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same time. There is not much trouble 

 uniting while bees are storing. There 

 are probably two or three frames in your 

 nucleus. Go to the big hive and kill the 

 queen, and at the same time takeout a 

 frame from the hive and add to the 

 nucleus, and it may be well at the same 

 time to set the nucleus over the big hive. 

 In a day or two more, take one or two 

 frames again from the big hive and add 

 to the nucleus. Of course, you will each 

 time take the adhering bees with the 

 combs. By this time your nucleus will 

 be strong enough so that in two or three 

 days more you can add to it the rest of 

 the old colony. 



You might manage with less trouble, 

 but the above plan is a very safe one for 

 a bee-keeper of little experience. An 

 easier way, although not so safe, is to 

 simply kill the queen in the old hive, 

 then after three or four days put into 

 the hive the combs of the nucleus, bees, 

 queen and all. 



Moving Wide-Frames with Sections. 



In the " A B C of Bee-Culture" Mr. 

 Root speaks of moving the wide-frames 

 of the section-holder arrangement from 

 outside to inside, and vice versa. Would 

 not this let them down on the tops of 

 the brood-frames, and so shut ofif nearly 

 all of the passage-way for the bees ? Or 

 is there to be a honey-board used ? If 

 so, what kind ? F. N. Gakdinek. 



Guthrie, O. T. 



Answers. — No, the wide-frames are 

 all alike, outside and inside, and moving 

 one in place of the other will make no 

 difiference. There is a bee-space under 

 the wide frames. Whether a honey- 

 board is needed or not depends upon 

 other arrangements. With narrow and 

 thin top-bars, and a ?^-inch space over 

 the top-bars, something in the line of a 

 honey-board is needed. Much better 

 than a honey-board it is to have thick 

 top-bars, and bee-spaces under rather 

 than over Ji of an inch. 



Moving sections from the outside of 

 the super to the inside to have them 

 finished up is one of the things that 

 sound very nice in theory, but it is not 

 at all certain that you will like it in 

 practice. If you produce honey on a 

 large scale, you will probably find that a 

 section will not be finished up, as a gen- 

 eral rule, anywhere else as well as in the 

 place where it is first started, and it is 

 best to let the super alone without any 

 changing until all the sections are ready 

 to take off, or at least until all but the 



corner sections are finished. Then, if 

 desired, you can gather together a super 

 full of these unfinished sections and put 

 them back to be finished. 



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H. mmmwrnm, 



Oldenburg, Grossherzogthum, Germany. 



Can Bees HearP 



Mr. Doolittle says no ! (see page 630, 

 1892) but he always treats bees as if 

 they can hear, and curious, to say, if he 

 ivants them to hear they do hear ; that 

 is, if he wants bees to enter a hive, he 

 puts some close to the entrance. These 

 bees, happy to find a home, begin to 

 hum in a certain kind of way, and im- 

 mediately the whole lot (swarm, etc.) 

 knows where to go ; all bees turn their 

 head to the hive, and enter without hesi- 

 tation. They have heard their comrades 

 which are at the entrance. Is it not so. 

 Friend Doolittle ? 



Theory of Parthenogenesis. 



Mr. C. J. Robinson ought to show first 

 that he is competent to speak about 

 parthenogenesis. He ought to give 

 stubborn proof that the term " par- 

 thenogenesis " is a " misapplication " 

 applied to the production of drone-bees. 

 My "weak diction" is the diction of 

 Dzierzon, Prof. Luckhart, Prof, von Sie- 

 bold. Cowan, Cook, etc., and if Mr. Rob- 

 inson calls the statement of these men 

 of letters, " the sum of ignorance," he 

 cannot be astonished if I call his way of 

 converting, "the sum of arrogance." 



Is Honey-Dew Aphidian Honey or 

 Not? 



Alberti, the editor of a very good Ger- 

 man bee-paper, has at last decided this 

 question. He cut off a branch of a pine- 

 tree which was covered with tree-lice 

 and honey-dew, cleaned this branch 

 very carefully so that no honey-dew or 

 tree-lice were any more on the twig, and 

 placed it in his room. The next morn- 

 ing the twig was again covered with 

 small drops of honey-dew — a stubborn 

 fact that honey-dew does not always 



