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at a close; we don't have such a thing around Chicago 

 where there is sweet clover; honey is gathered so that 

 they can continue to breed and have young bees at all 

 times. If you extract from those combs that have brood 

 in you must have young larvae. And then those young 

 bees have a liquid: they are floating in a liquid. If that 

 liquid is thrown out it is my impression it floats on top 

 of the honey and it sours and gives the smell of sourness 

 to the whole dish of honey. Yet I believe the honey 

 down underneath is just as sweet as it ever was. 



Mr. Wilcox — You don't believe that is thrown out 

 without throwing out some brood? 



Mr. Wheeler — That is immaterial. We do throw out 

 the brood. I think you throw out some of that liquid 

 when you don't throw out the brood. 



QUEENS KILLED WHEN INTRODUCING. 



"I introduced a queen into a queenless colony and 

 they killed her; four days afterwards I introduced another 

 qyeen and they killed her. What should I have done?" 



Mr. Wheeler — I would say, put healthy young bees 

 into the hive to kill any drone-layers. They would pre- 

 pare the way for the queen every time. 



Mr. Swift — I had the crossest lot of bees I ever ran 

 across in my life; I couldn't get the queen into that hive; 

 I tried three different queens. I gave it up. I kept them 

 supplied with young bees all the time. 



Mr. Snell — ^The best way is to introduce two frames 

 of young bees into the parent colony, and at the same 

 time put their queen in with them, or introduce a queen 

 at that time. Those bees seem to destroy the laying 

 worker so that the queen is never molested. I have never 

 yet had a failure in that way. 



DETECTING ADULTERATION IN BEESWAX. 



"How can we detect foreign substance in beeswax?" 

 Mr. Dittmer — I don't know that I can give any rule. 

 It is force of habit with me. I get wax sometimes, and 

 it looks suspicious, and there is generally something the 

 matter with it. The most common thing that occurs with 

 me is receiving wax that contains tallow. In fact, some 

 people have shipped wax to me and were rather rash 

 about it, so that I think almost anybody could have de- 

 tected it; but as to giving any chemical process, I can't 

 say anything about it. 



Mr. Abbott — I see Dr. Wiley has written another let- 

 ter to explain the matter with regard to what is called 

 the "Wiley lie," published in the Rural New Yorker. I 

 was writing an editorial note on it before I left, for the 

 Modern Farmer, and I used a sentence at the last of it 

 that these comb-foundation people will be interested in, 

 and these bee-keepers. Dr. Wiley says that paraffin is 



