Vol. X. 



JULY 1, 1882. 



No. 7. 



A. I. B.OOT. 



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NOTES FROM THE BANNER APIARY. 



NO. 33. 



QUEEN SURGERY — A CASE THAT DIDN'T TURN OUT 

 SO WELL. 



fHAD a case last season that was similar to one 

 mentioned by friend Little, on page 277 of June 

 ■ Gleanings. After waiting a week for nature 

 to remove the protruding and dried-up drone organ, 

 I clipped it otr, using my finger-nails for nippers or 

 scissors. The queen then commenced, in a day or 

 two, to lay, filled the comlis of her nucleus with 

 eggs, and was, apparently, all right, so I sent her to 

 a customer. In two or three weeks I received a 

 card from her purchaser, saying, "One of those 

 half-dozen queens that you sent mc does not per- 

 form her duty as should a well-behaved queen. 

 She scatters the eggs all over, puts more than one 

 egg into a cell, and sometimes attaches them to the 

 sides of the cell. It is not the work of a fertile 

 worker, as the queen is present, and I have seen her 

 laying.'* I concluded that it Avas the queen that I 

 had operated upon, and so I sent another. 



SELLING EXTRACTED HONEY. 



Nearly all of the honey that I have sold away from 

 home has been sold in Mason's fruit-jars. In pack- 

 ing them for transportation, 1 place an inch of chafif 

 in the bottom of a box, set the jars upon it, and then 

 pack chaff between them. I always carry the hon- 

 ey away myself, and I have broken only one jar, and 

 that was caused by a small knot, from some board, 

 getting into the chaff packing, under the jar. When 

 honey is in the liquid state, it certainly does present 

 a sort of "make-your* mouth -water" appearance 



whea put up in glass; but after it candies it looks — 

 well, one groceryman remarked, like lard. If I 

 should ever have honey enough so it doesn't "get 

 sold " before the cool fall weather begins to make it 

 candy, I shall try putting it up for sale in small tin 

 pails, and adorn the pails with bright, attractive 

 labels. For shipping liquid honey, I have used, to a 

 small extent, the 100-lb. spruce kegs, and I could ask 

 for nothing better. 



NOT GOING TO THE FAIR, AFTER ALL. 



It is with regret that I have finally decided not to 

 make an apiarian exhibit at our State Fair this fall. 

 What's the reason? Well, "too much to do," haven't 

 time to spare to prepare things for an exhibit and 

 do the subject justice. I wish, however, to thank 

 the kind friends who have offered to help me in the 

 matter, and who have written and given me some 

 valuable suggestions. 



MY REVISED REPORT FOR 18S1. 



In giving my report last January for 1881, I esti-* 

 mated my 28 colonies at $5.00 each. One died in the 

 winter, one was robbed this spring when I was away 

 from home (my first loss from robbers), one was 

 found queenless, and was united with another, so I 

 commenced the season with 23 colonies. I think it 

 fair to estimate these 23 colonies now at $8.00 each, 

 which would place my profits at an average of $18.30 

 per colony. 



MY WINTERING EXPERIMENTS. 



You will perhaps remember, that last fall I pre- 

 pared my bees for winter in several ways, with a 

 view of determining which was the best method of 

 wintering. Some colonies were left unprotected up- 

 on their summer stands, others were protected with 

 chaff cushions; some were covered with the chaff 



