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above. I then went through the colonies, 

 found the queens, and placed them below 

 the queen excluders. This was done 

 just as soon as the clover and raspberries 

 were in bloom, and honey coming in 

 freely. 



From time to time, as more room was 

 needed, it was given by additional supers, 

 always placing^; the newly added super 

 next to the honey board. At the end of 

 21 days, I slipped ;a bee escape and 

 board beneath each old brood nest, which 

 it will be remembered, was at the top. 

 When the bees were all out of these old 

 brood nests, they were taken off, stacked 

 up in the honey house, the honey ex- 

 tracted, the combs made into wax, and 

 frames burned. At the end of the 

 season I took off the other honey, and 

 kept it separate from that taken from 

 the brood nests, as this honey would not 

 be contaminated. In the end I melted up 

 every comb that had ever contained 

 brood. 



In order to make a success of this 

 plan, the honey flow must last a little 

 more than 21 days, and the colony 

 worked for extracted honey. 



I have practiced this plan with colonies 

 that I wished to transfer from undesir- 

 able hives. In 1908, in a yard of 90 

 colonies, I treated about one-fourth of 

 them on this plan, and they gave me a 

 third more honey, and not a swarm 

 issued, although some had capped queen 

 cells when the treatment was given. 



East Jordan, Mich., March 17, 1910. 



(1 expect that some will be a little 

 skeptical about the curing of foul brood, 

 or getting rid of the nuisance, by es- 

 tablishing a new brood nest in the 

 same hive where the old brood nest is 

 allowed to remain until the old brood 

 has all hatched. But let us consider the 

 conditions. The new brood nest is in 

 another part of the hive, and the work 

 is done at a time when new honey is 

 coming in freely. No old honey is being 

 used; in fact everything is covered up 

 with new honey. Under the circum- 

 stances, it looks very reasonable to me 

 that the plan should work out exactly as 

 described. Gradually, we are learning 

 how to rid an apiary of the disease with 

 little labor, and not much financial loss. — 

 Editor. 



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EDITORIAL I 



Have the Nerve to attempt big things. 



Look out for yourself, or you won't see 

 very much. 



Removing the queen for the prevention 

 of swarming is nothing new, but, in con- 

 nection with this plan, Mrs. Frey has 

 worked out a system that is unusually 

 fine. 



Brace Combs left on the bottoms of 

 wide frames or section holders lessen 

 the need for bait combs in the sections — 

 so writes Mr. M. D. Fisher, of East 

 Bloomfield, N. Y. 



The Steam heated uncapping knife is 

 something that Mr. M. R. Kuehne of 

 California has used with great satisfac- 

 tion, and he wonders why it is not ad- 

 vertised, and more said about it than 

 there is. 



Straining Honey by attaching to the 

 gate of the extractor a bag of cheese 

 cloth six inches long is recommended by 

 Mr. Lyon in "How to Keep Bees for 

 Profit." With a small extractor, or thin 

 honey, this might answer the purpose, 

 but would be sadly deficient with thick 

 honey or large extractor. 



