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ing ; and yet four colouies out of 14 perish- 

 ed, and the rest suffered severely. A. B. J., 

 183. Perhaps 2,300 miles in hot weather is 

 too big a boo for any colt— and then again, 

 perhaps just a trifle of something additional 

 or different would have caused them to come 

 through in iine order. 



Alley thinks the prompt destruction (and 

 removal also, I presume) of the first few 

 bees in a colony that show bee-paralysis will 

 stop the progress of the disease. Apicul- 

 turist, page 103. No harm to try it certain- 

 ly ; but I suspect he has been misled by col- 

 onies that would have recovered without any 

 treatment whatever. 



Friend Alley's advertisement, on page 94 

 Api. (and elsewhere) claims substantially 

 that his bees are foul-brood proof. Hardly 

 the honest thing to tell young beginners, who 

 know no better than to swallow it whole. 

 Very likely in a good honey flow vigorous 

 bees have sometimes thrown off foul brood 

 infection without help, when the disease was 

 in its milder phase. 



And this is Alley's way of introducing vir- 

 gin queens. Colony three days queenless— 

 half an hour before dark— entrance plugged 

 with a plantain leaf— tobacco smoke well 

 diffused through the hive— queen dropped in 

 at the top. Recently succeeded in 46 cases 

 out of 47. Api., 90. 



Mr. Alley also thinks his plan of keeping 

 a stock of qiteens ready for order better than 

 the section nuclei plan recently circulated. 

 Just a frame filled with 35 nursery cages 

 hung in a queenless hive. Ajji., 85. And 

 the time to cut the drone comb out of frames 

 is just when bees are killing their drones. 

 Api., 88. Build worker comb after that if 

 any. Capital— except in the cases where the 

 holes are left to be filled next year. 



Dr. Miller has been doing some experi- 

 ment-station work, as you may learn from 

 Gleanings, (517. How to have foundation- 

 built combs fast to the frame all round. 

 To make a long story short, it is to put in a 

 sheet of foundation, and fasten it all round ; 

 and then at IX inches from the bottom bar 

 cut out a half inch strip to allow for the 

 expansion and sagging in working out. A 

 nice little kink about it is, don't open the 

 space clear across ; leave an inch by each 

 end bar (no sagging there) else they'll have 

 an open space clear down to the lower cor- 

 ner. Creditable to the Dr., and no doubt 

 serviceable to the apiarist /or a w/u7e. But 

 if I am correct nothing can cure bees of their 



habit of running down to the bottom to 

 pinch up a little wax for use in emergencies. 

 In a few years they will have the space open, 

 no matter how solid you fix it at first. 

 Richards, Lucas Co., Ohio, Sept. 3, '94. 



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