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Vol. XXVII. 



APR. 15, 1899. 



No. 8. 



The Faultless sprayer is just the thing 

 in a window of house-plants — wouldn't do 

 without one for $5.00. 



Now's A GOOD TIME to remember that 

 there's no better place to keep combs on which 

 bees have died than under strong colonies, 

 putting a whole story of them under. 



" In This locality," as soon as a colony is 

 conscious of its queenlessness all that's neces- 

 sary is to take two frames of brood with ad- 

 hering bees, and a sealed queen-cell, and 

 enough bees will stay put for a good nucleus. 



"A COLONY can usually be crowded into 

 one story late in the fall or about the time the 

 bees are put in the cellar," sa^s the editor, p. 

 271. You may make that even stronger, and 

 say always. Even if they should hang out at 

 first, no harm. 



In Transferring from one movable-frame 

 hive to another, the editor says he would both 

 drive and lift out old frames. Must be some 

 mistake. You'd hardly drive if you could 

 lift out the frames, would you? [You are 

 right. I must have had somehow in my mind 

 the old box hive when I spoke about " driv- 

 ing." — Ed ] 



I always supposed that I got excellent 

 queens by doing as W. W. Somerford directs, 

 p. 260, but some insist that Mr. Somerford 

 will have to destroy those cells and give other 

 brood to the colony if he wants good queens. 

 Friend Somerford, have you ever reared many 

 queens that way ? and if so, will \ou tell us 

 their character ? 



In answer to a question, p. 254, most cer- 

 tainly introducing a young queen in place of 

 an older one, before harvest, lessens the 

 chance of swarming ; and, more than that, if 

 the young queen is not introduced but reared 

 in the hive, there is no danger of swarming. 

 Why a queen reared in the hive is better to 

 prevent swarming than one of the same age 

 introduced, I don't know. 



What doks H. Segelken mean by tall wide 

 sections, which he speaks of twice, p. 263? 

 He prefers sections with a width of 3^ and 4 

 inches. Does he call them wide ? [I suspect 

 that, when Mr. Segelken spoke of "tall and 

 wide " he simply meant tall sections, from the 

 fact that he directly favors all tall sections, no 

 matter what their width. — Ed.] 



"Functionally the worker-bee is not 

 capable of reproducing its kind" — hold on, 

 though ; what about a laying worker ? If he 

 lays eggs, and his eggs produce perfect drones, 

 is he to have no credit for his work ? But if 

 you're willing to call it it, it will 1 e all right. 

 [But is it not still true that a worker bee can 

 not produce its own kind? However, lam 

 willing to c?ll it it. — Ed.] 



Stenog doesn't know what Mr. Day went 

 west for, when Mr. Secor says : 

 May the .strength which I gather whi!e Day's in the 

 West. 



Day was trying to get away from the two 

 damsels that were after him, Evening and 

 Twilight, for we are told, "Now came still 

 Evening on, and Twilight." [You are right. 

 —Ed.] 



W. W. Somerford, p. 261, speaks of mak- 

 ing nuclei of brood and bees that have been 

 ten days qu\ enless ; and unless the bees are 

 fastened in, " nine-tenths of the bees return to 

 the old hive. ' ' In this locality not many such 

 queenless bees would return to the old locality, 

 if not fastened in at all. [I suspect you are 

 right, and yet at the same time Doolittle may 

 have a bone to pick with you on the point. — 

 Ed.] 



A. E. Manum reports in A. B. K. that in 

 1886 he fed to 727 colonies 82100 worth of 

 sugar. If sugar was 5 cts. a pound, and 5 

 pounds of sugar made 7 pounds of syrup, that 

 made 80 pounds of syrup per colony. Seems 

 there must be an extra cipher in that §2100, 

 but it's so given in two places. [Something 

 wrong somewhere. Even if we take off a 

 cipher, then each individual colony would 

 have got only a scant feed. — Ed.] 



While BEES buried in the snow may do 

 nicely, as mentioned by I. S. Tilt, p. 274, it 

 should not be forgotten that others, I think 



