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Vol. XXX. 



JULY 15, 1902. 



No. 14 



Extensive preparations are being- 

 made for the International Bee Exposition 

 to be held at Vienna, April 4—26, 1903. 



J. Winkler says in Bienen- Vatei' that 

 the best and cheapest way to send swarms 

 is by mail! Talk about this being a fast 

 country! 



To the plans given, p. 547, for pure fer- 

 tilization, might be added the one that Dzier- 

 zon thinks best of all, feeding- to get the de- 

 sired drones and queens to fly before 8 A. M. 

 It certainly seems one of the easiest, if feed- 

 ing will make them fly. 



White clover unusual this year. First 

 bloom unusually early — May 20; full bloom 

 unusuallj^ late — hardly before July 4, with 

 a fair crop on that date. As only two daj's 

 yet have been warm, it remains to be seen 

 whether there is any nectar to be had from 

 it. 



DoOLiTTLE says queen-cells should be 

 rather more than five-sixteenths in diame- 

 ter. Call it five and a half sixteenths — 

 that's just a third of an inch. Then we 

 have: worker-cells five to the inch, drone- 

 cells four to the inch, and queen-cells three 

 to the inch. 



F. A. Hanneman, the inventor of the 

 queen-excluder, now living in Brazil, al- 

 though in his 82d year, contributes an in- 

 teresting article of more than two pages to 

 Bienen- 1 'ater. [If you have a copy of that 

 paper, doctor, send it to us and we will 

 make some extracts. — Ed.] 



It's WELL ENOUGH to give the minutia? of 

 cell-cup making, as given p. 564, and it's 

 well enough to give the minutiae of founda- 

 tion-making; but, all the same, it's better 

 to buy than to make in either case. I don't 

 believe I can make cell-cups as cheap as I 

 have bought them of Mr. Pridgen; and if 

 they are to be regularly used I don't see 

 why they should not be on the price list of 

 supplies. [We have thought several times 



of making cell cups, but so far have divert- 

 ed all orders that we have had for these to 

 our friend W. H. Pridgen. I still think, 

 however, it is well for us all to know how 

 to make these things, even in a wholesale 

 way. — Ed.] 



C. Meyer, in Centralblatt, quotes from 

 Cowan's Guide Book ( although I do not find 

 it in my English edition) the following plan 

 to prevent swarming : Having two strong 

 colonies, take from the first all brood, re- 

 placing with empty combs or foundation, 

 and put the combs of brood in a second 

 story over the second colony. This seems 

 based upon the paradox that a sufficient in- 

 crease of unsealed brood will prevent 

 swarming. 



Mr. Editor, you are "fully convinced" 

 that no drug, unless awfully corrosive, will 

 kill foul-brood spores. But intelligent pro- 

 fessors in Canada say they liave killed 

 spores with formalin without injuring the 

 combs. [It is not ordinarily wise to contra- 

 dict scientific men. If competent professors 

 say that formalin will kill the spores I will 

 not deny the statement, although I should 

 hate to rely on the efficacy of the drug in 

 an apiary of mine. — Ed.] 



You've had ideal honey weather, even if 

 not for long, at Medina. Different here. 

 Up to July 2 I wore exactly the same coat, 

 pants, and vest I wore all winter, discard- 

 ing under-clothes. I've fed nearly a thou- 

 sand pounds of sugar to keep the bees from 

 starving, and breeding has been nearlj' at 

 a standstill. July 2 came a sudden change; 

 thermometer ran up to 86°; next day 94°; 

 and this morning, July 4, it bids fair for a 

 scorcher. [See editorials. — Ed.] 



In fastening bottom-board and screen 

 to hive for shipping, the editor advises that 

 four strips be nailed at each corner. Isn't 

 that unnecessarily strong? Wouldn't one 

 strip at each corner be enough? [Yes, for 

 you, perhaps; but just the other day we 

 were moving a load of bees to one of our 

 out-yards, and used only two fastenings at 

 the two opposite diagonal corners, and we 

 had more or less trouble. Our j-ard-men 

 conclude they would prefer four fastenings. 



