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Vol. XXIX. 



JUNE I, 1901. 



No. II. 



Colorado State Bee-keepers' Association 

 has 207 members. What other State can 

 match it ? 



I NEVER WORE a plug hat, and couldn't be 

 hired to wear one. And now just see what a 

 deep-laid scheme the editor has concocted (p. 

 431 ) to inveigle me into wearing one of the 

 abominations ! 



H. G. OSBURN reports taking 40,500 lbs. of 

 honey with an increase to 105 colonies. That's 

 a big thing in any case ; but it makes a good 

 deal of difference whether he started with 104 

 colonies or with 4, and he doesn't mention the 

 number at start. 



H. G. OSBURN and you are not so far apart 

 as you think, Mr. Editor, p. 432, as to the 

 working force of a colony. You are talking 

 about the total population, and he's talking 

 about the field force. You can tell that by 

 his sending all afield. 



Very i,evei.-headed is this advice to be- 

 ginners given by Editor York: " First get and 

 read a good bee-book thoroughly, then get 

 the bees. Then read your book again. Then 

 you will be ready for a good bee- paper, and, 

 very likely — more bees." 



If you clip the large wing of a queen on 

 one side, it will change her looks so little that 

 a hasty glance will not show that she is clip- 

 ped at all. But just on that account I clip 

 both wings on one side, for I want to see at a 

 glance, as the queen runs over a comb, wheth- 

 er she is clipped or not. 



Iv. Stachelhausen, in Southland Queen, 

 thinks it an error to teach that, because the 

 winter in the South is warm enough for bees 

 to fly more, bees consume more. They don't 

 fly unless they can gather. From the last 

 flower in fall to the first in spring. Southern 

 bees consume less than Northern. 



"How CAN oueenS be forced to lay in 

 queen -cell cups?" is given in Southland 

 Queen as one of the topics for discussion at a 



convention. Can they? [Forcing queens to 

 lay in queen-cups — why, it seems to me we 

 should do well if we could get them to lay, to 

 order, in natural cups made by the bees them- 

 selves. In fact, I do not know that we are 

 sure that they ever do so of their own sweet 

 will under any circumstances. — Ec] 



The Colorado foul-brood law is somewhat 

 circumstantial. If you know of foul brood 

 anywhere, and fail to report to the inspector 

 or secretary of State association, you're sub- 

 ject to a fine of $5 00. If you conceal the fact 

 that your own bees have foul brood, you may 

 be fined §20 to !?50, or imprisoned one to two 

 months. About right too. [I never noticed 

 this provision in the law ; but it is a very good 

 one, and ought to be in every law designed to 

 suppress foul brood or similar contagious dis- 

 eases.— Ed.] 



I don't know for sure all about it, but I 

 thi7ik the old -comb discussion has been some- 

 thing like this: Some years ago it was the 

 common thing across the ocean to teach that 

 combs should be renewed when they became 

 a few years old, and I do not remember that 

 any on that side opposed such view. It was 

 copied and commented upon here, and that 

 started the discussion here. I don't know, 

 but I suspect the discussion on that side arose 

 from reading the discussions in American 

 journals. But the advocacy of old-comb re- 

 newal is of trans-Atlantic origin. 



The blue-head is a disease of the brood, 

 named in Deutsche Imker aus Boehmen. 

 Scattered among the sealed brood are pupae, 

 either unsealed or with holes in the sealing. 

 The pupae are dead, and have blue or white 

 heads, or heads spotted white and blue. Turn 

 the comb on its side, and many of these pupae 

 fall toward the opening. While the disease 

 is not very malignant, and perhaps not con- 

 tagious, the diseased colony makes poor head- 

 way. [Why, doctor, aren't you and those oth- 

 er people making a blunder ? See what is said 

 about " bareheaded " brood on page 57 of the 

 ABC book. I should say there was nothing 

 the matter with the pupae at all, even if they 

 do fall toward the opening when you tip the 

 comb over. I have seen exactly what you de- 

 scribe, and have kept careful watch, and the 



