rt on a small
scale, if they have had no previous training. Two colonies are plenty,
and then let their knowledge increase in the same ratio as do their
bees. The next thing in order, after purchasing bees, should be a good
standard work on apiculture; and study it well. A person should be full
of theory, and then they are ready for practice. Those who are
energetic, willing to work, intelligent and willing, eager to learn,
observing, persevering, and attentive to their work, will rarely ever
fail in apiculture.

We have heard farmers say that bees will not flourish with the same care
given to other farm stock, and that they have not time to attend to
them. We would recommend to all such to try the experiment of procuring
a colony or two of beautiful Italians, in some good movable frame hive,
and present them to the family, with abundance of bee literature, and
see if they are not taken care of, especially if the almighty dollar
puts in an appearance.

MRS. L. HARRISON.

THE NEW BEES.

Prof. Cook, at the late Michigan Convention of Bee-keepers, spoke in
this wise on the topic of the New Bees:

"I have had no experience with the Cyprian bees, but I think more and
more of the Syrian. I find no trouble to handle them, and take my large
class of students, new to the business, right into the apiary. These
thirty or forty students daily manipulate the bees, doing everything
that the bee-keeper ever needs to do, and rarely ever get stung. I find
that the comb honey of the Syrians is excellent, that the bees go
readily into the sections. We did not get all our sections so that they
could be crated without the use of the separators; but I am not sure but
that it was more our fault than the fault of the bees. They are very
prolific, breeding even when there is no nectar to gather, and they
often gather when other bees are idle. I have this fall secured from Mr.
Frank Benton a Carniolan queen, and shall try crossing the Carniolans
with the Syrians. Perhaps we can thus secure a strain with the
amiability of the Carniolan, and the business of the Syrians."

HIVE AND HONEY HINTS.

Mr. Willingford, of Carlingford, Ontario, who had a crop of
several tons of honey this year, has taken it to England for sale.

Manufacturers of tobacco, of pickles, of cakes and cookies,
confectioners, and pork-packers are now using honey more extensively
than ever in the preparation of their specialties.

A singular instance of