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VoL XXXI. 



JUNE U J 903. 



No. U. 



I OWN UP that I always thought the yel- 

 low color of Italians was in the horny cov- 

 ering itself, instead of that covering being 

 transparent, as I learn on p. 423. Thanks, 

 Mr. Editor. 



"If it is true that a colony with a young 

 queen will not swarm during the season 

 she is reared," etc., p. 436. It isn't true. 

 I counted on that, and one year gave young 

 queens to all the colonies in one apiary. 

 They swarmed. 



I THINK those souvenir sections 2>s X2>s 

 Xlli, at the Denver banquet, were pro- 

 duced by Vice-president Harris; and if I 

 remember rightly he told me they could be 

 produced at only about double the cost of 

 ordinary sections. 



Combs that have been left out all winter 

 in this locality need no looking after the 

 next summer. Once in a great while the 

 moth maj' lay in them if covered up; but if 

 left without any cover I never knew them to 

 be troubled. [Same here. — Ed.] 



I DOUBT as to that case, p. 443, meeting 

 the requirements. Of course, the queen 

 wouldn't lay in a comb filled with honey, 

 and here was "a large swarm" with three 

 old worker combs that "had a good lot of 

 pollen and honey in them." If any thing 

 of a harvest was coming in, wouldn't the 

 bees at once fill smy empty cells, giving the 

 queen no chance in them? 



I LOOKED over that wax-extractor, p. 440, 

 and thought to myself, "Oh, dear! by the 

 time I'd take the time and trouble to make 

 one of them it would be more expensive than 

 to bu}' a German, and probably wouldn't 

 be as good. And it would take less skill 

 to run the German without getting a cheese 

 frozen on your hands." [Your conclusion 

 for the average bee-keeper is a very correct 



one; but there are some, however, who have 

 not the dollars, but have skill, tools, and an 

 aching void to make things. The Salis- 

 bury extractor is intended for just such 

 people as these. — Ed.] 



James Roat's plan for making holes in 

 tags, p. 445, is not so easy as making a 

 hole by driving a nail into the tag, and not 

 quite so secure. I don't want the possibil- 

 ity of a tag slipping off when hauling, and 

 I can very quickly draw the nail and change 

 to another hive. [Well, now, I guess you 

 are right, after all. There is no use in go- 

 ing to the trouble of making something that 

 is not as good as a simple nail. — Ed.] 



Hip, hip, hip, hip, hurrah! 



Illinois has a foul-brood law! — [This is 

 good news indeed. There, do you see my 

 hat sailing up in the air? Say, you could 

 not have got this law through unless you 

 had had a State organization back of it, 

 and men to push the bill. We are going to 

 try to get a similar measure through the 

 Ohio legislature, and a good example is set 

 us by Illinois, which will be worth much to 

 us. — Ed.] 



Those staples that fasten bottom-boards 

 to hives, p. 430, I use diagonally instead of 

 vertically, slanting in opposite directions, 

 each one slanting toward the center of the 

 hive at an angle of perhaps 25 degrees. A 

 little more firm against sliding back or for- 

 ward. If you don't happen to have staples, 

 pieces of tin 3XK inch answer very well 

 with a heavy tack in each end. [Come to 

 think, it is our practice to drive the staples 

 diagonally; but I forgot to explain to our 

 artist that little kink.— Ed.] 



If you don't like that smoker-hook, p. 

 432, you can throw it away, just as I did 

 years ago. I've often lost my hive-tool 

 when it wasn't tied to me, but never a 

 smoker. I don't want it hanging on the 

 hive with the chance of smoking the bees 

 automatically, even if it wasn't any in the 

 way. [We send along a hook because a 

 number call for it. It does no harm, and 

 is very often a great convenience. Take my 

 advice, and put the hook on as directed; 

 and if you do not vote it is a great conven- 

 ience I shall miss my guess. — Ed.] 



