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onous honey which I have secured. I 

 had one analyzed last summer, and it 

 was pronounced good honey. I have 

 one now in our Museum, which looks 

 good, tastes good, and does not hurt 

 me, though it was reported to have 

 made an entire family sick. Our stu- 

 dents, some years since cut a bee-tree 

 one morning, and all ate freely of the 

 nice honey. The classes that afternoon 

 were very thinly attended, and many a 

 boy wished for his mother. Yet that 

 honey, to my certain knowledge, was of 

 the best quality. What a chance was 

 here for a Xenophon to make a sensa- 

 tional report regarding the poisonous 

 honey of Michigan ! A. J. Cook. 



Queen Questions — Bee-Feeder. 



1. Has the plan of clipping the queen's 

 wings, and having a stake in front of 

 the hive for the bees to cluster upon 

 when they swarm, been tried enough to 

 prove it a success ? 



2. Will a young queen, when intro- 

 duced, hunt out and kill the old one in 

 enough cases to make it pay without re- 

 moving the old queen ? 



3. Can a young queen, and the small 

 colony that reared her, be united with a 

 swarm when hiving them, without 

 trouble, if the old queen Is removed? 



4. Is there a feeder on the market 

 that can be placed in one corner of the 

 super, allow packing to be placed around 

 it, filled from the top without removing 

 from the hive, and allow the bees to 

 come up from below to get the food ? 



I cannot be with my bees much of the 

 time In the summer, so I want to dis- 

 cover some "short cuts." 



John Pedelty, Jk. 



Mason City, Iowa. 



Answers. — 1. So few have reported 

 as to their success or failure, that it is 

 impossible to answer you. 



2. Can't tell about the hunting out, 

 but you will probably find, if you try the 

 experiment, that the young queen will 

 generally come up missing. 



3. Your chances are favorable for 

 success. 



4. You can put Simplicity feeders in 

 one corner of the super, but there must 

 be a chance for the bees to get up, and 

 they would likely be in the way when 

 you come to re-fill the feeder or feeders. 

 The Miller feeder would probably an- 

 swer your purpose admirably. It is the 

 same in surface as a super (you could 

 have them made of any size) ; all you 

 have to do is to place it on top of the 



hive, fill it, and then put the cover on. 

 As it holds 20 pounds or more, you 

 would not do much re-filling, but if you 

 should want to do so, not a bee can get 

 up in your way when you take the cover 

 off, unless they lly from the outside. 



Maple Sugar for Winter Feeding. 



Is it advisable to feed maple 'sugar in 

 winter, when bees are short of stores, 

 and one has no bee-candy ? Sub. 



Answer. — Whilst the maple sugar 

 might answer, it would hardly be as 

 good, and at present prices you could 

 sell the maple for enough to buy a good 

 deal more cane sugar from which to 

 make the candy. 



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How to Manag;c with Loose 

 Bottom- Boards of Hives. 



Query 865.— 1. Tn using a loose bottom- 

 board, how do you fasten it to the hive so that 

 it will not shift in handling ? 2. Also, in put- 

 ting in between the bottom-board and the 

 hive a (three-sided) rim, say two inches wide, 

 for winter use, how then do you malie all stay 

 firmly together ?— Wis. 



I don't use loose bottom-boards. — J. P. 

 H. Brown. 



I never used any loose bottom-boards. 

 — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



1. The bees do it. 2. I never did that 

 way. — J. H. Larrabee. 



I began with loose bottom-boards, but 

 discarded them long ago. — M. Mahin. 



1. I do not fasten them. 2. I find no 

 need. I keep no out-apiaries. — A. J. 

 Cook. 



1. The bees will fasten the bottom- 

 boards, etc., tight enough.— Will M. 

 Barnum. 



I have never used anything but a tight 

 bottom-board, therefore, "I don't know." 

 — Jas. a. Stone. 



