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nine (lays, and so on as lonj^ as necessary. 

 When all the one-story colonies have 

 been bnilt up, further sections of brood 

 removed in artificial swanninj^ are either 

 used for increase, or put on top of artifi- 

 cial swarms. In this manner inversion is 

 not used to stop swarming, but to postpone 

 it, and at the proper time the swarming 

 propensity is taken advantage of by the 

 bee-keeper. If queen-cells are desired, 

 a top section of brood from an artificially 

 swarmed colony (which, as will be ap- 

 l)arent from the foregoing, contains some 

 queen-cells just about to be sealed), is 

 placed right side up over an excluder 

 over some other fair colony, being care- 

 ful to pick oflF all cells that appear to be 

 over three days old. The cells left will 

 be just right for use at the next ninth- 

 day visit, with no necessity of coming 

 liefore then. Mr. Bolton thinks the use 

 of the Heddon hive enables him to con- 

 trol swarming with one-third the labor 

 that other hives would require. 

 "EVAPORATED" BEES. 

 W. K. Fackender re])orts the sudden 

 disappearance of bees from the hives in 

 much the same manner as they "evapora- 

 ted" around Denver three years ago, an 

 eflfect attributed by some Denver bee- 

 keepers to smelter smoke in connection 

 with dews or fogs. He mentions that 

 smelting works were in ojjeration five or 

 six miles away from his location. Aroimd 

 Denver, the effect was noticeable ten 

 miles away. 



GETTING RID OF ANTS. 

 F. Halloran, having much trouble with 

 small black ants, tried a number of plans 

 that ought to have been eflicacious; 

 but failed in all until he put wood 

 ashes around the hives. 



HONKV FOR HORSE-FEED. 

 Here is something novel, at any rate: 

 "If you have any dark grades of honey 

 you don't know what to d<j with, put it 

 in your horse-feed and you will see what 

 sort of a coat he will gel. Feed at night. 

 It will keep him wann, and the bees won't 

 find it out." — J. J. I'arry. 



SPECIALTY AND CO-OPERATION. 

 W. McNally thinks specialty in bee- 

 keeping pays. In the Bee-Keeper's Re- 

 cord he says "When an apiary has been 

 l)uiltupbya good hand in a good dis- 

 trict, until it contains about 250 colonies, 

 and divided into one home-apiary and 

 one or two others at some little distance 

 away, this number can easily be managed 

 by one man, with some extra help dur- 

 ing the swarming season. In an aver- 

 age season, and at lower wholesale prices 

 than any yet obtained, such combined 

 apiaries will yield a clear profit of 100 

 pounds sterling per annum towards labor. ' ' 

 He adds "There is such an un-business- 

 like method of dealing with, and want of 

 uniformity in disposing of the article 

 [honey] that nothing short of co-opera- 

 tion amongst bee-keepers can put the 

 honey trade on a sound basis. The es- 

 tablishing of creameries, for instance, and 

 the improved methods of dair3'ing have 

 built up their trade in milk and butter 

 production of late years in a degree that 

 no amount of individual effort could ever 

 have accomplished. Where such com- 

 panies as devote themselves to this work 

 are established, a uniform market article, 

 bearing their own particular brand, is 

 sent out, which earns a reputation for it- 

 .self. I, therefore, feel convinced that the 

 hone}- trade will have to follow similar 

 lines before the greatest amount of good 

 is secured to the produces." 



REARING QUEENS BY SIMPI.Y REMOVING 

 THE OI,D OUEEN. 

 Willie Atchley in the December South- 

 land Queen has declared himself oppo.sed 

 to the advice of many of the best queen - 

 breeders, by stating that properly select- 

 ed queens, reared by removing the old 

 queen from a colony, are as good as any; 

 but he fails to tell how he does the select- 

 ing. Possibly the following from an 

 ICngli.sh queen-breeder, H. W. Brice, 

 may have something to do with the mat- 

 ter: "Two lots of cells are started in near- 

 ly every instance, the first being from 

 larvie within the hive when the queen 



