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heat, and lo.v eiioiij^h to ])revent restless- 

 ness and undue brood rearing. 



Rij^ht here I want to rai.se a question: 

 If 40° is all rij^ht for small colonies, is it 

 not /(5() ///>// for larife ones? Suppo.sing 

 the outside temperature of the hives is at 

 40°, there is a certain amount of heat in- 

 side of the hives, and tliat amount in a 

 large colony is much greater than in a 

 small one. Then it follows that if 40° in 

 the cellar is just right for small colonies, 

 it may be entirely too high for large ones; 

 and to bring down the temperature of the 

 large colonies (inside the hi\es) to the 

 proper point for quietness and other con- 

 ditiotis for good wintering, it might be 

 necessary to bring the cellar temperature 

 down to 30°, or 20°, or even less. 



You speak of the main trouble being 

 too much brood reared in the winter. 

 Brood cannot be raised without jiollen, 

 and, perhaps, the diiTicully might be 

 avoided by removing the excess of pollen 

 when .goii'g into winter (juarters. 



Knoxvim.e, Tenu., .\pril 27, 1899. 



[Friend Crct.iz, I like you. Perhaps it 

 isn't in gojd taste to s.iy sj, right to your 

 face, but it is my style. If I like a man, 

 I like to tell him so right out and out. 

 What harm is there, so long as I am 

 sincere? One reason why I like you is 

 because you try to get at the truth re- 

 gardless of whether it upsets your pre- 

 cojiceived notions or not. That's m\- 

 idea to a dot. 



.\side from the wintering problem, I 

 do not object to populous colonies unless 

 they are abnormally populous. .\s I have 

 siidsj m my times, I want my hive of 

 such a size that a (jueen pos.sessed of 

 orrlinary laying i)owers can fill the combs 

 with eggs at that season of the year when 

 it is to our advantage that they be .so fill- 

 ed. A great many queens are sufficient- 

 ly prolific so that they will fill a ten- 

 frame Lang.stroth hive in this manner. 

 Perhaps the majority of them will do 

 this. Some of them will not. It is to 

 get rid of the results that coiiie about 

 from those that do not, that I prefer the 

 eight-frame hive. 



There is quite a little difTerence in the 

 severity of the winters of central Illinois 

 and those of Michigan and New York. 



The matter of the inside temperature of 

 the hives while in the cellar is of some 

 importance. By leaving the bottom- 

 boards off the hives of the most populous 

 colonies, and placing such colonies near 

 the cellar floor, and leaving the bottoms 

 on the hives containing the weak colo- 

 nies and placing them near the top of the 

 cellar, where it is wanner than near the 

 floor, this matter of inside temperature is 

 quite easily arranged. 



The removal of all pollen from the 

 combs would prevent winter-breeding; 

 but it is a difficult thing to do — well-nigh 

 impossible from a practical standpoint. 

 —Ed.] 



A VARIETY OF ITEMS. 



Probably the end of the Taylor-Miller Con- 

 troversy. 



C. C. MILI^ER. 



.\DELBEESCARNIOL.^N.S. .\ CORRECTION. 



MR. Taylor says, 

 page 14S, that 



^^^^^ I said Adels were 



JT ) Italians, and asks, 



^ -JS" ^- "Doesn't Mr. Al- 



ley claim that the\' 

 are a strain of Car- 

 niolanbees? Yes, 

 he does, and I 

 liereby make the 

 correction. I also 

 made the correc- 

 tion in American Bee Journal for April 20. 

 I am sorry I was mistaken, and hope 

 that the error, being corrected in these 

 two journals, may do no great harm. 

 AS TO TRAVEL-STAIN. 



As statements on page 148 might lead 

 to the belief that I hold opinions very far 



