through a bee-escape, and there is so much to commend it that the entire passage from the Bee-Keepers' Review is here given:

For several years we have been in the habit of stopping up our honey-house beeescapes during extracting time, then opening them after getting through, thus allowing the bees that were carried in to escape. This worked well as far as the extracting time was concerned, but if there was a particle of a chance for robbers to get into the honey-house, this practice seemed to encourage it. It was noticed that while no robbers would seem to get into the extracting-house during the extracting, soon after the escapes were opened, and bees had gone home loaded with honey, a terrible "to-do" would soon be on; and if there was a particle of a chance, robbers would find their way into the house,

Sometimes the loss of mature bees by entering the honey-house for "stolen sweets,' after extracting was over, would be more than all we had carried in on the combs. Knowing this, no bees are allowed to escape from the honey-house of their own volition, but, each night. or, better still, when through extracting at a yard, and the bees are clustered near each window, as at swarming time, the cluster is given a little smoke, then, with the Coggshall brush, the cluster is loosened and allowed to drop into a tin pail, or other receptacle, in which they are carried out into the yard and emptied near some colony weak in bees.

Handled this way, the bees go home loaded with honey, but know nothing about where they got it. This is so late in the day that robbers will not work, and, by morning, things have quieted down to such an extent that extracting may go on without any interfering from robbers. While the plan of carrying out the bees each night will work very well, usually, I recommend the leaving of the bees in the extracting-house until through extracting, when possible.

Bee-Disease Samples Wanted

We have received the following that should be of great interest to our readers:

The Bureau of Entomology desires to obtain information concerning the prevalence of brood diseases of bees in all parts of the United States. If either American foul brood or European foul brood occurs in your vicinity, or if there is any disease of the brood which is not understood, we should like to know it.

In view of the fact that these diseases are not always correctly diagnosed, it is very desirable for us to obtain a sample of the brood for bacteriological examination. If there is any disease of the brood in your own apiary, or near you, we shall appreciate it if you will send us a sample.

In order that samples may reach us in good condition, it is desirable that a piece at least 3 inches square be cut from the broodcombs and then kept in a dry place for a day or two before putting in the box to mail. Samples should be sent in tin or wooden boxes. Such a box will be sent on request with franks for mailing so that no postage will be necessary. Please put your name and address on all samples sent in. Results of the examinations will be sent out as soon as possible.

This information is desired for the purpose of sending out publications on these diseases to bee-keepers whose bees are in danger from disease, and in helping with the eradication of disease in any way possible. The name of the individual sending the samples is not made known to other beekeepers in the vicinity. Any information which will aid us in combating these diseases will be appreciated, and will be a benefit to the bee-keeping industry. Your co-operation is requested. Respectfully, E. F. PHILLIPS, In Charge of Apiculture. Address Dr. Phillips, Bureau of Entomology, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

Pennsylvania State Convention

The Pennsylvania State Bee-Keepers' Association will hold a convention Sept. 9 and 10, under the auspices of the Philadelphia Bee-Keepers' Associa

tion. They will meet in the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, 34th St. below Spruce. Bee-keepers and others interested in bees and honey are cordially invited to attend the sessions. Delegates from the western and northwestern parts of Pennsylvania will be enabled to take advantage of the low rates of fare of the seashore excursion trains to be run Sept. 8th. An interesting and instructive program now in preparation will be mailed when ready to all who apply for same to, A. F. Satterthwait, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Association, Middletown, Pa.; or to, F. Hahman, Secretary of the Philadelphia Association, Frankford Sta., Philadelphia, Pa.

National Convention at Albany

As announced last month, the 1910 convention of the National Bee-Keepers' Association will be held at Albany, N. Y., Oct. 12th and 13th, in the Common Council Chamber of the City Hall. The Executive Committee are planning for a great meeting. The time is a most favorable one for bee-keepers to

is required to stop at this Hotel, but we have found that it is always much more pleasant to have as many bee-keepers as possible stay at the same place. The little visits between the sessions are often almost as interesting and profitable as the convention itself. At any rate, the social opportunities of a convention are no small part of the annual gathering of bee-keepers, and these can be best improved if all who can do so will stop under one roof.

