. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 42 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, Jan. 19, Properly'Reared Queens Give Best Results.—G. M. Doolittle says his queens now require a larger brood-nest than they did before he began rearing them according to the plans given in his book on " Scientific ; —Gleanings. His Honey Sells Itself.—S. F. Trego has been selling IS pounds of nice heart"s-ease extracted honey for a dollar, and now he does not need to seek for customers, with gran- ulated sugar 16 pounds for a dollar—the honey just sells it- self.—Gleanings. Sealed Brood as
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 42 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, Jan. 19, Properly'Reared Queens Give Best Results.—G. M. Doolittle says his queens now require a larger brood-nest than they did before he began rearing them according to the plans given in his book on " Scientific ; —Gleanings. His Honey Sells Itself.—S. F. Trego has been selling IS pounds of nice heart"s-ease extracted honey for a dollar, and now he does not need to seek for customers, with gran- ulated sugar 16 pounds for a dollar—the honey just sells it- self.—Gleanings. Sealed Brood as Bait.—In order to induce the bees to commence promptly in the extracting-super, J. W. Rouse puts in the super a frame or two of brood, and he says the queen is less likely to go up_ if the brood is all sealed.—Pro- gressive Bee-Keeper. A Use for Propolis is given in Revue Internationale as a substitute for gum-lac in the manufacture of fire-works. Gleanings thinks no one would want to take the job of gathering 100 pounds of it at $ a pound. Perhaps prop- olis is not as plenty at Medina as at some other places. Morse=Hair Veils, or those having the face part of that material, says F. L. Thompson, in Gleanings, are abovit equal to cotton tulle veils for seeing through, with the ad- vantage that they never gather in folds. He has one in which the horse-hair part is still good after two seasons' use. Cost of Large Hives—C. P. Dadant, in comparing large with small hives, gave the cost of the large ones as about double as much as that of the small ones. In a later number of Gleanings he reconsiders the question, and gets figures from the A. I. Root Co., to the effect that the cost is only 40 to SO percent more. Clipping Queens seems to be quite popular in Canada. At the Ontario Convention nearly all seemed to be "clip- ; Editor Holtermann met the objection that dipt queens are more promptly superseded by saying thatunclipt queens are superseded with
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