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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 21, 19(4. 



above the brood-chamber by the space usually 

 allowed between them. This is to make a 

 warm hive in the sprintj for early brood-rear- 

 ing, and to invite the bees in the section-cases 

 to work sooner than they would otherwise go 

 there. (Large point No. M.) 



Then, I said, the hot summer weather, when 

 the days are nearly warm enough to hatch 

 eggs without the help of either chicks or bees, 

 would surely be in favor of the project far be- 

 yond the uncertain spring weather with its 

 freezing nights, so I will try them in the 

 month of July, and this will make point No. 4 

 to its advantage. Then I took a rousing-big 

 natural swarm, large enough for two colonies, 

 and crowded them all in that hive. (A strong 

 point No. 5. Point No. was that the hive 

 was well filled with full-cell brood comb.) 

 Now if there was any hope in the case, would 

 not these points that I comprehend in prepara- 

 tions made thus far reveal it! 



And now we will look at the super. I took 

 a neatly made case of ''H-inch lumber, with a 

 wire-screen bottom, and a thin rim to set down 

 snugly on the top of the hive, so as to get all 

 the heat among the eggs that the bees might 

 send off; and over the screen-bottom of the 

 super I put a thin piece of coarse burlap to 

 make it less probable that the bees would glue 

 up the mesbes of the screen. I tore up a 

 piece of bed-quilt, and made of it a large, soft 

 roll and packed it around the inner sides of the 

 super, leaving a nice, large nest in the middle 

 for :,'5 select-brood Plymouth Kock eggs on 

 the thin burlap bottom described. 



Over this I put a light board-cover, amply 

 quilted on the under side, and fitting down 

 snugly, just over the tops of the eggs. 



Now, every body who has brains enough to 

 bait a mouse-trap, knows that all these con- 

 ditions combined would fetch eggs to a hatch- 

 ing warmth if it were possible to do so over a 

 colony of bees. 



Now we will shut it up tightly, and leave 

 them there to warm up. It won't take three 

 weeks to test the matter, for the proof of the 

 thing is right in touch, as you will soon see. 



The colony had been hived for several days, 

 as I was waiting to set one of my select Ply- 

 inouth Rock hens in the park at the same 

 time. She came to a sitting fever in good 

 shape, so that I set her that same afternoon, 

 and in about an hour's time she had her 1.5 

 eggs all nicely warmed up under her. Then I 

 went and slipped my hand into the "super- 

 nest " over the bee-hive— '(«</ would yuu be- 

 lieve i(— all those 35 eggs were also nice and 

 c-c-c-c-cool .' So they were that night, and f;o 

 they were the next morning, and the next 

 evening they seemed to be just as cool as they 

 were when I put them In. 



Now, if those eggs would not get warm 

 over a colony of bees in the middle of July, 

 fixed that way with everything in their favor 

 for 24 hours, how many years would it take to 

 hatch them there? It an egg could be put 

 right in the midst of a brood-chamber, and 

 kept covered with bees with some way fixed 

 to turn it over every day, it might hatch till it 



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got open far enough for the bees to sting the 

 chicken ; but the egg6 over a bee-hive I be- 

 lieve would never hatch. I might as well have 

 put those eggs in a box right over my sitting 

 hen and wait for them to hatch there. You 

 can't hatch a cold egg, and I think that I 

 have proven that the bee.s don't even get them 

 warm. 



Now, if you want to probe my testimony, 

 just take a good thermometer and set it in a 

 super-case over a colony of bees where the 

 bees can't get up to it for a single night, and 

 see before sunrise what temperature it will 

 indicate; and if it is not pretty near 104 de- 

 grees F. you might keep eggs there forever and 

 they would not hatch. Those fellows who 

 have been telling their big stories to the con- 

 trary are evidently not trying to build up 

 public contidence in their words; and may 

 they sustain the loss they richly deserve. 



Common-Sknse Bee-Keepino. 



Poof Season— Catnip. 



It was a poor season for honey here last 

 year. White and alsike clover yielded almost 

 nothing, and sweet clover very little. The 

 bees gathered some from wild mustard and 

 from a few other plants of less importance 

 from a bee-keeper's point of view. 



Basswood is nearly all cut here, and I think 

 that the few trees that we have yielded little 

 or nothingthis year. Catnip yielded as usual, 

 but there is too little of it here to make much 

 difference in the honey crop. I sowed some 

 catnip seed last spring which I gathered in 

 the fall of 1903, but none of it grew. Plenty 

 of new plants came from self-sown seed. I 

 think it should be sown in the fall. 



James L. Howard. 



Milwaukee Co., Wis. 



White Clover Flow— Good Prospects. 



Not seeing any communications in the 

 American Bee Journal from this locality, I 

 thought it might interest some to learn the 

 last season's experience of the bee-keepers of 

 this vicinity. Old bee keepers say it was the 

 best they ever saw ; the flow from white clover 

 was never excelled, it equaled, and as a result 

 we got a superior quality of honey. The 

 tendency to swarm was beyond all control. 

 My bees doubled, besides a number of prime 

 swarms that took to the woods. The fall flow 

 was light; there was an abundance of fall 

 bloom, but it was so cold and wet that the 

 bees could not get the nectar. But most of 

 the bees went into winter quarters in good 

 shape, though some were only fair. 



Four carloads of honey have been sent from 

 our town by local producers, besides large 

 shipments for local consumption that would 

 amount to several carloads more. The number 

 of bees in this county is almost double what 

 it was a year ago. The ground is now nicely 

 covered with snow, which is favorable for the 

 clover, and the outlook is good for another 

 prosperous season next year. 



R. H. BUCHNER. 



Jackson Co., Iowa, Dec. 29. 



Starvation Plan of Introducing 

 Queens. 



Remove the old queen in the forenoon, then 

 aljout one hour before sundown remove the 

 new queen from the escorts to a clean cage, 

 where she can find no food ; then a little after 

 sundown let her run in at the hive-entrance. 

 I have used this plan for the last 'J years, and 

 have not lost a queen, and have often found 

 her laying the next day. 



This was a poor honey-year here; from 55 

 colonies I had only 900 pounds of honey, comb 

 and extracted. John Suter. 



Seneca Co., N. Y., Dec. 29. 



Had a Fair Hone.y Crop. 



Bee-keepers in northwestern Pennsylvania 

 are generally happy and sweet, and are feel- 

 ing unusually encouraged on account of the 

 past season's honey flow. For some years we 

 have had poor crops, and one or two years the 

 crop was a total failure, so with a fair crop 

 the past season comes encouragement. The 

 white clover crop was profuse and yielded 



