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AMERICAN BEE lOURNAL 



May 2, 1901. 



the hive with such a rush that a number of 

 them accumulate in front of the hive on the 

 ground or on the alighting-board. 



I would like to aslv the following questions 

 of just as many bee-keepers as will answer 

 thru the " Old Reliable," and when the an- 

 swers are publisht I will give my plan with 

 some photographs in this Journal: 



1. When a swarm issues do the bees pour 

 out of the hive with such a rush that they 

 can not take to their wings fast enough, and 

 consequently pile up in front of the hive to 

 the amount of a half pound or more ? 



2. When a prime swarm issues, is the queen 

 one of the last to come out of the hive ? 



A. B. GlXNER. 



Hardin Co., Iowa, April 13. 



Handy Little Apiarian Tools. 



1 enclose a drawing of a little tool that I 

 made for fastening "starters" in sections. 

 The cut is about two-fifths of the full size, 

 and will do the work as fast as any tool 1 

 know of. I use two of them, keeping one in 

 a dish of hot water on a small kerosene stove, 

 changing when one gets too cool. There is 

 uo wasting of foundation by melting, as with 

 most of the high-priced, patented affairs. I 

 made mine out of a broken saw blade, but a 

 piece of heavy tin doubled, with the ends 



toward the handle, will answer every purpose, 

 The point should be rounded, not sharp, to 

 avoid cutting the foundation in two. 



I also have a small scraper for scraping 

 propolis from sections, supers, etc., made in 

 the same way, of steel, only the point is 

 turned down and kept sharp. This beats the 

 Golden section-cleaner out of sight. I use it 

 to clean the tops of the sections before remov- 

 ing them from the super, and can do the 

 whole 24 in the time it used to take me to do 

 one with the Golden method. 



Reading an article in the Bee Journal some 

 time ago. suggesting that bee-keepers tell 

 each other of any little thing they think 

 might be helpful, is what prompted me to 

 submit the above mites. A. F. Foote. 



Mitchell Co.. Iowa. 



Piekled Brood Introducing Queens. 



Pickled brood, in this locality, is of little 

 moment. Colonies of Italian bees are not 

 troubled with it. I have cured many cases 

 among blacks and hybrids, simply by intro- 

 ducing an Italian queen. When her bees pre- 

 dominate the disease disappears. I am quite 

 sure that pickled brood is not a starvation 

 disease, as newly-hived swarms, gathering 

 honey and pollen freely, have shown it in 

 their first brood. 



I successfully introduced over 50 cjueens, 

 both home-bred and from a distance, to colo- 

 nies in almost every possible condition, during 

 the season of IWO. I used the Miller cage, 

 pasteboard tackt over the candy. The paste- 

 board must be a little narrower than the hole 



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