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days old. The bees seal up these holes 

 again. H. C. Finney. 



Council Grove, Kans. 



Answer. — That conundrum is a little 

 too much for us; or are you trying to 

 poke fun at us by asking a question you 

 knew we couldn't answer? We never 

 before heard of bees biting open the 

 cappings of brood, and then sealing 

 them up again. Is there no possible 

 mistake in the case ? 



CONDTICTED BY 



Greenville. Texas. 



"Wanted —A Sample of Foul Brood. 



I have been searching our State for a 

 little piece of foul brood, and have failed 

 to find it. If this meets the eye of any 

 one in any State that has foul brood in 

 his apiary, please cut a small piece out 

 and place it in a little, tight paper-box — 

 say something like a capsule box — and 

 mail it direct to Dr. Wm. R. Howard, 

 509 Main St., Ft. Worth, Tex., who 

 will pay all expenses, and for trouble. 

 Please do this for us, as we wish to make 

 some close microscopic examinations. 

 Jennie Atchley. 



The Best Hive for the South. 



Mrs. Atchley : — Which is the best 

 hive for bees in the Southern States ? I 

 am inclined to the American frame, 

 Simplicity hive. My intention is to run 

 mostly for extracted honey. 



R. H. Jacoway. 



Dardanelle, Ark. 



Friend J., I have been vexed over the 

 hive question more than anything else. 

 I would like to impress upon all begin- 

 ners, that the hive does not cut much 

 figure in the matter, only, as I have said 

 before, start out with a good movable- 

 comb hive, not too large or too small. 



and one that you can make larger at 

 will, and contract as you may desire. 

 But by all means have your hives all 

 uniform, or you will very soon regret it. 

 The American hive, the Simplicity 

 hive, or the Gallup, and almost all the 

 movable-frame hives now in use, are a 

 success in the hands of a good apiarist. 

 We do not need any winter hive^ here, 

 such as chaff-packing, etc., but a nice, 

 well made movable-comh hive is all we 

 need in the South. Better shun all ad- 

 vertisements of hives that are said to 

 give more honey than any other hive, as 

 they are catch-penny advertisements, 

 for it is the bees that produce the honey, 

 not the hive. Give me a salt barrel, or 

 log gum, that is large enough, and let 

 me fix the furniture so that I can ma- 

 nipulate it, and I will get as much 

 honey as if the bees were in a palace. 

 Jennie Atchley. 



When to Put on Sections. 



Mrs. Atchley :— Please tell me about 

 what time I should put on the sections 

 here. I write to you because you are 

 the only one near my latitude that I 

 know of. F. N. Gardiner. 



Guthrie, O. T. 



Friend G., the best time to put on sec- 

 tions is when the bees have just begun 

 to gather honey from the flowers that 

 produce your surplus. This will be in- 

 dicated usually by bees being busy, and 

 white specks of comb shown near the 

 top-bars of the frames. Study your 

 flowers, and always have your sections 

 on in time to catch the harvest, but not 

 before, as they become yellow if on the 

 hive too long. Jennie Atchley. 



Texas as a Honey State. 



On page 210, Mr. L. W. Rich asks, 

 " What do the bees of Texas gather 

 honey from in the new parts ?" Such 

 portions of Texas are the gold-mines for 

 the honey-bees. Thousands of flowers 

 are in bloom from February until De- 

 cember, and among them horsemint, one 

 of the best honey-plants Texas ever had, 

 and the prairies are its home. In south- 

 west Texas we have buffalo clover, 

 catclaw, and other flowers too numer- 

 ous to mention, and the country yet un- 

 occupied by man is flowing with honey, 

 as bees are plentiful and always found 

 to be rich. 



In my estimation, Texas will carry 

 the banner as a honey State, as all that 