We are arranging to assemble a sufficient number of bee-keepers in Chicago, so that a special car may be had from here to Albany over the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad. The train will leave Chicago at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 11, and arrive at Albany the next morning at 9:20 a.m., in time for the first session at 10:30 a.m. The round trip from Chicago will be $28.20, the tickets having a 30day limit, and include New York City. There will be stop-over privileges, either going or coming, at Toledo, Sandusky, Cleveland, Ashtabula, Erie, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Schenectady, and Albany

the main object is the National convention.

General-Manager France wrote us July 16th as follows: "Book me for your car from Chicago to Albany, in October."

We do not see why a sufficient number of bee-keepers can not be gotten together here in Chicago from the Southwest, West and Northwest parts of our country to make up a large carload. There should be at least 25 or 30 in order to have a special car. Surely, there will be more than that number who will gather in Chicago and be ready to go in the special car. Those who were so fortunate as to attend the Los Angeles and San Antonio conventions, will not forget their trips in the special cars that started out from Chicago. It was a continuous convention on wheels all the way through. There is no reason why the trip to Albany should not be equally enjoyable, although, of course, the distance is not quite so far as to San Antonio. However, the nearly-all-day ride from 10:30 a.m. until bedtime, and then the next morning until 9:20, will surely give abundant opportunity for visiting and having a good time.

Of course, if there are any bee-keepers between here and Albany who desire to join the special car as it stops at their railroad stations, they can do so. All such can learn from their local agents whether the train leaving Chicago at 10:30 a.m., Oct. 11, stops at their stations. If it does not, perhaps they can take a local train to one of the larger cities where it does stop, and in that way join the special car, meet all the bee-keepers, and go with them to Albany.

As soon as those who wish to join this special car will know definitely that they can do so, if they will let us know, we will make the necessary reservations. The sleeping car berth will be $4.50 from Chicago to Albany for two persons, making $2.25 each. Of course, the special car will be a Pullman sleeper, the same as we had when going to San Antonio.

It is important when purchasing your tickets, from whatever point you start, to be sure to see that they read over the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad from Chicago to Albany, or New York City, as the special rate of $28.20 for the round trip ticket includes New York City, if you wish to join the special car company. Those who have never been to that metropolis of the United States will also want to go there for at least a brief visit, if not for a day or two. There may be some, also, who will want to take in Washington, D. C., on this trip; but, of course, that would take an extra ticket from New York City and return.

Now, if there are any questions you would like to ask that are not covered by the foregoing, we will be pleased to to have you write us, when we will give you any information that will be necessary. Let us of the West show our good Eastern friends that we are ready to co-operate with them in making the meeting of the National this year the largest and best in all its illustrious history. This will be the 41st annual convention of the National Association. As it begins its third score of

years we ought to make it a good introduction to the other 19 conventions yet to follow.

We are ready now to make reservations in the special car for all who desire to attend the convention with us. For same, please address this office, or G. K. Thompson, General Agent of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, 180 So. Clark St., Chicago, Ill.

How about it, brother or sister beekeeper? Will you go?

Paper Pulp to Plug Hive-Cracks

Here's something from Praktischer Wegweiser: Take old newspapers and put them in boiling water. This makes a stiff dough or putty, easily crowded into any hole or crack, which dries out in a short time and becomes quite solid.

No Foul Brood in Yakima Co., Wash.

