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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 4, 1903. 



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I moved the bees I changed the supers and 

 put the brood-chamber on top of the super. 

 The bees, up to this time, had used but little 

 of the honey they had in the supers. 



I have just finished the work on them, and 

 will tell what I did. As the brood-chamber 

 was on top of the super, I commenced in the 

 brood-chamber by taking each frame and 

 shook the bees off of it down in front of the 

 stand, and took off every queen-cell I could 

 find. When I got down into ihe brood-cham- 

 ber I smoked it from the bottom and set the 

 super back on top of the brood. I then ex- 

 amined the supers very carefully, and found 

 that the bees had used all the honey in them. 

 1 cut out all comb that was not in proper 

 shape on the frames. I found in the brood- 

 chamber every cell was sealed with honey or 

 used for brood. I took from three to seven 

 queen-cells out of each. In this operation I 

 put seven brood-frames, and all the bees that 

 were on them, into an empty hive and stopped 

 them up until the next morning. This being 

 done late in the evening, the next morning I 

 opened the new hive at the top, gave them a 

 few puffs of smoke, arranged the frames 

 properly, put in the eighth frame with brood- 

 foundation, and closed them up at the top 

 and opened the entrance, and in a short time 

 they seemed to be as quiet and well content 

 as any colony on the bench. 



I think my bees have done well, and I now 

 have an abundance of bees ; the hives are all 

 very large. I have four colonies of black 

 bees that I bought last fall, and which I 

 worked in the same way as the above-men- 

 tioned five. I have been in business for 13 years, 

 and so did not attend to my bees properly. 

 I no longer have ary business, and I watch 

 the bees very frequently, and have taken a 

 great interest in them. I now have 10 colonies, 

 6 Italian and 4 black. J. G. White. 



Crawford Co., Ark., May S. 



Grange-Bloom Honey. 



I mail you a sample of pure orange-bloom 

 honey taken from a 6-ton tank full. I am 

 running three apiaries this season, all for ex- 

 tracted honey, and have already extracted 14 

 tons of pure orange-bloom honey, with more 

 of it in the supers ; but as bees are commenc- 

 ing on sage, our next extracting will be 

 orange and sage honey. F. McNat. 



Los Angeles Co., Calif., May 19. 



[The sample was very tine. It looks as it 

 some parts of California are getting some 

 honey. — Editor.] 



Formalin or Formaldehyde. 



I quite agree with Mr. Hasty's remarks on 

 page 329, respecting the mix-up of the above, 

 and as I am iiut a chemist perhaps I can the 

 better tell laymen about it. My experience 

 with it has been practical, and what I don't 

 know about it might fill a volume, but I'll try 

 not to go that far. 



In the first place, so far as the laymen go, 

 the two words mean the same. Formaldehyde 

 bears the same relation to formalin that am- 

 monia does to aqua-ammonia. Ammonia is a 

 gas, and aqua-ammonia is water charged with 

 the gas of varying strengths up to '26 percent, 

 after which the water will absorb no more. 



Formalin is water charged with the gas — 

 formaldehyde— usually to about 40 percent. 

 Commercially, all we ever have to do with is 

 formalin, so we might as well drop the longer 

 word. 



It was discovered not many years ago by 

 German chemists, and has been largely used 

 as a germicide. It has a peculiarly sharp 

 odor, and produces a stinging sensation in the 

 nose some time after smelling it. To some it 

 is more offensive than ammonia, and would 

 belter be approached with caution on first 

 acquaintance. It is as harmless as ammonia, 

 however, and is good for catarrh. 



As it is an absolute preventive of mold and 

 fermentation, it has been largely used for that 

 purpose. A few drops in a quart of milk will 

 keep it sweet for days, or in paste will pre- 

 serve it indefinitely. (Try this.) 



Being so good a preservative, the milk-men, 

 brewers, and others, have gotten "onto" it, 

 and here is where the abuse of a good thing 

 has come in. It has been found extremely 



