. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. one-eighth inch between the cover and the hive, or a crack just too narrow for the bees to pass through. This is to give the -bees ventilation; and a cellar is just the p'.ace to put a lot of confined bees. After being confined for two days they may require to be fed. We would advise keeping them shut up for a week, or better, take them to an out-yard or some location about two miles away from the scene of their recent pow- wows. Give them a queen or queen- cell, and let them start ; ^^ Docfor Miller^ %esfioii-Ba. Send Questions eit
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. one-eighth inch between the cover and the hive, or a crack just too narrow for the bees to pass through. This is to give the -bees ventilation; and a cellar is just the p'.ace to put a lot of confined bees. After being confined for two days they may require to be fed. We would advise keeping them shut up for a week, or better, take them to an out-yard or some location about two miles away from the scene of their recent pow- wows. Give them a queen or queen- cell, and let them start ; ^^ Docfor Miller^ %esfioii-Ba. Send Questions either to the office of the American Bee Journal, or to DR. C. C. MILLER, Marengo. 111. Dr. Miller does not answer Questions by mail. Feeding Back Honey in Shallow Frames 1. I have a number of shallow frames of honey, and no extractor. I wish to feed them back to the bees. What is the best way to do it? 2. Some of these frames, which were left in hives and put in a room upon be- ing taken from the hives where they were made, have become infested with wax-larvx. I have fumigated them with bisulphide of carbon. Will it be all right to use these to feed back? Iowa. Answers.—i. I suppose the frames are the same in size as those of the brood-chamber, only not so deep. While it would be better if they were full depth, it will work very well to use them in place of full-depth combs, put- ting them in at the sides. Very likely you can not thus dispose of them all this fall, but they will come in very handy in the spring, when you will take out any combs that are emptied, or nearly so, and put in shallow ones. Of course, you must look out that they do not get too close to the brood-nest, for it would make trouble if brood should get into any of them, and they must be removed before the queen has a chance to lay in them. 2. Yes. their first return from the fields. To pre- vent this, screen them in the hive for a day or so, then just before opening the entrance thump good and hard upon the
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