AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Oiti- Doctor's Hints, on another 

 page of this number of the Bee Journal, is 

 a new department to be conducted by our 

 good and able friend, Dr. F. L. Peiro, of 

 Chicago. It affords us pleasure to intro- 

 duce the Doctor to our readers by his por- 

 trait herewith. 



Dr. Peiro has had an experience as a 

 medical practitioner covering a period of 

 about 30 years, so whatever he may advise 

 in his department can be relied upon im- 

 plicitly. 



We hope that at least the mothers in the 

 families receiving the Bee Journal will 



DR. F. L. PEIRO. 



note carefully the Doctor's '• hints " from 

 week to week, and thus be enabled to profit 

 by them whenever an emergency arises. 



Any of our readers who may wish to ask 

 Dr. Peiro any questions by mail, will please 

 remember to enclose a few stamps to cover 

 postage, etc. He will be pleased to see you 

 personally at his office (McVicker's Build- 

 ing, 83 East Madison St.) when you are in 

 the city. His specialty now is throat and 

 lung diseases. 



We trust that " Our Doctor's Hints " may 

 prove a helpful and valuable addition to 

 the contents of the •' Old Reliable." 



One-Cent Postag^e Stamps we 



prefer whenever it is necessary to send 

 stamps for fractions of a dollar. By re- 

 membering this, you will greatly oblige us. 



answered by 

 Marengo, III. 



In this department will be answered those 

 questions needing immediate attention, and 

 such as are not of sufficient special interest to 

 require replies from the '20 or more apiarists 

 who help to make "Queries and Replies" bo 

 interesting on another page. In the main, it 

 will contain questions and answers upon mat- 

 ters that particularly interest beginners.— Ed. 



Distance Below Frames. 



What is the space that should be be- 

 tween the bottom of the hive and the 

 bottom of the frames ? I have one kind 

 of hive — a patent hive — in which the 

 space is % of an inch, and the bees build 

 the bottom full of ladders to climb up to 

 the frames. I. S. 



Long, W. Va. 



Answer. — Three-eighths inch is a good 

 space. That's one of the things about 

 which I made a fool of myself some 

 years ago. I said % was too small a 

 space, for with % space the bottom-bars 

 of my frames barely cleared the hum- 

 mocks that were built all over the bot- 

 tom-board, and if the frames were a 

 quarter of an inch lower, they would be 

 glued fast to the hummocks. A. I. Root 

 replied, "Why, you fool you" — well, no, 

 he didn't say that, but I suppose he 

 thought it — "don't you know that your 

 deep space is the very thing that obliges 

 the bees to build hummocks for lad- 

 ders ?" Now you were just that much 

 smarter than I, for you recognized, with- 

 out being told, that the bees were build- 

 ing ladders. 



Honey-Locust. 



What does honey-locust look like ? 

 Lynn Centre, 111. A. R. J. 



Answer. — The honey-locust is an open- 

 branching tree with very fine leaves, 

 and one of the thorniest trees that 

 grows. Sometimes the thorns are 4 to 

 6 inches long, having secondary thorns 

 grow out at the sides. The flowers are 

 small, but the bean-pods large— 12 to 

 18 inches in length. 



