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o. practical method of giving- wax to bees to l)e worked over again. 

 So far as I have observed, bees seem to use substantially all the 

 painted wax given them, thus saving the expense of having them 

 secrete so much new wax. 



Miami, Florida. 



[Mr, Vogeler has sent me samples of the patented wax, and I 

 am frank in saying that I believe the plan will do what is claimed 

 for it. I have had no chance to try out the plan personally, but if 

 a man with the experience that Mr. Poppleton has had pronounces 

 the plan good, I am willing to accept his verdict until someone 

 proves it wrong. 



While this process is patented (April 17, 1900), I have made 

 arrangements with Mr. Vogeler whereby every paid-up subscriber 

 of the Review can have the privilege, free, of using the plan on ten 

 colonies of bees. This will give an excellent opportunity to test 

 the plan in your own apiary, with no expenditure but for the wax 

 and brush, I would like to hear from those who try it this sum- 

 mer, telling me what success they have with the plan.] 



The Porter Bee-Escape. 



BY ADRIAN GETAZ. 



3 HAVE used the Porter bee-escape since it was invented. My 

 first trial was to put the escape board on the brood nest and 

 the supers to be emptied on the escape-board. That did not 

 work. It took quite a long time for the bees to come out of the 

 supers, and sometimes they did not come out at all. On lifting the 

 escape board, I always found the underside covered with bees. Evi- 

 dently they were blockading the escape and preventing the egress 

 of those above. Perhaps those in the supers being thus in '"touch" 

 with those below did not feel isolated, and did not see any need of 

 coming out. Perhaps both causes contributed to the result. I don't 

 know. 



SEFAKATING THE SUPERS FROM THE BROOD NEST. 



-\fter considerable study, I concluded that the thing to do was 

 to separate the supers from the brood nest. Consequently I put on 

 the brood nest an empty super, then the escape board, and the 

 supers to be emptied. That was much better, but did not always 

 succeed. When the colonies were very strong and the brood nest 

 could not contain all the bees, they started work in the empty super 

 and formed a cluster which hung under the escape board and in- 

 variably right under the escape itself, thus blockading it completely. 



