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This colony swarmed July 4, and the old hive was set on stand 

 1.02. It produced 78 lbs. of comb honey and 'lo lbs. of extracted. 

 It came originally from colony IIT, wdiose queen was raised in 1910. 

 Comb super set on June 12. 



No special book is required. A plain ruled note-book -4 inches 

 by 6 will take three records to a page. The two lines of the record 

 forms are drawn by hand. 



Laplata, Xew Mexico. 



[Mr. Brown has given us in the above article a detailed method of keeping a 

 record concerning the work of our queens. Some such records it seems to me is 

 necessary in order to carry out the teachings of Mr. Howe. Whether this method 

 is the best one or not is of course hard to say without giving the matter a great , 

 deal of study. At the same time it is one that will interest you and is worthy of 

 \our careful studv.] 



A Few Practical Pointers. 



O. B. METCALFE. 



THE USE OF QUEEN EXCI.UDERS. 



'^^i T IS advisable to use queen excluders in producing extracted 

 Tl honey in New Mexico or any similar locality. While visiting- 

 California State Bee-Keepers' Association meeting in Los 

 Angeles, I noted that every up-to-date bee-keeper in the state used 

 the queen excluder in connection with the production of extracted 

 honey. They may even be a disadvantage to a slip-shod bee-keeper, 

 but the busy man Avho is making things move and who has to count 

 on each of his men to jerk off- a couple of thousand pounds of honey 

 per hour, is the one who cannot get along without the excluder in 

 the production of extracted honey. If you live in a locality where 

 the queen goes on what I call "an egg-laying rampage" in the spring, 

 as she does in New Mexico, take off your queen excluders until 

 about the time your comb honey producing neighbor is through with 

 the swarming season, and then put back your excluders and work 

 in comfort the rest of the season. AVith profit, too, for those 

 excluders will save you many a fine queen before the end of the 

 season, if you are the kind that goes out in the bee yard to take 

 off honey and not to mince around. 



HOW PAR -WIIiXi BEES FLY? 



How far bees will fly and store honey to a profit depends on 

 two things: First, the plant they are to get it from; second, as to 

 whether or not intervening plants have led the bees to the field. 

 I have seen bees working on mesquite where the nearest bushes 

 were a mile and a half and the bulk of the yard seemed to be going 

 about two miles, with the result that scales under an a\'erage hive 



