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April 16, 



able. 2. In my experiments along this 

 line, I have concluded that the virgin 

 queen to be normal in usefulness, must 

 be mated by the time she is 12 days old. 

 I have retarded mating, by artificial 

 means, till the ISth day, resulting in 

 poor queens. 



P. H. Elwood — 1. I have not thor- 

 oughly tried the upper story for queen- 

 rearing. 2. I remember to have had a 

 virgin queen forgotten for two weeljs in 

 a queen-cage, that afterward became 

 fertile, but I think this must be an ex- 

 ception. Ask the queen-breeders. 



Rev. M. Mahin— I. I have never tried 

 Mr. Doolittle's plan, nor seen it tried, 

 and can express no opinion. 2. I have 

 no experience that will enable me to 

 speak with authority. After a virgin 

 queen begins to lay, she cannot, or will 

 not, be fertilized. The age will vary 

 many days. 



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The Tinker Hive and Management. 



On page 100 Mr. Thiry says that he would 

 like to hear ot the success others are hav- 

 ing with the Dr. Tinker hive. I have kept 

 bees for the last 20 years and upward, com- 

 mencing with the standard Langstroth. I 

 became dissatisfied with it, and sent for the 

 Bay State hive, which I now have in use. 

 Three years ago I sent to Dr. Tinker for his 

 hive, and have used that almost exclusively 

 since that time, and I am compelled to say 

 I like it the best ot any hive I have used. 

 My bees have wintered the best in thi.s 

 hive, and I have been enabled to get the 

 most surplus honey in sections. 



There is one feature, however, about the 

 winter case that I don't like. In adding 

 the second story. I find it exceedingly diftl- 

 cult to take off the second story after it is 

 waxed down. The case is so filled up there 

 isn't room to work. I have not used the 

 single-walled hive that would obviate the 

 difficulty mentioned. I follow Tinker's 

 plan of treatment as laid down in his book. 



My bees are all in the cellar, and have 

 wintered splendidly. They are all packed 

 in chaff and straw mixed. I leave the pack- 

 ing in the hive until late in June. I do this 

 to keep up a uniform temperature. 



Until I find something better I will con- 

 tinue the use of the Tinker hive and his 

 method of treatment iu running for comb 

 honey. 



The American Bee Journal is a most wel- 

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 different papers, magazines and journals, 

 but the Bee Journal is among the first to 

 be read. Long may it live to bless and en- 

 courage, as well as to enlighten, the api- 

 arists. L. Allen. 



Loyal, Wis., March 37. 



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 or we will club it with the Bee Journal for 

 a year— both for $1.10.— Editor.] 



Hives — Foul Brood — Wintering. 



Hives receive a large percentage of argu- 

 ment. A beginner is at variance to know 

 which to adopt, and well may he be at a 

 loss to choose intelligently among our many 

 very good bee-receptacles. Some say, 

 '• Choose the standard !" I say, experiment 

 on a small scale first, and choose that 

 which is best adapted to your locality. The 

 best hive for a general one is the old Ameri- 

 can hive, cut down to IS^f, inches. This 

 will give a hive ll'.j inches deep, \5}^ 

 wide, and 13 long ; a frame being 11% top- 

 bar and loinch end-bar. Each brood- 

 frame will contain 118.75 square inches, or 

 whole hive 1.1N7.50 square inches, being 10 

 frames per hive. Such hives have wintered 

 bees successfully for me, either on the sum- 

 mer stands or in-doors, or for cellar-win- 

 tering for the past five years. I have eight 

 colonies outside, and the balance inside, but 

 I can see no material difference in their 

 present condition. 



The summer of 18fl4 I had a colony which 

 I concluded had every indication of foul 

 brood, and to do a little on the experimen- 

 tal line, in January I withdrew all combs 

 but four, which the bees completely cov- 

 ered. This hive was located on the north 

 side of a building, partly sheltered by a 

 Scotch pine. I raised the hive two inches 

 from the bottom-board, and did likewise 

 with the cover. VV'e had very cold weather 

 until spring, sometimes as low as 12 de- 

 grees below zero, and they were the ones 

 that gave me the largest yield and did not 

 swarm. They were the first to have brood. 

 Yet the strangest of all was that I failed to 

 discover any symptoms ot foul brood the 

 whole of the past summer. The question 

 would naturally be asked, Did, or did not, 

 the foul-brood germs freeze ? 



The month of March has been one of the 

 severest for many years. The ground 



