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small tacks attach a piece of wire screen 

 over each hole on the under side, so that 

 the can will sit down in on the screen. The 

 bees will get at the feed coming thru the 

 perforation the same as if no screen was 

 there. After adjusting the board the clus- 

 ter will be under one or more of the open- 

 ings, ready to take down the feed the 

 moment it is placed there. The openings 

 not used can be covered with a board or 

 jjiece of thick cloth to keep, as far as pos- 

 sible, the heat from escaping. When the 

 board is once adjusted, feeding can be done 

 at any time without using the smoker, and 

 no bees can escai)e. For the timid beekeep- 

 er there is no better way. Being over the 

 cluster no robber bees can get near the 

 f-eed. If the hive is chaff or large on top, a 

 rim as high as the feeders can be set on 

 top, which keeps the 'space above the brood 

 warm and bee-tight by covering with a 

 chaff tray. The escape-boards can be used 

 the same with the screens on. Of course, a 

 ])iece of section will have to be nailed over 

 the hole after removing the escape, while 

 using the board for feeding. 



East Avon, N. Y. A. C. Gilbert. 



Queens Return to Do virgin queens re- 



Former Locations. turn to former loca- 

 tion"? In an editorial 

 note following Jav Sinith 's article on 



"How Queens Mark Their Hive," July 

 Gleanings, i)age 40.5, mention is made that 

 Mel Pritchard says that he always supposed 

 queens mark their location each time they 

 take a flight. Mrs. Grace Allen raises the 

 question of virgin queens re-locating them- 

 selves in "Side Line," page 414. 



Like Mr. Pritchard, I thought queens 

 would mark a new location before taking a 

 flight, and would return to the same; but 

 late experience has taught me different. 



Having received two queens by mail, I 

 wished to introduce them to nuclei, Nos. .'{ 

 and 4. Each of these having a virgin queen 

 a few days old, to make them queenless I 

 removed the virgins to another location in 

 the yard with entrances facing a different 

 way from their former locations. A few 

 days later I found both the virgins missiiig 

 in their new locations. Looking thru Nos. 

 3 and 4, I found, to my surprise and loss, 

 that both had returned to their former 

 locations. One of my bought queens had 

 been liberated by the bees and killed. The 

 other one was still in her cage. 



This has been my only experience in re- 

 locating virgin queens of that age. I have 

 changed the location of many virgin queens 

 before, but always did it soon after they 

 had emerged from their cells, before they 

 were old enough to have established their 

 location. John E. Keefer. 



Millersburg, Pa. 



Bt'iiiiij Sourwpfid (Jilt stung ar/aiii. Traded his hive of ht'e.s fur ii innlr 

 totin' svf/ar home in two pound lotx. 



The nude died from 



