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through robbing, is so far in error, that 

 only occasionally and casually can honey 

 convey it from colony to colony." 



He also tells us that the eggs of the 

 queens contain bacilli, from which it 

 would appear that wherever a queen 

 from a foul-broodcolony went the disease 

 must go ; for, surely, if these are in the 

 eggs, the larva hatched from these eggs 

 must, of course, be fed upon by these 

 bacilli ; hence would die of the disease ; • 

 yet, the fact remains, that where no 

 foul-brood honey goes no disease goes, 

 or the thousands of colonies cured by 

 the Jones, or more properly, the original 

 Quinby plan of fasting, could never have 

 been cured. Although Jones, Root and 

 many others have proven the fallacy of 

 Cheshire's conclusions regarding foul- 

 brood, yet, as far as I have seen, he has 

 not taken back what he wrote, or even 

 said he might have been mistaken. I 

 wish to impress upon the minds of all 

 that honey from foul-broody hives must 

 he scalded, the first thing after being taken 

 from the hive, or from the bees, or there 

 is great danger that your own or your 

 neighbors' bees will carry a little of it 

 off, when, just as sure as effect follows 

 cause, the colony which receives a bee 

 load of this honey, will in due time 

 become extinct from foul-brood, unless 

 the apiarist is on hand to cure it by the 

 fasting plan. 



FASTENING COMBS IN FRAMES. 



A correspondent wishes to know how 

 to fasten combs in the frames when 

 transferring. There ^re several ways of 

 doing this, such as winding a good 

 quality of wrapping twine around comb, 

 frame and all ; using narrow, thin sticks 

 a little longer than the frame is wide, 

 which are tied at each end so as to hold 

 the comb in place, or using transferring 

 clasps for the purpose, all of which must 

 be removed in a few days. The method 

 which I prefer is as follows : 



Upon a wide board place several 

 thicknesses of cloth, on this lay the 

 comb, over the comb lay the frame, and 

 mark the comb a little larger than the 

 frame, by holding the knife leaning in a 

 little. Now, with the right sized brad- 

 awl, punch the required number of holes 

 through the sides, top and bottom of the 

 frame, when it is to be pushed over the 

 comb, which has been cut according to 

 the marks made, after which wire nails 

 of the suitable size and length are 

 pushed into the holes and comb, which 

 will hold the comb in place, and the 

 nails need not be removed unless you 

 choose. 



Borodino, N. Y. 



Hunting tlie Honey-Bee, 



The bee-hunter may not be entitled to 

 a place in the front rank of sportsmen, 

 says the New York Times, but he has 

 not a little fun, often not a few pains, 

 and in the end a good deal of satisfac- 

 tion. He is also a claimant of a certain 

 amount of veneration on account of the 

 ancient nature of his pursuit. 



The primitive man must have been a 

 great bee-hunter, because he had no 

 other way of getting his honey, and his 

 brother, the bear, from whom he prob- 

 ably learned the pastime, is to-day a 

 living witness of those early proclivities. 

 Wherever there is a bear and a bee-tree, 

 the two are bound, sooner or later, to 

 .come together, and then there is more 

 bear, but no more bees or honey. 



There is much bee hunting all over 

 this country wherever woods abound, 

 but among the backwoodsmen in the 

 great pine forests of the South, it is a 

 favorite recreation. These men are 

 always on the lookout for bee-trees, and 

 nothing but actual sight of the quarry in 

 immediate quest will deter them from 

 following a bee discovered on the wing. 



In South Carolina there lives one of 

 these men named Hoge, who is a very 

 old man now. The writer was hunting 

 with Hoge one day many years ago, 

 when he suddenly, without a word of 

 explanation, clapped spurs to his horse, 

 and shot off through the forest at a 

 breakneck pace. The best thing to do 

 under the circumstances was to await 

 his return to the spot he started from. 

 When he came back, something more 

 than half an hour later, he explained 

 that he had gone off in pursuit of a bee 

 that had loaded up with honey, and was 

 bound for its tree. 



In the Autumn the pine forests are 

 carpeted with a thousand wild flowers 

 of various hues, but gold and purple are 

 the predominant shades. The flowers 

 furnish rich pasturage for the bees, 

 which are consequently very abundant. 

 They build their combs in hollows of 

 the lofty pines, seldom less than 40 or 

 50 feet from the ground. 



When the bee has filled itself up with 

 honey, it makes off for its tree as 

 straight as it can go ; hence the common 

 saying, a bee-line. If you can follow it 

 at that time, you are sure to find the tree 

 in which the colony has its store of 

 honey. But it is not such an easy mat- 

 ter to follow it through a forest, for 

 several reasons. The chief of these are 

 its rapid flight, and the difficulty of 

 keeping such a small object in view in a 



