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As to color of protreuy there are some tested 

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eg-gs, larva^, and sealed. The nest day 

 I also found the young queen that had 

 just hatcht a day or twobefore. Now, 

 the conclusion must be this : That the 

 first queen-cell I gave them must have 

 hatcht, and the queen was laying, and 

 permitted another queen to be reared. 

 Of course, " I don't know." 



H. W. Hkchler. 

 Keokuk Co., Iowa, June 28. 



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Smoking Bees Out of Sections. — 



The following is given by F. L. 

 Thompson in the Progressive Bee- 

 Keeper, along with which should be 

 the caution that too much smoke affects 

 the taste of the honey : 



" To remove the bees from a section 

 super, Mr. R. D. Willis uses a box 

 without a top, on which the super just 

 fits. A hole at one end admits the 

 nozzle of the smoker. When the super 

 is set on and smoke pumpt in, nearly 

 all the bees find it impossible to re- 

 main, and the few left eventually leave 

 thru the window-escape of the honey- 

 house." 



Non-Swarming — The Most Hopeful 

 Field. — I believe the most hopeful field 

 for commercial bee-keeping lies in the 

 improvement of the stock, in the direc- 

 tion of non-swarming. There are some 

 strains of bees not so much addicted to 

 swarming as others. Take such a 

 strain and use every means available 

 to prevent swarming, breeding always 

 from colonies that are not inclined to 

 swarm, and I believe you will, in time, 

 have a non-swarming strain of bees. 

 Bees have, iu times past, been bred 

 mostly from the worst swarmers ; it is 

 the easiest way to get good queens and 

 increase for those who do not inake a 

 business of bee-keeping ; but I think 

 the time is coming when those making 

 a business of bee-keeping will reverse 

 this practice, and breed from those 

 that don't swarm. Now, I will have to 

 plead guilty to the charge of breeding 

 from swarming colonies myself. I was, 

 like all beginners, anxious for increase, 

 and glad to have them swarm. I soon 

 saw, however, that the colonies that 

 did not swarm were a good deal the 

 most profitable in honey : so I have 

 reared a few queens from some that 

 did not swarm, and they were away 

 ahead of the average bees. The worst 

 year for swarms that I have seen, 

 about one-third of mine run for comb 

 honey did not swarm. Other years I 

 have had from none to 8 or 10 swarms 

 from 30 to SO colonies. But each sea- 

 son the bees have to be watcht, and 

 this watching is what we want to do 

 away with. 



There are many plans of dividing 

 and uniting in the fall, and thus keep- 

 ing down increase after a fashion, but 

 we want the whole force of one queen 

 to stay together thru the honey-flow in 

 order to get good crops of fancy comb 

 honey. 



How to do this without any one on 

 hand to watch for swarms is, in my 

 judgment, the greatest problem now 

 before the bee-keeping fraternity. — E. 

 S. Miles, in Bee-Keepers' Review. 



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