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it, for bees are not in the habit of going where there is nothing for them to get. On the other hand, where there are no bees there is pretty certain to be more or less a failure of the crop. In the last number of Gleanings one of the Canadian officials is reported as saying that he believes the benefit obtained from bees in the way of fertilizing blossoms amounts to five times as much as the honey they gather.

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Glad you have struck upon a that does not injure bees. Perhaps it is the new dilute lime and sulphur solution, which, it is claimed, does no harm to bees, because the smell of the sulphur is so disagreeable that the bees will not touch it.

Dahlia Flowers and Bees

In his Pharmaceutishe Praxis, Dr. Hager states that "dahlia flowers are poisonous to bees." (Vol. 3, page 718). Kindly tell me if his statement is true. SOUTH AMERICA.

ANSWER. I don't know. It's the first time I've ever seen such a statement. Can any of our readers tell anything about it? The fact is that I have never noticed bees working on the flowers of the dahlia. But nearly all that I have seen are double flowers, and botanically such flowers are a sort of monstrosity, on which bees do not work as they do on the single varieties..

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ANSWER.-You have made the mistake made by so many, of skipping in your reading the things written about foul brood until the enemy is upon you. It's ever so much better to be prepared in advance for the attack. The first question is whether the disease is, as you say, European foul brood, or whether it is something else. Fortunately you have a good friend at Washington. Write to Dr. E. F. Phillips, Agricultural Department, Washington, D. C., and he will send you fuller information than I can give you in this department, and he will also send you a box in which you can mail to him a sample of the diseased brood, which he will have analyzed, and then he will tell you what is the disease, and what to do. Not only will all this cost you nothing, but he will also send you a frank, so that the postage on your sample will cost you nothing.

Baldridge Treatment for European Foul Brood

I see by a report in the American Bee Journal that your bees swarmed out when treated by the McEvoy treatment for European foul brood. So did mine-15 out of 20 when using that treatment for American foul brood. The Baldridge treatment is a success every time when used correctly. Have you the Baldridge treatment for European foul brood? We have not the European variety yet. I hope to be ready when it does come. There is plenty of the American variety, however. When you have an opportunity try the Baldridge treatment and report, if not too much trouble. CALIFORNIA.

ANSWER.-No, I have not tried the Baldridge treatment, and I hope I may not have American foul brood enter my locality so as to give me a chance to try it. Neither do I expect ever to have the European variety so severe as not to yield readily to the dequeening method without having to remove the combs either by the McEvoy or the Baldridge treatment.

Sylviac Method of Bee-Keeping

I have some notion of engaging in bee-keeping, and would like to know all about the I would best methods, profitableness, etc. like best the Sylviac method, as giving least trouble. It is to be hoped that more than 12 to 24 cents a pound can be obtained for honey. MARYLAND.

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If I find that sweet clover makes desirable cattle pasturage, I shall sow good deal of it, and thus ward off such conditions as we had last season, due to a scarcity of bee-pasturage.

GEO. F. WEBSTER.

Sioux Falls, S. D., March 11.

Long Winter for Bees

I came home the Saturday after the Wisconsin convention (Feb. 24), and the thermometer has been below zero every night since then. I hardly know as yet how my bees will come out. There are more dead bees than I ever had before, and then, again, I have a good many colonies that hang below the bottombars. I winter with the bottom-boards off. The temperature in the cellar has not been below 42 degrees, or above 49 degrees, this winter. All the stores the bees have are from fall flowers. There are very little signs of dysentery, as yet. Robbins, Wis., Mar. 4. G. C. CHASE.

Valued Rainfall in California We have just had one of the most valued rainfalls in the history of the State; that is to say, it saved the country

from destruction for lack of rain. Everything was just on the edge, and could not stand much longer, especially grain crops which were yellow in many places. Sage began to grow rapidly during the dry spell, and no doubt there would not be enough honey for the bees for next winter had no change come so suddenly for the better. A good crop of honey is fairly certain now.