We have received the following from J. B. Ramage, Secretary of the Washington State Bee-Keepers' Association, with the request that we publish it:

In the summer and fall of 1909 there was a report that foul brood existed in an apiary in the neighborhood of North Yakima. In the spring there were additional reports of the same character in the same neighborhood and in other sections. A sample of the so-called foul brood was exhibited at the April meeting of the Washington State Bee-Keepers' Association. Some of the members pronounced it foul brood, while others thought it was not. Judging from the description of "foul brood" from the apicultural authorities, and in view of the fact that the assembled members could not definitely assert that it was "foul brood." Pres. J. W., Thornton requested that two members submit samples from these hives to Dr. Phillips, In charge of Apiculture, at Washington, D. C. One member sent two samples, and the following report was made:

"The two samples of brood No. 1067, which you sent for examination, show no evidence of disease in either case. I certainly hope that European foul brood does not reach Truly yours,

you.

E. F. PHILLIPS, In Charge of Apiculture."

The other sample sent showed a light case of pickled brood. This shows conclusively that foul brood does not exist in this part of the county and State.

At a meeting of the Washington State BeeKeepers' Association held in June, 1910, the Secretary was instructed to send this report to the bee-papers of the country, in regard to the absence of foul brood, as the report that foul brood may have gained some headway would prevent the growth of the industry in the State. J. B. RAMAGE, Sec. North Yakima, Wash., July 15,

Our First-Page Picture Gallery

The following are brief descriptions of the group of illustrations that appear on the front cover page of this number:

No. 1. A Missouri Apiary

This picture shows some of the bees of the Rose Hill Apiary, owned by O. H. Brooks. It is located in a fine beecountry, in Howell Co., Mo.

Nos. 2 and 5.-Edwin Bert Morris

I am sending two pictures of my son, Edwin Bert Morris, age 4 years. He has absolutely no fear of bees; in fact, will scrape them up by the handful, and is in the beeyard a great deal of the time with me. He is also familiar with all bee-appliances. I sent him to the shop, telling him to bring me six Danzenbaker fences, and although there were six different kinds of fences there, he brought me the right ones. Yonkers, N. Y.

W. C. MORRIS.

W. C. Morris, Bert's father, is the general manager of the American Bee Products Company, producers of honey and beeswax, which recently has been incorporated in New York State. In July it was to have established its first apiary of 1000 colonies in Kingston, Jamaica, W. I., and increase as fast as possible to 50,000 colonies. A large bottling plant will be operated in New York City, and the product sold direct to the grocery trade. Agencies have been established in England and Germany. The directors of the company are J. S. Charleson, president, of New York City; A. B. Peters, secretary and treasurer, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; W. C. Morris, of Yonkers, N. Y.; Theodore Hess, of Paterson, N. J.; and Herman Neubert, of Brooklyn, N. Y.

This is a large undertaking in beedom, and will require expert management all along the line in order to make it a success. Although a risky venture, we certainly wish the new company every deserved success.

No. 3.-Mrs. M. C. Samuels and Her Handful of Bees.

I am sending a picture of myself, which is a little odd. I call it the "contrary queen,' as it is a small swarm of bees that would not stay with anybody in town. They were hived by two or three people several times before I caught them. I hived them the next forenoon, but out they came full tilt, and I just caught the "little lady" queen and clipped off a wing; then she would not stay in one place at all, so I held her, and all the bees came and settled on my hand. I had a snap shot taken of the bunch, and then put them into the hive, but the bees got up and left the queen, and she died.

DAMP SALT BEE-STING REMEDY.

I also wish to give a remedy for bee-stings, as so many do not know what to do when stung, and it is bad for some.

I always take with me a lump of salt and a cup of water when I go to work with the bees. If I get a sting I salt it real heavy. Dampen the salt on the sting. After removing the sting with a sharp knife, apply damp salt at once, and you will hardly know you have been stung. It is so simple and so good that I think every one ought to know of the salt bee-sting cure. Asher, Okla.

(MRS.) M. C. SAMUELS.

