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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



1, in nursery at bottom of the queen-exclud- 

 ing board. 



The holes bored from the top, stop on 

 reaching the holes bored from the sides, 

 leaving the bottom of the nursery of wood 

 smooth on the bottom. This makes a good 

 place to put artificial cells; or if the bees 

 insist on building comb on the bottom of 

 the nursery, as they sometimes do, it is 

 easily scraped off with a hive-tool. 



As the bees above the queen-excluder are 

 practically queenless, they will readily ac- 

 cept a virgin queen if confined for a short 

 time in a Miller cage as shown in Fig. 3. 

 While they would feed and care for the 

 virgin queens in the nursery, I found that 

 it was not practicable to make use of a 

 small door to the different cells in the nur- 

 sery to allow the virgin queen to come out 



Fig. 2. — Queen nursery for use in full-depth super 

 above a queeu-excluder on a double hive. 



Fig. 3. — Queen in Miller eaijc ready for introdueUuu. 



after she was hatched. The bees would 

 always kill her. But I could form a nucleus 

 of one or more frames of bees from the 

 upper body, and by wetting them give them 

 a virgin queen from the nursery. They 

 would accept her at once. 



As the double hive below supplied a 

 strong force of bees to the upper body, they 

 would draw out full frames of foundation 

 very quickly, and this was a great conven- 

 ience if I was raising a few queens for 

 myself. 



The bees will work together peaceably 

 above the queen-excluder all summer, but 

 must be separated before winter by extend- 

 ing the,.thin division-board to the cover or 

 otherwise, or they will kill one of the queens. 



Taooma, Wash. 



PROPOLIS POISONING; ITS SYMPTOMS AND CURE 



BY C. R. PARKS 



Not heeding the oft-repeated advice to 

 start with a few colonies of bees and work 

 gradually into the business, Mr. De Loss 

 Corey aud I purchased slightly more than 

 300 colonies, and plunged into the game. 



The first and most serious obstacle en- 

 countered by the writer was propolis poi- 

 soning. Never having heard of it, the poison 

 was sup])osed to have come from ivy or 

 poison oak; but salt water and soda (the 



