134 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. June, 



About an hour later, I went to see rags which have been sprinkled with 



what they were doing, and was sur- propolis, rolled, and placed in the 



prised to see the queen outside near oven until warm enough to make the 



the top of the hive. I persuaded her bee glue stick. They are then cut 



to return, turned the hive around, and the desired length. The rolls must 



the fighting ceased. The colony was not be too thick to easily drop into 



strong with plenty of honey. the smoker. They burn well, and I 



There are two other things which believe the propolis helps to subdue 



struck me as being strange, first, to the bees. 



find that the Harlequin bug was an Wooster P. O., Texas, March li, 



enemy of the bees, for I saw one on 1907. 



a hive holding and eating a bee. The specimens of "bumble bee" and 

 Another time I found where the bees wasp, received from Mrs. St. Leger, 

 and bumble bees must have had a were sent to Dr. E. F. Phillips, of the 

 battle royal. I picked up twenty of National Bureau of Entomology, 

 the latter, with one or more stings in Washington, for identification, who 

 them; with them, was an insect advises that the former is a carpen- 

 (also stung to death) which at first ter bee, Xvlocopa virginica, and the 

 glance I thought was a queen bee latter is Scolia plumipes. Photo- 

 Cat that time I was not so well ac- graphic reproductions of the insects 

 quainted with her majesty). Last are herewith presented. — Editor. 



year I saw the same kind of insects, 



caught one on a flower and chloro- WIRED FOUNDATION VERSUS 



formed it, as I wanted to find out TxrTT3T?r» irr>ATVffTro 



what it was, and why it was with WIKiiD FKAMtb. 



the bumble bees, so far I have not allen latham. 

 been successful. 



HANDLING FRAMES. \ T FIRST THOUGHT wired foun- 



/-\ dation appeals to our fancy more 



When removmg the frames from a ^ A. ^j^^^^ does wired frames. Experi- 



hive, instead of leanmg them agamst gnce, however, is a thorough teacher, 



the same, I like better to use a kero- though her lessons sometimes come high, 



sme case with the bottom knocked it is no desire of mine to injure the trade 



out, and strips nailed on the inside of the makers of wired foundation, 



near the top, to hang the frames on, ^^t^ believing in the greatest good 



the case is just the right length, to the greatest number, I purpose 



Last year I hived several swarms in here to give my own experience with 



them, as my neighbor was prevented ^jre foundation. 



by sickness from letting me have the Last year I used something over 



hives I had bought from him, in time, four hundred sheets of this founda- 



^ , tion with the wires "made in," and I 



REPAIRING BROKEN EGGS. / T, ^i, , t ■ 1 iU <. T 



can honestly say that I wish that 1 



I must tell of a novel use for wax. had never heard of the stuff, for a 



I had a fine sitting of eggs, and was meaner lot of combs on the whole, it 



anxious that the hen should hatch as has never been my lot to possess, 



many as possible. On the ninth day I am not ready to say that founda- 



after they were given to her, one tion cannot be made already wired 



was accidentally cracked right across which can be successfully used, but 



one end. I had been sealing some I know that I shall not experiment 



jars with wax, so experimented on further to discover the possibility of 



the egg; first cutting a thin piece of such a feat. 



cloth, it waj dipped in the hot wax In the first place it is not true that 



and while quite warm, stuck on the this foundation can be put into 



egg completely covering the crack, frames more easily than frames can 



The surface was then lightly greased be wired and filled with regular foun- 



to prevent it from sticking to the dation. With proper method of 



hen's feathers. It hatched as if no- wiring and imbedding of foundation 



thing had happened, and I could not I prefer the work to the fastening of 



tell which chick was little Waxey. this already wired foundation in the 



Since then, I have saved many eggs frames. In point of time, there is 



in the same way. little choice between the two. 



For the smoker I like to use old Secondly, the wired frame holds 



