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Vol XXXIII. 



APR. 15, J 905. 



No, 8 





WRyBr.CCMLLER. 



A. I. Root, I'm afraid you're not treating 

 your Rawle's Genet apples right if they're 

 not fine by the last of March. In the list of 

 Am. Pom. Soc. they stand VG, the highest 

 mark for excellence, and they deserve it. 



Cold storage for wintering bees is ad- 

 vocated by me, p. 354, and J. A. Green ad- 

 vances the same idea; but as he comes two 

 pages later, of course he's infringing on my 

 patent. To save any hard feelings, however, 

 let's join forces, Bro. Green, and have the 

 method patented under the firm name of 

 Green and Miller, Ltd. 



N. D. West says, p. 365, " I find people 

 are devising various ways for spacing these 

 frames "(Danzenbaker) ; what does he mean? 

 Is there more than one way to space self- 

 spacing frames? [I did not notice the sen- 

 tence on the first reading; but since you 

 call attention to it I am unable to say what 

 was meant unless he referred to the differ- 

 ent methods of handling those particular 

 frames. — Ed.] 



G. M. DooLlTTLE, p. 368, says a dummy is 

 no better than an empty comb to conserve 

 heat. Some one will reply to him, "That 

 isn't fair. Of course a dummy won't, but 

 we use a division-board, not a dummy. A 

 dummy has a space on all sides, but a divi- 

 sion-board makes a close fit, and closes up 

 that part of the hive snug and warm." It 

 does seem as if it ought to, but if I remem- 

 ber rightly Gaston Bonnier showed by actual 

 trial that the empty comb was as good as 

 the division-board. 



' ' A COLONY with a caged queen will be- 

 have precisely as if it had no queen," p. 372. 

 In this locality? Not by a long way. Slow- 



er about starting cells, start a smaller num- 

 ber, and may start none. [I do not believe 

 locality would have any thing to do with 

 this problem. Either you are right or I am. 

 My observation has led me to feel that a 

 colony with a caged queen would deport it- 

 self in the same way as one without a queen. 

 I remember that they have done so; but as 

 you have had a larger experience than I, I 

 will accept your amendment until I can test 

 the matter further. Or, to put it in another 

 way, you are right and I am wrong in any 

 locality.— Ed.] 



Suppose two hives standing side by side, 

 facing south, which is the right hand one? 

 If 1 think of myself as standing in place of 

 the hives, facing south, the right hand will 

 be at the west. If I stand facing the hives, 

 my right hand will be at the east side. I've 

 been accustomed to the latter way, calling 

 that the right-hand hive which was at my 

 right hand when I stood in front of the hives 

 facing them; but I'll change if the other 

 way is the general fashion. How is it? [I 

 can see that there might be confusion on 

 this point in understanding each other; but 

 if each of us adopt one invariable rule there 

 will be no confusion in our own practice. 

 If, for example, I stand in front of the en- 

 trances of two hives and point to the one at 

 my right hand, I say that is the right one. 

 I would be likely to designate all hives in 

 the same way. —Ed.] 



This summer, Mr. Editor, when you re- 

 peat your experiments with bees on ice, it 

 might be interesting to repeat one made 

 years ago— I think by Dzierzon or Berlepsch. 

 A queen was frozen and recovered. It made 

 her a drone-layer, the spermatozoa were 

 frozen beyond recovery. [This is exactly 

 the experiment that Dr. Phillips did per- 

 form, but he succeeded in getting no drone- 

 layer. If I do not forget it 1 propose to 

 leave some bees on the ice for ten days. 

 Perhaps we will put some between two 

 cakes of ice so as to make sure they are 

 subjected to a practically freezing tempera- 

 ture. I should not be at all surprised to 



