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  T H   E    BE E-K        E E P E R.         lyinghelpless on the table.
Item n w    mntve
                                               what honey you think fit,
replace the tilve un
               Itemstabout Bees.-its old stand, and the bees, as they recover,
                               Items about BOOS,  will return to their home.
 A bvigti a. calm,
   Feeding Brown Sugar to Bees.-In March, sunny day is the best; and you
snouioi com-
 185Q, lVr. Kittell discovered that one of his col- mence your operations
in the morning I elore
 onies required feeding, and being unable to many of the bees are abroad."
 procure either pure honey or sugar candy, he
 concluded to try common brown sngar dissolv-
 ed in warm water, Bo as to form a tolerably  THE     HORTICULTURIST.
 thick syrup. He fed them with this freely and -
 had every peason to be satisfied with the ex- A. G. HANFORD,  CORRESPONDING
EDITOR.
 periunenL  Brooding commenced as early, and                            
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 was continued s regularly, in the colony thus    The Orchard-Seasonable
Hints.
 fed, as in amy of those which had ample stores  Sun Scald-Young fruit trees
are this month
 of honey.
 Signs of Swzrisni.-Every colony that con- more liable to injury from the
action of the
 templates swarming will, for some time previ- sun on their exposed trunks
than at any other
 ous, cease to work as industrinesiy as it might
 do in view of its utunbers.  A disposition to season of the year. Protection
is readily af-
 *ss hang round " indolently seems to seize a ma- forded by tying on
south side of tree lath,
,ority of the population, and they cluster to- strips of bark, or long straw;
or a narrow
Nether in masses. apparently for the purpose of
helping each other to do nothing. But, get board may be secured to the tree
with small
control of them, permit no natural swarming, nails. Trees with high tops,
and those which
furtish them continual opportunities to he do- .  .. -



ing something, and you will not pereeiv
among them any tendency to idle away time
-Bee /ournal.

  SW A drone-breeding colony is general]
very unwilling to accept of a fertile queei
when introduced into the hive, and speedil:
destroys a sealed royal cell if inserted. Mr
"aden says thiA perverseness and obstinRc'
may be easily overcome, if the sealed drone
broad be destroyed by passing a sharp knifi
through it. A tertile queen than offered wil
be kindly received.

                Chloroform,



  Chloroform has been employed to stupify
bees. A correspondent of the Edinburgh Eve-
ning Enurant hJs adopted this plan successful-
ly. The quantity of chloroform required for
an ordinary hive, is the sixth part of an ounce;
though a very large hive may take nearly a
qualter of an ounce  His mode of operation
he describes as follows:
  -I place a table 'opposite to and about four
feet distant from the hive: on the table I spread
a thick linen cloth; in the center of the table I
place a small shallow breakfast plate, which I
cover with a piece of wire gauze, to prevent
the bees from coming into immediate contact
with the chloroform. I now quickly and cau-
tiously lilt the hive from the board on which
it is standing, set it down on the top of the
table, keeping the plate in the center; cover
the hive closely up with cloths, and in twenty
minutes or so, the bees are not only sound
asleep. but. contrary to what I have seen when
they are suffocated with sulphur, not one is
left among the combs; the whole of them are



lean to the north or northeast, especially need
this protection.
  Pruning.-Advantage should be taken of the
warm pleasant days during this month and
next to finish up winter pruning. While there
are some very good reasons for doing the work
of orchard pruning at mid-summer, we believe
all things considered, this will be found the
best, it certainly is the most convenient, time
for farmers to give attention to this work.
  Don't delay until the sap is in active mo-
tion, and the buds ready to open, or inip.-



arise from bleeding.  Wounds made then do
not heal over so kindly as when done earlier.
  We do not favor severe pruning at any time,
and if a little seasonable attention is given to
this matter, it will never be necessary.
Young trees need such shoots removed as
cross and chafe, and are useless suckers, from
around the trunk.  The head should be kept
)pen for air and light. Regard should be had
o symmetry as well as to convenience in mov-
ng about in the tree bye-and-bye when gath-
ering the fruit; all this can be accomplished
with but little pruning at any one time.
An ill-placed or superfluous shoot should
never be allowed to grow on a young tree more
ban a single season.
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