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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



drone comb at the outset, hoping thereby to 

 get them to build unbroken worker sheets. 

 Failure. Like trying to keep a tramp from 

 drinking beer by giving him two or three 

 glasses of beer in advance. A. B. J., C27. 



Simmins thinks bees swarm on account of 

 the negligence of their keepers. No sir, the 

 nearest to non-swarmers that there are are 

 bees totally neglected. He would put in an 

 empty frame in the center occasionally, tak- 

 ing out an outside comb of honey to make 

 room. This is in line with the Conser idea, 

 and may be good as far as it goes. Young 

 queens is another of his items — also good as 

 far as it goes. His grand gum-game is get- 

 ting the colony to building in an added 

 chamber underneath. Out of place, I think, 

 to decide about this till we have reports of 

 actual trial in this country. Mr. Alpaugh 

 already reports that he has tried and don't 

 like it, A. B. ./., (188-690. 



Friend Muth, the honey dealer, feels a lit- 

 tle sore to find that after all the protert some 

 still soak honey barrels previous to filling 

 them for shipment. Honey draws the mois- 

 ture right out and leaking sets in. 



" I have used the Heddon hive in lar^e num- 

 bers for several years, and I have no hesitancy in 

 saying; that it is my choice." W, Z. Hutchinson, 

 A, B. J , 695. 



Trego says heat queen cages in my lady's 

 oven and wax 'em with wax. No, no, says 

 Ernest, wax 'em with parafiQne put on with a 

 sash brush. Gleanings, 312. 



In summer famine time Dr. Tinker raised 

 a batch of queens by the process (or non- 

 process) of removing the old queen and let- 

 ting the bees do the rest. They could all go 

 right through zinc anywhere, pretty strong 

 proof of inferiority. He also finds that with 

 too many young queens chambered off in 

 one hive the bees will not feed them up to 

 the point of taking a mating flight, and their 

 lives are in vain. With queen zinc and drone 

 zinc the Dr. thinks there is no longer any 

 need of mating queens in confinement. 

 Gleanings, 829, 8:50. 



Friend Fradenburg wants to drown several 

 bees in a small quantity of honey to test the 

 actual flavor of formic acid, and guess better 

 whether bees poke some into the honey with 

 their tails, or otherwise. 'Frnid the flavor 

 of some other ejecta might preponderate. 

 Better pull sting p,nd poison sao, and touch 

 several poison drops to a big drop of honey. 

 Even then 1 fear conclusions miglit be quite 

 inconclusive. See Gleanings, 8,50. 



RiOHAKDS, Lucas Co., Ohio, Dec, 21, '9;{. 



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