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called dreaded disease. When garments 

 become foul and dirty, we may look out 

 for lice ; also, whenever combs and 

 bee-hives emit a stench, like results n\ay 

 follow. 



It seems that every man sent to the 

 Legislature wants to get some kind of a 

 bill to become a law. I would not thank 

 an officer to take a peep at ray gay team 

 and want me to pay him $2 for the look; 

 but I should prefer this to a rambling 

 through my apiary. 



State Line, Ind. 



[Mr. Faylor ignores the fact that in 

 the Tllinois Foul-Brood Bill there is a 

 section empowering the Inspector to 

 order bees in box-hives, in an apiary 

 where the disease exists, to be trans- 

 ferred to movable-frame hives (see Sec. 

 6, page 534, Bee Journal). There is 

 no danger of an "intrusion" unless the 

 Inspector shall be directed by the Presi- 

 dent of the Illinois Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation to so "intrude." (See Sec. 5.) 

 Neither does the Inspector make any 

 direct charge to the owner of an apiary 

 for examining his bees, as Sec. 17 pro- 

 vides for an annual tax of 5 cents on 

 each colojay of bees. As the gentleman 

 lives in Indiana (at least his post-office is 

 in that State), how can any bill passed 

 by the Illinois Legislature affect him ? 

 We would advise him to read the bill 

 carefully, and familiarize himself with 

 its provisions, before offering any adverse 

 criticisms. — Ed.1 



Rearing Queens wl tlie Laying Qneen, 



O. W. DAYTON. 



Having read in the bee-periodicals of 

 the rearing of young queens in the upper 

 stories of hives having a laying queen, I 

 submit my plan for rearing queens and 

 having them fertilized in the same brood- 

 chamber. 



The accompanying engraving repre- 

 sents a 14:-frame hive of the single story 

 pattern, the front board being cut away 

 to expose the arrangement of the frames. 

 Figures 1 are brood-frames in queen- 

 restrictors, one of which occupies each 

 end of the hive, with other frames be- 

 tween them. Owing to this cut being 

 made in 1889, the reversing device of 



the restrictor is not shown as now made, 

 but the reversing device has nothing to 

 do with the subject of this article. 



We will suppose we have a colony, 

 about May 20, upon five brood-combs in 

 one end of such a hive, in a restrictor, 

 with a division-board at the side of the 

 restrictor, and the rest of the hive is 

 empty. 



In a few days the colony will be able 

 to occupy six frames, and as the restric- 

 tor contains only five, one of the full 

 combs of brood is taken from the center 

 of the restrictor, the division-board 

 moved along, and the frame of Urood is 

 suspended upon the rabbets outside, and 

 an empty comb put in its place in the 

 restrictor. 



In three or four days more another 

 comb may be served in like manner, 

 making two frames of brood on the out- 

 side, which are moved far enough away 

 from the restrictor to put in an entirely 

 empty comb, ais represented by the 

 figure 2. Putting in this empty comb 

 has about the same effect as if it were a 

 solid division-board — it causes queen- 

 cells to be built on the combs (3, 3) of 

 queenless brood. 



After the cells are started there is 

 nothing more to do but wait for them to 

 hatch. The laying queen is confined in 

 the restrictor, so that she cannot molest 

 them. As the five combs in the restrictor 

 become crowded with brood, a frame or 

 more at a time may be exchanged for 

 empty ones, and the full ones placed 

 with those containing cells. 



It should be known when the young 

 queens will hatch, previous to which 

 event a perforated queen-excluding 

 division-board should be put in between 

 the frames 2 and 3 on the side toward 

 the restrictor, and the entrance ar- 

 ranged so that all bees going into the 

 restrictor must pass through the per- 

 forated division-board. 



This leaves the empty frames (2) in a 

 separate apartment. The young queen 

 is brought directly before the open en- 

 trance to fly out and become fertilized. 

 It is essential that the young queen be 

 restrained from coming close to the re- 

 strictor, as there would be danger of her 

 being balled by the bees. Neither 

 should any brood-combs, over which a 

 laying queen has lately traveled, be 

 allowed in the young queen's apart- 

 ment. 



When the young queen begins to lay 

 there will probably be six or eight brood- 

 frames in her apartment, which have 

 been taken from the restrictor, with 

 which to stock another restrictor- to 



