THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



The Post Office Address attached 

 to an article is a source of satisfaction to 

 the reader, and often a convenience if 

 correspondence is desired. If a corres- 

 pondent desires that his address be 

 witheld, his wish should be regarded; 

 otherwise there is better satisfaction all 

 around if the address is published with 

 the article. 



ing that he learned the plan of a Mr. Di- 

 vinny of Colorado. 



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A Caution is needed in regard to in- 

 troducing queens by the method de- 

 scribed in the last Review. Don't use 

 newly built comb for caging the queen 

 upon its surface, as the bees may burrow 

 under the edge of the cage, and kill the 

 queen. Such a case has been reported 

 to me recently. Of course, this trouble 

 might not happen once in fifty times, but 

 it is just as well to use old comb and thus 

 avoid this fiftieth time. 



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GivEANiNGS for June 15 gives a delight- 

 ful view of an apiary at Rocky Ford, 

 Colorado. The picture goes clear across 

 two pages of Gleanings, showing a wide 

 sweep of country covered with bee hives, 

 ( certainly larger than any apiary I have 

 ever .seen) with a large stack of alfalfa 

 and the owner's residence in the distance. 

 I think I have enjoyed this picture as 

 much as I have any that Gleanings has 

 given. The apiary belongs to George 

 Gould. 



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Horses are sometimes stung by being 

 hitched too near an apiary. When it is 

 necessary to hitch them in this manner at 

 a time when there is a disposition on the 

 part of the bees to make trouble, all dan- 

 ger from this source may be avoided by 

 making a good smudge to the windward 

 of the team, so that the smoke will blow- 

 over and around the horses. Any con- 

 venient material may be used for this pur- 

 pose — dry horse manure will make an 

 abundance of smoke. Mr. F. L. Thomp- 

 son writes of this in the Progressive; say- 



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Moving Bees to take advantage of the 

 buckwheat honey harvest is considered 

 advisable by R. F. Holterman if there are 

 copious showers. Buckwheat does not 

 yield nmch honey in dry weather. Mr. 

 Holterman would advise holding the 

 hives in readiness, then, if the showers 

 come, move the bees. 



The Poor Queens are having a hard 

 time. I'irst doctor Miller tells us that 

 the first-sealed cells in a colony from 

 which a laying queen has been removed 

 are the best queens. Later the bees 

 build cells over larvae that is too old; and 

 the result is some poor queens. Now 

 Willie Atchley and C. E. Woodward tell 

 us, in the Southland Queen, that it is 

 the poor queens that are capped first. 

 They say that they are poor because the 

 cells that are capped first contain older 

 larvae. Between all hands there is not 

 much chance to get any good queens from 

 a colony that has been deprived of its 

 queen, and allowed to exerci.se its choice 

 of larva; for queen rearing. That's about 

 right, too. 



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TRE.A.TMENT OF AFTER-SWARAIS. 



Mr. Doolittle says, in Gleanings, that 

 he believes that, as a rule, it does not 

 pay to have after-swarming. With the 

 after-swarm goes all liopes of any surplus 

 from the parent colony. He admits that 

 after severe winter -losses that leave hives 

 and combs empty, it may be desirable to 

 re-stock them, even if after-swarms are 

 used for this purpose. He savs that the 

 first requisite towards the successful 

 building up of an after-swarm is a comb 

 of brood. It may be nearly a month 

 after the hiving of an after-swarm before 

 any brood hatches out, and the giving of 

 a comb of Ijrood helps wonderfully in 



