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bees to care for the larvas in them, and at the same time they are so depleted 

 in old bees that they very seldom send out a second swarm. 



And now I want to say just a word in re2:ard to the handlins: and 

 disposing of comb honey. I have bought considerable honey at diffjrent 

 times to sell again, and invariably I am obliged to go over the whole lot 

 and clean up the sections. I am sorry to say that honey is a luxury and 

 not a staple at the present time. Now in times of taking off honey, have 

 the good wife, or sister, or some good, careful girl, at the honey house 

 with a knife or piece of glass, aud have her carefully remove all the propolis 

 and bad stains that may appear on the sections; set them away — the best on 

 one shelf and the second grade in another, with a sheet of paper between 

 every two tiers to catch any drippings that may occur, as the honey stains th& 

 wood, and the nearer gilt-edge we keep our product the more we shall realize 

 for the same. 



In packing for shipment I find no crate giving as' 

 general satisfaction as one holding 14 or 16 of these 

 sections. Glassed at each end, they range in weight 

 from 12 to 15 pounds, they stand shipment well, 

 either by freight or express; and the retailer fre- 

 quently sells a whole crate to a single customer. 

 In closing, I feel I cannot urge too strongly the use of 

 the zinc queen excluding honey board. I consider it 

 one of the grandest inventions of the age — no brood in 

 the sections, no fastening the sections, crate and all, t* 

 the brood frames, thus tearing olf the bottom of the 

 section, or lifting the brood frames out by their adhering 

 to the crate; in fact, with the experience I have had 

 with them, 1 would as soon think of putting on sections 

 without foundation starters as putting on a crate without 

 a queen excluding honey board. 



Dr. Beal: That queen excluder seems to me good as it excludes bee bread,, 

 brood and pollen from the honey sections. Honey raising is the saving of a 

 waste product and also incidentally is of much benefit to the farmer and 

 fruit grower in the fertilization of flowers. 



Shipping Crate. 



Zinc Honey Board. 



SOME INSECT ENEMIES OF THE BEE, 



BY PKOF. A. J. COOK, AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, MICH. 



[Reprinted by permission from Gleanings in Bee Culture.] 



ANOTHER BEE MOTH. 



On the ] 2th of August last, Mr. J. H. Martin, of Hartford, N. Y., sent me by- 

 mail, in a good strong box, some comb, which contained several larvai of 

 some moth. He stated that these larvje were quite abundant on his unused 

 combs, but said they did no harm — indeed, he thought them a benefit, as the 



