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On page 116 friend Thies gives his own A, 

 B, C, experience in getting a ten dollar 

 queen killed — reliable plan — make the col- 

 ony queenless ten days beforehand ; cut out 

 the cells, but miss one ; then chuck in your 

 queen. Same article gives evidence that 

 squints in the direction of the transportation 

 of eggs from hive to hive. A colony left 

 long queenless for experimental purposes 

 turned up with a young queen, and the new- 

 ly opened cell from which she emerged was 

 there. Interesting — but then a wandering 

 queen might have come in, and after laying 

 a half dozen or so of eggs might have been 

 killed. 



A. C. Amos, Delhi, N. Y., on page 115 says 

 queen-clipping scissors should be blunt 

 ended. Also hold the lady between thumb 

 and finger in such a way that you will keep 

 the wings above the fingers, and the legs be- 

 low them. No F. F. bee man at present ad- 

 vocates cutting off the latter members, 

 though many (I fear) practice it, 



Mexico on the brain is what ails H. E. 

 Hill, Titusville, Pa.— 12,000 colonies run for 

 beeswax in adobe pots on Mexico's hills, 

 where honey brush is like wool on a sheep's 

 back. Feed back the honey in the dry sea- 

 son to get more comb built to render up. 

 Don't have to export the wax, because the 

 Catholic church frowns on anything except 

 pure beeswax for its immense supply of can- 

 dles ; and prices are high. Certainly very 

 much wilder schemes than this have some- 

 times got afloat. See page 113, • 



THE General round -Up 



What do you suppose Doolittle has been 

 saying lately ? Says that .50 cents a hive 

 would'nt hire him to have done what a lot of 

 us are laboriously trying to accomplish — re- 

 place the burr combs with thick bars and no 

 burrs. Mr. D. thinks them better than Hill's 

 device for wintering, and worth more than 

 the trouble they make to encourage bees in 

 going above in honey harvest time, Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, 262, I can go part way 

 with him. The bees actually kept in some 

 apiaries may be reluctant enough to go 

 above that it may pay to preserve burrs as a 

 persuader ; but I can't say I think a man 

 who runs for comb honey ought to keep such 

 bees at all. A couple sections of drawn 

 comb should be persuasion enough, when- 

 ever there is honey coming in. Reluctance 

 above and beyond this ought to lead to some 

 royal head-pinching. 



Racket is still kept up because the names 

 of journals are not given in full, when quot- 

 ing in such papers as this. To help keep 

 peace in the family I think I might stand it 

 to quote a name pretty fully one time, and 

 then initials in subsequent quotations. That 

 would give bran new readers the means of 

 knowing what the initials stand for, and al- 

 low me to economize space a little too. 



On a part of its pages A. B. J. gives a new 

 look to its face by casting out the dividing 

 rules, and throwing two columns into one. 

 Did'nt like it at first peep, but got used to it 

 very quickly. 



Friend Dayton thinks no ear can distin- 

 guish between the roar of contentment and 

 the roar of discontentment. A. B. J., 277. 

 Perhaps — but then who knows what some 

 bee boy may find out yet ? 



As a queen-finding device for use in diifi- 

 cult cases when the combs are crowded with 

 bees. Dr. Miller gives one which is new to 

 me on page 138 A. B. J. Bring on extra 

 hive, and set the combs all two and two — 

 each pair quite close together, and quite a 

 space from the next pair. After hanging in 

 this way a little while the bees will mostly be 

 on the outside, there not being room for 

 them elsewhere : but the queen probably will 

 be in one of the inside spaces, and so may 

 found with tolerable ease if you work quick- 

 ly and deftly enough. If left long enough 

 the bees on the pairs where there is no queen 

 will begin to show excitement. 



Randolph Graden, page 150, A. B. J., re- 

 ports wasps and hornets as suffering greatly 

 from foul brood. Possibly this observation 

 should be repeated, and in such a way that 

 we might have at least one observer that is 

 an expert in such matters. 



To Italianize an apiary among impure 

 neighbors -Jennie Atchley advises raising 

 some drones in the fall, after surrounding 

 bees have all killed their drones, and doing 

 the job then. Little danger of crossing, and 

 no honey crop sacrificed. A. B. J., 174. Tip 

 top — if you don't miss of it some way. 



Complaint about heavy damages from bee 

 paralysis cantinues to come in, mainly from 

 warm localities. A writer in A. B. J., 179, 

 thinks every queen- breeder shipping queens 

 while the disease remains in the apiary 

 ought to be blacklisted. May be he's right. 



John Balmer, of Wash., having a 2,300 

 mile journey by rail to take with his bees, 

 followed the up-to-date methods of proceed- 



