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to take many of them to the new stand. 

 Take all the solid masses of sealed brood you 

 can get, and a few youn"' larvae. And then 

 there is another sharp wrinkle i i keeping the 

 two hives close side by side till the queen 

 cells are sealed, and making a full share of 

 the flying bees go in the new colony by using 

 disgnising-boards in front. When the final 

 mo/e is made most of these flying bees will 

 reinforce the old queen. 



(Jn page HOf) friend Harmer tells the best 

 way to prevent after-swarms — with little 

 work, and all done at one operation. Get 

 all the bees into the swarm, hived on the old 

 stand, and distribute all the combs of brood 

 from which the swarm came — putting them 

 in the upper stories of extracting colonies 

 when there are no more nuclei that need 

 booming. I should call this an excellent 

 pla^, wherever experience proves it to work. 

 But if your swarm swarms again, and your 

 extra-big extracting colony quits gathering 

 and swarms also (in extra-swarming terri- 

 tory I should expect both these things to 

 happen) why then you must haul off for re- 

 pairs. 



Mrs. C. L. Rice had five children so over- 

 come by eating jasmine pollen (bee-bread) 

 that the doctor was sent for. None died. 

 She suggests that all this kind of poisoning 

 may be done by pollen, and that jasmine 

 honey may be all right. Worth thinking of 

 at least. Does anybody know whether newly 

 emerged bees eat pollen ? If not of course 

 it must be honey that poisons them. A. B. 



./., ?m. 



Eugene Secor has been eating prime comb 

 honey eight years old, kept Jake Smith's 

 way. .4. B. J., 327 and Gleanings 19. 



Jennie Atchley reports it as hard to intro- 

 duce drones as to introduce a queen. A. B. 

 J., 333. But I presume there would be little 

 difficulty if the colony wanted drones — 

 wanted them badly enough to be about start- 

 ing to raise some themselves. 



More trouble with the alcohol test. Friend 

 Faris claims he used whiskey — a quart of it. 

 Couldn't see any difference between the pure 

 and adulterated samples, and had to try 

 tasting. Still no definite results till the 

 quart was Well nigh tasted up. A. B. J. 34G. 

 Discriminating powers weak— so weak he 

 sees no difference between himself and a 

 temperance man. 



And this time the round-up is crowded out. 

 Can only find room to say that M. M. Bald- 

 ridge modestly passes back the credit of the 



kerosene and blaze method of disinfecting 

 foul-broody hives to George Thomson, Ge- 

 neva, Illinois. The great convenience and 

 excellence of the plan is vouched for. 



Friend Baldridge thinks he has on trial a 

 simpler and easier method of curing foul- 

 brood ; and if nothing breaks he promises to 

 publish it soon. We've got lots of cheerful 

 room for something better in that direction. 

 Moreover they've got down there a queer old- 

 style bee-keeper who, for a dozen years has 

 run his apiary with fair profit ; yet he has 

 had foul-brood all the while, and does not 

 try to cure it. Just " takes up " the infected 

 colonies before they get very bad, and in- 

 creases enough to keep afloat. Truly the 

 wisdom of the unsophisticated is sometimes 

 equal to "the luck of a lousy dog." 



Richards, Lucas Co., Ohio, Mar. 21, '94. 



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