Feb. 25, 1904. 



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on the cover, and when 1 woukl Iool< in the 

 morning I would find the queen busy laying. 

 By this plan I kepi stron;,' colonies and busy 

 workers, as their desire to swarm had been 

 gratilied; whereas by checking their desire, 

 or in continually cutting out queen-cells, the 

 bees get stubborn, loaf and hang out, and re- 

 fuse to work. The most of those old, made- 

 new colonies, as I call them, stored about 2.50 

 pounds of comb honey. From 30 colonies 

 that I managed in this way, only one at- 

 tempted to swarm some 4 or 5 weeks later. 

 Care should be taken not to let the swarm 

 work any in the hiving-box, or else there 

 would be lighting, but, by keeping them con- 

 fined during the day they are homeless, and 

 those in the hive, with which they are to lie 

 united, are homeless, and their queen-cells 

 have been cut away, and they will unite with- 

 out the least attemjjt at fighting, and catch- 

 ing the queen of the swarm; or any kind of a 

 queen can be introduced in this united colony. 

 H. B. Stumpe. 

 Stephenson Co., 111., Jan. 30. 



Hard Winter on Bees. 



Ever since Nov. 20 the winter has been hard 

 on the bees. They will all die out if they 

 don't have close attention. The honey crop 

 was light here last year. G. D. Hawk. 



Sullivan Co., Tenn., -Jan. 29. 



Results of the Season of 1903. 



J began the season of 1903 with sh colonies 

 (that is, I entered the honey-flow), and closed 

 with 131 colonies, all of which I think are 

 alive to-day? I harvested a crop of 2000 

 pounds of extracted honey and 6000 pounds of 

 comb honey. The extracted honey was nearly 

 all sold as fast as it was ripe, at 10 cents per 

 pound. The comb, or section honey, I sold at 

 15 cents straight, and all sold except about 

 1200 pounds. I did not work for extracted 

 honey, but extracted all the sections not fit to 

 grade No. 1 or better— except what our own 

 or a few near neighboring families have used ; 

 and. by the way, in cleaning sections quite a 

 good many were marred or broken out alto- 

 gether. These were cut out, put into jars and 

 filled with extracted honey, a la H. H. Hyde, 

 as an experiment. There were some 3 or 4 gal- 

 lon jars of it, and say ! after they had granu- 

 lated, one would never know that the combs 

 were mixed in, in eating it with bread or pan- 

 cakes; of course, if eaten alone some of the 

 wax would remain in the mouth. I don't 

 think I should cut out any combs that were 

 not leaking, or otherwise unfit for market, 

 but I certainly would not feel that any great 



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