AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



637 



Thinks He Knows it ail. 



MARY P. SAWYER. 



Our neighbor Smith is a good old man, 



But he thinlis he knows it all. 

 He'll teach everybody whenever he can, 

 For he thinks he knows it all. 

 He knows the weather a year ahead. 

 He's wiser than all the books that are read 

 And all the time, whatever is said. 

 He thinks he knows it all. 

 He'll talk all day, and he'll talk all night, 



For he thinks he knows it all. 

 Some folks may be wrong, but he's always 

 right. 

 And he thinks he knows it all. 

 Coronado. 



Queries and Replies. 



Old Pollen in tie Comns. 



Query 766. — 1. Have you positive 

 evidence that bees will remove old pollen 

 when the room is needed for the queen ? 

 2. Having such combs, in what part of 

 the hive woitld you place them ? 3. At 

 what time of the year ? — Illinois. 



1. Yes. 2. In the center. 3. When 

 needed. — A, B. Mason. 



1. I think so. 2. Near the center of 

 the brood-nest. — J. M. Hambaugh. 



. I have no positive evidence that they 

 will do it for this purpose. — H. D. Cut- 

 ting. 



1. Yes. 2. In the brood-chamber. 3. 

 When the queen is laying rapidly. — J. 

 P. H. Brown. 



1. Yes. 2. In the center of the 

 brood-nest. 3. Any time, when they are 

 needed. — M. Mahin. 



1. Yes. 2. In the center of the 

 brood-nest. 3. In the Spring, or during 

 the Summer. — G. L. Tinker. 



1. Yes. 2. In the same place that I 

 would if they contained no pollen. 3. 

 Whenever needed. — R. L. Taylor. 



1. They will remove it when needed. 

 2. On one side of the brood-nest. 3. In 

 the Spring, when breeding is rapid. — A. 

 J. Cook. 



1. Yes, if it is not as "hard as a 

 rock." 2. Put such combs in the center 

 of the brood-nest, one at a time. — C. H. 



DiBBERN. 



1. No. 2. Leave them where they 

 happen to be, if already in the hive ; 

 otherwise put them at the side of the 

 brood-nest. — C. C. Miller. 



1. I do not think we have ; at lease I 

 have no positive evidence of the fact. 2. 

 I should place them side, by side with the 

 combs the queen was using for eggs. — J. 

 E. Pond. 



1. Yes. 2. Place them in the brood- 

 nest. 3. Whenever the temperature is 

 high enough, and brood-rearing is in 

 progress to considerable extent.. — James 

 Heddon. 



1. Yes. 2. In the part most conven- 

 ient of access. 3. Early in the season 

 would be best, but later in the season if 

 you have the combs, and use for them. 

 —Mrs. L. Harrison. 



1. Yes; though in some cases they 

 have to nearly destroy the comb to get 

 rid of it. 2. j, do not know but that it 

 would be economy to melt them for the 

 wax ; but if you wish the bees to clean • 

 them out, put them in the center of the 

 brood-nest. 3. In the Spring.— Eugene 

 Secor. 



If the pollen is musty, cut it out in the 

 Spring, leaving the septum. If it is 

 good do not care for it, the bees will eat 

 it. If one colony, after having been 

 queenless, has several combs encumbered 

 with pollen, exchange these combs for 

 others taken from colonies short of it. — 

 Dadant & Son. 



1. Yes. If the pollen is fresh and 

 good it will be used for brood ; if not, it 

 will be taken from the cells (even if the 

 combs have to be gnawed down to do it) 

 and tumbled out of the hives. 2. If in 

 June, in the center. If at any other 

 season of the year, at the sides. 3. Use 

 them at any time of the year you wish 



to.— G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



1. Yes. I have had them to remove 

 the pollen when it was so hard and dry 

 that the bees had to cut the comb down 

 to the septum to get the plugs of pollen 

 out, and afterwards draw out the cells. 

 2. Place them next to the brood. 3. 

 After breeding commences in good 

 earnest in the Spring, soak the pollen- 

 filled combs in luke warm water for a 

 quarter of an hour (have the water 

 sweet enough to make it palatable), then 

 hang in the brood-nest, next to the 

 brood. Only one or two combs must be 

 given to a colony at a time. — G. W. 

 Demaree. 



1. Yes; the bees will remove it unless 

 it is too hard. If it cannot be readily 

 removed by the bees, you should cut it 

 out down to the septum. 2. They may 

 be put in the brood-nest, or left any- 

 where in the brood-chamber. 3. In the 

 Spring or Summer.— The Editor. 



