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He had a colony which swarmed the next 

 day after all its brood was taken away (the 

 brood combs being replaced with alternate 

 combs and full sheets), because he had 

 allowed a young queen to remain with it, 

 which emerged during the process. The old 

 queen went with the swarm. Her antipathy 

 to the queen cells could not have been the 

 immediate cause in the case. 



L'Apicoltoee.— Mr. Pettit's article on 

 " Smoke Better than Bee-Escapes " has giv- 

 en more than one foreign writer the im- 

 pression that bee-escapes are going out of 

 use in America. The reverse is the case. 



The editor quotes the following passage 

 from Baron Ehrenfels, an old bee-writer : 

 " Among the wintering experiments tried, 

 was that of employing artificial means of 

 heat, and placing hives in heated rooms. 

 The bees, kept in activity by a suitable de- 

 gree of heat, consumed honey without de- 

 siring to fly, befouled each other with their 

 excrements, wintered worse and ate more 

 honey than those wintered in the open air 

 in perfect repose. " One would like to know 

 whether they had to be confined to the in- 

 side of the hives, by wire c'oth or other- 

 wise, on account of the disturbing influence 

 of light. 



The same writer (his date is not given) 

 mentions that his assistants used to sweet- 

 en their coffee with fresh honey which they 

 extracted from pieces of comb by rotat- 

 ing them. 



It seems that Dr. Dabini has never seen a 

 single bee on his ordinary strawberrie-, 

 which yield him fruit duriug nine mouths of 

 the year, and only rarely on a peculiar lart'e 

 kind, which he calls annnas (pine-apple) 

 that only bears fruit in the spring. 



Australian Bee-Bulletin.— Extracted 

 honey has been found more profitable in 

 Australia. Some prefer small tin packages, 

 others larger ones. 



" Bombus" raises his voice loudly against 

 "the wholesale initiation of novices into 

 this art or science [of bee-keeping] in every 

 town and district where lectures are being 

 delivered." "Presently" he says "we 

 shall raise enormous quanties of honey, 

 and then comes the cry ' WHERE can we 

 sell it ? ' and ' WHAT can we get for it ? ' " 

 " My motto is 'The greatest good to the 

 greatest number. ' I fancy that those who 

 keep bees solely for the honey they produce 

 are in the majority. " He invites discussion. 

 I recommend him to read the fifth section 



of Mr. R. L. Taylor's essay at the last con- 

 vention, published, in the American Bee 

 Journal, page Giy. 



" Any hive on the ' long-idea ' principle 

 is the only kind which seems to suit the 

 Carniolan or Carni-Italian bees andi)revent 

 their swarming propen-ities. Put them in 

 any other hive and swarm they will. But 

 with the ' long-idea ' hive swarming is prac- 

 tically under control and large yields of hon- 

 ey are the result, lam an admirer of the 

 Carni-Italians, though I have more Italians 

 than them at the present time, but next 

 season things will be reversed. They are 

 more prolific than Italians and there is no 

 spring dwindling about them, which I can- 

 not say for Italians. " — " Loyalstorie. " 



By a supply advertisement I see that the 

 Rietsche foundation press is kept for sale 

 in Australia, why not in this country, if it is 

 made plain that it is not for section founda- 

 tion ? 

 Akvada Colo. Nov., 20, 18'Jo. 



How to Feed Bees Profitably. 



H. K. BOAEDMAN. 



T sold my crop of 

 i comb honey this 

 year at 14 cts. per lb. 

 delivered at my R. R. 

 station. I bought 

 granulated sugar at 

 4^4 cts. per lb. Isn't 

 there a good margin 

 of profit here? Many 

 a careful business 

 man has lost his head 

 over a much smaller 

 margin than this in 

 business transactions. It only remains to 

 determine how much labor and expense 

 comes between the raw material and the 

 finished product. 



The rapid breeding in the early part of 

 the season uses up the stores in the hive and 

 very frequently leaves the combs empty at 

 the beginning of the honey harvest, and 

 they will be filled with the choicest honey 

 from the flowers before the sections will re- 

 ceive any attention from the bees ; and 

 sometimes, in a poor season, this takes 

 about all of the honey that the bees are able 

 to gather and there will be nothing for the 

 bee keeper to show but stings. 



This has seemed to me to be a grand op- 

 portunity for successful and profitable feed- 



