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Nov. 20, 1902. 



3. Yes, the frames running parallel with the track on a 

 railroad, and crosswise in a road wagon. 



4. I suppose that moving- was not contemplated in the 

 first place, and being a matter entirely for A's benefit he 

 should foot the bill. 



5. I don't believe it would be too cold, yet if the entrances 

 are as large as they ought to be for the best results, (mine 

 are two inches deep), closing the entrances with wire-cloth 

 would be enough in very cold weather. 



6. As you have probably had little or no experience in 

 shipping, very likely you might better sell at a low price 

 and then buy again. 



7. Likely February would be better than December. 

 And yet, if you were sure of a flight immediately or shortly 

 after the moving, December might be the better time. 



8. If I understand you, the question is whether it would 

 do to have one entire end of the hive open except the cover- 

 ing of wire. I think it would be all right. 



9. What do I think of it ? I think it's bitter, but not so 

 bitter as I expected. I should have very little anxiety about 

 bees wintering on it. 



i * The Afterthought. * 



The **Old Reliable" ^een through New and Unreliable Glasses. 

 By E. E. HASTY, Sta. B Rural, Toledo, O. 



LAWS ON Four, BROOD. 



That is a good idea of the Colorado law concerning foul 

 brood, to make the treatment conform to what is required 

 by the State Association. Excellent way to keep a law up- 

 to-date without the sad bother of getting additional legisla- 

 tion. In Wisconsin the treatment seems to be left for the 

 inspector to direct. In some respects this would be still 

 better, but the man is more liable to cherish dangerous 

 whims about a dangerous disease than a State association 

 would be. Wisconsin seems not to give the inspector power 

 to destroy bees at first visit. Better not tie the inspector's 

 hands that way. Page 615. 



PAY OF FOUL-BROOD INSPECTORS. 



Setting the county commissioners to fix the pay of foul- 

 brood inspectiors is a minor weak point in the Utah law — or 

 would be for most of our States. They'd fix it very low, 

 hoping nobody would serve. The commissioners are usually 

 good men, but it would be exceptional for them to beany- 

 thing else than densely ignorant about bees. They would 

 naturally view inspection as a public expense little better 

 than foolishness; and a campaign of education would have 

 to be carried on, which would be (to somebody) expensive 

 of time and patience. Better to obviate this by having the 

 law itself fix the compensation. Page 616. 



LAYING WORKERS AND DEAD BROOD. 



Quite possibly right, is the first answer of Dr. Miller on 

 page 617 ; but there is another thing to be thought of. If 

 I am right, bees that have had laying workers for a long 

 time do sometimes let their combs get filthy with dead 

 brood, without their being any special disease in the hive. 

 Merely discouraged and fitful'in their efforts ; now starting 

 a considerable brood, now letting it all starve on their 

 hands. The final kick-the-bucket of starvation may arrive 

 after sealing, I think, and apparently often while in the 

 very act of emerging from the cell. Long semi-starvation, 

 either in the last stage of growth or a previous one, may 

 suffice to cause this. 



PROPOLIS ON THE FINGERS. 



And so our British cousinswant to handle frames with- 

 out getting propolis on their fingers I I laugh. The desire 

 is laudable enough, surely. But I suspect that the practical 

 way to keep propolis off the fingers is to follow some other 

 vocation. Propolis to the bee-man is like tar to the seaman 



on a sailing vessel. He has to get used to it, and the sooner 



the better. Page 628. 



WINTERING OATS ON BEES. 



We can't winter bees on oats ; but it seems we can win- 

 ter oats on the bees, with profit to the latter and no serious 

 harm to the former. But, then, healthy bees with first-rate 



stores hold a high record for wintering "any old way ;" but 

 with bad stores all the oats in Scotland can't save 'em. 

 Page 629. 



THE KNIFE IN QUEEN-CLIPPING. 



"Ye Editor" left out the Hamlet from his editorial 

 Hamlet on clipping the queen. The number of queen's 

 legs which the scissors bereave of the foot, is about the 

 most important consideration in the business ; and to pre- 

 vent needless maiming is about the weightiest reason for 

 using the knife. Page 643. 



FALL UNITING OF BEES. 



To Mr. Doolittle's excellent and oft-repeated directions 

 about fall uniting, I would add this : In a large apiary, 

 with much uniting to be done, it is sometimes easy to use a 

 hive foreign to all the colonies, and a full set of foreign 

 combs of honey. Then run the bees in higglety pigglety, 

 and their condition (from a bee's point of view) is that both 

 nationality and home are completely gone, and fighting 

 out of the question, because there seems to be absolutely 

 nothing left to fight for — every bee a stranger in a strange 

 land. Page 64b. 



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