W. F. HACKMANN. Salinas, Calif,., Mar. 6.

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Paint for Painting Hives May I be permitted to supplement Dr. Miller's recent answer to an inquiry about painting hives by saying, use turpentine in any paint for bee-hives. Use "raw" linseed oil only, and as little of liquid drier as will cause the surface to dry in 4 to 6 hours on a warm, dry day.

The best way is to purchase the materials and mix the paint in quantity as needed. There is no economy in buying small quantities, or cheap quality. I have no respect for ready-mixed paints. White lead can be preserved after the keg is

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Slight Rainfall So Far

The rainfall has been so slight that the bee-keepers are very doubtful of securing any honey at all. This applies to the State in general, but the southern portion has had less rain than the central or upper part, but we are promised plenty by the weather-man, so we are all hoping and praying for the much-needed and ever-refreshing rains. The snow on some of the mountains so far this season has been only 24 inches, and other years they have had as much as 100 inches. J. C. FROHLIGER. Berkeley, Calif., March 1.

Some Bee-Keeping Experience We had the heaviest honey-flow I ever experienced, last spring. In the middle of July the long, hot drouth set in, and during Spanish-needle time it rained so much I had to do a little feeding. I secured 1000 pounds of section honey, and sold it at 121⁄2 cents a pound; I extracted 200 pounds which sells here at 10 cents a pound. The finest white clover honey I ever saw-went like hot cakes to my home trade.

I winter my 31 colonies on the summer stands in 8-frame dove-tailed hives, with shavings on top. It is hard in this locality to keep the Italian bees as all the neighborhood has black bees. Quite a number of bees are still kept in box-hives here. I have handled bees for nearly 20 years. I started with nail-kegs and cracker-boxes, and got the bees out of trees. The more I handle them the better I like them. Experience does the business, and the American Bee Journal I would not do without. I hope to have a big honey crop next summer.

By the way, a good friend of mine from Sedalia, Mo., Dick Lankenaw, a bee-keeper who has nearly 50 colonies of Italians, and takes the American Bee Journal, visited me the last day of the old year. He has quite an experience with bees, and made himself a 4-frame extractor as he is a good blacksmith. He secured 1000 pounds of honey in all, extracted and section, in 1911. He told me of an experience he would not soon forget, and is worth reporting. He and

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a Mr. Sullivan had bought 13 colonies of black bees, 3 miles out in the country at 50 cents per colony, in the oldfashioned hives, with 3 or 4 supers_on each hive, all plump full of honey. The hives were rotten and not in a condition to transport. One day in August, during a drouth, they went in the evening with a one-horse spring wagon with the intention of loading everything on the wagon. When they lifted the hives they all fell apart, and robber-bees had a feast, as all might know. In canvas and covers they were wrapped up, and they had a full load. The next day the horse was unhitched from the spring-wagon and tied with a good halter 100 yards from where the hives were left, and the spring wagon pulled up by the men. A large amount of bees had stayed there from the day before, and they were mad as tigers. Smokers, veils and gloves were used. Soon a big swarm of bees stung the horse Mr. Sullivan ran to the horse, while Mr Lankenaw kept on smoking. A thick swarm followed Mr. Sullivan. The latter tried to kill the rascals on the horse. Quick as lightning they made for the barn. Those mad bees all followed them, and the whole barn was full of bees. They still stung the horse. The next jump was to the thick brush near the creek till it got dark. Mr. Lankenaw still kept on smoking the bees, and had a time to call and find his partner. Covers were tied around hives when loaded, and the wagon was pulled by hand till everything was safe.

A good friend of Mr. Lankenaw, Charles Dale, had some nice honey in deep frames,

Mr. Lankenaw intended to extract for him. The latter had his arms full of boxes, and Mr. Dale wheeled the honey on the wheel-barrow. It was very dry, and the bees were mad and stung Mr. Dale on his head. While shaking his head from one side to the other he upset his wheelbarrow and honey, some combs breaking out of the frames; still a big success was made in extracting the honey. WM. SASS.

