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crooked combs is a very disagreeable opera- 

 tion, and cannot be done without destroy- 

 ing quite an amount of brood. Here is a 

 better way : 



Drive most of the bees and the queen in 

 the new hive (the point here is to be sure 

 to have the queen in the new hive), and set 

 the old hive on the new, with a queen-ex- 

 cluder between the two. Twenty-one days 

 later all the brood in the old hive will be 

 hatched, and you can then cut and straight- 

 en the old coiiibs without losing any brood. 



As the two hives are generally of differ- 

 ent size, it is not very easy to fit them to- 

 gether bee-tight. The best is to secure a 

 board as large as the larger hive, cut in the 

 center a hole somewhat smaller than the 

 other hive, and put that board between the 

 two. The queen-excluding zinc is to be 

 tacked over the hole. 



This process was discovered in Europe, 

 though I do not know by whom, but soon 

 after the movable combs came into use, and 

 is much better than any other known. 



Knoxville, Tenn. Adrian Gbtaz. 



Bees Gathering Sawdust. 



On March 2nd the sun shone brightly, and 

 the weather turned quite warm. I was 

 working at the saw-mill close by my apiary 

 about 8 o'clock, when the bees commenced 

 to "nose around" the sawdust, and in a 

 few minutes the dust pile was completely 

 swarming with bees. All hands stopped to 

 watch the bees, to see what they were 

 doing. Well, they just put one in mind of 

 a lot of little pigs rolling and tumbling in 

 the dust, and packing the finer portions in 

 their baskets. 



On going to the apiary, I saw them going 

 in at the entrances like shot, with large 

 loads of sawdust. The dust was from syca- 

 more, elm and cottonwood logs. From the 

 color I should judge they selected the syca- 

 more dust. Before night the wind changed 

 to the north, and turned cold, and this 

 morning finds the cold wave quite sharp. 



A. L. Williams. 



Lawrence, Kans., March 4, 1893. 



P. S.— To-day. March 10th, I find a nice 

 pile of sawdust in front of each hive. 



Dampness and Bee-Diarrhea. 



I read the letter on page 339, from Austin 

 Reynolds to Dr. Miller, saying his bees all 

 have the diarrhea. The cause of it, I think, 

 was dampness in his cellar. I am not as 

 old a bee-man as Dr. Miller, but I don't 

 think a flight for Mr. Reynold's bees will do 

 any good. Drying out the cellar is the right 

 thing to do. 



On March 3, 1893, I bought a lot of bees 

 in box-hives, and transferred them when 

 fruit-trees were in bloom. The bottom- 

 boards were oak, and some of them were 

 green, just from the saw-mill. One of 

 them was not dry when I painted it. In 

 three or four days the bees were affected 

 with the diarrhea, spotting the hives badly. 

 I thought they would soon get over it, 

 being in the yard where the sun could shine 

 on them, but in one week they were all 



dead. In looking for the cause, I could rub 

 off the paint and mold from the bottom- 

 board with my finger ; the wood under the 

 paint was black and sour. This was about 

 April 1, 1893, and an extra strong colony. 

 All the others were, at that time, in good 

 condition. 



If the above was not the cause, please tell 

 me what it was. R. H. Humphries. 



Morganfleld, Ky. 



DonTention IVotice!<». 



UTAH.— The semi-annual meeting of the 

 Utah Bee-Keepers' Association will be held in 

 Salt Lake City. Utah, on April 10, 11, 1893. 

 All interested are cordially invited, ^z ] 



View, Utah. R. T. Rhees, Sec. 



PENNSYLVANIA.— The Susquehanna Co. 

 Bee-Keepers' Association will hold their 12th 

 semi-annual meeting at the Tarbell House in 

 Montrose, Pa., on Thursday, May 4, 1893. AH 

 are invited. H. M. Seeley, Sec. 



Harford, Pa, 



NEW YORK. — The next meeting of the 

 Allegany County Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will be held at Belmont, N. Y., on May 4th, 

 1893, in the Hotel Belmont. All bee-keepers 

 are invited to attend and make it what it 

 should be — an interesting meeting. 



H. C. Farnum, Pres., Transit Bridge, N. Y. 



COLORADO,— The adjourned meeting of 

 the Colorado State Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will be held in the Charles Block, corner 15th 

 and Curtis Streets, Denver, Colo., on April 18, 

 1893. Business important to all honey-pro- 

 ducers will come before the meeting. 



Littleton, Colo. H. Knight, Sec. 



KANSAS.— The Kansas State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will hold their annual convention 

 at Ottawa, Kansas, on April 6 and 7, 1893. 

 All bee-keepers are cordially invited to attend 

 this convention, and make it one of the most 

 interesting ever known. There will be a 

 good programme. Bring something to ex- 

 hibit. L. Wayman. Sec. 



Chanute, Kans. 



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