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they will go to work; always provided 

 that they need the room to store. 



There is no little difference in colonies 

 about commencing work in the supers. 

 Some will fill their supers nicely, leaving 

 abundance of empty cells in tke brood- 

 combs while they are at work in the 

 supers, while others will leave the 

 supers unoccupied, and cram the brood- 

 combs full, and build burr-combs in all 

 directions. 



To build up a weak colony at this time 

 of the year requires no great skill. If 

 they can get enough stores from the 

 field to build upon on, they only ask to 

 be let alone. Possibly, however, you 

 want to know how to make them build 

 up faster. Well, you can give them help 

 from the stronger colonies. But do not 

 make the mistake of thinking that you 

 can take from the strong and give to the . 

 weak, and thus increase your crop of 

 honey, if that crop comes from anything 

 as early as clover or linden. Better, in 

 that case, take from the weak and give 

 to the strong. 



But if you want to have more colonies 

 to work on a late crop, or if your object 

 is to multiply colonies, without regard 

 to the honey crop, then you may do well 

 :o help the weaklings. You may do it 

 either by giving them young bees or 

 brood. 



Shake the bees off of a frame (or 

 several frames) in front of a hive to be 

 strengthened, and all bees young enough 

 will remain with the colony where they 

 are shaken. 



On the whole, it may be more satis- 

 factory to strengthen them with brood. 

 Take from the strong colony a frame of 

 brood which is nearly all sealed, and 

 give to the weak one, but be sure that 

 they have bees enough to care for it. 

 When the weather is hot, a very few 

 bees will care for several combs, for if 

 the brood is all sealed, It will take care 

 of itself pretty much. Look out for cold 

 nights, though, and have all tucked up 

 warm. 



Marengo, Ills. 



Apicnltiiral Notes from NeteasKa, 



J. M. YOUNG. 



The basswood bloom was of short 

 duration in this vicinity, consequently 

 but little honey was obtained from it. 



By using the Porter bee-escapes, all 

 the bees have left the combs In 24 hours 

 with me. I find that they will leave 

 honey-boxes much quicker than extract- 

 ing combs. I shall use a number of 



them this Fall and next year. Too 

 much cannot be said in their praise. 



I seldom remove the cases from the 

 hives that hold my honey-boxes, but 

 allow them to remain on all Summer. I 

 keep close watch, and whenever any 

 sections are filled, they are taken out 

 and empty ones put in their places. 



Separators are not used in my apiary, 

 but from the number of thick, uneven 

 sections of honey this year, it seems that 

 they will be a necessity next year. 



Fifteen hours a day, for the past 

 month, would be a fair average in my 

 apiary and grounds for a day's work, 

 besides keeping up my correspondence 

 by lamp light. 



My apiary numbers now 82 colonies, 

 including swarms. Most all of the 

 swarms are domiciled in new, dovetailed 

 hives. 



Plattsmouth, Nebr., July 16, 1891. 



Dlscoyeryoiltie Canse of Foul-Brooi. 



WM. M'EVOY. 



My first experience with foul-brood 

 was in the Spring and Summer of 1875. 

 In April of that year one of my colonies 

 swarmed out, and about two-thirds of 

 the bees got into another colony before 

 I got the hive closed. I then put the 

 remainder of the swarm and its queen 

 back into the hive they came from. 



Then, about sundown, when the bees 

 had settled for the day, I examined the 

 colony, and found plenty of both brood 

 and honey, but a very small cluster of 

 bees — too small to cover or care for all 

 the brood— and if the bees that got into 

 the other colony had been in the hive 

 there would not have been any more 

 than enough bees to cover and care well 

 for all the brood. 



In 1881 I wrote up my discovery and 

 cure of foul-brood and mailed it to 

 Gleanings, but it was not published. 



In January, 1884, I wrote up the 

 cause and cure of foul-brood for the 

 Canadian Stock Raisers' Journal, where 

 it was printed. 



I thought I was all alone in the world 

 on the cause of foul-brood, and never 

 read or heard of Mr. C. J. Robinson or 

 any other ever having discovered the 

 cause of foul-brood until I read his letter 

 in the American Bee Journal of Nov. 

 1, 1890. I will use that letter where- 

 ever I go to prove that I am in the right 

 on the cause of foul-brood. 



I never scalded or boiled, or advised 

 any bee-keeper to scald or boil, any hive 



