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er vvlio also wants to make frames. "Don't, 

 daddy, Jo will get my hammer," was the 

 protest voiced just as this snapshot was tak- 

 en, after carrying the bench, frames, and 

 hoy out of the shop nearby. Geo. O. Ray. 

 Fallon. Ne\ . 



Another Way to It may be possible 



Remove Polleu. that Dr. Miller's, J. R. 



Crane's, or Mr. Alex- 

 ander's method of removing pollen from 

 combs will work, but I have my doubts. 

 During the season of 1899 I moved from the 

 alfalfa to the Arizona clover district on the 

 west side of the San Joaquin Valley. There 

 came a flow of nectar and pollen also. In 

 less than two weeks my brood-combs were 

 almost filled with pollen. I removed them 

 til the supers and then to the extractor, 

 where all the honey was removed. I then 

 jilaced them in water for about 15 or IG 

 hours, when they were removed and given a 

 good shaking and allowed to dry. The water 

 caused the pollen to swell and the drying 

 caused it to shrink, after which I gave them 

 another shaking, when most of the pollen 

 fell out. They were then placed in the 

 hrood-nest, where the bees removed the re- 

 mainder, and the queen filled the combs with 

 rggs. During a part of the season I was 

 ~;iiort of combs and did not dry them but 

 :'iaced theni in the brood-nest wet and got 

 just as good results. I would not advise 

 using them wet except during hot weather 

 and during a good flow of nectar. 



8nn Jose. Cal. J. T. Dunn. 



The Menace of It was my good for- 



Box Hives. tune in 1907 to influ- 



ence our authorities so 

 far as to obtain legislation to abolish box 

 hives. Gleanings at that time did not agree 

 with such drastic measures, but believed the 

 evil would cure itself; in fact, it held out 

 the hope that foul brood would elirainatc 

 careless beekeepers by destroying their bees 

 -—a theory that was altogether foreign to 

 (Air experience in New Zealand, and one 

 which I could not entertain for a moment. 



In my own native country (England) it 

 lias been the custom in the past to recom- 

 mend beekeeping to the poorest of cottagers 

 — people who could not afford to purchase 

 proper frame hives and literature to guide 

 them. Straw skeps and common boxes, with 

 the accompanying sulphur-pit, were much 

 in vogue. Of course, one can sympathize 

 with those who wish to keep bees to bring 

 in a few dollars, but can not afford to con- 

 duct the business in proper lines. But if 

 such beekeeping is a menace to the business 

 generally, then we have no right to encour- 

 age or tolerate it. Beekeeping in New Zea- 

 land was going to the dogs thru the same 

 ignorant and careless beekeeping; but, 

 thanks to drastic legislation, it is now es- 

 tablished on a sound commercial basis. I 

 can see no prospect of improvement in con- 

 trol of bee disease in any country until box- 

 hive beekeeping is banished. It will come 

 ill time, I am sure. Isaac Hopkins. 



Auckland, X. Z. 



• (. O. WjiUacf. bt'i- in.sif(t(.r l..r Lewi.-, .'m.l l':i( ilii- <i.UTUi<-s. W ji^li.. -iv iii'.' .i cl,iii.)iistiiilioi\ (if treatmmt 

 for Aiiipririiii fiiiil lirood at ;i liefket-pprs' im-cting held .June 30 lust at the home of \V. I,, (ox at Elma. 

 Wash. Both AnnTiran and Kmoppaii fonl hrnod are very had in the const cmniiies of Washington. 



