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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 16. 19C4. 



derstand why he, Mr. Ed Pepper, aod myself 

 — three of the most up-to-date bee-keepers in 

 the county — should be old bachelors, but our 

 mothers take care of Mr. Pepper and myself. 

 Now, Mr. Baker and Mr. Pepper have either 

 got to marry or quit keeping bees, or I will. 

 I am sure I will marry before I will quit keep- 

 ing bees. 



I would like to kno« what has become of 

 Ann. If she was a little older, I would be 

 tempted to move my bees to her county and 

 try to persuade her to help me take care of 

 them ! Chas. M. Simmons. 



Marion Co., Mo., June 4. 



Beedom Boiled Down 



Anticipated Swarming. 



What we call here now "brushed" or 

 " shook " swarms are called in Europe " au- 

 ticipated " swarms. Two methods have been 

 in use there for quite a number of years. 

 The first is called anticipated swarming by 

 single permutation. It is exactly the process 

 used here and needs not to be described. The 

 second is much the best and is called antici- 

 pated swarming by double permutition. 



To explain it as clearly as possible, let us 

 suppose that the apiary contains only two 

 hives and an unoccupied stand, thus : 



Stand No. 1. Stand No. 2. 



Stand No. 3. 



When the time to operate comes the hive 

 No. 2 is placed on stand No. 3. The queen 

 and all the bees of hive No. 1 are driven out 

 and put in a new hive on their own stand. 

 They constitute a swarm just in the same con- 

 dition as those made by single permutation. 

 The hive No. 1 thus deprived of its bees and 

 queen is then placed on stand No. 2 and re- 

 ceive there the field-bees of hive No. 2. We 

 have then : 



Swarm. Hive No. 1. Hive No. 2. 



Stand No. 1. Stand No. 2. Stand No. 3. 



Eight days later the hive No. 1 being with- 

 out queen, will have a number of queen-cells. 

 It is then put on stand No. 3 and the hive No. 

 3 brought back to its place. We have finally : 



Swarm. 



Hive No. 2. 

 Stand No. 2. 



Now for the advantages of this method: 

 The swarm on stand No. 1 is in the same con- 

 dition as those obtained by single permuta- 

 tion. But the hive No. 2 on stand No. 2 will 

 give a must greater surplus than would a 

 forced swarm. It has had a field-force and a 

 brood-nest all the time. Having not to re- 

 bu. .d a brood-nest it can work in the surplus 

 boxes much more than a forced swarm ; and 

 finally the absence of its queen during the 

 eight days that the brood-nests were ex- 

 changed, has killed the swarming fever com- 

 pletely. 



As to the hive No. 1 now on a new stand, it 

 has no field-force, has lost a large number of 

 emerging bees while it was on stand No. 2 and 

 willrequeen out of its queen-cells without 

 danger of swarming. 



This method is the invention of Mr. De Vig- 

 nole, of Belgium. I might add here that there 

 is no hunting of queens or queen-cells to cut 

 out when using it. — Adrian Getaz, in the 

 American Bee-Keeper. 



Radium as a Foul-Brood Cure. 



Radium is just now commanding a degree 

 of attention that is in an inverse ratio to its 

 scarcily ; but from what we do know of it, it 

 is entirely safe to say it is destined to revolu- 

 tionize the science of medicine so far as bac- 

 teriology is concerned, and add immeasurably 

 to human life and comfort. It really seems 

 as if we were on the threshold of an advance 

 in science that will change for the better all 



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