. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 157 lows: When the queen is found, pick her from the comb by the wings with the right hand, then pass her to the left hand holding her with the thorax or " shoulders " between the thumb and fore finger, then clip her with the scissors in the right hand. In this way a queen can be clipped every time just as one wants her clipped. When clipped, take her by the wings with the right hand and place her back on the com b near where she was picked offâand in nearly every case she will act as if nothing had happened. The only t
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 157 lows: When the queen is found, pick her from the comb by the wings with the right hand, then pass her to the left hand holding her with the thorax or " shoulders " between the thumb and fore finger, then clip her with the scissors in the right hand. In this way a queen can be clipped every time just as one wants her clipped. When clipped, take her by the wings with the right hand and place her back on the com b near where she was picked offâand in nearly every case she will act as if nothing had happened. The only trouble with the inexperienced is they are so afraid that they will hurt her that they are not likely to hold her firm enough. She should be held firmly enough so that one can at least feel that they have something between the thumb and finger.' | I have nothing to offer in the way of find- ing the queen, as Mr. Dayton has explained it most thoroughly. Alamo, Mich. ' May 18, 1894. Notes From the Pacific Coast. "; It doesn't pay in greedy way To live for grabbapre; Nor yet awhile in sloth most vile To live a cabbage. TT is dull days 1 n o w with bee-keepers in â this sunset country ; e s - pecially in the southern por- tion of it; less than six inches of rain, where we need twen- ty or more, is a sure precursor of the failure of the honey crop, or at least a light yield. The diversity of elevation and climate in our large State will enable some portion of it to give its wonted yield, and that will save us from the humiliation of having a total failure. In now and then a locality, we find that the bee-keeper is subject to the nagging pro- cess, and one of the great needs of the bee- keeper has been a person with some author- ity to stand between him and the fruit grow- er, and act as a peace-maker. It causes no. little rancor between two great industries when things get to such a pass that the fruit man deliberately, under the cover of dark- ness, when evil men
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