. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 429 onous honey which I have secured. I had one analyzed last summer, and it was pronounced good honey. I have one now in our Museum, which looks good, tastes good, and does not hurt me, though it was reported to have made an entire family sick. Our stu- dents, some years since cut a bee-tree one morning, and all ate freely of the nice honey. The classes that afternoon were very thinly attended, and many a boy wished for his mother. Yet that honey, to my certain knowledge, was of the best quality. What a chance was here for a Xen
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 429 onous honey which I have secured. I had one analyzed last summer, and it was pronounced good honey. I have one now in our Museum, which looks good, tastes good, and does not hurt me, though it was reported to have made an entire family sick. Our stu- dents, some years since cut a bee-tree one morning, and all ate freely of the nice honey. The classes that afternoon were very thinly attended, and many a boy wished for his mother. Yet that honey, to my certain knowledge, was of the best quality. What a chance was here for a Xenophon to make a sensa- tional report regarding the poisonous honey of Michigan ! A. J. Cook. Queen Questions—Bee-Feeder. 1. Has the plan of clipping the queen's wings, and having a stake in front of the hive for the bees to cluster upon when they swarm, been tried enough to prove it a success ? 2. Will a young queen, when intro- duced, hunt out and kill the old one in enough cases to make it pay without re- moving the old queen ? 3. Can a young queen, and the small colony that reared her, be united with a swarm when hiving them, without trouble, if the old queen Is removed? 4. Is there a feeder on the market that can be placed in one corner of the super, allow packing to be placed around it, filled from the top without removing from the hive, and allow the bees to come up from below to get the food ? I cannot be with my bees much of the time In the summer, so I want to dis- cover some "short ; John Pedelty, Jk. Mason City, Iowa. Answers.—1. So few have reported as to their success or failure, that it is impossible to answer you. 2. Can't tell about the hunting out, but you will probably find, if you try the experiment, that the young queen will generally come up missing. 3. Your chances are favorable for success. 4. You can put Simplicity feeders in one corner of the super, but there must be a chance for the bees to get up, and they would likely be in the way
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