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The largest house apiaby in the world 

 is probably owned by H. P. Langdon, of 

 East Constable, N. Y., who writes as follows: 

 "Thanks to the Review for helping luo to 

 build wliat is probably the largest house 

 apiary in the world. It is 11x100 feet and 

 capable of accommodating 200 colonies. I 

 ran 100 in it this season and expect to move 

 in the other 100 next spring. It is a perfect 

 success." (Please give full particulars, 

 friend L.— Ed.) 



In inteoduoing queens there seems to be 

 no set rule that can be followed with abso- 

 lute certainty of results, G. M. Doolittle 

 writes to Gleanings an account of his failure 

 with a plan that he regarded as infallible, 

 that of confining the (lueen under a large 

 cage against the surface of the comb until 

 she begins laying. I have sometimes found 

 a colony to which it seemed impossible to 

 introduce a queen, and my practice has been 

 that advised by the editor of Gleaninrjs in 

 his foot-notes to the Doolittle article, that 

 of giving the obstreperous colony a queen 

 cell. If that plan fails, allow the bees to 

 build cells and re-queen themselves. It does 

 not pay to waste queens on such colonies. 



Anoxheb " tiny feather from the wings of 

 love " has been " dropped into the sacred 

 lap of motherhood " at the home of the 

 Review. It is one of the sweetest, nicest, 

 little girls that we ever had. Ivy said : — 



" Papa, are you going to put her in the 

 Review ? " 



"Yes, you write a notice, and I'll put it 

 in." 



" (ya, I couldn't do that." 



" Well, let's see how you would start out 

 if you were going to write one ? " 



" I would say ' The editor of the Review 

 has another bright, lively, little daughter, 

 although she has not made very much noise 

 yet.' " 



That was as far as I could induce her to 

 go, but it expresses the situation as well, 

 perhaps, as would a whole page, with the 

 exception that the baby has since re- 

 deemed herself in the way of noise-making. 



E. F. QuiGLEY says that the way to secure 

 the mating of queens with choice drones, 

 when the apiary is not isolated, is to place 

 the choice drones around the apiary in all 



directions from one-fourth to one-half mile 

 from the main apiary. He put some virgin 

 Italian queens in a black apiary one-fourth 

 mile away from his Italian apiary. Queens 

 reared in the Italian apiary were all mis- 

 mated while nine out of ten taken to the 

 black apiary were purely mated. He says 

 that the reason why there is so much com- 

 plaint about the young queens from "five- 

 banded" queens not producing five-banded 

 bees is that these young queens seldom mate 

 with the drones in the home-apiary. 



Fumigating Comb Honey is something 

 that I have never had to do, but it may 

 sometimes become necessary. Doolittle 

 writes Gleanirujs that the proper amount of 

 sulphur to use is four ounces to every seven- 

 ty-five cubic feet in the room. Put some 

 ashes in the bottom of a kettle, then some 

 coals, and after this the sulphur. Hurry out 

 of the room, peep in the window, and as 

 soon as the last fly on the window stops 

 kicking, wait five minutes, then open the 

 windows and allow the fumes to pass out. 



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"Foul Beood " is often the cry when 

 brood has died from some other cause. 

 Ernest Root has been describing some cases 

 of dead brood that appeared in two or three 

 colonies in their Shane yard. The cappings 

 were perforated and sunken, and the dead 

 larv£e was of a coffee color, but two decisive 

 symptoms of foul brood were lacking, viz.: 

 ropiness and the "glue pot odor." In one 

 case the queen died and a cell was given. 

 When the new queen began to lay, her brood 

 was healthy. The other cases of the disease, 

 or whatever it was, finally disappeared of 

 themselves. A bee-keeper a few miles from 

 Medina reported similar experiences. Mr. 

 Root thinks that this trouble, whatever it is, 

 has often been mistaken for the real, viru- 

 lent foul brood, and perhaps been cured (?) 

 by the use of salt, carbolic acid or some 

 such nostrum. That is, some such " medi- 

 cine" was used, and, as the trouble disap- 

 peared, it was naturally supposed that foul 

 brood had been cured. 



THE CONSTEUOTION OF BEE 0ELLAE8. 



Several times during the last two years I 

 have been asked to make this subject one of 

 special discussion. In the discussion upon 

 " Disturbance of Bees in Winter," " Tern- 



