Jan. 11, 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



27 



Root's Column 



The ABC 

 of Bee= 

 Culture ! 



Revised in 1699 



Tliree thousaiul 

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Danzenbaker Hives, 



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Boardmau Wax-Extractor, 



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 next week 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



upon us agaiu, but at no time have we had 

 any diflioulty in keeping our foreign colo- 

 nies clean, while those bought were readily 

 treated as soon as the queens were changed 

 and the foreign varieties hatching out. 



"On one occasion we bought a number 

 of colonies from (we then found) an infec- 

 ted source. Half were native, the rest Ital- 

 ian. The former were diseased, but none 

 of the Italians. 



"In another instance we bought 8 colo- 

 nies of black bees. At the time, and even 

 for several weeks after transferring, these 

 bees appeared quite healthy. Presently, 

 one after the other showed evident signs of 

 disease, and tho we gave medicated food 

 and otherwise treated them, thus restrain- 

 ing the malady, there was no disposing of 

 the scattered foul cells until the queens 

 were superseded by Carniolans and Ital- 

 ians. During the whole time these were 

 the only colonies diseased among an apiary 

 of foreign bees many times their number." 



n'ii'ing' Frames -Willi Xlii-ead. 



— It is somewhat doubtful whether any- 

 thing can be better for wiring frames than 

 the tine wire usually used, but it seems that 

 in England some prefer thread. If thread 

 is used without preparation, the bees tear 

 it down. A. H. Miller gives, in the British 

 Bee Journal, his method as follows: 



" I got some tailor's 'yellow twist.' then 

 melted some beeswax in a jam-pot, leaving 

 it upon the stove till the wax came to the 

 boil. I then put in the twist and boiled the 

 wax well into it, then removed and run it 

 round a reel. I then used the waxt thread 

 upon about a dozen frames, and not one 

 was gnawed off by the bees. The combs 

 also stood the extractor well. In fixing 

 foundation in frames, I use a small brad- 

 awl to make two holes at each side or end 

 of frames on the outside ; these two holes 

 are made to run into one on the inside, so 

 as to have the two threads quite close to- 

 gether at about 2 inches from the bottom- 

 bar. I never use more than that amount of 

 support, and never had one break down af- 

 ter using it with some hundreds of combs 

 last season with the waxt twist in the ex- 

 tractor. 



" The bees seemed rather to like the waxt 

 thread, tor they imbedded it so that you 

 can scarcely see it in the combs. It is also 

 much nicer to use than wire, besides being 

 so simple." 



Octtin^ iJiieeii-Cells Started. — 



One of the live topics of the day is the im- 

 proved methods of queen-rearing, hew 

 points being brought out every now and 

 then, showing that some little thing has 

 made all the difference between success and 

 failure. Editor Pender, of the Australa- 

 sian Bee-Keeper, says that when he gives 

 royal jelly, it too often occurs that it dries 

 up in a condition unfit for the larvas, and 

 he gets better results not to use jelly. He 

 proceeds as follows: 



"I have a colony queenless in which 

 there are one or more frames of yoiuiy un- 

 sealed brood— the younger the better. 

 When I arrive at the apiary in the morn- 

 ing, I remove these frames of brood for 

 which the bees are busy preparing milk 

 food, and so cause tbem to accumulate it in 

 their stomachs. When leaving the hive I 

 leave an empty space between two combs 

 for the prepared frame ; in this space the 

 bees will cluster in large numbers. From 

 two to four hours later. I take a frame of 

 prepared cell-cups and transfer, as rapidly 

 as possible, the larvm selected for queens 

 and place this frame in the vacant space, 

 so great is the cluster of bees that time has 

 to be allowed for the frame to settle into 

 position, or if the frame is forced down 

 bees will be crusht. I now have my pre- 

 pared cells immediately surrounded by bees 

 having plenty of food prepared to feed the 

 royal larva?, and if this frame is examined 

 in an hour, not only do we find the larv,Te 

 well fed, but the cups shaped into true 

 queen-cups. The cups are hardly given be- 

 fore the bees start feeding the larvte. These 

 larvae receive only the freshly-prepared 

 food. 



"To obtain larv;>? suitable for grafting, I 



LanosMH on... 

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