:

Lead arsenate, three-fourths ounce; New Orleans molasses, one-half pint;
water, one gallon.

Look over the seedling cabbages carefully and destroy all which show any
sign of wilting or rotting.

Cut out apple twigs badly injured by the buffalo tree hopper and burn
them immediately.

Watch for plant lice on lettuce in cold frames. To combat the insects
the plants should be sprayed with nicofume liquid, one teaspoonful to a
gallon of water.

BEE-KEEPER'S COLUMN

Conducted by FRANCIS JAGER, Professor of Apiculture, University
Farm, St. Paul.

COMB HONEY, EXTRACTED HONEY, AND INCREASE.

The practical beekeeper must decide at the beginning of the honey season
whether he wishes to produce extracted honey, comb honey or merely to
increase the number of his colonies. The manner of management of his
apiary will depend upon such decision. At any rate a modern outfit, pure
bred colonies in modern ten or eight frame hives, is required for
successful beekeeping no matter in what line of bee industry he may feel
inclined to engage.

For production of extracted honey the ten frame hive is to be preferred.
Bees are less inclined to swarm in a ten frame hive, and two ten frame
supers as a rule will be required where three eight frame supers would
otherwise be necessary.

In successful extracted honey production swarming may be reduced to a
minimum if during the dandelion and fruit trees honey flow, and in the
beginning of white clover flow, once a week an empty drawn comb be
inserted into the middle of the brood nest. As soon as the brood chamber
has eight frames of brood the queen excluder is added and an extracting
super added filled with white extracting combs. If the beekeeper does
not care to raise his extracted honey in snow white combs only, the
excluder may be omitted, but the result will be that the queen will lay
eggs throughout the whole hive, thus rendering extracting difficult on
account of brood present. When raising extracted honey on a large scale
two extracting supers may suffice for each colony. When the one next to
the brood chamber is filled it is extracted at once, the top one taking
its place next to the brood. The extracted super when empty is then
given back to the bees and placed on top. When the second super is
filled the process is repeated. This process of extracting honey
requires a period of four or five weeks. All supers are removed at the
end of the honey flow. The last full super