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fi vc* wires will do, which will bring them 
about 2} inches apart. Pierce the top bar 
with five hole* along the centre, the outside 
one* being an inch inside end* of frame, 
and rest equidistant about 2J inches apart. 
Pierce bottom bar the same The length of 
wire for each frame will be 69 inches. First 
drive a small tack (not quite home) near 
the first hole of the top frame, lace the wire 
from the top down then up, and so on till you 
end at the bottom. Drive another tack here, 
and turn the wire once or twice around it and 
then tighten up from this back to the com- 
mencement where the wire is fastened to the 
fir»t tack driven, and the frame will be wired. 
Don't strain the wires tight, or the top and 
bottom of frames will be bent too much ; 
strain only tight enough to get all bends and 
absolute sfackr.es* out of the wire Straighten- 
ing the wire is facilitated by rubbing a piece of 
rou'.d hard steel along it ; the side of a brad- 
awl does well for this. There are numerous 
wnvs of fastening the foundation to the wires, 
ami unless it is done well it often drops away 
from the wire* and falls down. Get a board 
Hint will fit inside the frame, and, having the 
foundation pretty warm and soft, lay it on the 
board, and on it the wired frame. With a 
small blunt screwdriver across the wires press 
them into the wax at every inch or two of 
their length. The plan described in the pre- 
sent number at the Victorian Beekeepers' Hub 
meeting is the best and most expeditious, but 
requires a good galvanic battery. — E d.] 
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EXTRACTS 
FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
U.mtino so as to Make the Hi ts Stay i.n 
th K tit Nkw Location. 
In the evening, when the bees arc all in the 
htv.*, we unite the two in the ordinary way. 
At the time we do this we reserve a frame 
■-f unsealed brood, and place it back in the 
hive wlu-nco it came. This is done to catch a 
good many of the old bees, which will In- 
sure to return to their old location. Said 
bees and the frame of broad are allowed to 
remain in thrir old home from twenty-four 
to forty-eight hours, during which time the 
new order of thing*, together with the loss 
of their queen, teem* to disconcert them, 
and puts them in a condition to accept any 
circumstances whatever. At the expiration of 
u day or so this frame of brood and bees are 
put back in the colony in the evening where 
they were first placed. We find in practice 
that this second returning it pretty sura to 
make all the bees stay, though sometimes ]>er- 
haps a dozen old worn-out fellows (not much 
use) are so wedded to their old home a* to go 
hack again even then. 
When uniting into chaff hives wc find it 
quite an advantage to put all the bees of the 
new colony on combs in the upper storey, 
just above the colony already occupying the 
hive. The brood i* placed below in the body 
of the hive. It will then be a couple of days 
before the bees in the upper storey will go 
below. When they do they will be more apt 
to stay in their new location. The returning 
bees are then caught ns before. — Root's 
Gleanings, September, 1886. 
Fort, llnoop, and its Management. 
Directions from Prof. McLiin. of the U. S. 
Apteullural Station. 
Mr. K R. Root: — Your father told me Inst 
week that you were having some trouble with 
foul brood. 1 told him unit 1 would send a 
prescription for the cure of foul brood, and 
also a prescription for use as a preventive. 
Take of soft water, three pints; of dairy 
silt, one pint. Use an earthen vessel. Raise 
the temperature to 80 deg F. l)o not exceed 
90 deg. Stir till the salt is thoroughly 
dissolved. Now add one pint of warm soft 
water in which has been thoroughly dissolved 
four tablrspoonfuls of bicarbonate of soda (use 
the crystal.) btir thoroughly. Add to this 
mixture sufficient sugar or lioney to sweeten it, 
but not enough to perceptibly thicken it. 
Now add ( oz. salicylic acid. Merritt and 
<'o,of ( inciting, make a pure salicylic acid 
from the oil of wintergreen (Konk's solution 
of salicylic acid No. 1.) Mix thoroughly. 
Let this mixture stand for two hours, when it 
becomes settled and clear. 
Treatment — Shake the bees from the 
combo, and extract as clean as possible. Now 
thoroughly atomise the combs, using the mix- 
ture and a Urge atomiser. The tinsmith will 
make a good one for twenty-five ceuts. Return 
the frames to the colony. 
If there is no liont-v to be obtained from 
the fields, feed honey or syiup to which has 
been added three tablrspoonfuls of the mix- 
ture to each quart of honey or syrup. Stir 
welt. The honey just extracted may be uail 
without injury to the bra-*, if the mixture is 
added ; but nj more should be furnished than 
i* consumed. Atomise the colony two or 
thru- time# more, simply setting the frames 
apart so as to direct the spray welt over the 
combs and been — not brushing off the bee* ; 
three or foor days should intervene between 
the times of tnatmeut. The last may be 
given oo top without removing a frame. 