No. 4.-Tenement Hives of W. L. Spink

I enclose a picture of my tenement hives, which I submit with the hope of drawing out a few comments from the veterans. Several young queens mated successfully from these hives last spring. The first hive on the right contains an Italian queen of last season, which is doing fine. I also have another Italian colony at an out-yard which I increased on the Alexander plan, but as Mr. Alexander failed to instruct us to put a frame of honey below with the queen, I lost about half the bees by starvation, as an unusual honey-dearth came on, and many, having new swarms, found them starved to death. W. L. SPINK.

Varysburg, N. Y.

No. 6. Apiary of Frank Driesbock

I am sending a picture of my bee-yard (myself not included). I started in 1907 with one swarm that I found by the side of the road; they have increased until I now have 14. One remarkable thing is that I have never had a colony to die. FRANK DRIESBOCK. Verona, Wis.

Honey Crop and Bee-Supplies

Last month we published a few reports from dealers in bee-keepers' supplies. Since then the following have come in:

The Fred W. Muth Co. EDITOR AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL:--The bee-supply and honey-business is everything that can be expected. As the winter losses in this neighborhood amounted to from 75 to

85 percent, this locality had quite a set-back; in fact, it was almost a calamity. Nevertheless, the honey-flow this season has been beyond all expectations; any number of the bee-keepers around here report from 100 to 175 pounds of honey to the colony. The beesupply business suffered to some extent, owing to the fact that almost every one used the hives they had on hand.

We are receiving many shipments of comb honey just now-it is in good demand, but the price must not get up too high, otherwise it will be prohibitive. Yours truly. THE FRED W. MUTH Co. Cincinnati, Ohio, July 27.

Marshfield Mfg. Co.

Our bee-supply trade this season is as good as last season, if not better, in spite of the unfavorable honey crop last season, and the heavy winter losses of bees. One thing this season, we are in a better position to fill orders more promptly.

From reports from most bee-keepers there will be a very light honey crop this season. MARSHFIELD MFG Co.

Marshfield, Wis., June 30.

Honey-Selling or Buying?

Have you honey to sell? Then why not offer it through the advertising columns of the American Bee Journal?

Do you want to buy honey? Then why not let your want be known through an advertisement in the Bee Journal?

A good many honey producers and buyers are losing by not using the advertising columns of the American Bee Journal. Why not send your advertisement to this office before the end of this month for the September number? The rate is only 15 cents per line, with 14 lines to the inch. About 8 words, on the average, fill one line of space. You might possibly get it into 3 lines, or may be 5 or 6 lines. And by running it from one to 3 times you might sell or buy all the honey you have for sale or want to buy, as the case may be.

A large firm dealing in honey, after running an advertisement in this Journal for 6 times, wrote us: "We are well pleased with results. It pays to advertise." It would doubtless pay you, too. Suppose you try it this fall, and see for yourself. Address, American Bee Journal, 146 W. Superior St., Chicago, Ill.

Swarming Building a Bee-Cellar

We have moved to the northern part of Wisconsin, and are building a house and barn. We came from Platteville, 300 miles, and our 40 colonies of bees stood the trip well. We have had 4 swarms, but as it was not possible for Mr. White to be in 20 places at once, he could not clip the queens' wings in May, so he destroyed the queen-cells. (I am not sure this is correct, for what I don't know about the "warm-footed" little things would fill several books.) They are working like mad," and we hope to have some honey soon.

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Our object in coming here where the forest primeval" reigns, was to increase our bee-business. as there is, as a rule, an abundance of white clover, and we have 160 acres of basswood, more or less.

Mr. White is anxious to build the right kind of a bee-cellar. Have you any suggestions? (MRS.) F. P. WHITE.

Angus, Wis., June 29.

Cutting out queen-cells will usually delay swarming, but will not generally prevent it altogether. After they are cut out they will likely be started again, and sometimes the bees are so fierce about swarming that after cells have been cut out the second time they may swarm out in a day or two after. But we count a good deal on it in connection with ventilation clear through the brood-chamber-big opening at the entrance and a small opening at the back end above, with 2-inch space and bottom-rack under the bottom-barskeeping out drone-brood, giving lots of super-room, and breeding from bees not much inclined to swarm.

