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they were heavy with brood aud bees. 

 I unloaded them, cleaned up the dead 

 bees, gave the combs of dead brood and 

 some honey to other colonies, and no 

 disease or any disturbance followed. I 

 say foul brood cannot be started by dead 

 brood of any kind or character, unless 

 the germs of foul brood were there be- 

 fore. 



Now, our Canadian brothers may have 

 a different kind of foul brood from what 

 we are used to. We have no right to 

 dispute any of Mr. McEvoy's state- 

 ments. I have not a word to say against 

 his cure, or his foul brood in Canada, as 

 he seems to be doing a wonderful work, 

 and a good work, too, in curing the foul 

 brood they have in Canada ; but I would 

 just have to see him cure such foul 

 brood as we had, by his methods and 

 treatment. Putting bees into the same 

 hives where foul-broody bees had been 

 before, will not work in Texas. But 

 who knows but it may in Canada? They 

 are different coujitries, you see. 



Jennie Atchley. 



Some Queen Questions. 



Mrs. Atchley : — I introduced a fine 

 queen some days ago, and she was re- 

 leased all right, and two of my neigh- 

 bors came over and wished to see an 

 Italian queen, so I lifted the comb half 

 way out, and she became frightened and 

 flew away, and I found her at the en- 

 trance of another hive with a ball of 

 bees around her. I took her from the 

 bees and returned her to her own hive, 

 and they balled her also. Please tell me 

 what caused them to do so. Would it 

 not be better to keep the queen caged a 

 couple days before giving the bees a 

 chance to eat out the candy, that they 

 may become more acquainted with the 

 queen ? 



Will you please tell me if a pure or 

 tested Italian queen will lay pure Italian 

 eggs ? Will she do so next year, as some 

 here say they will not be pure the second 

 year? Also please tell me if a young 

 queen will hatch out and kill my new 

 queen, as I see they have a sealed queen- 

 cell. J. W. Allison. 



Dan, Tex. 



Friend Allison, the reason the bees 

 from her own hive balled their queen 

 when you returned her, was on account 

 of the sting poison the bees had saturated 

 her with. Bees will ball their own 

 queen just as quickly as a strange one, 

 when she has sting poison on her. The 

 next time you have a queen take wing, 



shake a frame of bees right down In 

 front of the entrance, and close the hive 

 quickly, step back out of the way, and 

 she will return all right. 



In some instances it may be better to 

 keep queens caged a few days in the 

 hive before giving the bees access to the 

 candy, but I never do so ; I always see 

 that they have candy enough to com- 

 pletely fill up the food hole, as when a 

 queen has come a long way the candy 

 may be nearly all gone; in such cases 

 there ought to be more candy put in. I 

 seldom lose a queen by the candy plan. 



Yes, a pure Italian queen will lay 

 eggs that will produce pure Italian bees, 

 if she has been purely mated, and her 

 eggs will produce Italian bees as long as 

 she lives. 



Yes, usually when a young queen 

 hatches out, the old queen is destroyed, 

 unless she is removed. 



Jennie Atchley. 



Southern Reports for 1893. 



Reports are coming in from all over 

 the South, and our State has had a good 

 honey year, with the exceptions of a 

 few localities. South and southwest 

 Texas have a fair yield this year. Some 

 portions of Mississippi have good crops. 

 California has done no bad things in get- 

 ting honey, but of course they did not 

 have one of those old-time big crops. 



The portions of Tennessee heard from 

 have average honey crops, and in most 

 parts of the South crops of honey have 

 been fair, considering the amount of 

 bees in the spring, as bees were usually 

 in poor condition and weak when they 

 ought to have been strong. There lies 

 the secret, friends. If we will attend to 

 our little pets in the spring, and at times 

 when no honey is coming in, they are 

 most sure tu repay, and in good money, 

 as we cannot expect a poor, weak colony 

 of bees to build up from the stump, and 

 gather much surplus. Unless we have 

 an eye on this, we are going to miss a 

 honey crop, surely. Let the bee-keeper 

 work for bees, and at the right time, and 

 the bees will then take care of the 

 honey. Jennie Atchley. 



Honey as Kood and JVIediciuc is 



just the thing so help sell honey, as it shows 

 the various ways in which honey may be 

 used as a food and as a medicine. Try 100 

 copies of it, and see what good ' • sales- 

 men " they are. See the third page of this 

 number of the Bee Jouknal for description 

 and prices. 



