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Vol. XXXIII. 



MAY 15, 1905. 



No 10 



J. D. Barfield, I wonder if you did not 

 let that Danzenbaker hive stand in the hot 

 sun, making three swarms desert it, page 

 490. Next time shade it some way, and be 

 sure that, for the first two or three days, 

 the cover fails by half an inch or an inch to 

 cover the hive. [Good suggestions. —Ed.] 



Geo. M. Phifer, when cleaning old frames 

 to use again, especially to get the wax out 

 of the grooves, uses a common putty-knife. 

 Heat it over an ordinary lamp, and there 

 you are. [The time taken necessary to heat 

 the knife would make the operation slower 

 than to use the cold knife all the time, it 

 would seem to me.— Ed.] 



F. Greiner was, I think, the first to use 

 the term " queenright. " I had envied the 

 Germans their word, "weiselrecht, " but 

 was not smart enough to use exactly the 

 same term in English. Mr. Greiner was. 

 "Queenright," Mr. Editor, means more 

 than "a colony with a queen." A queen- 

 right colony is " a colony that has a queen 

 that is all right." 



Allow me to suggest to E. Van Fraden- 

 burg, page 489, the very great advantage of 

 having crowded entrances in pairs. It is 

 equivalent to doubling the distances. Let 

 each pair of entrances be close together, 

 separated by only a little board between 

 them, projecting outward; and, although 

 the t vo entrances be only an inch apart, 

 each bee will keep to its own side. 



"Why use a dummy in eight-frame hives 

 when none is needed in a ten-frame hive?" 

 page 496. Begging your pardon, it was a 

 mistake to make ten-framers without dum- 

 mies. [You refer to statements made by 



members at the Michigan State convention. 

 But a ten-frame hive with a dummy would 

 only add an extra expense. I suppo-e the 

 most of the ten-frame hives we sell are 

 run for extracted. If you mean a thin divi- 

 sion-board, we do supply them with both 

 eight and ten frame hives— always have 

 done so. — Ed.] 



A THIRD MORE extracted than comb, says 

 a footnote, page 491. A half more might te 

 nearer the truth; but I'm willing to arbi- 

 trate the question. [In any case, the pro- 

 portion can be only a guess. I am willing to 

 accept a half more; but an article by a cor- 

 respondent two or three years ago (I think 

 it was by R. C. Aikin) went to show, by 

 some experiments made, that the difference 

 was nearly as much as we had supposed. 

 That was one reason why I put the average 

 at a "third" rather than a "half" the 

 usual rule. —Ed.] 



E. L. Pratt tells, in American Bee-keeper, 

 about wintering queens successfully in the 

 Swarthmore mating-boxes. He takes two 

 or three cupfuls of young bees to a box, and 

 on a warm day just before winter gives 

 them two fat combs of honey, leaving them 

 undisturbed till spring. "To prevent any 

 possibility of the queens wandering away 

 from the cluster, place a piece of (jue en- 

 excluding metal over the flight-hole on the 

 inside. A |-inch flight-hole is none too 

 large for wintering queens in Swarthmore 

 mating-boxes. [As I said in our last issue, 

 that might do for a climate like that of 

 Philadelphia, but I doubt very much whether 

 it would do in one as cold as we have here 

 at Medina, to say nothing of one still colder, 

 like that of Marengo. — Ed.] 



" If BEE-KEEPERS would use lots of print- 

 ers' ink they would never need to worry as 

 to the sale of honey," says R. L. Pennell, 

 page 487. Quite right; and is there any bet- 

 ter way to do it than through the Honey- 

 producers' League ? If every bee-keeper 

 who takes Gleanings were to join the 

 League, I wonder how much money it would 

 allow to be used for printers' ink. Possibly 

 the editor could give us a guess. [It is hard 