Bee-cellars are generally cellars under dwellings, and it is well to have a good depth-8 feet deep or more-and to have the wall above-ground well banked clear to the top of the foundation. In your part of the country these things are important to help keep the cellar warm, for generally cellars in the North are not warm enough. If you could have a steady temperature of

about 45 degrees it would be all right Then the cellar must be kept dark, but with sufficient doors and windows so that in warm times in early spring you can open up at night to cool off and air out the cellar. Good air in the cellar is not only important for the bees, but for the people over the cellar, and you must provide for it some way.

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She Knows a Queen-Bee Now

The first year I kept bees I did not know king-bee" from a queen, and one day as I was taking sections of honey out of the super, using a dry-goods box turned upside down for a table, and a thin case-knife to pry the honey out of the super, a bee lit near me on the box. I said, "You are a funny looking bee," and pressed on its back with the flat side of the knife. I pressed some eggs out of it. Not for another year did I know that that funny bee was a queen, and as she flew away I supposed she went back to the hive, for I did not see her again, I have learned since to know a "king" from a queen-bee! OHIO BEE-WOMAN.

After you squeezed the eggs out of that "funny bee," if you had followed it up, very likely you would have found that there was a funeral within a short time.

Colony Swarmed Out and Returned

Feeding Bees in Dry Time

DEAR MISS WILSON:-I have 4 colonies of bees now, one swarm, and bought a large colony in a Wenona hive (or made there). All have been working hard. The last 2 weeks have been very dry and hot. One colony swarmed, or what appeared a swarm, 3 times, but went back again into the hive. What was the trouble? There was one super on it. I thought they were crowded. I put on 2 more supers. I have 2 supers on 2 other colonies. What made them go out and come back again?

Some of our neighbors who have bees have the same trouble. They settled once, and before we could hive them they came back to the hive. I have nice, clean hives,

made on the latest plan. I have not any oldfashioned box-hives. I have starters in the frames, full sections, also starters in the sections in the supers.

Ought they to be fed while it is hot and dry? or is there enough for the bees to eat if it is dry?

I read the American Bee Journal closely, and like it very much, but it seems one has to have experience in taking care of bees to learn much. We keep the surroundings very clean. We hived one swarm of bees with a frame of partly filled comb in it from another hive. MRS. E. P. DAY.

Bloomington, Ill., June 22.

It is nothing so very unusual for a swarm to act in the way you describe. Probably the queen will not-more likely can not-go with the swarm; and when the bees of the swarm find there is no queen with them, they return to the hive. Likely there is something wrong with the queen so that she can not fly, but crawls back again into the hive, only to issue again later in the day.

Generally there is no need of feeding when it is hot and dry, but sometimes there is need. If there is lack of stores in the hive, with danger of starving, then feeding is absolutely necessary. Sometimes it is advisable to feed even with plenty of stores in the hive. If the dearth of pasturage continues for a long enough time, brood-rearing may entirely cease. At such a time feeding every day, or every other day, will keep the brood going.

Little Girl Calls Honey "Bee Jelly”

I heard a good thing yesterday that seems to me worthy of a place in the American Bee Journal. I live in town and keep my bees a mile out on a farm. Recently I took out some honey, and left some at the house for the family. When they were eating dinner a little 3-year-old girl said, "I would like some more bee-jelly." Pretty good for a new name for honey.

The dry weather cut clover short, and the season is not a good one. EDWIN EWell.

Waseca, Minn., July 18.

Bee-Brush and Robber-Cloth

A brush is a very convenient thing to have in the apiary, and you will frequently have occasion to use it.

