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AMERICAN BEE lOURNAL, 



Dec. 21, 1899. 



" ^^ry Raising on tlie Farm" 



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Poultry and Incubators on the Farm." "Feedingr Specially* 

 for tVgs." "Raisintr Broilers for Market." Successful Egr' 

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<tiiem - Cell*. Ilet«-eeii Sealed 

 If i'00<l are better cared for than between 

 two combs of unsealed brood, and more 

 bees are found clustered over sealed than 

 unsealed brood. — Bee-Keepers' Review. 



l>ooIittIe's Uivision - Hoard 

 Feetler is enthusiastically endorst for 

 stimulative feeding by the two leading bee- 

 keepers where Gleanings in Bee-Culture is 

 manufactured. Simple to use. gets the heat 

 of the cluster so that bees will use it any 

 time, and its use does not start robbing. 



I. Oiling' 4(iieen<< in Supers. — Wm. 



Muth-Rasmussen. in Gleanings in Bee-Cul- 

 ture, says that altho he finds no brood in his 

 sections it is not uncommon to find a queen 

 in the supers. As a result, when a super is 

 taken from a hive there is danger that a 

 queen may be lost. So when he removes 

 a super he tacks on it a piece af section 

 with the number of the colony on it. If 

 he finds a queen in the super, the number 

 tells him where to return the queen. 



Ciolden and Five-Itanded Bees. 



— G. M. Doolittle says in Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture that some of the very yellow bees 

 in this country are of Cyprian origin, but 

 nearly all the very yellow bees of Italian 

 blood came originally from Joseph M. 

 Brooks, of Indiana. By some the word 

 "golden" is applied to bees a little yel- 

 lower than the five-banded, but the two 

 terms " golden " and " five-banded " are in 

 general used indiscriminately. Altho Mr. 

 Doolittle does not say so. he has probably 

 done more than anyone else to disseminate 

 a strain of golden Italians combining 

 beauty with other good qualities. 



^Tax - n'orms Kating: Dried 



Ai»i»I«'S.— The report of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, Western Australia, includes 

 a report from the biologist, R. Helms, says 

 the Australian Bee-Bulletin. " Mr. Helms' 

 report speaks of the increasing number of 

 wax-moths in apiaries where bees are kept 

 in unsuitable boxes. Speaking of the 

 small wax-moth, he says 'It does not en- 

 tirely depend upon wax-comb for its propa- 

 gation, which, however, it prefers to any- 

 thing else. Its larv;i? can also develop 

 upon dried fruits and milling refuse. Dried 

 apples are also invaded by these larvse.' 

 Foul brood is very common in Western 

 Australia. Bee-paralysis is also met with." 



To Prevent Hees Onawing^ 

 Quilts. — A writer in Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture says: 



•• For years past I have used waxt cloths 

 over brood-frames. The bees propolize the 

 spaces between the frames quite liberally, 

 and ofttimes manage to insert a good deal 

 of the stufl" between the cloth and the top- 

 bars. Once in a while I remove the cloths 

 and run a hot laundry-iron over them, thus 

 diffusing the propolis over and thru them. 

 Prior to this operation the bees are some- 

 what disposed to gnaw the cloth, but never 

 after. Now, I have a number of these 

 cloths that have been in use several years. 

 They are as dark or black as any brood- 

 comb I ever saw." 



Introdncing- <(ueens l»y Imaging: 

 Against tlie Si<le of a Conil> was 



recommended by Editor Hutchinson. R. 

 A. Lapsley complained in Gleanings in 

 Bee-Culture that the plan had failed with 

 him. Mr. Hutchinson says in the Bee- 

 Keepers' Review that he sent out several 

 hundred queens with instruction for that 

 sort of introduction, and almost without 

 exception the failures were like that of Mr. 



