. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 804 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Dec. 18. 1902. ground, but those horses kept it eaten down so closely that scarcely a seed was allowed to mature, and whatever seed may have fallen and started into growth this year, not a thing has been allowed to continue in growth, and the place is now bare of sweet clover. Last year was an exceedingly dry season and the pasturage a- little short, or the case might not have been so bad. This year has been as wet as last was dry, and the horses have had more pasture than they could manage, so another field with a good s
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 804 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Dec. 18. 1902. ground, but those horses kept it eaten down so closely that scarcely a seed was allowed to mature, and whatever seed may have fallen and started into growth this year, not a thing has been allowed to continue in growth, and the place is now bare of sweet clover. Last year was an exceedingly dry season and the pasturage a- little short, or the case might not have been so bad. This year has been as wet as last was dry, and the horses have had more pasture than they could manage, so another field with a good start of sweet clover has been cropped by the horses in ; Balled Queens in Swarms, says G. M. Doolittle in Gleanings in Bee-Culture, are sometimes responsible for the bees deserting the hive and returning to their old homes, just as they would do if the queen had not accompanied them. The remedy he gives is to find and smoke the ball to make the bees release the queen, when a general hum of content will announce that all is well. In exceptional cases the queen will again be balled in a few minutes, when the smoking must be promptly repeated or the hive will be deserted. Baby Bees—Too Funny for Anything.—Occasionally one meets with information about bees good enough to find a place in a comic almanac, albeit the medium may be very far from a comic almanac in character. The following sent us by Mr. H. W. Cornelison, of Wisconsin, and taken from that very excellent periodical, the Sunday-School Advocate, has beeu received at this office : A B.\BY BEE. The honey-bee, like every other created thing, whether beast, bird, insect, or plant, was once a baby. In the spring the empty combs, made just the right size for baby bees to grow in, are carefully looked over and made clean by the bees that were born the year before, and in these cells they lay some tiny eggs. In a few days each egg becomes a lit- tle white worm. It has a large mouth like a baby bird, and is very
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