AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL-. 



617 



Aiiti-Adiilteration I^a^vs are be- 

 ing enacted by various States that are con- 

 scientious enough to care for the morals 

 and health of their inhabitants. This is 

 right, and a National law upon the subject 

 will soon follow these State enactments. 



An Act to prevent the adulteration of 

 honey was introduced into the Pennsylva- 

 nia State Legislature in March, a copy of 

 which is given below, which was sent to 

 us by Mr. G. W. BeU, of Bell's Landing,Pa. : 



Section 1. — Be it enacted by the Senate 

 and House of Representatives of the Com- 

 monwealth of Pennsylvania in General 

 Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by 

 the authority of the same. That it shall be 

 unlawful for any person or persons to adul- 

 terate honey by mixing with it any sweets 

 of whatsoever kind not gathered from 

 flowers or blooms, or to mix together any 

 such sweets whether with or without honey 

 or cause it to be done by any agency what- 

 soever, and to ofl'er for sale, or sell without 

 labeling it with the true name of its com- 

 ponent parts with the proportion of each, 

 and with the name and location of the 

 manufacturer. 



Sec. 3. — Any person or persons convicted 

 of a violation of any of the provisions of 

 Sec. 1st of this Act shall be deemed by the 

 court guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be 

 fined in any sum not less than one hundred 

 dollars ($100) , and not more than five hun- 

 dred dollars ($500) , one-half of said fine to 

 go to the informer, and the other half to 

 the school fund. 



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 25 or more apiarists 

 who help to make " Queries and Replies " BO 

 interesting on another page. In the main, it 

 will contain questions and answers upon mat- 

 ters that particularly interest beginners.— Ed. 



Some Qpuestions on Queen-Kearing-. 



1. What is the best way to rear 

 queens ? 



2. How long does it take a capped 

 queen-cell to hatch ? 



3. Do all queen-cells that have been 

 capped contain live queens ? 



4. Would bees cap cells that had no 

 eggs or larvge ? S. M. Kisisey. 



Tesnatee, Ga. 



Answers. — 1. It might be somewhat 

 presumptuous to pretend to say what 

 was the best way, and in any case there 

 is hardly room to give here a full an- 

 swer to such a question. Most of the 



text-books give instructions for rearing 

 queens, and Doolittle's " Scientific 

 Queen-Rearing " is an exhaustive trea- 

 tise on the subject, being a book of more 

 than 160 pages. We can send you one 

 for $1.00, postpaid. 



2. A queen hatches in about a week 

 after the cell is sealed. 



3. No; dead queens are often found 

 in queen-cells, having died after the 

 cells were capped. 



4. No ; but it is no unusual thing to 

 find an empty cell that seems to be reg- 

 ularly sealed. The explanation is that 

 after the queen hatches out she leaves 

 the cap attached by a little hinge, the 

 cap returns to its old place after the 

 queen emerges, and the bees fasten it 

 more or less together. It looks just a 

 little as if they were trying to play a 

 practical joke on the bee-keeper. 



Moving' Bees a Short Distance. 



I have 11 colonies of bees on the sum- 

 mer stands. Can I move them 50 feet 

 without loss ? 



Bees did nothing last year in this 

 county, but we look for a fine flow this 

 year from white clover. There has been 

 too much wind and rain this week for 

 bees to work. C. J. Bence. 



Grand View, Ind., April 22, 1893. 



Answee. — There is some danger, but 

 if all are moved from the old spot there 

 may be little or no loss. Clean up the 

 old spot, or change its looks in some 

 way, and then set up a board or piece of 

 glass in front of each entrance. Possibly, 

 if a hive, when moved, is shut up and 

 then drummed on, the bees might mark 

 the new location when the hive is open- 

 ed. They might mark you, too, if you 

 don't get out of the way when the hive 

 is opened, but if drummed enough they 

 feel quite subdued. 



When and How to Transfer Bees. 



Please tell me through the Bee Jour- 

 nal how to transfer bees, and when is 

 the best time for transferring out of 

 box-hives into frame hives. 



Bellevue, Del. W. R. Wood. 



Answer. — In time of fruit-bloom, is 

 the stereotyped answer. Earlier than 

 that there would be danger from rob- 

 bing, as the operation of transferring is 

 likely to cause some demoralization, 

 leaving the bees in rather poor condition 

 to defend themselves against robbers 

 When honey is yielding well, there is 



