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not enough bees at home to protect them 

 from the moth. If the queen-cells had 

 been cut out at the proper time, all would 

 have been Well and good, and the colony 

 saved. 



When an old colony swarms, we always 

 take the section case with the adhering 

 bees that it contains, and place it on the 

 new colony ; sometimes we place the new 

 colony where the old one stood, and thus 

 catch all the old returning field bees, 

 which generally makes a rousing colony 

 for business, and they soon finish up the 

 sections in good shape. 



After the young colony has been in the 

 hive a month or so, and they have things 

 pretty well fixed up, they commence 

 building queen-cells, and make prepara- 

 tions for swarming, and if they are not 

 "nipped in the bud," they will swarm 

 themselves down so as to be almost 

 worthless. 



It takes a great deal more care and 

 attention to run an apiary in the moun- 

 tains than it does in the valley. 



CAGING QUEENS DURING A HONEY-FLOW. 



Will it pay to cage the queen during a 

 heavy flow of honey, is a question that is 

 yet unsolved by many bee-keepers. Some 

 claim that it pays well in dollars and 

 cents, while others think it is a disad- 

 vantage and no profit is derived from this 

 practice at all. I think the secret of it 

 is in the location ; some locations, after 

 the main honey-flow, have no smaller 

 ones to follow, and it is in such locations 

 that removing the queen will pay. 



The queen should be caged about two 

 weeks before the honey-flow. She may 

 be kept in a small nucleus hive, with two 

 or more frames of adhering bees. In 

 ten days all the queen-cells should be 

 removed from the colony and a frame of 

 larvjK inserted, with which the bees will 

 rear another batch of queen-cells, 

 which will keep them occupied about ten 

 days longer; by that time you will be 

 ready to give them their old queen again. 

 Go to the nucleus hive where you put her, 

 and lift out the two frames and place 

 -them in the old hive again. 



The bees, after having their queen 

 removed, work just as well without a 

 queen as with one ; because they have 

 all the material necessary to make a 

 queen, and, of course, they are in a per- 

 fectly natural condition, and will just 

 rush the honey in and fill every cell as 

 fast as the young bees emerge. The old 

 colony, you see is getting stronger every 

 day, and about the time the honey-flow 

 ceases, all the first or original brood will 

 be hatched. Of what use afterwards is 



the great number of bees that would 

 hatch, if the queen had been left in the 

 hive! They would simply be consumers, 

 instead of producers ; for after the honey- 

 flow is gone, there would not be anything 

 for them to do. Swarming is controlled 

 to a great extent, too, by removing the 

 queen. When running for extracted- 

 honey removing the queen is bound to 

 be a success in certain locations, and it 

 will also be a great aid in the production 

 of comb-honey.— P(<c/:/ic' Rural Press. 

 Grizzly Flats, Calif. 



Otiio at ttie WorW's Fair. 



ERNEST ROOT. 



The Ohio State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion at Toledo appointed Dr. A. B. 

 Mason, C. F. Math, and J. B. Hains to 

 look after the securing of an appropria- 

 tion by the State to provide for the 

 expense of Ohio's apiarian exhibit at the 

 Chicago Exposition. 



A few weeks ago, with this purpose in 

 view, the Doctor made a trip to Colum- 

 bus and interviewed the Commissioners 

 of the World's Fair. One of them wrote 

 him a letter, saying that they would 

 have another meeting in Cleveland, on 

 Thursday, June 4, and suggested that 

 then would be a good time for represen- 

 tatives of the Ohio State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association to be present and state their 

 needs. 



Accordingly, Dr. Mason, Mr. J. B. 

 Hains, Miss Bennett, J. T. Calvert, and 

 E. R, R., by appointment met at the 

 Hollenden Hotel, whither, also, the 

 Commissioners of the World's Fair were 

 to meet at 10 am. 



After holding a short preliminary 

 consultation, it was agreed not to ask 

 for any stated sum of money by way of 

 an appropriation for the bee and honey 

 interests, and that we would request the 

 Commissioners to put the whole matter 

 into the hands of the Ohio State Bee- 

 Keepers' Association. We then re- 

 paired to a parlor where the Commis- 

 sioners were in session. 



At tTie proper time Dr. Mason, as 

 spokesman, arose, and after stating 

 what the bee-keepers of other States 

 were doing, and the importance of the 

 bee and honey interests of the State, and 

 the number of bee-keepers, requested 

 that the Commissioners put the whole 

 matter into the hands of the State 

 association. As soon as the association 

 knew that they were to have charge of 

 preparing and caring for the exhibit, 



