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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 8, 1902 



easily believe it, and it is possible that thorough ripening^ 

 may remove the disagreeable quality. 



2. Workers go afield when about 16 days old. Like 

 good children, they all help •' tend baby " during their first 

 16 daj's. There are sometimes bees that stand guard and do 

 nothing more ; but no bee ever spends its whole life stand- 

 ing guard. 



3. I think comparatively j-oungones. 



4. Roughly speaking, they might be said to sweat wax ; 

 that is, it is secreted by the wax-glands. They cannot make 

 wax without having honey, but they can make it when they 

 are not gathering any. 



5. It may be bee-paralysis. The queen is probably not 

 to blame, and it is hard to say what is to blame unless it be 

 the presence of bacillus Gaytoni. 



6. Oh my I my ! my ! Dynamite would answer the ques- 

 tion, if you hadn't tacked on that last condition. Taking 

 the whole question together, it may be answered in a tenta- 

 tive sort of way by saying to work for extracted honey, and 

 when the honey-flow first begins raise the hive and put 

 under it a story having foundation or empty combs, with an 

 excluder between, and put the queen in the lower story. 



Mineral Wool for Packing. 



How would "mineral wool " do as a packing material in 

 the spaces of a double-walled hive? It is said to be a non- 

 conductor of heat, and insects will not stay in it. Ohio. 



Answer. — I believe it is excellent. 



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Mb. W. J. PiCKARD,of Richland Co., Wis., 

 we regret to learn, is suffering from a con- 

 tinued attack of sciatic rheumatism. 



DiKECTOR P. H. Elwood (Herkimer Co., 

 N. Y.), of the National Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, on receipt of the Buffalo Convention 

 Report pamphlet, wrote thus approvingly : 



" The proceedings are neatly gotten up, 

 and with constitution and list of members is 

 of added value. Bees wintered well." 



Mr. Wm. a. Selsek, wife and daughter, 

 stopped off in Chicago, for a few hours while 

 passing through on their way East recently. 

 They had been away from home for nearly 

 three months, having been in Texas, Califor- 

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 parts of the country. His report will likely 

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Mr. 8elser and family had a splendid trip, 

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 was signed by a firm with a good rating, but 

 we refused to run the ad., and returned it to 

 the party who sent it. 



The Modern Farmer is not so rich that it 

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