Concordia, Mo., Jan. 25.

Concrete Hive-Parts

Mr. Someone writes recently about concrete hive-boxes, bottoms and slabs to go in front of the hives. While in this climate such parts would be mighty cold in the spring, it may be possible that a sawdust concrete might help keep the alighting-board, or bottom, warm. The following clipping was sent to me, so I do not know to whom to credit it:

SAWDUST CONCRETE FOR INDOOR USES.

"When sawdust or wood pulp is used as part of the aggregate in mixing, the resulting concrete is of light weight and low tensible strength, but has some special properties that commend it for certain indoor uses, states a writer in The Cement World. On account of its elasticity, combined with its practically non-absorb ent character, it is said to be especially adapted as a floor veneering for markets, butcher shops, saloons, etc.

"It may be laid without joints in a continuous layer one and a half inches deep, upon paper spread over the floor that is being treated. In these cases the

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"A novel application of sawdust concrete has recently been made in the New Public Library building in Springfield, Mass. It was employed there as a base on which to lay the cork carpet covering the floors. The object was to obtain a layer into which nails could be driven and which at the same time would hold the nails.

"The company that laid it states that it accomplished both purposes. After several experiments with different mixtures it was found that a 1:2:34 mix-threefourths of a part of sawdust-gave the desired results; and 5,000 square feet of this mixture was laid. The thickness of the layer was one inch, and after four months of service indications are that the material is a success."

If one must make such pieces of concrete, I might tell the inexperienced that a wood form is not really necessary, but is desirable, on account of the smoothness of the resulting piece.

A mould is best made of %-inch lum. ber nailed to 2 x 4's laid flat, open at one end for pouring. This will do for cover and block for the front of the hive, and can be made as much thinner as one wishes. The bottom-board can just as well as not have a raised edge on the sides and back, a thin piece of lumber being nailed on the bottom of a form. This must be nailed, and the nails clinched, but the cover must be fastened

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with screws, and all must be soaked with water before the cement is poured in. DR. A. F. BONNEY.

Buck Grove, Iowa

Following Many Advisers-
Swarming

How long would it take a beginner to get rich if he read and undertook to follow all the writers that contribute their

ways of managing bees? I think some

of them would come out about as I would if I undertook to send a twenty-dollar by one of our northeasterners. The result would be about the same. For instance, destroying brood to stop swarming. There is lots written on that. Now, I would like to know how to make them swarm, as I think in this section I could get just as much money and more increase, as a rule.

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I have about 120 colonies, spring count. I one-half for comb-honey; from them I get 5 to 8 new swarms; from those I extract. For the last 13 years I have had 2-one came out with a virgin queen, the other in September after the honey-flow was over. I never extract until August, after the white honey season is over.

I have tried not putting sections on some of my best colonies until I saw I was losing the best of the honey season, they hanging out all over 3 sides of the hives, and it made no difference-the result was the same. Now, I don't think it is the location, for when I used to have black bees, almost every strong colony, if a good year, would send from one to seven swarms-as a rule, one to three. The first queens I ever got were from New York. They swarmed themselves to death the first season after putting them in. They had no honey in the fall, while the black bees did well. I wrote to the party and he told me what kind they were, and thought I would be well pleased with them. I think he called them Holy Land queens. My bees are quite dark, as they get older. I sent for the lighter colored queens.

C. M. LINCOLN. West Rupert, Vt., Feb. 24.

Asphalt Felt for Wrapping Hives

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The following conclusions on the subject of winter hive-wrapping may be of use to some one open to suggestion:

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I regard tar-paper of any kind and every kind as objectionable when posed to the weather, by of shrinking, hardening, cracking, dribbling, too, in hot weather, and brittleness when cold. The tar odor is very disagreeable while it lasts.

