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less, there were not more than two or three 

 dozen bees remaining in any of the supers. 

 The supers, upon which I tried the escapes, 

 were extracting supers with full depth 

 combs. 



What pleased me was that your escape 

 cleaned the bees out equally as well as did 

 the Dibbern. 



You have conferred a great boon upon the 

 fraternity. Should you come to Lexington, 

 give me a call. Jas. Ebwin. 



There is no question but what bee escapes 

 have been made to work satisfactorily. 

 Some experience may yet be needed to learn 

 exactly how to arrange and use them, but we 

 believe that, eventually, they will become a 

 success. 



We agree most thoroughly with our friend 

 Reese that the editors of bee journals, those 

 who are practical bee-keepers, ought to test 

 new inventions for the benefit of their sub- 

 scribers ; and we may as well own up that 

 when the bee escape was first brought out 

 we took but little stock in, it. If we could 

 only get the supers filled with honey we felt 

 that we could get the bees out of them with- 

 out any fussing with bee escapes. This 

 year we shall try them, but not until we 

 have honey to take off, as we wish to use 

 them under exactly the conditions in which 

 they are expected to do service. 



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DISPENSING WITH HONEY BOABDS. 



In the Advance for -June, Mr. Geo. E. 

 Hilton closes an article upon this subject 

 with the following words: "But I expect 

 that, after we are through with our experi- 

 ments, we shall all use ;i honey board of 

 some kind, and that will be queen exclud- 

 ing." 



While there is little, if any, doubt that 

 honey boards can he dispensed with, it is 

 well to remember that the majority of hives 

 and frames in use are not well adapted to 

 the laying aside of the honey board ; that a 

 honey board is not very expensive, either in 

 first cost or in manipulation ; and that it 

 most effectually settles all trouble from 

 brace combs. Then, again, when queen 

 excluders are needed, the most practical 

 way of using them seems to be in a honey 

 board. 



Notwithstanding all that has been said 

 upon this subject, we are inclined to agree 

 with our friend Hilton, that the use of the 

 honey board will increase instead of dimin- 

 ishing. 



ILLNESS OF MBS. MOEEISON. 



On account of ill health, the wife of S. W. 

 Morrison has been obliged to go to Colorado. 

 Mr. Morrison writes us that this change in 

 climate is the only thing that will save 

 her life. C>f course he is anxious to join her, 

 hence he offers his entire stock of Carniolan 

 bees and queens at reduced prices (see his 

 advertisement in this issue) in order to 

 close them out quickly. Any one wishing 

 to try the Carniolaus can do so now at a 

 moderate cost, and, at the same time, be 

 helping a brother in trouble. 



SEOUBING WINTER STOEE8 WHEN CONTEACTION 

 IS PEACTIOED. 



In the C. B. J. for June 1, is the following 

 query : " In practicing the Hutchinson plan 

 of contracting the brood chamber for comb 

 honey, how shall I get sufficient stores for 

 winter ivithout feeding f " 



Contraction of the brood nest is necessary 

 in making a success of our plan of hiving 

 swarms upon starters only in the brood nest, 

 but we lay no claim to being the author of 

 the plan of contracting the brood nest. We 

 learned it of Mr. Heddon ; and the first sea- 

 son we practiced it we had a (luiet laugh 

 with our brother over an article, from one 

 of the "big guns," in which there was a 

 lament that, just as a colony became strong 

 in numbers and was nicely at work in the 

 sections, it was almost certain to swarm, 

 when " away went all hopes of any surplus 

 from that colony." And the "big gun" 

 was correct, too, in many instances. The 

 swarm would be hived in a ten-frame hive 



