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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



with wiuteriug your bees only, aud 

 are sure you will always have your 

 box hive full of old comb filled with 

 good honey, and the hive full of bees, 

 continue with this kind of a hive ; 

 but if you want to winter your 

 bees and winter them for some pur- 

 pose, by all means use none but mova- 

 ble frame hives. The old box hive 

 has not been laid aside because we 

 wanted a change, but because in the 

 frame hive we found something better. 

 Steeleville, 111. 



Notes and Comments. 



BV H. E. HILL. 



A Toledo, 0., man refused to 

 devulge the secret of an effectual foul 

 brood cure, which he has held for 

 eleven years. JNIay his tribe never 

 increase. 



In parts of "old Mozzura" the past 

 season has been one of the best for 

 honey ever known. 



Our national flower signifies "en- 

 couragement." This is a particularly 

 appropriate when considered from the 

 standpoint of a bee-keeper. Give us 

 plenty of Goldenrod. 



Every bee-keeper should familiarize 

 himself with the symptoms of of foul 

 brood, that its presence would be 

 readily detected. 



In relating 'a bee-hunting episode, 

 in A. B. J., J. H. Andre says ; " I 

 made an examination of the bees and 

 found them all of one size and shape, 

 which everyone that has knowledge of 

 bees knows that it proves they belong 

 to the same colony." This is noteworthy 

 only because of its erroneous infer- 

 ence. Bees of the same race or strain 



may be identical in appearance, though 

 bred in difl'erint states, or hemi- 

 spheres, while the progeny of one 

 queen sometimes differ perceptibly 

 both in markings and in size. 



Sam Wilson, the Tennesee prophet, 

 thinks the moisture in the ground 

 during the fall months foreshadows 

 the honey crop of the following sea- 

 son. I believe it is R. Mc Knight 

 who says the nectar secretion is in 

 proportion to the amount of carbonic 

 acid in the atmosphere. We must 

 have not only the " honey-plants " but 

 the conditions, for a crop. 



A writer in the A. B. J., suggests that 

 that the workers may control the sex 

 of eggs in drone-rearing, since they 

 develope either a worker or a queen 

 at will. The fact that bees often 

 dwindle and die of queenlessness 

 proves ,their inability to produce a 

 female from an unfecundated egg. 



Now, Mr. Newman has retired from 

 apicultural journalism, Prof. Wiley 

 ventures forth as of yore with "scien- 

 tific pleasantries " calculated to injure 

 bee-keeping interests. Mr. Abbott in 

 A. B. J., comments in a befitting and 

 forcible manner upon Prof. Wiley's 

 conduct, which appears to be a little 

 less than a mania. He may, however, 

 find the press of today quite as 

 " warm " as thirteen years ago. 



The construction of a super that 

 firmly and squarely supports the sec- 

 tions \ of an inch above the top-bars, 

 admits the tiering up, protects the 

 edges from propolization, that maybe 

 used with or without separators, and 

 from which the finished goods may be 



