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ins your stables to find out about cattle- 

 fever, visiting your hog-peDs to find out 

 about cholera ; visiting your orchard to 

 find out about the pernicious scale, or 

 visiting your dog about his madness ? 

 Oh, no ! If you would need an inspector 

 for this you vpould better have no child- 

 ren, no cows, no hogs, no fruit-trees, 

 and no dog. If you need an inspector 

 for foul brood you would better have no 

 bees. That inspector can't help you 

 among so many — help yourself ! This is 

 and ought to be the first axiom. The 

 inspector might visit you one week, and 

 the disease the next, therefore such an 

 inspection without a good education is 

 monstrous. Anyhow, Utah's foul brood 

 law can be dissatisfactory only for those 

 who are tast for it. In this respect I 

 don't care for it as I would'nt care for it 

 if there would be a face in Utah with an 

 unusually long-pointed nose. But if the 

 man with that nose would say: "There 

 is a nose finer than any nose in Wiscon- 

 sin ;" then he must allow being told, 

 " Your nose is very satisfactory, but you 

 could do with half an inch less." 



You criticised Wisconsin's foul brood 

 law and called yours better because it 

 provides an inspector for every district. 

 Now, let me tell you, you might do better 

 yet. Put an inspector on every bee-hive. 

 That's probably an advantage over Wis- 

 consin. But I think all these inspec- 

 tions could be done with half an inch 

 less. J. V01.KEET. 



Chesterfield Co., Va. 



[Mr. Volkerfs ideas may be very good 

 in theory, but they are quite impractical 

 at the present time. It Is one thing to 

 say that all bee-keepers should be as 

 well-informed on the subject of foul 

 brood and its treatment as is Mr. 

 McEvoy, the foul brood inspector of On- 

 tario, Cauada, but it would be quite 

 another matter to do the educating or 

 get the rank and file to take the interest 

 in it that they should. We must take 

 things as we find them, and then gradu- 

 ally improve them, but not try to do the 

 impossible at first. — Editor.! 



A Young Bee-Keepers' Experience. 



I have but 5 colonies now, numbered 

 1, 2 3, 4, 5 — 1 and 5 in 10-frame hives, 

 and 2, 3 and 4 in 8-frame. No. 5 is a 

 swarm that came out May 28. No. 4 

 was a last year's late swarm ; 1, 2 and 

 3 are 2 years old. 



Last year my bees did no good. I had 

 5 colonies, and got only about 75 pounds 

 of honey, and one swarm ; and all the 

 bee-men say that the bees would not 

 work last year on the little white clover, 

 while we had a very good crop of it ; 

 consequently there had to be a great deal 

 of failing. 



This year the prospect was better at 

 the start, but got nipt in the bud. In 

 March we had very fine weather, and 

 the brood-combs were well-filled with 

 brood, but there were few bees. In April 

 we had some very cold weather, and the 

 bees could not protect the young bees 

 and larvae, consequently it died in the 

 cell except in the strong colonies. The 

 weak ones have not yet recovered from 

 the setback. 



Another thing I do not understand : 

 I have sat at my hives for two hours at 

 a time watching for drones, and have 

 taken out all the frames, and I do not 



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think I have seen a half dozen drones in 

 my apiary. June 22 I weighed my bees, 

 and No. 1 was 4.5 pounds net, or deduct- 

 ing the weight of the hive; No. 2, 15 

 pounds ; No. 3, 11 pounds ; No. 4, 24; 

 and No. 5, only 2.5 days old, weighed 56 

 pounds net, or S8 pounds gross ; this is 

 over 2 '4 pounds per day gain of honey, 

 and yet none of my bees are working in 

 the supers yet. 



I gave them all good, clean supers, 

 with new sections and starters. They 

 all seem to be very busy, working nicely, 

 but are neither swarming nor putting 

 honey into the supers. 



I am young in the bee-business, and I 

 am going to experiment some on those 

 two weak colonies. If I lose them it 

 will not be much loss, and if I gain it 

 will be so much ahead. 



I was told by old bee-men that I could 

 not rear bees on sugar, but all the same 

 I did. I caught a nice swarm some years 

 ago in August, about the 20th, and on 

 the first of November they had about S 

 pounds of honey and about a half gallon 

 of bees. I fed them sugar, about 25 

 pounds, during the fall and spring, and 

 the same colony gave me in return for 

 my kindness 24 pounds of section honey, 

 and 2 good swarms, the next year. 



On page 869, is given cold water vs. 

 hot for beestings. A few years ago I 

 undertook to capture a runaway swarm 

 of bees, and did capture them. I got the 

 bees to settle all right, but when I went 

 to hive them it seemed to me they just 

 all let go of the cluster and began to 

 sting me. I did not put on any protec- 

 tion, and I was stung all over the hands, 

 arms, legs, face and neck, and then they 

 were not satisfied, but they crawled 

 down my back and stung my body. In 

 trying to get away from them I got one 

 hand in the mud, and it seemed to ease 

 me, so that I just plastered myself with 

 a thin mud, of clay and water, and there 

 was scarcely any swelling, and it did not 

 make me the least bit sick or sore. Since 

 then this is the only remedy I have for 

 bee-stings. S. R. Guseman. 



Preston Co., W. Va., June 26. . 



Kendering Combs in Iron Kettles. 



I send you sample of wax which has 

 been boiled in an Iron kettle, and I will 

 tell the best I can how It was made. I 

 first put the combs into the kettle and 

 then put wire-cloth over them and 

 weighed them down to keep them in the 

 bottom of the kettle, and then filled it 

 with soft water. I do not boil any after 

 all the combs are melted. I took a dip- 

 ping-board and dipt the wax out of the 

 kettle while hot, the same as dipping 

 for foundation sheets. Allowing wax to 

 cool in the kettle will darken It. 



Reuben Palmer. 



Jefferson Co., Mo. 



[The sample of sheeted wax has a 

 beautiful golden color, and is quite clean 

 and nice. From all that has been said 

 against rendering combs in iron kettles, 

 one would hardly believe that the sample 

 sent was so rendered. But it may be all 

 the trouble comes from allowing the wax 

 to cool in the kettle, and thus darken it. 

 — Editor.] 



Basswood the Only Hope. 



Bees have not done much since locust 

 bloom, when they commenced working 

 in the supers. White clover is in bloom, 