Tar-roofing felt is too stiff and heavy for hive-wrapping, and the tar-sheathing paper is too flimsy and unsubstantial. Three-ply tar-roofing is very effective for damp-proofing a cement floor or cellar wall applied while building, but as a roofing material it is far surpassed by ready roofings which are composed of asphalt compounds without a trace of tar. I am using a roofing felt of this character for hive-wrapping, and heavier a grade (otherwise the same) for the roof of the honey-house, with great satisfaction. Also my hive-roofs are covered with the same lighter grade, which has stood the weather and handling without damage. It is not brittle in cold, nor mussy in hot weather.

This material is 32 inches wide. My method is to slit it lengthwise, making 2 strips 16 inches wide, then cut off lengths

sufficient to go around the hive and top

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tie with a couple of turns of strong twine, slit down at the covers to the top of the hive, then fold the free edges in over the hive, lay a piece of the felt on the turned-in edges, and put on the cover with the weight on top. The lap should be placed at the front of the hive.

These wrappings can be worked out, cut and creased over an empty hive in the shop, rolled up with the right length of string around each, all ready for use.

Flat sheets of paper are not an effective insulation unless a considerable thickness is used, say one-half inch or more. A single sheet of paper will stop the passage of air, but cold will strike through many sheets almost instantly.

This question of insulation deserves consideration separately. Old carpet, or burlap (which is not so good) can be made into jackets to pull down over the hive, the wrapping being put on over it, with care, to cover the jacket effectively to keep it dry and snug. A few tacks can be used to advantage around the bottom. I use a super-cover on each hive the year around, tacking it down with 34-inch wire nails in the fall. In the spring these wrappings are carefully taken off, rolled up, the string tied around each roll, and then put away on end until fall; the top pieces are laid flat; the jackets are folded tightly and wrapped in paper to keep out moths. I would consider this sort of winter protection practicable up to say 20 hives; beyond that number, double-walled hives or cellar-wintering might be more convenient.

This asphalt felt, under various trade names, is not as cheap in the beginning as tar-paper, but there is more satisfaction with it, and I expect it to outlast the paper many times over. I have had 2 years' experience with it. I piece the jackets together over an empty hive-body in the shop at odd times, using a bag needle and grocer's twine. When made in this way there is no difficulty, and the jackets fit any similar hive.

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M. SPACER.

More Rain Needed in California We had a splendid rain here 8 days and tonight it is raining again, acago, companied with the worst windstorm of the season, which is doing considerable damage. It will take much more rain to give us honey. Bad north and east winds have taken all of the moisture previous to 8 days ago. It is hard telling what the season will be. March 2d there was over 3 inches of rain at the Coast, and 4 to 5 and 6 inches in the interior; tonight will add another or more, but this will still not give us a honey It will take much more rainfall. M. H. MENDLESON. Ventura, Calif., Mar. 9.

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Bees Wintered Well

Our bees have wintered well, as far as I can hear from all around me. My own have come through the winter in good shape, though they have consumed more stores than they did up to the same time last year. I think they will need close watching to keep up their strength. They are out almost every clear day now.

I could not think of getting along without the American Bee Journal. I cannot see how any one interested in bees could get along without so valuable a helper which it certainly is to all, novice and veteran alike. E. VANDERWERKEN. Stamford, Conn., Mar. 15.

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Price, postpaid, $1.00; or with the American Bee Journal for one year-both for $1.70; or given FREE for Two New yearly subscriptions at $1.00 each.

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This Queen Clipping Device was
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practical bee-keeper in Minneso-
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"The Honey-Money Stories"

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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 $1.06. A copy with the American Bee Journal one year-both for $1.10. Send all or ders to the American Bee Journal.

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WANTED Choice extracted white and amber honey in barrels or cans. Send sample, and price delivered f. o. b. Preston. Atf

M. V. Facey, Preston, Minn.

QUIRIN'S famous improved Italian queens, nuclei, colonies, and bees by the lb., ready in May. Our stock is northern-bred and hardy: five yards wintered on summer stands in 1908 and 1909 without a single loss. For prices, send for circular. 3Ast Quirin-the-Queen-Breeder, Bellevue, Ohio.

