THE AMERICAN APICULTUIUST. 



using the extractor. Would suggest 

 that before the transfer of the brood 

 to the new t:olony. that as much as pos- 

 sible of the honey in the brood combs 

 should be extracted. The whirling of 

 the combs in the extractor to throw out 

 the honey, would be likely to destroy 

 any queen cells tliat escaped the eye 

 when the combs were examined. 



There is another suggestion I will 

 make here. It is this. Do not wait five 

 days before making the transfer of brood 

 combs from the old hive to the new one. 

 Do it late in the. afternoon of the day 

 the swarm issued. The young bees 

 will go down into the bottom hive after 

 a while. In two weeks from the day 

 they leave the combs the young bees 

 will be in the fields gathering pollen and 

 honey. 



JIICE IN BKK-HIVKS. 



Mice sometimes get in the hives dur- 

 ing the winter. The best evidence that 

 some stray mouse has taken up his 

 abode in a bee hive is by the small 

 pieces of comb and headless bees found 

 at the entrance of the hive. 



Hives that set near the ground and 

 have an entrance, or ventilation large 

 enough for mice to crawl through are the 

 ones most likely to be infested with ver- 

 min. 



Mice will eat the heads off dead bees 

 and the pollen found in the combs. 

 Never knew them to trouble honey when 

 there is anything else for them to sub- 

 sist upon. 



WINTER CAKE OK BEKS. 



The only care bees need in winter is 

 to be let alone. This of course applies 

 to such colonies as are in good condi- 

 tion for winter. After bees have been 

 confined in the hives several weeks, 

 many will sally out in the middle of the 

 day for a flight if the sun strikes the 

 front ot the hive, and hundreds will per- 

 ish on the snow. To prevent this a wide 

 board should be leaned against the front 

 of the hive to keep out the heat and 

 li"ht of tiie sun. 



PERSONAL AND OTlIER NOTES. 



IJv E. L. Pkatt. 



Dr. Miller has turned an editor. 



Dr. Tinker was called back to prac- 

 tice during a recent epidemic in his 

 town. 



Mr. H. R. Board man has gone on 

 record in favor of three-eighths spacing 

 of brood combs. 



Mr. M. D. Fisher gave a very vivid 

 description of his first experience in in- 

 troducing queen bees in a late issue of 

 the^. B.J. 



The leading gardener-under-glass in 

 this part of the county uses over one 

 hundred colonies of bees to work in his 

 green houses. 



Over fourteen columns of solid print- 

 ed space was consumed in the A.B.J. 

 telling how to cure Foul-brood. One 

 word would have given a cheaper and 

 safer method — cremation. 



Brother Newman should allow Mr. 

 Clark to defend himself. It is a shame 

 that a discussion can not be carried on 

 without going into rank personalities. 

 It is not just nor Christian-like. 



Where is our old friend Kelley of 

 Siffiiigs fame? Why do not some of 

 the young men and women ^who are 

 somewhat advanced in Apiculture step 

 up and tell us what they have learned 

 by experience? 



Dr. Searles of Worcester, Mass., is 

 the possessor of five hundred colonies 

 of bees. At the Convention in Plough- 

 man Hall, Boston, Dec. 13. he said that 

 he used a modification of Dr. Tinker's 

 hive, and that four tons of honey were 

 produced last season. At one hotel 

 he sold half a ton. Most of the honey 

 was sold in New York at twenty cents. 

 The Doctor agreed with my remarks 

 with the exception of one point and 

 that was feeding to stimulate brood- 

 rearing in spring. Should judge by his 

 remarks that he fed a little too much. 



