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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 13, 19(2 



honey-bees, viz. : one aristocratic, New York 

 400 — they were so rich they only worked when 

 they pleased; the other colony poor, and not 

 so far up socially, and had to work like the 

 rest of us clodhoppers. 



In a few days my "millionaires" began to 

 act as if they were suffering from sore feet: 

 and as the great bee-man had told me of the 

 great store of luxuries they owned. I naturally 

 supposed they had the gout. In a few days 

 thev had gone the way of all the world. 



VVell, I had caught the germ of bee-fever. 

 Later I bought four good colonies in movable- 

 frame hives, and a man promised to loan me a 

 bee-book if I would return it. I went four 

 miles after it and it proved to be a bee-supply 

 catalogue for 1891. I returned the "book" 

 and it was snugly stored awav for future use. 



Pike Co., Ohio, Jan. 14. J- M- West. 



Carbolineum Paint-A Wapning*. 



A word of warning as to Carbolineum may 

 save some sad experience. For outside paint 

 it is altogether out of the question,, for the 

 stuff will never dry, and all bees that touch it 

 while the sun shines on it must surely die. 



For bottom-boards, paint the under side, 

 and do it a long time before they are to be 

 used. Reversible bottoms, of course, cannot 

 be painted with it. 



Three years ago I painted some hen-roosts 

 with it on the under side, and it killed all the 

 lice in the entire hen-house. It also filled the 

 building with such horrid fumes that the chick- 

 ens' lives were endangered, and they had to re- 

 main outdoors all day. The vapor that arose 

 from the stuff caused the skin on my face to 

 peel, and almost blinded me for two days. The 

 nasty smell is still on the wood after three 

 years. 



But still, carbolineum may have its uses in 

 the apiary; for instance, it may be effective in 

 destroying the bee-moth. The way to do it is 

 to paint a hive-bottom with it, and place over 

 it a hive-body with infected combs inside, and 

 cover with glass; then place in the hot sun, and 

 fumes that rise ought to burn the faces clean 

 off of the old worms. 



If carbolineum is handled in the sunshine 

 without wearing a face-mask, the handler will 

 certainly have reason to regret it. 



Dupage Co., Ill, T. Fluegge. 



Bees and Ants. 



Many of our bee-keepers do not seem to 

 realize the importance of the danger that ants 

 are to their bees. I note what our mutual 

 friend, Mr. Hasty, says in reply to Mr. Work- 

 ing (see page 9). Yes, they jvill not only 

 grapple with and destroy the queen, but if 

 they are present in immense numbers they 

 will destroy every living bee in the hive; and 

 they will also carry away the honey, leaving 

 the combs as light and dry as if they were 

 robbed by wasps or other bees. 



I remember visiting an apiary of over 60 

 colonies that were badly troubled with small 

 black-brown ants about three-sixteenths of an 

 inch long; they destroyed several colonies, 

 among them being a colony in a lo-frame, 3- 

 story Langstroth hive containing 12 to 15 

 frames of brood, and over 100 pounds of 

 honey, and from 90 to 100 thousand bees, and 

 the ants invaded the hives in such vast num- 

 bers that they destroyed the bees and com- 

 pletely cleaned out the hive in 21 days. 



Mr. Hasty says the number of species of 

 ants is immense, which is true. There are 

 white, black, brown and red ants, an.d in size 

 they range from about one-sixteenth to seven- 

 eighths of an inch. As far as their destructive 

 effects are concerned their size does not count 

 like their numbers; thus a quart of small ants 

 are more destructive than a gallon of large 

 ones; besides, it is much easier to find and 

 destroy large ones than the small ones. 



Mr. Hasty also says that bees show anger 

 when multitudes of little ants, too small to 

 grapple with, get scattered among them. He 

 could have said with equal truth that the 

 bees are in a terror of fright when the hive 

 is full of small ants. 



I have opened hives where there were many 

 times more ants than bees, and the bees in 

 their frantic efforts to get away from the 

 ants that followed them would rush against 

 the others. I saw large numbers of ants grap- 

 ple the bees by the legs or body, and, as 

 they scarcely let go when they fasten them- 

 selves on anything, the bees rise and fly 

 off with the ants; and as they seldomj if ever. 

 live to return, and as it often happens that 

 the ants are much more numerous than the 

 bees, a small colony of bees is soon cleaned 

 out, and the ants have a picnic carrying off the 

 honey. 



After about 15 years of experience with this 

 ant-pest. I find that when _ a supply of water 

 is available so that the soil can be kept con- 

 tinually wet, the eggs will rot and they can 



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