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Vol. XXX. 



SEPT. I, 1902. 



No. 17 



Ye EDITOR advises in certain cases "to 

 place the cell cups in cell cups that are 

 queenless."' Wouldn't that split the cell 

 cups? [I was aware that I was crowded 

 in work a little; but I did not know that I 

 had allowed myself to let pass my eyes any 

 thing- so absolutely meaning-less as this. 

 Why didn't you tell us where it was? — Ed.] 



Accepting the belief that it is the young- 

 bees that start the swarming- fever, Le Ru- 

 cher Beige advises taking- away frames of 

 sealed brood and replacing- with frames of 

 foundation, or, still better, with combs fill- 

 ed with egg-s and very young brood. [Is 

 this one reason why the brvished swarm 

 works so satisfactorily? for you will remem- 

 ber the sealed brood is taken away. — Ed.] 



A. I. Root tells a g-ood strawberry story, 

 p. 660. Here's a better one. On this clay 

 hill of mine, my brother-in-law, G. Stull, 

 g-ot $638 as the proceeds of 1'2 acres, at 10 

 cts. per qt., Si. 50 to S2.00 for 24-qt. case. 

 That was the first year. This year he g-ot 

 S650 from 2 acres, at 10 cts. per qt. ; S2.00 

 to S2.40 for 24-qt. case, and part of the 2 

 acres was an old bed picked the fifth year. 



You MISUNDERSTAND Mr. Alley, p. 680, 

 Mr. Editor. The Alley plan doesn't "g-ive 

 a frame of eggs from that best queen," but 

 just a strip with a very few eggs, and he 

 can "rear thousands of queens from the 

 best breeder in the yard " just as well as 

 you can with anj' other method. | But Mr. 

 Alley's plan uses more eg-gs; and in the 

 case of a breeder that is almost priceless 

 her owner is very anxious to convert all the 

 eggs possible into queens. — Ed.] 



I WONDER if Henrjr Alley means what he 

 saj^s when he says, page 679, "first-class 

 queens can not be reared while there is a 

 fertile queen present in the hive." That 



would bar out all the queens reared from 

 creation until about fifty years ago, except 

 in the very few cases where the queen was 

 accidentally killed. I suspect he means 

 queens reared artificially with a fertile 

 queen present. [I suspect that is what he 

 meant; but I do not agree with him, even 

 then.— Ed.] 



You don't seem to get my idea, Mr. Ed- 

 itor. After bees get to storing in supers a 

 circle of honey in brood-frames doesn't hin- 

 der storing above. They may be loath to 

 cross that circle to begin storing; but at the 

 time of beginning storing, my bees have no 

 margin to speak of to cross, so what more 

 do I want? [If I did not get your idea, 

 doctor, j'Our observation as here related is 

 exactly the same as my own; viz., bees are 

 loath to cross the circle of honey when they 

 begin storing. — Ed.] 



Seldom have I found any thing so inter- 

 esting as the report of M. Leon Dufour upon 

 the laying of the queen. Think of keeping 

 tally for three years of all the brood reared 

 in tv^o different colonies by measuring it 

 once every 21 daj^s! I confess it never oc- 

 curred to me before that by counting the 

 amount of brood and eggs at the end of 

 each 21 days you would count all the brood 

 reared. [Would that more of our estimates 

 were based on such careful observation as 

 those of M. Dufour! — Ed.] 



You WANT TO know definitely, Mr. Edi- 

 tor, just what the season has been here. 

 Well, it has been definitely bad to worse. 

 Not a finished super Aug. 21, and up to 

 Aug. 15 nuclei and weak colonies had to be 

 watched to keep from starving. The sea- 

 son has been remarkably cold and wet. If 

 we could have hot weather it is yet possible 

 that some marketable honey could be had 

 in sections (while there's life, etc.), for of 

 late the seasons seem to have changed, and 

 some honej^ of fair qualit}^ is stored from 

 fall flowers. Otherwise sugar \)y the ton 

 will be needed for wintering. 



Ingenious is the plan used b}' M. Dufour 

 for measuring the amount of brood in a 

 comb. Take a frame the size of 5'our brood- 

 frames; stretch upon it wires running ver- 



