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very little, if needed in the brood-ehamber, as 

 Mr. Ooolittle says il lioes: 



Three supers cuntaiuing the tU) pounds of 

 honey were Jeri<ed loose and the lioney cut 

 out at once on a frusly mornini?. The oomb 

 was brittle. Now, if any heat does escape 

 ■why was this comb brittle ! The colonies cer- 

 tainly were very stronfjf, and occupied the 

 whole brood-chamber (10 frames). Very few 

 bees — probably K, pint — were above the 

 frames. The last experiment could, it seems, 

 be tried with bait-sections in the North. 



1). .1. P. 



The Pairing Systrnn of Non-Swarm 

 Ing 



I have read with interest the articles on the 

 Davenport non-swarming plan. Some of them 

 may have hit the marlt, and others may have 

 not. There is no doubt that Mr. Davenport 

 bas one plan, but with the secretiveness of 

 the average American, he keeps the good 

 Ihinp to himself. In 1S05, Mr. Heddon, with 

 his sectional hive, kept all colonies, except a 

 baker's dozen, from swarming. Mr. Aspin- 

 wall, last year, had 10 swarms from his 40 

 colonies in non-swarming hives. According 

 to his theory, probably none would have 

 swarmed if be had removed the pollen-filled 

 combs. 



I believe the pairing system, as advocated 

 by one correspondent, is as good as any. I 

 shall use a Langstrolh 10-frame hive for the 

 feeding colony, and a sectional hive with 

 supers containing plain 4x5 sections for the 

 one to produce gilt-edged honey. Following 

 the Chapman plan, I can lift the brood- frames 

 every 2 or 3 days to a full super above the 

 honey-board, and thus have an immense col- 

 ony ready for the harvest. 



Our hybrid queens lay in a manner (prior 

 to the boney season) good enough to gladden 

 the big heart of Doolittle; and the bees build 

 early enough and nice enough to satisfy him. 

 Also, one of those early-built queen-cells can 

 be put into a West cage in the sectional hive, 

 and innide of its one sectional brood case, or 

 queens can be had early from the Sunny 

 South. 



There is a popular idea that comb honey 

 can not be produced in northern Michigan in 

 sufficient quantities to pay for producing. 

 That this assertion is not true, I have seen 

 proved in this northern country. Mr. James 

 Heddon, Dr. Miller, or Mr. Aspinwall, could 

 easily disprove this idea by their methods. 



I have read the articles by K. C ,\ikin, in 

 Gleanings, and also .Mr. Aspinwall's in the 

 Review, with eager interest. Supers similar 

 to theirs are what the northern Michigan 

 comb-honey producer needfr. Mr. Hutchin- 

 son and others can embark in extracted honey, 

 but comb honey will suit me. If " W. Z." 

 would tell his many readers to remove across 

 the Straits and locate from St. Ignace to Du- 

 luth, all would be benefited. Prices for 

 honey, also eggs, poultry, and strawberries, 

 are higher up there. I have seen a bee-keeper 

 this year produce honey, eggs, and strawber- 

 ries, and do well with all. Strawberries do 

 best on loamy soil. Geo. J. Moloney. 



Onaway, Mich., Jan. 1. 



Purity of Queens 



In 1903 I bought a selected tested queen 

 from a Western breeder. This queen's drones 

 were well marked— you could not wish them 

 better — but the workers were miserably 

 marked. They varied from a bright 4-banded 

 worker to 1 banded, darn worker mongrels. 

 By the looks of the queen's drones, she had 

 mated with a drone having black blood. The 

 grandchildren of this queen are black, both 

 drones and workers. 



The same year I got 4 queens from an East- 

 ern breeder. They were warranted for 3 

 years. I had all the queens accepted. Five 

 days afterward, one came out to meet the 

 drone and got lost. She was a virgin. The 

 other 3 were good breeding queens. In 1903 

 I bought 6 queens from the same breeder. 

 Two died in the cage. One had mated with a 

 black drone. The other 3 were first-class 

 queens. Those queens bred drones in Sep- 



Something New=The Ideal Hive=Tool 



Bee-keeperH have lon^c needed a special Tool to work arnonff the hivcB durinjf the bee- 

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( Tins picture is exactly one-half the size.) 



DESCRIPTION.— The Ideal Ilive-Tool is made of hiRh-grade nuilleable iron, much like wrouRbt iron. 

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What Dr. Miller and Miss Wilson Say of It: 



In the first edition (1903) of Dr. Miller's "Forty Years Among the Bees, " page 58, he 

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