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■will permit their names to appear in such a 

 damaj^ing list. The plan niaj- be a good 

 one, but we should prefer not to have our 

 name in it. We'd pay up quickly rather 

 than be represented there. 



We hope that we shall not have to resort 

 to any such means, though sometimes it is 

 pretty hard to tell what is best to do to 

 secure the payment of if</me accounts. We 

 trust that all who are owing on their Bee 

 JouKXAL subscription or advertising will 

 pay up promptly. 



]loney-.YIufliii«»* an exchange say.s. 

 are made thus- Sift together \)4 pints of 

 flour, 2 tea-spoonfuls of Prices cream bak- 

 ing-powder, and y. tea-spoonful of salt. 

 Work in 2 table-spoonsfuls of butter : beat 

 and add 3 eggs, one teacupful of honey, 

 and y, pint of milk. Bake in a hot oven. 



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AN>WERf:D BY 



Marengo. Ilf,. 



In this department will be answered those 

 questions needing immediate attention, and 

 such as are not of sufficient special interest to 

 require replies from the 'ZO or more apiarists 

 who help to make ''Queries and Replies" so 

 interesting on another page. In the main, it 

 will contain questions and answers upon mat- 

 ters that particularly interest beginners.— Ed, 



A "Word With You Q,uestioners. 



Editor York has invited you to snow 

 me under with questions, and I think I 

 can see mischief in his eye as he thinks 

 how many times he can get me to say "I 

 don't know." Well, that's all right, 

 come on with your questions, the more 

 the better, but I want to give you a hint 

 that may be of use to both of us. 



Suppose a man writes, " I have 13 

 colonies and No. 5 is the weakest of the 

 lot. What shall I do with it ?" What 

 answer can I make, other than to say, 

 " I don't know ?" I'm not told a thing 

 aboat it, only that it is weaker than the 

 others. I might make a lot of guesses. 



and say, "Give it a queen if it is hope- 

 lessly queenles.s. Break it up if it is so 

 weak it isn't worth saving. Burn it up 

 if it Is about gone with foul brood," and 

 so on. 



Another man gives me all the particu- 

 lars, and gives them so fully that I can 

 almost see the bees before me, and then 

 I can perhaps answer nearly as well as 

 if I could look the bees over. That 

 saves me time in answering, for I need 

 not answer a lot of questions that I 

 guess at, and he doesn't care anything 

 about having answered ; and it also 

 gives him a chance to have a fuller an- 

 swer to the particular question he does 

 want to know about. 



So, friends, when you send questions, 

 give full particulars. They cannot well 

 be too full, for I can leave out any part 

 that has ho bearing on the case, but I 

 can't .«upply the lacking points that do 

 bear on the case. If your question is 

 not properly understood, be sure to ask 

 again C. C. Millee. 



Feeding at the Hive-Entrance. 



Will you please answer through the 

 Bee JouRJfAL, how to feed bees at the 

 entrance of the hive ? F. N. G. 



Guthrie, Okla. Ter. 



-AxswEK. — There is little difiBculty in 

 feeding at the entrance of the hive at 

 any time when bees are daily flying, but 

 coming at this lime of year I suppose 

 the question is meant to apply to bees in 

 winter quarters. The easiest answer is 

 to say the thing can't be done, and in 

 general that's the best answer. For at 

 a time when bees are standing out in a 

 zero atmosphere, they may as well starve 

 to death as to be frozen to death by get- 

 ting them out at the entrance. Even 

 then, however, there may come warm 

 days when they can fly, and a comb of 

 honey can be laid at the entrance. But 

 bees from other hives have as good a 

 chance to get it, and even better, for if 

 a colony needs feeding badly the bees 

 will not be as brisk about flying as the 

 bees of a strong colony well supplied. 

 Feeding at night will prevent others 

 robbing, but it will equally prevent the 

 bees coming out that you are trying to 

 feed, for it will almost surely become so 

 cool at night that the bees cannot be in- 

 duced to come out. 



You might have a little box attached 

 to the entrance so that bees could get 

 into it only from the inside : then If a 

 warm day should come, the bees could 

 take honey without the risk of robbing. 



There are feeders specially made for 



