THE AMERICAN APICULTURJST. 



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inch. This is filled b}' removino- the 

 side, while the space at the top allows 

 the bees access and but little esca[)e 

 of heat. If the inside space is more 

 than an inch wide, comb will be built 

 therein. 'J'iiis mode of feeding is not 

 only 8uital)le for spring stimulation 

 but is invaluable in a poor season to 

 l)revent starvation, for queen rearing, 

 for building ni) luiclei and working for 

 increase or drawing out foundation, 

 as well as for i)romoting brood rear- 

 ing after removing what is in some lo- 

 calities the only honey crop of the 

 season. By using soft can(iy of best 

 granulated sugar it ma^' be made to 

 piece out scanty stoi'es in the fall. 



When in the production of comb 

 hone^y, duniinies are needed to lill 

 space in brood chamber of new swarms 

 the_y may be made from these unused 

 feeders by nailing on the movable sides 

 so as to exclude the bees. 



A practical ex[)eriraent in the use 

 of artificial heat to promote brood 

 rearing, has been successfully con- 

 ducted, the details of which will be 

 given at a later date, when additional 

 residts shall have been siiined. 



O. R. Coe of Windham, N. Y., is 

 intending to send a carload of be 'S 

 to the Alfalfa regions, hoping theieby 

 to put them in a locality where l)e?s 

 will not have to contend with the 

 spring troubles of our eastern cli- 

 mate. The idea is a good one, but 

 must be expensive. 



If I\Ir. Coe is successful with this 

 experiment, no doubt many other 

 large beekeepers will do the same 

 thino- another season. 



I believe we never received so many 

 orders for queens so late in the season 

 as were sent us this year. ISome over 

 two hundred orders were received af- 

 ter Sept. 25. We regretted very 

 much that we could not fill all that 

 came in. The long, wet spell of 

 weather, from Sept. 8 to Sept. 19, was 

 the cause of spoiling a good many 

 queens. 



Just before the dull weather set in, 

 we had introduced a large number of 

 virgin queens and nearl}^ all should 

 have been fertilized the next week. 

 When clear weather came the queens 

 were too old to become fertile. 



Five-banded bees. 



It looks to me as if the gun we dis- 

 charged at those five-banded bee fel- 

 lows, not only wounded, but killed 

 one of them. A Mr. Ilearn wrote the 

 editc r of the Review as follows : 



Will you please allow me space 

 to reply to Mr. Henry Alley in the 

 "Ahkrican ApicuLTUiasr" for Sept. 1. 

 On page 138 he says, "We can shovv 

 handsomer yellow Carniolan worker 

 bees than any of those western fel- 

 lows can of the five-banded Italians, 

 and what is more, the color of our 

 Carniolan bees is not produced by 

 in-breeding as is the case with the 

 five-banded Italians." 



I think that it is but fair that our 

 side of the case should be heard. 

 There has been a grea,t deal of stuff 

 in the bee journals in the last twelve 

 months by parties who are pretend- 

 ing to be opposed to the four and five- 

 banded golden Italian bees. Even 

 some of our prominent editors said 

 such bees did not exist, but after we 

 sent a sample of the four and five 

 banded workers to them, they gave 

 it up like men, so we are certain that 

 some of our bee friends "talk too 

 fast." 



We can't imagine how Mr. Alley 

 conhl know how handsome bees we 

 have, or that we pi-actise in-breeding. 

 I know that in-breeding is not prac- 

 tised with me more than is necessary 

 to keep in view four distinct charac- 

 teristics, viz. : honey gathering, pro- 

 lificness, gentleness, and color. How 

 I have succeeded in these respects, 

 hundreds of teslinionials are on file 

 to show. 



P^ditor Hutchinson added the fol- 

 lowing footnote to the above : 



"At the Exposition we showed the 



