. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 222 AMERICAN BEE' JOUENAl- AprU 3, 1901. will usually be about the time when safe warm weather comes on. We shall, however, set our bees out late rather than early. We are liable to have a ver^' warm spell in April, dur- ing which the bees will get a large amount of brood started. This will be followed by cold weather during which not only a large part of the brood is lost, but many of the bees, in their efforts to cover and preserve the brood. It therefore seems to me (except in the case of actually diseased colonies) that March 15 is about a month t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 222 AMERICAN BEE' JOUENAl- AprU 3, 1901. will usually be about the time when safe warm weather comes on. We shall, however, set our bees out late rather than early. We are liable to have a ver^' warm spell in April, dur- ing which the bees will get a large amount of brood started. This will be followed by cold weather during which not only a large part of the brood is lost, but many of the bees, in their efforts to cover and preserve the brood. It therefore seems to me (except in the case of actually diseased colonies) that March 15 is about a month too early for most localities. Last year we did not set our cellar bees outtill after the ^s7 oj' Mat/.aiid 1ho>tt colonies provnt til be the hext we ?hiii. Of course, if one can"t keep his bees quiet he will have to set them out earlier. A Handy Tool. '' It is a long iron spoon about 15 or IS inches long. With it we can work our cap- pings, also in lighting our smoker. A little charcoal from last using in bottom, the spoon can quickly take live coals from the stove to add to, then till up with—we use dry apple-tree ;—Australian Bee-Bulletin. Foul Brood. Foul brood is not always apparent at a spring examination. A colony that appears free from the disease early in the season, may turn out Ijadly infected in August and Sep- tember. Don't be lulled into a sense of security because no infected colony is found when supers are put upon the hive.—Bee- Keepers' Review. Purity of Italians Bees. "Nor do I consider any Italian queen as ; When Bro. Doolittle says that, I think that what he niemiti is true, but that what he-sd),* is not true unless he uses the word ''pure'* with some meaning other than that found in the dictionary. From what he has said in other places. I understand him to be- lieve that no Italians are of an entirely fixed or permanent character, in which he is prob- ably strictly correct. But I do not know that in the term " Ita
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