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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 



little's opinion, but I think he is a littl« 

 "off" in this case. 2. No. 



J. A. Green — 1. In practice I do not 

 think a temperature of 70^ for a 

 moment or two is injurious, provided 

 they remain in the coirjb. If han<jlinft 

 larv.TP only, or queen-cells, I should pre- 

 fer to have it a little warmer. 2. No, 

 but a prolonged exposure will. 



G. W. Demaree— 1 and 2. There is 

 lots of squeamishness in these queries. 

 Good .judgment and that sort of care 

 that every modern apiarist ought to 

 have in his business, is all that is neces- 

 sary, when manipulating bees for the 

 purposes mentioned in the queries. 



EmersonT. Abbott— 1. Ido not know. 

 I have a way of moving them around 

 whenever occasion demands, and I will 

 make a guess that it is perfectly safe to 

 do so when it is warm enough for bees 

 to fly comfortably. 2. I should not 

 expose young brood to the direct rays of 

 the sun very long. 



Chas. Dadant & Son— 1 and 2. We 

 have never had any trouble, and yet we 

 know of having kept such comb exposed 

 to the air at 65 J or 75- for 5 or 10 min- 

 utes. _ We would not expose combs un- 

 necessarily, but would not stop from 

 manipulations in ordinary bee-flying 

 weather, on that score. 



Dr. A. B. Mason — 1. Eggs and larvae 

 can be safely expos3d to a much higher 

 degree of heat than 853 without being 

 injured, and also to 2U- less than 85''. 

 Sealed queen-cells can be exposed to 

 both higher and lower temperature than 

 can eggs and larvse, without Injury. 2. 

 Not if not too hot, nor too cold. 



J. M. flambaugh— 1. I have always 

 considered 70° safe for exposure of 

 brood, and I believe no bad results 

 would occur from 68° for a two-minute 

 exposure; 85° is surely unnecessarily 

 high. 2. Direct reflection of the sun's 

 rays upon unsealed brood Is dangerous, 

 though a moment might not hurt. 



J. A. Stone — 1. I do not know, and 

 consequently took no chances. When 

 compelled to handle, if cool, I exposed 

 them as little as possible, and had my 

 sealed queen-cells in a small box, and 

 kept it in my inside pocket. 2. I be- 

 lieve the heat from the sun, that would 

 affect the larvae, would meltdown the 

 combs. 



E. France— 1. As long as the temper- 

 ature is not high enough to soften the 

 combs, there is no danger of killing the 

 brood. In my experience, handling 

 combs of brood during the extracting 

 season, I know that I have had thou- 

 sands of combs of brood out of the hives 

 more than 10 minutes, with the temper- 

 ature as lowas no"^. 2. No. 



G. M. Doolittle— 1. I wonder where 

 S. A. lives. I supposed central New 

 York was cool enough, but " weeks at a 

 stretch" between May 20 and Sept. 20 

 without the mercury going to 85'^ never 

 happens here, and queens reared outside 

 of those dates are about worthless. I 

 have had fair success manipulating lar- 

 va) In a temperature of 73-^ to 75-, but 

 from 85^ to 90 J Is better. The breed- 

 ing temperature inside the hive Is from 

 93 10 98', and the nearer we come to 

 that, the better j-uccess and the bettor 

 queens. See? 2. No. 



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Has Quite a Crop of Honey. 



I have quite a honey crop— 4,200 

 pounds — and the bees still at work. I 

 vf 111 have quite a good deal to take off 

 yet. The next thiuR is vfhe'e to sell. I 

 am having good results selling at home 

 so far, but I do not think the home trade 

 will take as much as I have. 



Mrs. a. a. Simpson. 



Greene Co., Pa., Aug. 19. 



Season Like Good Old Times. 



I am glad to report that it begins to 

 seem like good old times in Iowa again 

 for honey. We had a Hne crop of vf bite 

 clover, and our bees, as a rule, did extra 

 well on it. The prospect for a fall crop, 

 I think, is good, if the weather should 

 prove all right, for we have a big growth 

 of heart's ease and other fall flowers. 

 What we need is warm weather and 

 some rain. J. W. Sanders. 



Marshall Co., Iowa, Aug. 19. 



Fair Crop— New Union. 



Bee-keepers in this valley have se- 

 cured a fair crop of honey (mostly comb) 

 of good quality, and are now debating as 

 to where is the best market. 



Several of us had quite a little experi- 

 ence with Horrie & Co. two years ago, 

 which we are not likely to forget soon. 

 Success to the New Union. We hope to 

 send several membership fees soon. 



W. C. Gathright. 



Dona Ana Co., New Hex., Aug. 9. 



Down with the Frauds. 



Editor York: — I think you are work- 

 ing along the right line, as regards 

 honey-adulterators. You cannot be too 

 severe on any class of people that delib- 

 erately defraud their fellow-men for the 

 sake of personal gain. 



I wish all periodicals throughout the 

 United States \*ere as careful about al- 

 lowing dishonorable advertisers space, 

 as the American Bee Journal is. We 

 should soon have a cleaner class of liter- 

 ature, as well as business men. 



O. B. Griffin. 



Aroostook Co., Maine, Aug. 12. 



Toads Fond of Bees. 



S. V. Hall of Chautauqua Co., N.Y., 

 has learneQ that toads like bees. -'Ev- 

 ery night, " says Mr. Hall, " when I 

 have gone out about sundown to shut 

 the hon-housn I have noticed a large toad 

 sitting in front of one of my hives of 

 bees, the one nearest the walk, and I 

 was careful not to molest him, because I 

 have always protected toads on my place 

 on account of their usefulness In destroy- 

 ing troublesome insects. I have ob- 

 served that for a few evenings toad No. 

 1 had a companion, but until last night 

 I never thought to investigate as to what 

 food my toads fed on in that particular 

 spot. 



I stopt to watch and I soon learned all 

 about it. The hive, under which they 

 burrowed In cool retirement in the day- 

 time and 111 front of which they took up 

 sentinel positions In the early evening, 

 stood on the ground, with only a board 



