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ouies timt drew cut, to tlie fullest extent, 

 tiie f«uiidatiou iu all the sections in a Hed- 

 dou super and filled tlie cells with honey, 

 and a few colonies repeated the operation 

 three times iu succession, but it was a week 

 or ten days before the honey was capped 

 over. — Ed. J 



Notes From Foreign Bee Journals. 



F. L. THOMPSON. 



ITU USTRALTAN BEE BULLETIN.— James 

 xi. Benuet has found that very good honey 

 may be produced with tlie solar extractor, 

 differint^ very slightly in color and not per- 

 ceptibly iu taste from ordinary extracted 

 honey, by substituting^ wire netting of ""s in. 

 mesh for the wire cloth or sheet iron of tJie 

 Doolittle solar extractor. This coarse wire 

 netting is not suitable for the melting of 

 old combs. 



"A (jueen may be the very best in one dis- 

 trict, transfer her to a different climate and 

 elevation and she may be the very worst for 

 breeding purposes. Some years ago 1 

 bought two queens from a well known 

 breeder in another colony: they were beau- 

 ties, very prolific and their stocks very in- 

 dustrious. I had therefore no hesitation in 

 breeding largely from ttiem at tne end of 

 the season to requeen the apiary. Judge of 

 my dismay when in early spring both breed- 

 ers and their workers died in globo and 

 eighty out of the ninety stocks I had re- 

 queened from were liadly afifected with 

 paralysis, not a few shariug the fate of tl.e 

 parent stocks .... Any new queen I put (m 

 probation now for at least twelve months, 

 but raise a few queeus from her at once, for 

 the queen and lier workers Tnay acclimatize 

 very well and yet the prot,'eny of her daugli- 

 ters wliich weie mated to drones from local 

 stocks may be undesirable." — K. Henhue. 



" My experience is that it is a decided ad- 

 vantage to have the entrances as much in the 

 sun as [los ible. Tiiose with a shady en- 

 trance 1 find cluster around the entrance a 

 great deal more than if e.xposed to the sun's 

 rays." — G. H. .\rkinstall. 



"Instead of reducing the entrance |in 

 robbing] or covering it up with straw, I 

 simply place a drone excluder iu front of the 

 hive and I find that it neids very few bees to 

 drive back robtjers when ttiey have to crawl 

 through the excluding zinc." — "A. A." 



One of Mr. Munday's colonies, badly af- 

 fected with foul brood, was robbed com- 

 pletely by the rest of the apiary, but the dis- 

 ease did not spread. (I have heard of two 

 such cases of robbiug diseased hives near 

 Denver without evil results.) Another case 

 was reported in which a swarm took posses- 

 sion of a deserted foul-broody hive without 

 the disease developing. 



A writer entitled "The Drone" thinks 

 bees tell the condition of the honey flow in 

 advance by their activity or the reverse in 

 breeding, as shown iu a very marked way by 

 the experience of the past three years, thus 

 agreeing with Dr. Metelli. 



L'Apiculteube. — M. Devanchelle states 

 that a queenless colouy dwindles in spring 

 not only from the death of the old bees, but 

 also because the bees enter neighboring 

 hives^ He has often found that by giving a 

 weak colony a queen in March it very soon 

 becomes much more populous, on account 

 of the return of the bees which had lert it. 



A slide over an extra hole in an escape- 

 board makes it convenient for cleaning a 

 pile of extracting supers over a hive without 

 lifting, according to M. Devanchelle. AVhen 

 the slide is closed the bees leave through the 

 escapes. 



Culouies on frames of the Dadant depth 

 in his apiary winter better than those which 

 are deeper than wide. He thinks the reason 

 is that no heat is lost above the cluster, 



Kevue Inteknationale. — The experiments 

 of Ch. Dadant in shipping (jueens from 

 Italy showed that water furnished in the 

 shipi)ing-CHges caused diarrhoea and the de- 

 struction of all the bees. When shipped 

 with(jut water tluy came through in good 

 condition. 



L'Apicoltoke. — According to Sig. Karuc- 

 co, wax may be prevented from cracking by 

 lining the molding vessels with i)aper. The 

 wax thus has no point of attachment strong 

 enough to crack it. Tommasso Ganzoni 

 goes a step farther and makes the molds out 

 of paper altogether. A sheet of paper may 

 be folded at the corners so as to make a 

 tray, and this is laid on a level table, sur- 

 rounded by any articles at hand which will 

 keeji the sides from lopping over when 

 filled with wax. 



The editor says sometimes the capping of 

 cells containing pollen are much more con- 

 cave than those containing honey, but it is 

 not an infallible sign. 



Denveb, Colo. June S, 18'.t7. 



