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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 25, 19C4. 



Langstrothonthe 

 ^^^ Honey-Bee 



Revised by Dadant— Latest [Edition. 



This is one of the standard books on 

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 over SOO pages, being revised by those 

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 to be wonderfully helped on the way to 

 success with bees. 



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the skin, and gets every louse. The process is 

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have freezing weather? Sometimes in low 

 places weliave ice ^, inch tWclt, and the tips 

 of the sumac bushes are pinched. Tomato 

 vines, at this writing (Dec. 9) are as green as 

 ever the.v were, and are likely to remain so. 

 As to freezing sttch as you are used to, we 

 have nothing of the icind. 



Our rains are late this year, one rain in 

 November, and another the night'of the 6lh, 

 both laying the dust, have been the e.xtent of 

 our rains so far. Last year we hardly aver- 

 aged I4 crop, it being cold and foggy during 

 the lime we should have had our main honey- 

 flow. A. -J. Burns. 



San Diego Co , Calif., Dec. 9. 



Plan of Uniting Colonies. 



From 33 colonies, spring count, I harvested, 

 in 1903, 1004 pounds of extracted honey and 

 G14 pounds of comlj, which is considered very 

 good for this part of the State. Being afflicted 

 I had feared that the 33 colonies would be 

 more than I could conveniently manage. I 

 doubled up 18 colonies of them, which reduced 

 my apiary to 33 colonies. They were united 

 the latter part of May, in the following man- 

 mer: 



The inferior queen was removed and de- 

 stroyed 34 hours ( preferably in the morning) 

 before uniting. I set the empty hive between 

 the 3 colonies, then proceeded to find the 

 frame with the queen, which was put into the 

 empty hive, then a frame from the queenless 

 colony (having been made so the day before), 

 then another frame from the hive from which 

 the queen was taken, thereby placing them 

 alternately in the new hive, being careful to 

 place the best worker and empty comb in the 

 brood-chamber Ijelow, until full, then put on 

 an excluder and above it I put one of the par- 

 tially empty hives, and put in the balance of 

 the frames, placing alternately as before, un- 

 til finished. This plan works well when prop- 

 erly haudled and will cause but little com- 

 fusion among the bees, working right along 

 as though they had scarcely been interrupted. 

 It would be well to cut out queen-cells in 

 which now becomes the extracting supers. 

 The above plan works admirably to get rid of 

 inferior queens, and yet not reduce the colo- 

 nies by the loss of bees. 



1 increased my apiary from 33 to 31 colo- 

 nies; they are in fine condition for winter. 

 The past summer was cool and wet, with 

 floods of water at times. There was no bass- 

 wood nectar, but plenty of clover of various 

 kinds. There were some days so cold, during 

 the midst of the honey-flow, that bees could 

 collect scarcely anything. 



The coldest weather here was Jan. 3, 1904 — 

 11 degrees below zero, with about 8 inches of 

 silow. M. N. Simon. 



Wood Co., Ohio, Jan. 6. 



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CONVENTION NOTICES. 



Michigan.— The Northern Michigan bee-keep- 

 ers will hold their annual convention March 

 30 and 31, 1904, in the Moutague Hall, 127 Front 

 St., Traverse City, Mich. 



Geo. H. KtRKPATEicK, Pres. 



Rapid City, Mich^ 



Kansas— There will be a meeting of the Ar- 

 kanas Valley liee-Keepers' Association, at 

 Hutchinson, Kans., Mar. 5, at 10 a.m. All bee- 

 keepers and others interested are respectfully 

 invited to be present. Kked Wileer, Sec. 



Utah.— The spring convention of the Utah 

 Bee-Keepers' Association will ue held April S, 

 at 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Among other important 

 questions to be considered will be the World's 

 Fair, our State Fair, and the Portland Fair of 

 IQOS. We also desire to formulate some plan, it 

 possible, to further increase the fraternal in- 

 terest for the mutual benefit of our bee-keepers. 

 We cordially invite all bee-keepers to be pres- 

 ent. We also invite them without delay to send 

 in their views on these and other topics. The 

 convention will be held in the City and County 

 building, in Salt Lake City. 



Salt Lake City, Utah. E. S. Lovesy, Pres. 



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