April 28, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



317 



and spotted the front of their hives, so I 

 transferred them into clean, new hives, Miirch 

 23. Two, mere nuclei, spring- dwindled and 

 soon succumbed, having too few bees. But 

 the 6 colonies soon made good headway. 



I very soon learned that for the production 

 of extracted honey, for this locality, a much 

 larger hive, and double-walled at that, is much 

 to lie preferred to small, single-walled hives. 

 While I still have a number of small pioneer 

 hives, I have placed them in the upper tier 

 In my bee-shed, and use them exclusively for 

 the rearing of queens. All of my regular 

 hives carry 14 combs, ll'4Xll'4, and 2 divi- 

 sion-boards in the brood-chamher, aad all are 

 double-walled. The bees have always win- 

 tered in them to my perfect satisfaction. I 

 hardly ever move a hive, and the queens are 

 always kept in the same hive and location, as 

 long as they are in good service. 



Before concluding I will say that the win- 

 ter of IS80-.S1 was an exceptionally cold one, 

 and that deep show covered the ground from 

 the middle of November, 1880, until the mid- 

 dle of March, l.ssi. During that winter the 

 thermometer frequently went away below 30 

 degrees below zero, and once as low as 40 de- 

 grees below. In fact, that winter was the 

 coldest of any winter during the 24 years that 

 I have kept bees. Wm. Stollet. 



Hall Co., Nebr., Feb. 27. 



A Queen Mated but Once. 



On page 151,1 see the question, "Are 

 queens fertilized more than once?" From 

 observations during all my experience with 

 bees, 1 can say that there is no such thing. 

 It is against nature. It a queen does not ful- 

 fill her duty, she will soon be superseded with- 

 out notice. I remember reading an article in 

 the Bee Journal last year, where a bee-keeper 

 positively saw a queen come home twice, and 

 both times successfully mated. Under no 

 conditions is this possible. In the first place, 

 a queen is not in a hurry to go out. Often 

 she has to be driven out by the other bees. 

 She will come out into one corner of the hive 

 and then slip back into the other, until she is 

 forced to go. She takes the location of the 

 hive and starts off singly to take a Might, 

 when she Is met by a drone, when a chase be- 

 gins. She will try her best to get away if 

 possible, but a drone can out-fly a queen every 

 time, and as soon as she is caught they natur- 

 ally fall to the ground. I have seen them 

 struggle for 10 minutes before the queen 

 would give up. I can tell that gentleman 

 how he saw his queen successfully mated 

 twice. When a prime swarm issues there are 

 two or three queens ready to come out. While 

 it is not always the case, it often happens. As 

 soon as the old queen leaves, one of the new 

 queens will take possession, and when she 

 flies out to be mated, one of the other queens 

 will slip out and also take possession, and 

 when the first one comes back all worn out 

 from her (light, what does she find but that 

 some one else has taken her place, and a fight 

 is sure to follow, and she being worn out, is 

 sure to be killed, and so the next one will 

 have to take her Wight? Of course that would 

 cause a man to believe that one queen was 

 mated twice. If he had looked in front of the 

 hive he surely would have found the dead 

 queen. 



I would like to hear from Dr. C. C. Miller, 

 and others, on this subject. 



LaSalle Co., 111. ' P. 11. Harbeck. 



Results of the Winter— Hives. 



I must tell the good news that I have not 

 lost a colony of bees during the past winter. 

 This is my second winter with bees. Last 

 year I lost one colony of my five, and this 

 year all my 11 colonies are alive, although 2 

 of them are somewhat weak. These 2 I shall 

 double up with some strong colony and keep 

 the best queen. There seems to be little 

 honey left in the brood-chambers. All my 

 bees are in Dan/.enbaker hives. Five colonies 

 I wintered in the open air, protected from the 

 cold wind by a house and fence, t'esides hav- 

 ing an 11-inch telescope cap, with four inches 

 of chall over the frames. The other 6 I had 

 in a " pit " at)ove ground, covered with dry 

 leaves about a foot deep all around. These 6 

 I gave a Js-inch entrance, but covered with a 



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