Then a bee loaded with pollen will di- vert the eye, or a sunken cell-cap. 'Wonder if that is foul-brood;' and with this thought in mind the queen might pass directly over the spot and not be noticed. A person looking for the queen should look for her and nothing else. Everything but the queen must be a blank. A good aid to concentration upon this object is to keep repeating in the mind, queen, queen, and mentally hold her picture steadily in the mind. With the other precautions for having good eyes and not too much disturbance, the queen will be found with little ; "Three years ago I extracted about 2000 pounds of nearly pure dandelion honey before white clover commenced to yield," says C. Davenport in Am. Bee Journal. He says the honey is dark, rank-tasting, fit only for brood-rearing or to sell for manufacturing purposes. (Doolittle says it is splendid when a year or two old.) Formerly dandelion bloom was about gone soon after fruit bloom, but it has increased so much that now there is too much of it, and the honey is sometimes mixed with that of white clov
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