THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW • 



tative manner, that my lack of logical 

 faculty allows me still to think there's 

 something of argument in it. But whj- 

 didn't he continue his quotation just a 

 sentence further? In that I say, "Again, 

 in years of plenty I have always found 

 the bait sections filled and sealed first." 

 Will Bro. Taylor's logical faculty allow 

 him to see any argument in that? 



I do not see that Mr. Taylor's stor}- 

 about exercising 24 hours parallels the 

 deep cell business. I might just as well 

 say that the folly of advising 24 hour's ex- 

 ercise proves that %2. in Bro. Taylor's 

 pocket is better than %2'2. Let me give 

 the point under discussion. Editor 

 Ernest held persistently that unfini.shed 

 combs must be cut down to a certain 

 depth ( he has had the gtjod sense finally 

 to give up the notion ) no matter what 

 the character of the comb. In other 

 words that a depth of % or y% was better 

 than more, as well as better than less. 

 Now if Mr. Taylor holds that view, wnll 

 he tell us why bethinks 3/^ better than li 

 and at the same time better than Y% ? 



M.VRENGO, Ills., June 14, 1898. 



NOTES FROM FOREKIN BEE JOURNALS. 



F. I,. THOMPSON. 



Waters to a thirsty soul, so is k<><h1 

 11 far couutry,-fi/fii£. 



r A REVUE INTERNATIONLE.— The 

 -ti best method of causing the bees 

 to go up quickly into the extracting 

 supers, says Ulrich Gubler, is to not have 

 them clean out the combs after extracting, 

 but preserve these as they are, in a dr}- 

 place secure from robbers and moths. 



L. Matter-Perrin stops robbing by feed- 

 ing the colony which is doing the rob- 

 bing. 



To preserve pollen combs from mold, 

 says an Austrian paper, dust them with 

 powdered sugar before setting them away. 

 When returned to the bees they are to be 

 sprinkled with water. 



Chas. Dadant thinks most colonies that 

 are lost in winter die becauseof poor food. 

 His remedy is to have as much of the win- 

 ter stores as possible consist of early hon- 

 ey. 



"At one time I stopped up all cracks, in- 

 cluding the least; cushions, paper, paste- 

 board, old clothes, etc., were all laid un- 

 der contribution ; the entrances were con- 

 tracted as nmch as the authors of the peri- 

 od advised. Result: verj* irregular win- 

 tering, damp combs, damaged stores, dys- 

 entery, queenless colonies, and I don't 

 know what all This was repeated every 

 year. Gradually I made experiments, 

 more and more conclusive, and for more 

 than ten years / have no more winter 

 losses, after deducting some losses due to 

 causes having no connection with my 

 method. I have hives with big frames 

 and with little frames, some parallel and 

 some at right angles to the entrance; it 

 makes little difference, I promise you I 

 shall see them all in good health in 

 March. Some years I winter on sugar 

 syrup, others on dark honey; I have no 

 more dysentery or losses." — E.Ruffy. 

 The foregoing is from a discussion on 

 wintering, and Mr. RufFy refers to his 

 ])lan of leaving the entrances wide 

 open in winter. He also says it is neces- 

 sary to begin wintering preparations early, 

 the best time being the end of July or the 

 first of August. Colonies deficient in 

 stores at this time are fed, so that by the 

 15th of August all are read}'. By thus 

 doing, the bees that have no value for win- 

 ter do the work of ripening and storing, 

 and the extra brood called into being by 

 the stimulation emerges at the end of 

 August. These yonng bees will not 

 become aged before that time arrives, 

 as is the case with bees in colonies fed 

 in September or October. Speaking of 

 sealed covers, he is of the opinion that 

 the primary use of propolis is to defend 

 against enemies, not to keep out ventila- 

 tion. Another correspondent calls at- 

 tention to the fact that bees in hot coun- 

 tries, such as the Tunisian or Pimic bees, 

 are lavish- of propolis. 



