372               THE WISCONSIN FARMER.

tough, hardy bee, will stand the cold of our speak very favorably, unless
it is for the rob.
northern winters better, collect honey much bery of our common stocks. In
that capacity,
faster, work earlier in the morning and later they will excel anything I
haves ever seen.
at night than our native kind. The queens Being very smart and active, they
will lake
are more prolific and will brood much faster their way into any common hive
and get a
than the common species. They will collect load of honey and make their escape
unharm-
honey from some species of flowers which ot4- ed. They will have a full hive
whether it is
er bees pass by.  Their proboscis seems to be a good honey season or not,
and I have fre-
a trifle longer, and being stronger and more quently had them fill two hives,
by placing
active, they will frequently tear the anthers on the top of the other.
of flowers open to obtain the sweets, which I would advise all persons who
engage in
the common bee will never do, and, as has their culture, to makie the entrance
of the hive
been frequently alledged, o-ill collect honey containing the native species,
very small, to
from the smaller species of red clover  Their prevent being robbed by them.
The entrance
size is governed by the size of the cells in of the Italian swarui shoild
also be contract-
which they are reared, If comb of other bees' ad, to prevent their robbing
neighboring api-
make is used, they will be about the same size arior  The Italians are not
so liable to rob
as our common bees. But if they are allowed   - thei t al species. Amateurs
just commenc-
to build their own brood comb, they will be ing the culture of bees would
be greatly ben-
considerably larger.                        efitted by purchasing some good
treatise upon
  It has been frequently asserted that the their nature and habits.
Italians have no weapon of defence. This is                         K P.
.IDEK
an error, as I learned in the early part of my              Practical Apiculturist.
experiments.  I then thought they had in-  BUHRLIUN.T1,\. Vl.
struments of warfare of unusual length. By
careful management, I find they are much less  T H E   P O I L T E R E R.



1I11U1q CU "[iUg   lanI U11 LUI Kind. Dee-Keep-
ers who :ire not thoroughly acquainted with
the nature of bees, would do well to use a Pu-
rmigation Pipc, which will render any swarm
perfectly manageable in less than ten seconds.
They can even be shook out of the hive, and
not a bee will resent it.
  They seem to differ very materially in color
as well as in the shape of their body from the
common kind. Their bodies scent to be some-
what longer, and talper to near a point. The
workers are all marked by a series of gold
bands, encircling their bodies just under the
wings. The drones are not so strongly mark-



ed. The workers resemble the common yellow            Poulr Houses
wasp quite as much as they do the common I [The following is from the pen
oh a corres-
kind of bees. The queens vary in color; some pondent of the American Stock
Journal, and
of them are a dark brown, others are quite one of the best authorities in
the U. S. on the
light, approaching to near a gold color; but subject of Poultry. Read it.-EL).]
the progeny of a dark queen bear the mark  Every householder knows the value
of fresh
quite as plain as a light colored one.  i eggs, and an abundance of good
fat poultry
  In regard to their moral habits, I cannot I the year round. But few know
how to obtain



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