. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ?|RST PRIZE WINNERS isn't very plenty. The bees can live on a very little; they never use up the honey in the brood-combs. I am a tenderfoot at the business, but the first thing I did was to find something to kill the bee-stings. I take a small vial and put in some carbolic acid, one part water. When a bee stings I put some of this on, and it kills the sting or poison, and nine times out of ten it never swells. The hands will stand more than under the clothing. This is a mountainous country, covered with timber and narrow valleys. It is wet six months
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ?|RST PRIZE WINNERS isn't very plenty. The bees can live on a very little; they never use up the honey in the brood-combs. I am a tenderfoot at the business, but the first thing I did was to find something to kill the bee-stings. I take a small vial and put in some carbolic acid, one part water. When a bee stings I put some of this on, and it kills the sting or poison, and nine times out of ten it never swells. The hands will stand more than under the clothing. This is a mountainous country, covered with timber and narrow valleys. It is wet six months and dry six, with some rain. There is no fall honey gathered. I'm 48 years old. and never had eaten "20 pounds of honey up to two years ago; I never had seen a bee-paper, nor any bees to speak of. I lived on the prairie in Iowa, and '21 years in South Dakota. Why don't you send your honey to such places where they can't keep bees, where the people never see or taste honey ? I plant everything that will make flowers for the bees. M. W. Pbuner. Douglas Co., Greg., Dec. 15. The Large Hive the Leader. Replying to the question of Mr. L. M. Willis, on page 5'2, I'll take my best nut- cracker; but it iseems to me it is only a hazel-nut he is giving not one of those old, hard, horny black-walnuts. That colony which did the best of all for him is evidently the best because it is pure Italian, and this is evidenced by its being so gentle. As to the hive, I do not believe that 1 ever held that the hive made the crop, but that it should be large enough to give the best, or rather the best queen, a chance to spread herself. I see that in this instance, that was just what Mr. Willis did, for he gave his 7-frame colony another brood-chamber of 8 frames above. That was really overdoing our methods, for we aim to give our bees only about the capacity of 12 Langstroth frames altogether, and in this instance the colony had But he was fully repaid for bis additional room, and I
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