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GLEANINGS IM JJEE CULTURE. 



July 



theiii. And, by the way, there seems to be 

 a bad state of affairs between you and your 

 nei.u'lil)or, judging from the statement you 

 make. It is all right to have a kindly feeling 

 for your little friends the bees ; but it is far 

 grander to have a kindly feeling for your 

 neighbor, even if he is spunky and spitefid. 

 Set to work to make friends with him. 

 Why, I am sure you can if you go about it. 

 Do every thing in your power to prevent the 

 bees from going on to his premises. Make 

 a hedge of evergreens away up above the 

 hives, and there will probably be otlier 

 means of preventing the bees from annoy- 

 ing him in any w^ay. Pay him handsomely 

 for the trouble either you or the bees have 

 ever made him, and look out for his inter- 

 ests in every way. Watch for opportunities 

 to do him a kindness ; the same with his 

 wife and children and friends. In short, 

 heap coals of tire on his head, and God's 

 blessing will rest upon both of you. Do 

 not have bad feelings with your neighbors. 

 Better move the bees away first. In fact, 

 you had better give up bee-keeping, and 

 stop taking your bee-journal (you see, 

 there is where it hits us, friend B.), rather 

 than have things in such a shape that your 

 neighbor threatens to burn or drown your 

 bees, if they come over on to his premises. 

 Paul said, "If meat make my brother to of- 

 fend, I will eat no flesh while the world 

 standeth.'' 



DYSENTERY ; SHOCLD HONEY FROM FOUL-BROODY 

 COI.ONIES BE PLACED ON THE MARKET ? 



1. It" the queen was caged in the fall, and placed 

 inside of the brood-nest, and left caged till spring, 

 what would be the result? Would it tend to check 

 dysentery? 



2. ]s honey from foul-broody hives, tit to put on 

 the market? Is it tit to eat? J. F. Whitmore. 



Grinnell, la. 



(1) The matter has been tried a good many 

 times, by keeping extra queens caged in 

 strong colonies over winter. I have never 

 heard of its succeeding. Two queens have 

 also been admitted into one hive by dividing 

 the colony by means of a solid partition of 

 thin wood. As spring dwindling and at- 

 tendant dysentery seem to start up when 

 brood-rearing commences in the spring, it 

 has been suggested that a queenless colony 

 might winter better because they could not 

 commence brood- rearing at all, and some 

 queenless colonies have wintered better than 

 those in the same apiary having queens. 



(2) Honey taken from foul-broody colonies 

 should not be placed on the market without 

 first being scalded. The bee-keeper who 

 would be guilty of such a practice would 

 not be a friend to his brother bee-keepers. 

 While infected honey would be just as good 

 for table use, yet there would always be a 

 liability, if such were placed in grocery 

 stores and other places of retailing, that 

 robber-l)ees might get at it. The inevitable 

 result would be, that those robbers would 

 carry the fatal disease to their home. If 

 you know of any bee-keeper who knowing- 

 ly places honey on the market received from 

 colonies which are diseased at the time of 

 the storage of such honey, we should be 

 pleased to have you give us his name. We 



will first enter a gentle private remon- 

 strance; and if that will not do we will try 

 something else. 



CAN A QUEEN, .lUST EMERGING FROM THE CELL,, 



GO BAC;K home after IJEmG CARRIED 



SEVERAL RODS AWAY ? 



The other day, while taking care of some (jueeu- 

 cells, 1 found two so stuck together I could not 

 separate them, so I left them both in the hive where 

 they were built. Yesterday I examined them and 

 found one queen had emerged, and the other was 

 just cutting her way out. As she emerged I let her 

 on to a good comb of bees, and then carried her and 

 them about live rods to another hive, for a nucleus. 

 As I let the comb of bees down into the hive, I saw 

 her among them. In about two hours I went to tlx 

 the combs in the hive from which 1 had taken her, 

 and, lo! she was back there. She tiew past 20 hives, 

 entered the one where she was raised, took pos- 

 session, and the other queen, which was somewhat 

 darker, lay dying on tlie bottom-board. How is 

 that for artiticial queen-rearing? S. C. Perry. 



Portland, Mich., May 35, It-ss. 



Friend P., I feel quite sure you have 

 made a mistake somewhere. Is it not pos- 

 sible there was a third queen in the hive, 

 unknown to you V In that case, the one 

 you carried away, as she was just gnawing 

 out of the cell, got lost somewhere, and you 

 discovered the third queen in the old hive. 

 After a queen has been out and taken her 

 flight, she will, even a year or two after- 

 ward, go back to the very spot from which 

 she made her bridal tiip when carried 

 away. Now, 1 know there are many 

 strange stories told about dumb animals 

 finding locations. A pig, for instance, will 

 go home, even if carried qtiite a distance 

 away, nailed up in a box so he can not see 

 out to take his points ; but I can not think 

 it possible that a queen that has never ta- 

 ken a view of the surroundings of her 

 home should be able to go back and pick it 

 out. Even if it did occur as you narrate, 

 I sliould prefer to decide that it was acci- 

 dental, and that the same thing could not 

 well happen again. 



HOW TO MAKE A START AFTER HAVING HAD FOUL 

 BROOD. 



I have been keeping bees for several years. I 

 have had sometimes 40 colonies. I now have none, 

 from foul brood and other causes; and having 

 nearly 100 hives on hand, I ask you as a father what 

 I shall do. My means are very limited, but I am 

 not quite satistied to give up. Suppose I buy a one 

 or two pound nucleus, and start in the very 

 cheapest manner, with a good Italian or Cyprian 

 queen; or had I better get a good strong colony 

 which would probably swarm twice? what do you 

 say? How shall I clean the hives? None of them 

 are very foul. M. Veuicy. 



Appleton, Wis., Apr. 17, 18S8. 



You don't want to make another start in 

 bees luitil you have boiled your hives and 

 appurtenances so as to disinfect tliem from all 

 germs of foul brood. They will not V)e fit 

 to use otherwise. Your combs should all be 

 melted and the frames scalded ; but as new 

 frames can be purchased so cheaply 1 think 

 I would burn Liu'iu up rather than scald 

 them. I would advise you to purchase 



