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He also says put your extracted combs 

 back on the hives even if the season is over. 

 Wonder if any one else has the trouble I do 

 in that line. My bees almost never carry 

 down the honey from extracted combs — 

 concentrate it in smaller space usually, but 

 leave it above. I find it bettor to give the 

 bees one grand tield day with all the ex- 

 tracted combs at once. If you feel appre 

 hensive don't start'em in till tlie middle of 

 the afternoon. 



Hopeless queenlessness for four or five 

 days a sure cure for swarm fever, bethinks 

 C. H. Chapman, A. B. J. ?,nH. Then give 

 them Ijack their old (lueen, which is to be 

 kept elsewhere while the struggle to raise a 

 queen is going on. Beware of returning 

 queens when the last cells are destroyed, 

 else out they come in a few days. And cag- 

 ing the queen in the hive at such times prob- 

 ably convinces the bees that she needs kill- 

 ing. 



"Itshoaldbe distinctly uadorstood that the 

 small brood chamber is abnormal for an estab- 

 lished colony which does not swarm." F. L. 

 Thompson. A. B. J. 359 



' Spect that's so — and it hits me. 



Friend T. also wants to know if any one 

 has big hives (of several years standing ) 

 that in the height of the season do not occupy 

 their space. Something like a test quest- 

 ion — and I commend him to C. W. Dayton 

 in A. B. .J. .o83. 



An unusual case is given in A. B. .J. 'M'i 

 where in the same apiary S(> per cent of the 

 ten-frame hives swarmed, and only 4 per 

 cent of the eight-frame hives. I guess the 

 eight-framers had been suffering from 

 starvation loo recently to f-watm 



In A. B. J. 31)0 su'^-editor Miller holds up 

 sub-editor Brown for saying Ihat a queen 

 pipes with her wings. It seems (hat so high 

 an authority as Cheshire teslilies that a queen 

 with wintjs totally removed can be as noisy 

 as any. Cheshire think-^ the third and fourth 

 abdominal plates make the noise. This 

 error, if it is an error, probably arose from 

 noting the wings q liver wh^ i t!ie sound is 

 mado; hut the wings woni.l quiver from 

 the effect of anythinjr tliat jarred the whole 

 body. 



In A. B. .J. I!91 C. Daveui)ort enticingly dis- 

 courses of some giant bees (giant hives also) 

 a box hive man sold hini. Beat all his other 

 bees at honey, but had too many bad habits. 

 This apparently was a case of accidental and 

 unusual mix in blood. Certainly not like 



Murdock's. an intentional build up of any 

 kind. 



Bees fabricating wax in chunks. A iNew 

 York man had a case, and asks Dr. Miller 

 about it. The Dr. has seen much the same 

 also— nice light colored wax very heavily 

 put on to feeder or excluder. A. B. .1. 377. 



F. H. Richardson in A. B. J. SS.') says that 

 varnish thinned down with turpentine can be 

 used as paste to attach labels to tin, and 

 that it never lets go. Good. Why didn't 

 we all think of that before ? 



In A. B. J. 395 it looks to me as if both 

 doctor and patient saw the disease wrongly. 

 A second swarm was hived on a frame of 

 brood and in four days had sealed queen 

 cells. Patient asks doctor why those bees 

 swarmed without a queen, and doctor does 

 not challenge the alleged fact. Now four 

 days is too soon for sealed queen cells- 

 showing that the comb already had open 

 cells on it. I think that bees show such 

 marked reluctance to destroying open cells 

 that it should always be expected of them, 

 not even in (he case of a swarm with a ver- 

 giii queen all right. If I am wrong some- 

 botly hold me up. 



Dr. Miller has known an old queen to pipe 

 with no other queen near; and he suspects 

 fear instead of jealousy as the cause. Per- 

 haps she smelled something, who knows? 

 Say now, it couldn't have been alcohol or oil 

 of tobacco exuding with her keeper's pers- 

 piration, now could it ? 



Richards, Lucas Co., O., Aug. 23, 1895. 



GOOD 



Five - Banded Bees i^ 



Are preferred by most 

 bee keepers to those of 

 other varieties. I breed for busiiess 

 qualities as well as for color, and have a 

 strain of 5 banded Italians that I prefer 

 to blacks, hybrids. Holy Lands or Cypri- 

 ans, all of which I have tried. Last year 

 the colonies that I moved to the niJin- 

 grove stored on an average 420 lb?. 

 of extracted honey. All I ask at iirst is a 

 trial order, as others will surely follow. 

 I warrant my queens purely mated and I 

 sell them at $1.00 each. 



Tested, 1 25; select, $2.00 to $5.0.1. 



Circular free. J. B. CASE, 

 12-9-t-tf Port Orange, Fla. 



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