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queen-excluding- boards, and upper stories fliled 

 witb empty combs. From tliose colonies I got 

 almost every drop of hone3' stored ab;)ve, leaving 

 the brood-chambers destitute of honey, but filled 

 with brood, and that the finest lot of drone-brood 

 j'du ever saw; but it was drones that 1 did not 

 want, as they were not choice (jueens. I give the 

 result of each individual colony: 



Hive No. 1 contained a queen one jcar old; one 

 frame was filled with worker-comb; one was two- 

 thirds full of worker-comb, and the rest was 

 drone. The other three frames were full of drone- 

 comb from top to bottom. 



No. 3 had no frame that was fliled with all work- 

 or-comb; about worker-comb enough to fill three 

 frames, queen one year old. 



No. 3 contained a queen two years old, and not 

 worker comb enough to All two fr.une.s; two frames 

 were entirely full of drone-comh. 



Nos. 4 and .5 were run for extracted honey. 



No. 4, queen one 5'ear old; ~ frames full of 

 worker-comb; one, half full of worker-comb and 

 one a third full; two frames of coml s, full of 

 drone-comb. 



No. .5, the queen was two years old; about work- 

 ex--comb enough to till three frames; no frame en- 

 tirely full of drone comb; seclions were placed up- 

 on those hives before the bees were run in. Ex- 

 tracting-siipers were put on as soon as the bees 

 wei-e run in. 



DOOLITTLE\S PLAN OF FOnMlNG NUCLEI. 



This plan, from the pen of friend Doolittle, has 

 been worth more to me than Gleaninrs has cost 

 me in the last five years. I never take any i-isk in 

 placing cells in queenless colonies. I place cells 

 in the queen-nursery, and when queens ai-e 3, 4, 

 or !i days old I make nuclei for them and intro- 

 duce without the loss of a single queen. When I 

 want to introduce a queen to a colony of bees, I 

 take a nucleus from the old colony, introduce my 

 queen, and wben she has commenced laying I 

 make the old colony queenless; and at the end of 

 '.H or 48 hours 1 unite the two in a new hive. Yes, 

 friend Doolittle, it is easy to tell when they fairly 

 " cry " for and will accept any kind of a queen. 



J. A. BUCKLEW. 



Clarks, Coshocton Co., O., Aug. h, 18.'.6. 



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TEASEL AS A HONEY-PLANT. 



A HEPORT FROM ONE WHO UAtSKS TEASEf.S AND 

 KEEPS liEES AS A BUSINESS. 



fRlEND ROOT:— Why do you allow such an en- 

 graving of a teasel to appear as you have in 

 your A B C, and as has appeared in the^4. B. J. 

 I have been in the teasel-lnisiness for the last 

 ten years, and now have twenty acres occu- 

 pied with them. As you all know, I am a bee-keeper 

 too, and it makes me just crawl to see such a botch 

 of a. job come from one of our leading periodicals. 

 Inclosed find a medium teasel, ready for market. 

 If you will have an engraving made riglit, I wiU 

 gladly send a specimen. I am just harvesting my 

 crop, and you will sec some are not yet dry. I 

 claim to be the only bee-keeper and teasel-grower 

 to any extent. I tried one stock this season, and it 

 piade 48 lbs. of exclusively teasel honey. 



C. M. GOODSPEED. 



Thorn Hill, Onopdaga Co., N. Y. 



Good friend G., we are exceedingly obliged 



to you. The reason why you are so disgust- 

 ed with the cut in tlie A ii C book is, 1 pre- 

 sume, because it was made from one of the 

 wild teasels growing in our vicinity. At the 

 time it wiis made, I was in the habit of hav- 

 ing engravings drawn from real specimens 

 as far as possible, and I did not know there 

 was so much difference in the appearance 

 of tlie two varieties, especially as I saw the 

 bees working on the wild ones. We now- 

 take pleasure in submilting to our readers a 

 cut made from one of the heads you sent us. 



We are espe- 

 cially glad of 

 the report you 

 make,of 48ibs. 

 from a single 

 colony. If this 

 could" be de- 

 pended on ev- 

 ery year, I pre- 

 sume some 

 m ore o f u s 

 cotUd well af- 

 foi-d to have«20 

 acres. W e 

 should be very 

 glad indeed of 

 full particulars 

 in regard to 

 the cultivation 

 of teasel, mar- 



keting the honev- bearing teasel. 

 crop, etc.; and Dipmcus fullonum. 



as you seem to be especially well pre- 

 pared to give us the facts, we will gladly pay 

 you for such an article. Very likely, how- 

 ever, the vicinity of large woolen - mills 

 w^ould be the most advisable locality for 

 starting an apiary in connection with a 

 teasel and honev farm. 



FOUL BROOD. 



SOJILTHING FURTHER IN REGARD TO THE HOYLK 

 THEOIiY OP THE DISEASE. 



fUIEND BOOT:— I thank you for your remarks 

 on a recent article of mine on this subject, 

 which 1 regard as very favorable, consider- 

 ing the brief period you had in which to view 

 the question from my standpoint. The more 

 you look at the subject from my position, the near- 

 er will our ideas about it agree. I may be wrong in 

 some particulars; but, 1 hold, I am correct in the 

 main; and if any think that, after viewing the sub- 

 ject from my present position fourteen months, 

 I am now ofl'ering a theory that is easily broken 

 down, why. they are '.velcome to try their hand 

 in i)ulling it to pieces. I do not say that bacteria 

 has nothing to do with the disease, but that it at- 

 tacks only the 'a^v^e when the larvie are weakened, 

 or ill from some other cause. In my first article on 

 this suliject 1 mentioned two causes from which 

 larvtp become ill. I will now tell you of a third, 

 which is, insullicicnt attention from the bees. It is 

 nothing serious, though, if one does not mistake 

 th? cause, and kill a valuable queen. This state is 

 brought on by the bees trying to care for more 

 larvic than they are able to pare fof. And some- 

 times it scenifi to be caused by stinginess in the bees 

 during a honey-dcarlh. 

 Jt is my flrpi belipf, th.at this game bacteria Is 



