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where there would be no tire iu the winter, 

 and if there was severe free/.iug weather in 

 the winter no larvjo would hatch out in those 

 coinba so long as they were kept where the 

 moths could not gain actei^t* to them. Combs 

 from colonics that had died late in winter or 

 early spring were not free from the larvie 

 even if kept where the moths could not 

 reach them. 



Do Hees Hear ? This question is often 

 asked. At the Buffalo convention Dr. Besse 

 said that when there was a salute fired with 

 with cannon on the fourth of July the bees 

 came hurrying home just as they do at the 

 approach of a thunder storm. The suppo- 

 sition being that they mistook the cannon- 

 ading for thunder. Mr. E. Whitcomb said 

 that if several combs covered with bees be 

 put into a dark room, each comb in a place 

 by itself, and a queen be put upon 

 one of the combs, that all of the 

 bees would soon be on this comb where 

 the queen was. How else could they com- 

 municate except by iieariug ? Possibly by 

 scent. 



The ( )ntabio ( Canada ) Bee Keepers' 

 Association will hold its annual meeting 

 Dec. 7th. Hth and '.tth, in the County Coun- 

 cil Chambers, at Hamilton. The St. Nich- 

 olas Hotel will make a rate of sl.OO per day. 

 An interesting programme has been pre- 

 pared and all are invited to come. At the 

 Buffalo meeting of the I'uited States Bee 

 Keepers' Union, the Canadians present gave 

 a special and public invitation to the bee- 

 keepers this side of the "creek" to come 

 over. I have been present at several of the 

 meetings of this Association and found them 

 well attended and the discussions good and 

 helpful. 



My Bebb, 3.'* colonies, were put in the cel- 

 lar last evening, fNov. JJ) and I think they 

 are in the best condition that I have ever 

 had bees when put into the cellar. I have 

 noticed that for several years I have not 

 varied more than three or four days from 

 the 2<)th (jf Nov. in the time of patting my 

 bees in the cellar, ^'esterday there was a 

 little flurry of snow, the first of the season, 

 and last night it froze pretty hard. It has 

 often been said that it is not a good prac- 

 tice to move bees and put them right into 

 the cellar without giving them an opportu- 

 nity for a flight after the moving. Three 



of my colonies were brought in from two 

 miles out in the country and put right into 

 the cellar. Now we will see how they win- 

 ter comp ared with the others. 



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FoiiL Bkood Spokes may be found in wax 

 made from combs containing foul brood, 

 says Pastor Schonfeld. (Seethe last para- 

 graph in "Notes From Foreign Bee Jour- 

 nals. " Others, notably the late Mr. S. 

 Corneil, have asserted that the heat employ- 

 ed in the melting of combs and the making 

 of it into foundation is not sufficient to 

 destroy the spores. These men may be 

 correct, but the stubborn fact remains that, 

 no case of foul brood has ever developed 

 from the use of foundation made from wax 

 that came from foul broody combs. I be- 

 lieve tliat Mr. Holterman has suggested that 

 spores embedded in wax may do no harm. 



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Swarming can be almost entirely pre- 

 vented, even when working for comb hon- 

 ey, by the methods given last Dec. in the 

 Review, as those practiced by Mr. Koeppen 

 who lives near here and manages five apia- 

 ries all alone. This year he produced 

 12, (KM) pounds of comb honey and did all 

 of the work himself except having a man 

 help him put together some sections and 

 scrape a tew when he made an early ship- 

 ment — about a week's work in all. At the 

 most there has been only two or three 

 swarms at an apiary — not worth mentioning. 

 He says that with young queens there is 

 no trouble at all in preventing swarming. 

 The bees sometimes get the start of an old 

 queen, crowd the brood nest with honey, 

 then get " broody," as he expressas it, and 

 will not work, but ivill swarm. 



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Winter Passages are not valued by 

 Mr. Doolittle. He admits that when there 

 comes a sharp freeze in the fall that little 

 knots of dead bees will be found between 

 the outside combs, but thinks they are old 

 bees that have crawled off to die and would 

 have died anyway. My neighbor Koeppen 

 has just called on me and he differs from 

 Mr. Doolittle. He never finds snch little 

 clusters when there are winter passages, but 

 does when there are no passages. He makes 

 passages late in the fall after the bees have 

 quit working and are clustered. The work 

 is done with a flattened, bent wire. The 

 tops of the frames are uncovered and the 



