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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



of suit to a pint of water. Unctover 

 the fVatnes iin<l wet the bees, coiuhs, 

 IVaines and all the inside of the hive 

 with the mixture. It will do no luirni 

 in any event, and will surely eure the 

 disease. 



Some twelve 3-ears ago there w:is a 

 colony in our apiary in as had con- 

 dition as you say yours are. One day 

 I uncovei'ed the frames and sprinkled 

 the top bars with fine salt and then 

 wet the whole thing with water. Re- 

 sult was that all the stricken bees 

 dieil and the disease disappeared. 



This malady has made its ap[)ear- 

 ance in several apiaries in California,. 

 Salt is the remedy. 



Moving Bees. 



Chicago, May 13, 1890. 

 Am. An. : 



Sometime please answer the Collowiiiy 

 quesliou : 



111 the fall before I pack my bees for 

 winter (I winter on suininer stuiid.><) could 

 I move the liive.s about lifty to seventy - 

 live feet without duuiier of loss? I have 

 been watching Api and Gli-aniugs for in- 

 foniKitioii that jnst hit my case, but iiave 

 not noticed any thing. 



Jos F. Bautox. 



There Is no way you can remove 

 the hives v.'ithout losing many of the 

 bees unless the hives are moved only a 

 {'gw feet each time. 



A much better way would be to 

 move the bees about a mile ; let them 

 remain a month or so and then take 

 them back and place in the new loca- 

 tion. This is the most practical vvay. 



Another wa}' is to remove the 

 queens and confine the bees to the 

 hives three days. The bees ma}' then 

 be iilaced in a new location when 

 few, if any, vvould return to the old 

 stand. The queens should be rein- 

 troduced at the end of three days. 



Introducing queens at swarming time. 



We have received many inquiries 



as to the best way to introduce a queen 



at swarming time. An order just 



came for a queen. The writer says ; 



"Shall I put the new (|ueen in with 

 the swarm or in the old hive? How 

 shall I do it?" 



We never introduce a strange queen 

 to a siCitrm of bees. As the i)erson 

 wIhj sent the above queries says he 

 is a beginner and knows nothing 

 about bees, we will first inform him 

 that a swarm of bees are the bees that 

 have issuetl from a full colony. Well, 

 now the new queen should not be in- 

 tioduced to the swarm, nor to the 

 old colony until after the combs have 

 been examined and all the queen-cells 

 destroyed. Three days later intro- 

 duce the queen. 



If the queen is i)urchased of us and 

 she is mailed in one of our introducing 

 and shipping cages, all there is to do 

 is merely to place the cage in the hive 

 so that the bees of the colony can re- 

 move the sugar food in the cage and 

 thus release the queen. 



We have sent out a few queens in 

 Pratt's shipping cage. If any cus- 

 tomer hap[)ens to get a queen in one 

 of these you will notice that there is 

 a small hole in the food end of the 

 cage. The food is held in place by 

 paper. Take a nail and pierce the 

 paper before placing the cage in the 

 hive. 



We usually place the cage at the 

 bottom of a brood frame, close the 

 hive and in the course of a week ex- 

 amine the combs for eggs or for the 

 queen. Do not put the cage near the 

 hive till two days after the swarm 

 has issued, or the colony has been 

 queenless. 



^plcultunst illaiUbojf. 



Two Years of the Api. free. 



New York, June 11, 1890. 

 IIknky Alley : 

 Dkar Sik : 

 Queen came to-day, O. K. She is 

 much handsomer than a $3.00 (lueeu that 

 1 bought this spring. If she does as well, 

 I sliall consider that I have gained two 

 years of the Api free. 



Henry Hall. 



