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each end and roll over and over, in such 

 a way as to bring the hot wax in contact 

 with every portion of the inner surface of 

 the barrel ; then knock out the bung and 

 empty out the wax. Be in the biggest 

 kind of a hurry from the time the wax 

 goes in the barrel till it is all out. A mix- 

 ture of beeswax and rosin has been 

 recommended for waxing the barrels; 

 also a mixture of equal parts of beeswax, 

 i-osin and tallow. 



At this season, is the hive ever without 

 brood or eggs ? I extracted from a liive 

 last week and found none ; I gave them 

 eggs, and examined yesterday, and found 

 they had done nothing towards raising 

 queens, but to my surprise, I found a few 

 eggs. Was the queen in the hive all the 

 time, but not laying? To-day I extracted 

 from another and found it in similar con- 

 dition — no brood nor eggs, and on exami. 

 nation I found the queen in the hive- 

 Why is Ihis? I have been keeping bees 

 for four years, but never saw the like for 

 honey. B. M. Lingle. 



Orange Co., Ind., June 23, 1876. 



If you are not a very careful observer 

 you may have overlooked eggs or brood, 

 which were in very small quantity on ac- 

 count of the great yield of honey ; the 

 cells being so filled with honey as to 

 leave little room for the queen to lay. 



If there was no brood in any stage, 

 sealed or unsealed, then the probability is 

 that the colony had lost its old queen and 

 the new one had just commenced laying 

 when you found the first eggs. 



I have an Italian queen that lays several 

 eggs in each cell, and I have counted as 

 many as eight. She is a queen that I 

 raised last summer, and laid the same then 

 as now. She is very prolific. Can you 

 tell me the cause of depositing so many 

 eggs in each cell? G. Thrasher. 



Williamston, Mich. 



A lack of room will sometimes make a 

 queen lay more than one egg in a cell. 

 We should try increasing the number of 

 cells in which she can deposit, increasing 

 the strength of the colony so as to have 

 bees enough te care for all the brood that 

 may hatch from her eggs. Possibly there 

 is too much honey in the hive. With 

 bees enough and empty cells enough wc 

 think she will hardly waste time putting 

 more than one egg in a cell. 



Wliat is the matter with my bees ? Young 

 bees, half-grown are dropping down by 



the handful. I find several magots y^ 

 inch long at the bottom of the hive, and 

 up on the inside. I clean and brush, but 

 it does no good. I use the common box 

 hive. I am a beginner. What is the 

 starling point to be successful in the bee 

 business ? Large prairies, lots of flowers, 

 wild roses, sumac, &c. 



L. S. W. FOLSOM. 

 Caddo, Indian Territory, June 17, 1676. 



That dreaded enemy, the moth, is pro- 

 bably the cause of the young bees being 

 thrown out. The worm eats its way 

 through the cappings of the brood and 

 the young bees are thus destroyed and 

 then thrown out. If you will transfer 

 your bees to a frame hive, then you will 

 be able to help them by picking out the 

 worms with a sharp pointed knife. A 

 strong colony will take care of itself, es- 

 pecially if Italians. 



You have already taken a good step as a 

 "starting-point," and that is, in getting 

 some bees to begin with. Another step 

 is to get a good book on the subject of 

 bee-keeping. Prof. Cook's little work 

 (;30c) is the most fully up with the times, 

 and afterward you might add one of the 

 larger works of Langstroth ($3.00), or 

 Quinby ($1.50). If you want to be thor- 

 oughly grounded in the Dzierzon theory 

 so as to pursue the business most intelli- 

 gently, we cannot do you any greater 

 favor than to recommend you to get the 

 first volume of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, ($1.00) which contains the fullest 

 discussion of the Dzierzon theory be to 

 found in the English language. 



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