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the foregoing rules. There will be an effort 

 to supersede the poor queens with no thought 

 of swarming, yet when the time for the 

 young queens to hatch arrives, the plurality 

 will excite to swarming with almost every 

 other favorable condition absent, and the 

 more so if the old queen has passed away in 

 the mean time. To keep only the best of 

 queens, means that the swarming will come 

 almost all at the same time, provided other 

 conditions are right. In case of superseding 

 usnally only one to three or four cells are 

 built ; but in building for swarming, from 5 

 to 15 or 20 ; aud under forced conditions 

 from 20 to 50. Cells for swarming and for 

 superseding are built in the most favorable 

 places, as the edges of the combs, while 

 those built under forced circumstances may 

 be found any where on the comb, and of 

 almost any size and shape. 



The cause of swarming is instinct ; its 

 control, broodlessness. Other methods at 

 times seem effective, but the only method of 

 controlling swarming that is at all times a 

 success, is broodlessness. 



LovELAND, Colo. Nov. 25, 1898. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN. DEC. 10. 1895. 



J. A. Lamon, a honey dealer of Chicago 

 made an exhibit of honey at a pure food 

 show held in that city during the first 19 days 

 of October. A lady in attendance put a 

 spoonful of honey on a cracker and passed 

 it to the visitor who ate the whole thing. 

 From ."> to 5 gallons were used in this way 

 each day. A colony of bees in a glass hive 

 was on exhibition and prizes offered for 

 guessing the number of bees. One man 

 guessed 40,055 and guessed only five too 

 many. Wonder how they counted them ? 

 Did they have to kill them ? One large, 

 general merchandise store in Chicago has 

 commenced a similar exhibition. All this I 

 learufrom the American Bee Journal. 



Clubbing Rates will be found on the first 

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 ing advantage of these clubbing offers the 

 editor to whom the subscription is sent gets 

 full price for his paper, while the " other 

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Ivy is still confined to the bed most of the 

 time and requires constant attendance and 

 much care, but she is slowly improving — 

 especially mentally, and as her mind be- 

 comes clearer it is easier to treat her bodily 

 ailments. The doctor says she will eventu- 

 ally recover but it may take a long time. I 

 wish to thank the many friends who have 

 written letters full of sympathy and encour- 

 agement. 



ViEGiN Queens will not take their bridal 

 excursion so long as unsealed brood is pres- 

 ent says Gravenhorst — he has known of only 

 a single exception. I have known of 

 thousands of exceptions. My queen rearing 

 nuclei are never without unsealed brood, yet 

 the queens mate all right. Of course, in 

 natural swarming there is no unsealed brood 

 in the hive at the time the young queen 

 mates, but I doubt if its presence would 

 have any effect in deterring her. 



Feeding Bees in Winter is a difficult 

 thing to do successfully. Ed. Jolley tells 

 the American Bee Keeper how he fed a few 

 destitute colonies by laying eight or ten 

 sections of honey flat on their sides over 

 the brood nest, and tucking all up warm 

 and snug with quilts and cushions. When 

 there came a warm afternoon the quilts were 

 removed, the cappings on the upper surfaces 

 scored with a fork, when the bees came up 

 and removed the honey to the brood nest. 



Excellent Abtioles are on hand from J. 

 E. Crane, Eugene Secor. E. France, L. A. 

 Aspinwall. C. P. Dadant and others. They 

 were intended for the Dec. Review, but 

 there was not room for them. I intended to 

 put in extra pages, pictures, etc. as is usu- 

 ally done at this time of the year, but sick- 

 ness has prevented. If my subscribers will 

 only bear with the Review's short comings 



