and by raising the side sections on top, 

 when partly filled, they readily go to work 

 in them. Being double-walled all over, 

 they are good for both winter and summer ; 

 and being so constructed that the sides and 

 back come off in one piece, leaving the 

 frames resting against the fi'ont, and expos- 

 ing at once the whole brood chamber, with- 

 out having to lift them out at the top. It 

 takes very little time to examine a hive and 

 find out its exact condition. I do not 

 believe, at any time of the year, that the 

 time occupied in finding a queen will 

 exceed 5 minutes, and nearly always much 

 less. As it is now time to form nuclei, and 

 as I was often vexed last summer by queen 

 cells not hatching when introduced into 

 them, I wish to call attention to a fact 

 which I observed then in regard to them :— 

 One day, in introducing 5 or 6, I noticed 

 that in shaking them gently, I could pntthe 

 young queen loose in several of them. — 

 None of those in Avhich the queen would 

 'shake' would hatch. I tried it several 

 times afterwards and not a single one of 

 this kind would hatch. This little dis- 

 covery will save me a great deal of trouble 

 this summer, as I shall throw all such 

 away and not waste time on them. I would 

 ask some of your readers to try this and 

 report. I have the light colored Italians, 

 and am trying all the time to get them 

 lighter, as I keep bees more for recreation 

 than profit, and have never tried to ascer- 

 tain whether the light or the dark ones give 

 the best results. Mine gave me about 50 

 lbs. of surplus last year, and it was not a 

 good year for honey gathering, in this local- 

 ity. I increased 100 per cent." 



W. O. Langdon, M. D. 



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South Haven, Mich., May 20, 1878. 

 " To answer lots of questions let me say, 

 the term ' dollar queens ' is used in contra- 

 distinction to 'tested queens.' They are not 

 tested, but shipped as soon as fertile. By of- 

 fering ' pure Italian queens ' we simply 

 meant queens that were reared from mothers 

 of undoubted purity, and possessing in some 

 degree the most desirable qualities of the 

 Italian race. While it was our aim to sell 

 queens at a low price, reared from the 

 choicest stock obtainable, we could not 

 guarantee pure fertilization. We may add, 

 however, that during the past 3 years, while 

 there has always been a few black bees in 

 our Immediate vicinity, fully 80 per cent, of 

 our young queens have been purely fertil- 

 ized. We have always reared queens in full 

 colonies, believing such a plan insures more 

 vigorous and long lived stock ; and we 

 deem it to be of equal importance that 

 all queens should be started from just 

 hatched larvse, instead of larva? 3 days old. 

 Our favorite method of introducing queens 

 we give as follows : Remove the old 

 queen, spray both the queen to be intro- 

 duced and the bees and combs, thoroughly, 

 with sweetened peppermint water, and put 

 in the queen at once. Our idea of success- 

 ful re-queening is : Don't let the bees 

 know they are queenless. This method 

 has given us the most unbounded satisfac- 

 tion, and we use it even to introduce imported 

 queens. With us, it saves time, trouble and 

 aisappointment." Herbert A. Burch. 



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