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For queeu-reariug nuclei, M. Devauchelle 

 uses a hive coutaiuiug VI ordinary frames 

 and three partitions. The partitions them- 

 selves are also combs, made from sheets of 

 foundation having wire cloth in the center, 

 thus preventing the bees from making 

 passage-ways. Saw- kerfs and tin slides 

 around the outside of the partition frames 

 prevent the bees from going around them. 

 With an entrance on each side, the liive 

 accordingly contains 4 nuclei, two having 

 a capacity of 4 frames each, and two of ;{}.j 

 frames. When desired, four nuclei can 

 thus be readily wintered together, with 

 economy of warmth. lie also uses such 

 partitions in his twin hives. Almost always, 

 if not always, the bees of the two colonies 

 form a single group and a single brood- 

 nest, as far as position and warmth are con- 

 cerned. To unite such culonies or nuclei, 

 the tin slides are withdrawn. 



J. Chaillou -Jr. combines the Porter es- 

 cape with the goiug-to-the-light principal, 

 by placing the escape in the edge of the 

 board so that the bees emerge on the out- 

 side of the hive above the entrance. He 

 says the supers are cleared ten times quick- 

 er in this way. The board he uses is also a 

 queen-excluder, and is a permanent feature 

 of the hive. A tin slide above the excluding 

 portion when the escape is in use, and a tin 

 slide over the place for the escape when the 

 excluding part is in use, may both be in- 

 serted through the edge of the board while 

 in position, without any lifting and repla- 

 cing of heavy supers. No more escapes to 

 the apiary are necessary than by the ordin- 

 ary plan. When the escape is not in place, 

 an additional entrance into the super may 

 be provided for through the hole for the es- 

 eape. He uses a piece of excluding zinc 

 about 8 inches square in the center of the 

 board 



It is claimed that an extractor which 

 wcrks by friction instead of cog-wheels is 

 less liable to injure the combs. 



The sale of honey in small flasks for in- 

 dividual portions, to be used in restaurants, 

 is increasing. These hold a little over an 

 ounce, and are sold for 15 centimes, or 

 about 3 cents. 



L'Apicoltore. — Dr, Dubini, like Mr. Mc- 

 Arthur, has not seen a bee on a neighboring 

 plot of alfalfa for ten years. 



He cites a certain Rot as saying that bees 

 never hang suspended from the legs of a 

 queen, so that she is always to be found 



either at the surface or at the apex of the 

 cluster. Hence a swarm-catcher held so as 

 to comprehend the cluster should always 

 include the «iu«en. "At" the surface, 

 however, can hardly be exact, for otherwise 

 tlie queen would be more frequently seen 

 before hiving the swarm. 



\'on Rauschenfels waits two days after the 

 queen is removed before cutting spaces 

 along the edges of combs, where eggs may 

 happen to be, in order to get queen-cells 

 built there. Several hours may elapse be- 

 fore the bees become aware of the absence 

 o*" the queen, during which they may only 

 repair damages; and it may happen that 

 those eggs were laid by the queen just be- 

 fore her removal. " As is known " he says 

 '* bees never build queen-cells over eggs. " 

 Instead of grafting cells, he recommends 

 transferring the whole frame on which the 

 cell is found, together with the adhering 

 bees. The few old bees on it soon make 

 themselves scarce on finding themselves in 

 new quarters. 



Speaking of introducing pulled queens to 

 queenless colonies, he says "If of ten young 

 queens you can succeed in getting one ac- 

 cepted, it would be mere chance. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN. OCT. 10. 1896. 



Cross Bees in the apiary usually come 

 from a very few colonies, so says Dr. Miller 

 in the American Bee Journal. He thinks 

 about one colony in twenty may furnish the 

 cross bees, and he advises us to take the 

 pains to discover these colonies and requeen 

 them with queens from a more peacable 

 strain. Ho says, too, that the change in dis- 

 position will come in a few days, that we 

 won't have to wait until the new queen's 

 progeny hatches. Is it the step-mother's 

 making the children stand round ? 



