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the hives that I extract from. Have 

 never extracted any from the brood- 

 nest. 



When the honey-flow is good, and I 

 have large swarms, I put on the sections 

 after the bees have been in the hives 3 

 or 4 days, filling the hives with empty 

 combs or comb-foundation. 



My hives are all painted and num- 

 bered, and I have a book containing the 

 numbers. About Sept. 20, I remove the 

 caps from the hives, and weigh every 

 one, writing down the weight opposite 

 the number in the book. From the colo- 

 nies having more honey than I think 

 they need, I remove 1 or 2 frames, 

 which I give to colonies that have not 

 enough to carry them through the 

 Winter. 



Bees have given me a great deal of 

 trouble by visiting my well and watering 

 trough, and in a dry time they would go 

 a mile and a half to ray neighbors' 

 watering troughs, but last Spring, when 

 I put my bees out, I made a trough that 

 would hold 5 or 6 pails of water, filling 

 it nearly full of corn cobs, then filled it 

 up with water, and three times a week I 

 put in a handful of salt, and neither I 

 nor my neighbors, were troubled with 

 bees around the watering trough all 

 season. 



Eldorado, WMs., March 16, 1891. 



ReminsBeestoOklalioina. 



H. B. FUEBEK. 



I formerly lived in Dallas county, 

 Texas, and kept about 30 colonies of 

 bees, but concluded to move to Olvla- 

 homa, and wished to bring a few of my 

 best colonies with me, so I bought some 

 wire-cloth, and cut it about one inch 

 larger than the bottom of the hive, so 

 that it would turn up all around, and 

 fastened it by tacking a strip on the edge 

 of the wire. 



I prepared 5 colonies in this way, and 

 put them in a hack and hauled them five 

 miles to the railroad station, loading 

 them into a freight car with my other 

 goods— such as farm implements and 

 household goods — and some fine hogs and 

 poultry. They were on the cars five 

 days (the distance is only about 200 

 miles), being loaded on Dec. 1, and un- 

 loaded Dec. 6, remaining as they were 

 shipped until Jan. 5, when I removed 

 the wire-cloth, and found about a pint 

 of dead bees under each hive. 



They had a good flight the evening of 

 Jan. 5, so I left them in a yard in Nor- 



raaii until the 5th of this month, when I 

 put the wire-cloth on them again, placed 

 them in a two-horse wagon, on some hay, 

 and hauled them 12 miles, over pretty 

 rough roads. 



On the 13th I removed the wire and 

 placed them where I wished them to re- 

 main during the Summer. Three days 

 later, I examined them, and found them 

 all in good condition, with plenty of 

 stores and brood. 



They have been bringing in pollen 

 every few days since I opened them. I 

 think this will be a good country for 

 bees. The Indians say there are great 

 numbers of them in the timber. I am 

 on Little River, 12 miles east of Norman. 



Norman, O. T., March 23, 1891. 



Qfleen-EicMer TS. QneenlncMer. 



A. C. STICKLE. 



Although a great deal is being pub- 

 lished about perforated zinc, wood, and 

 other material for queen-excluders, my 

 present intention is not to discuss the 

 utility of queen-excluders, but to sug- 

 gest an opposite, or different application 

 of the princifjle. 



Suppose a Langstroth hive were made 

 as at present, but in place of the present 

 front-board and entrance, a queen-ex- 

 cluder were placed, as sometimes at 

 present, and in front of this, were an 

 additional foot or more in length of hive, 

 filled with sections with another front- 

 board and entrance unobstructed. 



Now, in such a hive the bees could 

 deposit their stores in the sections with- 

 out entering the hive proper, or could go 

 on into the hive through the perforated 

 division ; while the queen could not go 

 from the brood-chamber, which might be 

 made two stories high. 



In such an arrangement the bees would 

 not consume much time, as it is claimed 

 they do, in crawling through the narrow 

 slots of the queen-excluder ; nor could 

 the queen enter the sections. If swarm- 

 ing is to some extent caused by the 

 crowding of the bees, this arrangement 

 would relieve the pressure, and its utility 

 might extend in other directions. In 

 short, the queen-excluder becomes a 

 queen-includer. 



Has this principle ever been tried in 

 just this manner? And if so, what has 

 been the result ? I write to find out any 

 record in the matter, so as not to go over 

 the experimental failures already proved 

 by others. You edit a periodical at all 

 times fully up to the knowledge obtain- 



