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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



April 28, 1904. 



"Forty Years Among the Bees," page 240. Tes, you can use the old 

 queen-cells, p 



2. You can " imagine " my T supers "in four pieces" all right 

 if you will call the super itself one piece and the T tins three more 

 pieces, thus making four pieces. In other words, they are just about 

 the same as yours, only instead of a single piece nailea on each side of 

 the super to support the T tins, as you seem to have, the usual way is 

 to have three small pieces on each side, one for each T tin. Insleaa 

 of putting T tins on top, I put little pine sticks '4 inch by S, or alittle 

 less than 'j. You might like this last better than T tins, as the tins 

 pi obably cause more beeglue on top. I don't understand how you 

 could turn your super upside down without the sections falling out, as 

 the T tins on top are probably not fastened there. 



I am a little surprised at your not being able to get T supers, for 

 they have been ((uoted in citalogs for years, and one leading catalog 

 before me says : " This form of super is very popular with a large 

 class of bee-keepers, and it is also used by some of the most extensive 

 honey-producers in the world." I do not wonder at your preference 

 for T supers over all others. Almost any one would prefer them //' lir 

 would h'lirn to usf them properly. 



If you read anything in the report that made you think I was not 

 satisfied with the T super, it must be that I was wrongly reported, or 

 «xpresEed myself wrongly. 



Learning Queen-Rearing- Growing Basswood and 

 Buckwheat. 



1. Can a person learn queen-rearing from reading "Forty Years 

 Among the Bees?" If so, in what particular does your method differ 

 from that of Mr. Doolittle? 



2. The writer had a prolific queen last season— she filled 13 Lang- 

 stroth frames with brood, and her bees were golden Italians, but some 

 time during August the color of many of the bees were very dark, and 

 when the hive was opened a black queen was found, the old one hav- 

 ing been superseded. Do bees sometimes destroy a valuable queen ! 



3. An Italian queen mates with a black drone, and the bees from 

 her are more vicious than either pure black or pure Italians. Whyl 



4. How do bees take feed from the Doolittle division-board feeder? 



5. If a colony has plenty of stores in the spring, will the uncap- 

 ping of the honey cause them to increase the same as if they are fed 

 sugar syrup? 



6. Do you think basswood would be suitable to this climate? 



7. If one should get basswood sprouts and set them out, provided 

 they will live here, how long will they grow before they yield honey? 



8. I have sown buckwheat, but have never been able to find any 

 honey that the bees collected from it. The bees work on it only from 

 about sunrise until the dew is off. Please tell me how to produce 

 buckwheat honey. KENTncKY. 



Answers.— 1. Yes, you can learn from " Forty Years Among the 

 Bees " the way I rear queens; but if you want a book entirely devoted 

 to that subject get Doolittle's " Scientific Queen-Rearing. " It is the 

 most comprehensive work on that subject that has ever been written. 

 The difference between Mr. Doolittle's queen-rearing and mine is not 

 in principles but rather in details, to give all of which would trans- 

 gress the limit here allowed. 



2. Yes, often. In the natural course of events, every queen is 

 sooner or later superseded, no matter how worthless nor how valuable. 



3. I don't know. 



4. There is an opening at the upper part where they enter and 

 I readily crawl down to the feed. They would drown there in large 



numbers if it were not for the fact that a wall on either side is so close 

 that they can easily crawl up. 



5. It will have much the same effect. 



6. Most likely. 



7. Possibly 8 or 10 years. 



8. I don't know of any other way to make buckwheat honey ex- 

 cept to have the plants in plenty and let the liees work on it. You do 

 not say how large a surface you sowed. A very small patch would 

 hardly be a fair test. In the best buckwheat regions bees do not work 

 on buckwheat late in the day, usually closing up some time in the 

 forenoon. 



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My bees have wintered well so far. They 

 are lying out at the entrance. I winter my 

 bees on the summer stands. When I feed 

 them I invert a bottle with feed in it, and a 

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Gasconade Co., Mo., March 24. 



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Thomas Co., Ua., March 15. 



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