. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1898. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAlu. 359 days after the bees are left queenless, providing no queen-cells were started previous to the division. Most surely I would en- large that entrance, if necessary making it extend the whole size of the hive acd an inch deep. .5. I never had any Adels. You're not likely to find bees that are non-stinging or non-swarming. 6. If you limit the brood-chamber to eight frames, you will hardly have as many bees as with more frames, providing your queen is prolific. A stronger colony ought to store more honey. Some who use 8
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1898. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAlu. 359 days after the bees are left queenless, providing no queen-cells were started previous to the division. Most surely I would en- large that entrance, if necessary making it extend the whole size of the hive acd an inch deep. .5. I never had any Adels. You're not likely to find bees that are non-stinging or non-swarming. 6. If you limit the brood-chamber to eight frames, you will hardly have as many bees as with more frames, providing your queen is prolific. A stronger colony ought to store more honey. Some who use 8-frame hives use two stories up to the time of putting on supers. 7. No; and if you succeed perfectly with any kind of frame be sure to let us ?Wormwood to Prevent Stings. — In Muenchener Bztg., it is rtcomiiieiided to rub wurmwoud uu the hands to prevent bees stinging. Variety of Hives in Germany. — "Nowhere in the world," says Carl Krueger, in Brasiliauische Bieneupflege, "is there so great a variety of hives as in Germany. Some open at the side, some at the top, some at the bottom, and some both at top and bottom. That Big Texas Yield.—O. O. Poppleton says much has been said about B. F. Carroll's 1,000-pound yield, but he thinks the fact is often overlook! that this yield was from a colony and Us incrc<ise. He says it would have been only play to have done that in his locality with any of the very best col- onies in 1894.—American Bee-Keeper. Old Combs for Brood.—Editor Hill, of the American Bee- Keeper, had a case in which bees under size were reared in comb 20 years old. He was inclined to believe it would not do to leave combs after so many years' use. Later he transferred combs from a box-hive that had been continuously occupied for 60 years, and the bees were full size. He concluded the first case was the exception, and that the bee-keeper could safely leave to the bees the matter of renewing combs. Apis Dorsata.—Upon the invitation
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