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tillable. enclosd with 8 wire fence; good tank of water, 20 acres fenced off; 10 acres in cultivation. Plenty of oak and mesquite timber: good bee-location, and will grow pecans -near largest pecan orchard in Tex. If sold at once, $35 an acre. L. B. Smith, Rescue. Tex.

FOR SALE-An apiary of 240 colonies with all appliances for managing this number of bees in an up-to-date manner for extracted honey. In the far-famed Hudson River Valley, on a location which has not failed in 32 years to give a paying crop of honey. The encroachment of the city, which necessitates the removal of the bees, the cause of selling. Correspondence solicited from those only who mean business.

James McNeill, Hudson, N. Y.

Connecticut Convention.-The annual meeting of the Connecticut Bee-Keepers' Association for the election of officers, etc., will be held Saturday, April 13, 1912, at the Y. M. C. A. Building, Hartford, beginning at 10:30 a.m. The matter of forming a branch of the National Association will be discussed. Good speaking assured.

JAMES A. SMITH, Sec.

Hartford, Conn.

The Opfer Hive-Entrance Bee-Feeder.In the spring we must feed the bees to have them strong for clover-bloom. With all the present feeders this is a troublesome job-either the hive-bottom or covers have to be taken off every time we feed. With the Entrance Feeder shown herewith, all

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entrance and leave it there until there is no more need of feeding. It contracts the entrance, and that is what you want in spring. The size of this feeder is 7x8 inches, and inch deep, and holds 5 ounces of feed. You can feed 100 colonies in about 25 minutes.

In case of foul brood you can feed medicated syrup and your bees will build up strong and healthy, and be in good shape when clover starts, ready to shake on foundation.

I have used 75 of these feeders about 8 years, and today they are as good as ever. With proper care they will last a life-time.

In spring or in fall most bee-keepers neglect to stimulate brood-rearing-one of the

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most important things in having strong colonies and good wintering. It does not depend so much upon the amount of feed as it does upon regularity every night (unless the weather is too cold), and you will wonder where your strong colonies come from. Some of the many good points of this Entrance Feeder are these:

1. It is made of heavy galvanized iron and will last a life-time,

2. It reduces the hive-entrance.

3. It reaches where the bees can get at the feed even in cool weather.

4. It feeds the right amount.

5. It will not cause robbing.

6. It will not disturb the colony while feeding. 7. It permits quick work.

8. The bees will not drown in it.

I am in position to furnish all demands for these feeders at the following prices, f. o b. Chicago: One for 20c: 5 for 18c each; 10 for 16c each. If ordered by mail, add Ioc each for packing and postage.

Address all orders to-A. H. OPFER, 117 N. efferson St., Chicago, Ill.

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Muth Ideal Bee-Veil Free as Premium.

The Muth Veil is made of light-weight indestructible wire and strong cambric, and will last a lifetime. Fits nicely around either a straw hat or a derby, and is easily put on or off in a jiffy.

It is comfortable, and there is no chance for a bee to crawl up under it when properly adjusted,

The Muth Ideal Veil cannot be blown into your eyes, nor stick to your face, and does not obstruct your view in the least. When catching a swarm in a tree or bush, it cannot hang on the twigs to be torn to shreds as some other Veils do.

Price, postpaid, 75 cents; or with the American Bee Journal a year-both for $1.60 or FREE as a premium for sending us 2 new subscribers at $1.00 each.

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These are very pretty things for bee-keepers or honey-sellers to wear on their coat. lapels. They often serve to introduce the subject of honey, which might frequently lead to a sale.

NOTE. One bee-keeper writes: "I have every reason to believe that it would be a

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very good idea for every beekeeper to wear one [of these buttons), as it will cause people to ask questions about the busy bee, and many a conversation thus started wind up with the sale of more or less honey; at any rate it would give the beekeeper a superior opportunity to enlighten many a person in regard to honey and bees."

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This is a booklet of 86 pages, written by Mr. J. W. Rouse, of Missouri. It is mainly for beginners-amateur beekeepers-as its name indicates. It is a valuable little work, revised this year,

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