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1HE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



perience the past season strongly con- 

 firras all the "conclusions " mention- 

 ed in them. Besides, I have a vast. 

 amount of evidence from others, (some 

 of which will be given in next article), 

 which goes to prove that what' I have 

 observed, and the conclusions I have 

 wrought therefrom in "my own little 

 think shop" are not far from correct. 

 The answers to question 7(50 in the 

 American Bee Journal for April 2, in 

 regard to the "advantages the Sim- 

 plicity frame has over one of a square 

 build," are certainly amusing. The 

 most of the parties answering the 

 question say the Simplicity frame 

 gives "a larger surface over which to 

 place the sections." As if a large 

 surface was an '' advantage " to the 

 bees ! If a large surface is the " ad- 

 vantage " they possess then why not 

 reduce their depth 3 or 4 inches and 

 their length and the number of frames 

 in a hive in proportion ? By this 

 means several square feet of area over 

 the frames could be obtained. 



To be continued ' 



American Bee-Keeper : A year 

 has passed since the A. B. K. started 

 in its mission of carrying information 

 to those just starting on the road to- 

 ward success or failure as bee keepers, 

 as well as helping those further along, 



I for one wish to say " thank you " 

 for the many useful hints gained from 

 its pages. 



As many of the beginners, especial- 



ly those who are women, may be in- 

 terested to know of remedies for bee 

 stings I will tell my experience. 

 When I first begin to handle bees 

 every time I got a sting I was marked 

 for a week at least, the poison causing 

 a good deal of swelling which was 

 very painful. I tried all the remedies 

 I had heard of, ammonia, laudanum, 

 soda, etc., and finally discovered that 

 baking soda, wet with spirits of cam- 

 phor, was the most effectual, in my 

 case at least. Mrs. Axtell, in Glean- 

 ings, appears to think that a little grit 

 is the best remedy. Well, I've tried 

 that, too, mixed all I could get of it 

 in along with the other ingredients, 

 and don't know but I could stand it, 

 on that alone, if no one else ever got 

 stung but myself, but the trouble is, 

 sometimes other members of the fam- 

 ily, the little ones, or strangers, will 

 be so unfortunate as to get a sting and 

 then soda and camphor come good, as it 

 stops the pain almost instantly and as 

 long as kept damp the disagreeable 

 burning is not felt. 



AVith regard to sulky colonies that 

 pile up in front of the hive, and re- 

 fuse to go to work, in spite of any- 

 thing you can do to coax them, and 

 will only enter the sections to roost on 

 the nice white foundation and soil it, 

 I sometimes get even with them in the 

 following way : If the trouble is not 

 with the queen, and often it is not, in 

 my yard at least, I just naturally rob 

 them, and then the lazy little rascals 

 will go to work all right. The sec- 

 tions with "roosting" bees I place 

 over some other colony that needs 

 more room, the brood is given to other 

 colonies that need it most, or used for 

 nuclei. I only leave two frames with 

 honev in them which I place in the 



