OCTOBER 15, 1914 



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A mail-carrier's apiary at Fall Creek, Wis. The bees are 50 feet from the road, and only 10 from the plaee 

 where the owner hitches and unhitches every day, and yet there is never any trouble. 



good honey-flow just before swarming 

 time. 



In shaking for the treatment of foul 

 brood, as recommended above, the combs are 

 all taken awaj', leaving the hive empty, 

 while the bees use up what honey they have 

 with them. Such combs as they start on the 

 under side of the cover can be used for wax. 

 Of the two colonies that I tried this treat- 

 ment on last spring, the first was left thirty 

 hours and the second forty-eight. 



Scrape out the old hive that originally 

 contained the diseased colony; scald it with 



water from a teakettle; burn the brood, 

 melt the honey, boiling it fifteen minutes, 

 and throw the frames and wax into a No. 9 

 boiler and cook them until the wax is off. 

 When the frames -are thoroughly dried, new 

 starters can be put in, which may be used 

 for hiving a swarm later on. 



The brood can be melted up for wax, if 

 one prefers ; but it should not be melted 

 with the honey, as the honey, after it has 

 been thoroughly boiled for fifteen minutes, 

 can be fed back for brood-rearing. 



Colo, Iowa. 



A MAIL=CARMEM WHO I§ ALSO A BEEKEEPER 



BY CAKL BAUMBACH 



I am a rural-mail carrier, and I keep 24 

 colonies of bees as a side line. Four years 

 ago I bought a colony and the ABC and 

 X Y Z of Bee Culture. That year I took 

 10.3 pounds of comb honey. The bees win- 

 tered finely. During that winter I bought 

 '* Fifty Years Among the Bees," by Dr. 

 Miller ; " Alexander's Writings on Practi- 

 cal Bee Cultui'e," and " Advanced Bee CliI- 

 ture," by W. Z. Hutchinson. I aho sub- 

 scribed for Gleanings^ and studied every 

 spare hour. I /inally changed to the pro- 

 duction of extracted honey instead of comb. 



This last spring I followed the Alexander 

 plan (queen-excluder) with twenty colonie.N 



and the shaken-swarm plan with four, but 

 found the latter plan to be far the better. 



I transferred 24 very young larvae from a 

 select tested queen, that I bought, into pre- 

 pared cell cups. I did not have any royal 

 jelly; but the bees in the colony in which 

 1 placed them finished up nineteen fine 

 cells. 



The combs in the supers shown in the 

 engraving were all drawn from foundation. 

 I put the third super on July 7. 



Last spring was wet and cold; but I had 

 the hives wrapped in tar paper. This papei', 

 after taking it off, I placed in front of (he 

 hive to keep the grass down. The plan 