For a permanent brush probably nothing is better than the Coggshall. It is a long and very slim whisk-broom. It looks as if nearly all the broom-corn had been pulled out of it.

A better brush, although not so durable, is one made of something green. This does not seem to irritate the bees as the other brush sometimes does, if they are inclined to be a little touchy. If it were not for the bother and time of making, I know of nothing better. It has this in its favor-it is cheap, and you can always have a brush for the making. Almost any kind of weed will do, although some kinds wilt so soon that they are objectionable. Sweet clover and asparagus are fine; goldenrod and aster make good brushes, and even long grass will do. Be sure to make it big enough. Take a bunch with the handle as big as your wrist, tie it firmly with a string, and you have a good brush that will last all day. Another thing that will be found

country. If correct, I believe Albany is somewhere near where the "buckwheaters" live, that we used to read about in the bee-papers a few years ago. Not being partial to buckwheat, it is consoling to know that the distance is not so far from Toronto but that we can take a lunch with us if we should decide to make the trip. Seriously, though, a lot of us would like to have had the meeting in Toronto this year; but instead of being discouraged we will keep a-doing for future favors, although this fall we will be sure to hear, "It's in the East this year; send it West next."

Since writing the foregoing I have had the American Bee Journal in front of me, and happen to notice that it is the intention of our genial secretary, Mr. Scholl, to be at the Albany meeting. That settles it as to the lunch question, as he will be sure to have some Texas "chunk honey" with him, and I will impose on his hospitality for the refreshing of the inner man, if it should be my good fortune to be able to attend the meeting.

Steam-Heated Uncapping-Knife Best

Today we finished extracting our clover honey-all being left on the hives till the season was over. There is just enough basswood honey coming in to keep the bees from robbing, and to make the work pleasant. Five days steady going, handling combs all the time, has made my finger ends so sore that I can hardly strike the keys of the type-writer, yet I suppose we would not object if the work lasted another 5 days.

We have used a steam-heated uncapping-knife for the first time, and Mrs. Byer (who is "uncapper-in-chief" in our honey establishment) says no more cold knives for her. As another user has said, it is a "slick shaver," all right, and saves a lot of muscle. It has the fault of sealing over a few cells of honey with wax now and then, but not as many cells are closed as is often done with a cold knife in thick honey, as the best of operators will occasionally do a little "gumming." The steamheated knife has come to stay, and my half dozen other honey-knives will not be used much in the future.

Rapid Loss of Old Bees

In speaking of the very backward weather we had the past spring, I am made to say that the cold unseasonable weather lasted right up to May 12th (page 219), while, of course, it should be June 12th.

In the same item the writer promised to say more next month about the bees being in none too good condition at the opening of the flow-said flow of honey being heavy only a few days at the start of bloom and then very indifferent afterwards. I have already said that the bees were not ready for the flow at the start, so it is needless to say that our crop from clover is very light-about 35 pounds per colony, whereas last year it was over 100, and nearly all of it gathered in about 10 days.

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what caused our old bees to drop out of sight just at such a critical time after they had been so very populous all spring. Numerous writers have been saying that during the cold weather their bees stopped brood-rearing, but this was not the case with us, as nearly all colonies were jammed with brood with the opening of the flow, but there was not enough old bees to care for this brood and still have a big field-force to spare. The scarcity of field-bees was only for about 10 days, but after that the clover yielded very poorly.

While we have had many theories advanced as to the loss of the bees, the only one I accept is the fact of the bees being bare of honey from early spring, as was the case with 75 percent of the bees in Ontario this past season. Against my will I had to feed sugar syrup to most of the colonies, and while they never were short of unsealed stores, yet all colonies so treated were in poor shape at the opening of the flow, while some 40 that had enough honey, and were not fed a drop of syrup, came up to the harvest in rousing shape, and stored more honey in the same apiary than twice their number of sister colonies that had been fed sugar syrup all spring. For winter

food, sugar is all right, but for springwell, that is a different story, and I would rather have 20 pounds of honey in the hives on May 1st than 40 pounds of syrup to be fed regularly with no honey present in the hives.

