16 THE BEE-KEEPERS" REVIEW 



EXTRACTING. 



The next move is usually a round at extracting, after two or 

 three weeks, when all the upper combs are well filled with ripe 

 honey. However, if we are not ready to extract, and if we have a 

 surplus of empties still on hand, we repeat the last operation, run- 

 ning many colonies up to five stories. If their contents furnish 

 more than five stories, we prefer to divide the colony rather than 

 run it up higher. 



Much of our extracting was done after the flow. AA'e suit our 

 convenience about doing it before. 



How and where was this honey marketed? It was all sold di- 

 rectly to consumers or to retailers, and shipped by local freight 

 from our station at Las Animas, excepting wdiat was sold at home. 

 The details as to how this was accomplished will be reserved for 

 another article. 



Boulder, Colorado. 



A Subscriber's Experience with the Italian Bee- 

 Louse. 



HENRY L. JEFFREY 



' ■ Jl RECEIVED my December Review on the 5 :30 mail this even- 



Jjl ing, and opened it about G :30 at page 339, and my eye caught 



the question, "Is there danger of the Italian bee-louse in 



America?" To use a slang phrase, "you bet there is," and there 



was way back in 1S81 and 1882. 



Several of us bee-keepers obtained imported queens direct from 

 Italy, in the importing hives of that day and time, and we all bought 

 the crabs with them, and all of the queens were infected. Each of 

 us had from two to six of the queens, and each of us got one or 

 more queens that were carriers of the red crai)s, and to reall}- enjoy 

 the beauty of them you should have a few of them get onto your 

 hands or into your hair and then you will know just how really good 

 it is to have them in the apiary. 



A REMESV. 



Years before that I had been a tancy-poultry breeder, and by an 

 accidental chance when I had been handling some setting hens that 

 were alive with that little silver spider called the mife or hen- 

 louse, I dipped my hands in a barrel of rain water near the hen- 

 house door and found out that it was poison to the hen spider. So 

 I tried it for that bee-louse and they could not live in it. Having 

 them in my hair and on my hands, I gave my head a thorough soak- 

 ing and got rid of them. Then I caged the queens and a few bees 

 that had the spiders on them and drowned them in good style. 

 Thev w^ere soaked in the water fifteen minutes or more. I then 



