honey through the summer ? My honey is 

 made on frames that average nearly 3 lbs. 

 to the frame. The bees in filling these 

 frames, sometimes put in from 1 to 20 or 

 more cells of bee bread, and when the 

 honey is stored the moth is certain to hatch 

 in these cells first. I think the eggs are 

 carried from the flowers in the pollen. I 

 keep all my honey, when taken from the 

 hive, where the miller cannot get to it; even 

 then they hatch in the very nicest and pur- 

 est honey. I have put some pure white 

 pieces of comb in a candy jar, and sealed it 

 tight, taking care not to let it remain, when 

 taken from the hive, where the miller could 

 deposit eggs in it, and a moth hatched in it 

 and grew one inch long before I knew it. 

 H. W. Roop. 



[To destroy the bee-moth, we would sug- 

 gest a thorough fumigation with sulphur, as 

 recommended by Mr. G. M. Doolittle, on 

 page 303, July number American Bee 

 Journal.— Ed.] 



Saratoga Springs, N. T., July 19, 1879. 

 Prof. A. J. Cook :— Do bees injure buck- 

 wheat ? I have 140 colonies, and some of 

 my neighbors think that my bees injure 

 their buckwheat. Please answer in Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal,. S. Ruggles. 



[Bees are never injurious to any plant, 

 while gathering nectar or pollen from its 

 flowers. On the other hand, it is fully proved 

 that by aiding in fertilization and cross-fer- 

 tilization they are often of great benefit to the 

 plants. Therefore, I answer with great em- 

 phasis, that your bees benefit your neigh- 

 bors' crops. — A. J. Cook.] 



Wilmington, N. C, July 8, 1879. 

 An old bee-man, 2 miles from me, has al- 

 bino bee upon the brain, and he has it bad ! 

 He swears by them ; no other bee ever was 

 or ever can be as good as the albino. He 

 visited me, looked at my Italians — I bought 

 my queens from Dr. Brown, of Augusta, 

 Ga. He at once pronounced my bees poor 

 hybrids. Three weeks after he came again, 

 looked at my bees, and seeing many young 

 ones that have the white stripes around the 

 lower extremities of the abdomen, de- 

 clared, without any hesitation, that the 

 queens I have had been refertilized, and had 

 met his albino drones ! It was useless to 

 expostulate or try to explain anything to 

 him. He declared, with blood in his eye, 

 while the perspiration protruded from every 

 pore, "That he had been in the bee business 

 22 years, that he knew more about bees 

 than any man who ever wrote for or edited 

 a bee-paper," etc., etc. He is a box-hive 

 man, 1 am happy to say. Will you please 

 tell me in the Journal for August what 

 you think of the albino ? Is she not a 

 myth ? R. C. Taylor. 



[We have several colonies of pure Ital- 

 ian bees in the Journal apiary which 

 have been pronounced albinos by those who 

 have seen the so-called albinos. It is our 

 opinion that all the albinos in this country 

 are the result of successful and careful 

 crossing of the lighter strains of Italian 

 bees, thereby establishing a very light, good 

 and beautiful type of bees.— Ed.] 



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