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I extracted about once a •week clnrin.o; 

 the honey flow. Onr honey is rather dark 

 in color but very good flavor. 



My scale hive gained 12 lb. on Sept. 10, 

 and 13 lb. on Sept. 11, -which was the high- 

 est daily gain. Bee pasturage is almost 

 ■wholly from wild flowers. Extracted 

 honey sells quite readily in our local mar- 

 ket at 7c. 



One word in regard to the Alley drone- 

 aud-queeu trap. With me tlicv arc indis- 

 pensable. I clip all the queens Iml in at- 

 tempting to swarm a queen i> I'lTiiuciitly 

 lost (as they cannot crawl l)ac!s inlo my 

 hi\rsj. so when that happens 1 jn-^t place 

 a traj) on tlitit liive until tlic yonug (Hieen 

 is ready to male and in this -way do not 

 lose the bees as they might s-,\arm and go 

 oft' with the young queen. They are also 

 very convenient for holding a new swarm 

 where you put them, as I know from ex- 

 perience. 



Your direct method of introducing 

 queens, as you prohalily know sometimes 

 fails. The queen I received from you 

 the past season was placed in one corner 

 of brood frame and the bees given access 

 to the candy after remoyiug tlic old (piccu. 



On examining five days later no (piccn 

 was to be found but plenty of cells and a 

 queen was reared in due time. 



The next day after the queen was placed 

 in the hive, we liad a hail storm and the 

 following three or four days were cool 

 and windy with the honey flow cut ofl" 

 which in my opinion was the cause of tlie 

 queen being destroyed. Please tell me if 

 I am right. 



If the Funics prove to be the coming 

 bee, what will be the result? Won't the 

 queen excluders have to be changed to ac- 

 commodate the difterence in size? 



Dewey, Kansas. M. J. Wilsey. 



Queens are sometimes lost by any 

 method of introduction. 



No, the queen exchiders will not have 

 to be changed where the Funics are in- 

 troduced. Punic worker bees may be 

 a little smaller than other races, but the 

 queens are as large as otlier queens. 



Regarding the trap will say that there 

 are now 100,000 in use, and they give 

 general satisfaction. In fact, there is no 

 article used in the apiary that gives such 

 general good results and work so per- 

 fectly. — Ed.] 



I THINK IT A 1. 



H. Allky, Esq. : I use your drone- 

 and-queen trap and think it A 1. 

 BrockviUe, Ont. Can. W. M. Osborne. 



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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Winter is here. It came with the first 

 week in 1802. 



The bees in the Bay State house-api- 

 ary are in fine condition. By the way, 

 there are on the Api list several articles 

 on "house-apiaries" as well as quite a 

 number on "wintering bees" that will 

 appear in later issues. 



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Tiie best moth-excluder, the Beekeepers' 

 Magazine says, is the bee. Eight. — Dr. 



MUler.'\ 



What is new about that? The idea is 

 as old as or older than the name of the 

 new bee paper, and all know that is very 

 old. 



W. C. Frazier of Atlantic, Iowa, speak- 

 ing of the markings of Italian bees says : 

 "I have never been able to find a sin- 

 gle bee with only one yellow band." 

 Suppose Bro. F. you import a few Ital- 

 ian queens and then test them, you will 

 find plenty pf workers that have but one 

 yellow band ; at any rate such is the 

 experience of all who import Italian 

 queens. 



If Prof. Cook does not laugh when he 

 reads Gkaninos for Jan. i, it will be 

 owing to his having la grippe badly. 