As I have said, previous to June 12th the weather was very unseasonable, and I have an idea that the old bees were lost in a vain attempt to get pollen, as sugar syrup, as we all know, is no good alone for brood-rearing. I have always been opposed to spring feeding, and it is needless to say last spring did not make me any more favorable to the practice. It is common to hear about sealed stores being in the hive, and the bees failing to uncap and use it for brood-rearing. However that may be with others, it is not so with my beesprobably because of a good deal of Carniolan blood

among them; but whatever the reason, I know from actual experience that if I have an abundance of sealed stores in the hive in early spring, my bees always come into the harvest boiling over and ready for the first honey that may come along-and this without my having to do a bit of feeding.

Last spring the honey was absent, and so now is a good part of the crop of honey which should have been secured from the clover this year. Basswood has been yielding a bit the last few days the first in 8 years, so it is indeed quite a novelty for us to get a taste of the honey again. Prospects are real good for buckwheat-the first smell of which was noticed today (July 22). With a big acreage of this plant this year, and with the bees in splendid condition, we are thinking that perhaps our main crop will be after Aug. 1stquite a change from only 5 or 6 years ago, when a field of buckwheat was quite a curiosity in our neighborhood. Fighting bad weeds explains this, as the farmers can work the ground well up till July, and then have a crop afterwards.

Drone-Comb for Extracting-Supers

Every once in a while some one will advocate the use of drone-combs for extracting-supers. This advice is surely a delusion and a snare, as the writer has found out to his sorrow. The most of my bees, through force of circumstances, have been bought from others, and as a matter of course in their original shape there was a lot of drone-comb in the brood-chambers. As long as this was the case, dronecomb in the supers made little difference, but when I gradually got most of the drone-comb out of the broodchambers, and then gave the dronecomb supers, what a change was noticed!

A few years ago I had our supercombs badly filled with pollen in an off season, and the following winter I cut out semi-circles of the combs where the pollen was, and allowed the bees next spring to fill up these holes-with drone-comb, of course. A foolish thing to do, but then I didn't know any better, and only got wise in the matter by hard experience the following summer, when the bees would absolutely refuse to store honey in these drone semicircles, even when crowded for roomthey seemed to think that drones were to be reared, and lacking accommodation in the brood-nest, they expected the queen to come and occupy this nice center of the extracting-super.

This summer I have had a number of cases like this, and when the dronecomb was removed and substituted with a worker-comb, the latter would be filled with honey at once. I tested the matter in a number of cases like this, and every time the result was the same. Practical demonstrations like this are, in my judgment, worth a whole lot of theories, and I certainly shall try to get rid of a lot of my drone supercombs as fast as possible. For the buckwheat flow there is not much difference, if any, in the matter of drone or worker combs, for at the time of the year that the buckwheat blooms, drones are a bit out of season, so to speak, and the bees will then just as readily store in drone-comb as they will in worker-comb.

"The Honey-Money Stories"

This is a 64-page and cover booklet, 534 by 81⁄2 inches in size, and printed on enameled paper. It contains a variety of short, bright stories, mixed with facts and interesting items about honey and its use. It has 31 halftone pictures, mostly of apiaries or apiarian scenes; also 3 bee-songs, namely: "The Hum of the Bees in the Apple-Tree Bloom," and "Buckwheat Cakes and Honey," and "The Bee-Keeper's Lullaby." It ought to be in the hands of every one not familiar with the food-value of honey. Its object is to create a larger demand for honey. It is sent postpaid for 25 cents, but we will mail a single copy as a sample for 15 cents, 5 copies for 60 cents, or 10 copies by express for $1.00. A copy with the American Bee Journal one year-both for $1.10. Send all orders to the American Bee Journal, 146 W. Superior St., Chicago, Ill.