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shake onto these combs the bees from 

 off two combs at least, from a good, 

 strong colony, taking care that the old 

 queen is not among them. Now, remove 

 this strong colony to a new stand, and 

 place the new one in its stead, so as to 

 catch most of the flying bees. 



Do not use any of the combs from the 

 strong colony, for fear of getting one 

 with an egg or two in it. Combs con- 

 taining brood that have been above an 

 excluding honey-board at least eight or 

 ten days can be used, but it is safer to 

 have no brood until the queen has been 

 introduced two or three days. 



In 48 hours drop the virgin queen 

 between the combs among the bees after 

 dark, alone ; and on no account must she 

 be caged, scented or daubed with honey. 



Do not give them unsealed brood or 

 eggs until after the queen has been 

 laying a few days, or she will be almost 

 certainly "balled" at the entrance on 

 returning from the bridal trip. 



All the appliances used in previous 

 bee-keeping with any race can be used 

 with the Punic bees. 



Beverly, Mass. 



DoolitUe's Methoil of Qneen-Rearing, 



,J. p. MOOBE. 



It affords me the greatest of pleasure 

 to say that Doolittle's method of queen- 

 rearing is a grand succes ; it is far ahead 

 of any other method I have ever tried. 

 By using 10 colonies for cell building, 

 I can start a lot of cells every day, and 

 still have them storing honey just the 

 same as if they were not building cells. 

 This sounds almost too good to be true ; 

 and a few years ago we could not have 

 believed it. Every bee-keeper in the land 

 owes him a vote of thanks for giving to 

 the world such great value as is con- 

 tained in his book. I have also tried 

 his method of forming nuclei and intro- 

 ducing virgin queens, as given in Chapter 

 XI, and it has proved a success, also. 

 In fact, it seems that all of Doolittle's 

 methods are successful. I have been 

 using his queen-cell protectors ever since 

 they first came out, and do not see how 

 I could get along without them now. I 

 could not help smiling when reading the 

 forepart of Chapter X, telling how he 

 felt about losing those queen-cells, his 

 feelings were so much like my own before 

 I commenced using his cell protector. 

 Now, I can put a lot of queen-cells in the 

 cell protectors ; place them in nuclei, and 

 two da,ys after go and find every queen 



hatched out and running around. By 

 the old method I would sometimes find 

 half of them torn down. The chapter 

 on the subject of Securing Good Drones 

 contains many valuable suggestions, 

 which every queen-breeder ought to put 

 in practice, if we expect to make great 

 progress in improving our bees. I have 

 a colony queenless now, into which I 

 have been placing frames of select drone- 

 brood, in order to have plenty of select 

 drones flying after the honey season is 

 over. 

 Morgan, Ky. 



Hoiiey-Boarils ys, " Qneen-Exclnilers," 



JAMES HEDDON. 



Dr. Tinker, whether he is aware of it 

 or not, is only misleading beginners by 

 his copious writings upon subjects 

 relating to that part of apiculture with 

 which he has but little experience. 



About a dozen years ago I invented a 

 honey-board combining two distinct 

 features, which proved of great value, 

 viz.: The bee-space and break-joint 

 features. 



Later, when Mr. Jones came forward 

 with the queen-excluding metal, the 

 Doctor and three other bee-keepers, 

 each without any knowledge of the work 

 of the others, combined this metal with 

 my slat honey-board, and this the Doctor 

 calls his wood-zinc queen-excluder, 

 wholly omitting the term "honey-board," 

 which its inventor gave to it. 



When my new divisible brood-chamber 

 hive came out, the Doctor wrote to a 

 friend that he must have the use of some 

 of the new " Heddon principles." 



He obtained my permission to use a 

 part of the features of the new hive for 

 one year, and at the end of that time, 

 and after Mr. Dadant had written that 

 he thought that, in years gone by, the 

 Scotch had attempted to carry out some 

 of the functions of my invention, by the 

 use of what they called " storifying 

 hives," the Doctor made a hive infring- 

 ing that feature of mine, viz.: the 

 divisible brood-chamber, and uses no 

 other word but "storifying" in discrib- 

 ing the advantages he wrote about. 



Suppose that twelve years ago I had 

 patented my honey-board, the principal 

 claims of which patent would have been 

 the break-joint and bee-space, or half 

 bee-space (of all of which every well- 

 posted bee-keeper knows that I am the 

 inventor), how could the Doctor make 

 his "wood-zinc queen-excluder?" 



