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ends and the roof will act as a shade. 

 Later, when Spanish needle blooms, and 

 the nights become cool I will replace the 

 sides and chaff, so that comb building 

 will not be retarded for want of heat 

 during the night. A. M. T. 



Bronaugh, Mo., Jan. 24, 1894. 



Answers. — I think I can answer your 

 questions more satisfactorily to answer 

 them all in a lump. If I understand 

 you correctly, you have one general 

 entrance for all the colonies. That will 

 hardly do. When the bees are busy at 

 work in the fields they may stand mix- 

 ing up in alt sorts of ways, but at other 

 times it isn't so safe. Neither do I be- 

 lieve it best for you to have them so the 

 bees of any two colonies can mix, out- 

 side of the working season. I know 

 that a good deal is being said just now, 

 especially across the water, about hav- 

 ing two colonies together, and it may do 

 to try it carefully on a small scale, but I 

 wouldn't run the risk of mixing several 

 colonies and queens. 



I think your idea is to have the advan- 

 tage of the heat of several colonies to- 

 gether, and it looks reasonable that 

 much should be gained by it. But you 

 never know till you try, what the bees 

 themselves will think about it. 



I would advise you to have your colo- 

 nies entirely separated, perhaps by 

 board partitions, and these may be only 

 a quarter of an inch thick, then let each 

 one have an entirely separate entrance, 

 by some kind of a tube as a passage 

 from the colony to the outer air. Posts 

 or boards, or trees, anything to make 

 the entrances unlike, will be a help. 



Be sure to let us know how your ex- 

 periment turns out. 



A Scheme for Swarming-Time. 



Will you kindly give me your opinion 

 as to the probable success or failure of 

 the following scheme? 



We will suppose it is swarming-time, 

 and a swarm issues. I remove the 

 parent colony to a new location. I then 

 hive the swarm on the old stand in a 

 hive containing starters, and one frame 

 of brood with queen-cells from the 

 parent colony. I at the same time 

 secure the queen as the swarm enters 

 the hive, and return her to the parent 

 colony. Now I query: 



1. Will the swarm " stay put?" 



2. Will the queen stay in her former 

 home, or will she go looking for the 

 swarm ? 



3. Will it be necessary to remove 

 queen-cells from the parent colony ? 



4. Suppose the plan, as outlined 

 above, works all right thus far, will 

 there be any advantage in it, aside from 

 the more rapid building up of the parent 

 colony ? J. L. M. 



Clark's Corner, Conn. 



Answers. — 1. Yes. 



2. She'll stay where you put her. 



3. I think not. 



4. I don't believe you'll like it. The 

 swarm will be a week or more without a 

 queen, and during that time will not 

 make rapid work building comb, what 

 they do build being drone-comb princi- 

 pally. (I dont believe I would use start- 

 ers, anyway, for even with a queen you 

 will get more drone-comb than you 

 want. Use full sheets of foundation.) 

 There is no brood to hatch out except 

 the one comb, and the young queen will 

 not be laying for two or three weeks. 

 All that will interfere materially with 

 your honey crop, and, remember, it is 

 your swarm that you expect to do the 

 storing. 



ConTemtion IVotices. 



WISCONSIN.— The Wisconsin Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will meet in Madison, Wis., on 

 Feb. 7 and 8, 1894. An interesting meeting is 

 expected. It is earnestly hoped there may be 

 a full attendance. J. W. Vance, Cor. Sec. 



Madison. Wis. 



Kansas.— There will be a meeting of the 

 Southeastern Kansas Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion on March 16, 1894, at the apiaries of 

 Thomas Willett, 5 miles northeast of Broa- 

 son, Bourbon Co., Kansas. All are invited to 

 come. J. O. Balch, Sec. 



Bronson, Kans. 



Texas.— The Texas State Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation will hold their 16th annual meeting 

 at Greenville, Tex., on Wednesday and Thurs- 

 day, April 4 and 5, 1894. Everybody Invited. 

 No hotel bills to pay. We expect a large 

 meeting and a good time. Don't fail to come. 



Beeville, Tex. E. J. Atchley, Sec. 



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