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into a snug roll about an inch thick, tying 

 it in several places with separate strings or 

 wire thread. Tliis is so the roll will not all 

 come apart when the first string burns. I 

 then cut tfie long roll into cartridges, about 

 4 or inches long. 



Place a handful of dull coals and ashes in 

 the end of the stove under the frames, and 

 place upon them two or three of the car- 

 tridges. Have ready some damp cotton 

 cloths to smother down any blaze. Of 

 course, through the front doors of the stove 

 you can regulate the smoke perfectly, keep- 

 ing all dampers shut tight so there shall be 

 no draft. I trust now that no one will 

 carelessly set their combs on fire and lay it 

 to me. 



My other half laughed at me for saying 

 on page 698, that I raised the hive off the 

 bottom-board the '• width of a lath." He 

 says it's the thickness of the lath. I guess he 

 is right, and I am indebted to the Bee 

 Journal for the idea. 



Mrs. B. J. Livingston. 



Centre Chain, Minn. 



Got but liittle Honey. 



I got but little honey this year — not more 

 than 100 pounds, all told, from 16 colonies, 

 spring count. I have put into winter quar- 

 ters 25 colouies, IS of which I think are in 

 good condition ; the rest I will have to feed 

 in the spring. Joseph Dunbarr. 



Scott's Mills, Ills., Dec. 3, 1893. 



IKCailed Queens — Very Yellow Bees. 



On page 697, Rev. W. P. Faylor says, 

 •' Who ever saw a good laying queen after 

 she had gone through the mails ?'" I think I 

 have. I have an imported queen that came 

 from Bologna, Itajy, that is as fine a laying 

 queen as any one could wish, and she is 

 three years old. She was sent through the 

 mails. I have had queens to live for four 

 and five years after being shipped through 

 the mails. I am well satisfied that it won't 

 hurt a queen any more to stop laying in 

 the summer than it does in the winter ; if 

 so, they would be worthless after swarm- 

 ing; but in the case of swarming, the 

 queen prepares for swarming by reducing 

 her egg-laying, that is Nature. And in 

 shipping queens we must follow Nature as 

 closely as possible. To do that we must 

 give the queen a chance to free herself of 

 eggs before caging. If she is properly 

 caged, and not hurt in introducing, she will 

 be as good as if she had not been shipped. 



The shipping will not hurt queens, if they 

 do not get chilled. But to take them from 

 the combs, and cage and ship when they are 

 full of eggs, I am sure they would be in- 

 jured. 



Now for the»very yellow queens — I will ad- 

 mit they are mostly produced by artificial 

 means, but if we can improve the color of 

 the queen, then what is the reason we can't 

 improve their laying qualities as well ? 

 The cause of the queens being yellower, 

 that are reared artificially is, they are kept 

 warmer while in the larval state, and bet- 



ter supplied with royal ,jelly. Then the 

 colony is only allowed just as many queen- 

 cells as it can take pi'oper care of, and it is 

 impossible for them to start any more, and 

 they will be well cared for. and not scat- 

 tered all through the hive, a part of them 

 to be neglected. Then we have the advan- 

 tage of selecting the eggs or larvae from 

 the choicest queens, and like begets like, 

 except where we improve. 

 Aurora, Nebr. Charles White. 



Piping and Q,uahking of Queens, Etc. 



After reading the various articles in dis- 

 cussing the disease known as bee-paralysis, 

 my friend, Uncle John Doty, and myself 

 decided to p^t in young queens in his dis- 

 eased colonies, and in no instance did it 

 fail to cure. I re-queen every year, and 

 never have had a case yet. 



Bees stored nothing in the forepart of the 

 season but honey-dew. We got about 25 

 pounds of yellow honey per colony, and 

 bees went into the winter with plenty of 

 stores. 



I ask Dr. Miller's pardon for not answer- 

 ing his question on page 376 in proper time ; 

 but I will say that I was called to Iowa by 

 he fatal sickness of my father at that time. 



All queens in the cell sound the same, and 

 all queens out of the cell the same. What 

 we believe is. that the bees do not hold 

 back queens in cells, whether they want to 

 swarm or not. A queen will hatch out 

 (other surroundings favorable) if there is 

 not a worker-bee within a mile. 



Mr. Doty and I hatch our queens in full 

 colonies in the brood-chamber, and do not 

 take them out of the cage until we think 

 all are hatched out; then we make nuclei 

 out of that colony, and when those queens 

 are laying we take them out and use them ; 

 and then put the nuclei together again— 

 practically the same hive— giving them one 

 of the queens. 



Now if Dr. Miller will read my Letter on 

 page 281, and does not understand it yet, I 

 will send him a diagram, if he would like 

 one. J- H. Rose. 



Gait, Mo. 



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