June 9, 1904. 



IHE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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they should be, while a few of them are just boiling over with liet-s. 

 Why is this? Do you think the \veal<er ones need reciueening? 



(). Would you advise me to take the queen from one of my strong 

 Italian colonies during the hone\ -How and introduce her to one of the 

 weak colonics, and when the Italian,* have aueen-cells sealed put thciu 

 into the colonies that I wish to n-quecn in West eell-proteetor.sJ and 

 can I put them in at the time I kill the old queens' I am running for 

 extracted honey and want to keep bees for what money there is in the 

 business. 



". In order to prevent after-swarms would you advise cutting out 

 all queen-cells but one, or would you leave two or more? 



S. The person who handled my bees last year divided some of the 

 colonies after the honey-liow, and they came through the winter very 

 weak, and had to be fed in tht spring, and then I lost several by rol>- 

 bing. This year I want to unite weak colonies instead of divide. 

 When would be the best time to do this? and about how weak do you 

 think a colony should be to be a fit subject for uniting? Some of them 

 had only bees enough to cover two frames last fall. 



9._ What is the best way to get a swarm of bees out of a tree .' 



10. How old were you when you began keeping bees? Do you 

 think a man 41 years old too old to learn to handle them with profit' 



California. 



Answers. —1. I don't know of any way you can tell except by 

 keeping a record. When you clip a queen, make an entry of the fact 

 in the record of that colony. So long as you find a clipped queen in 

 that colony, you can know that the same queen is there, and the re- 

 cord shows her age. If, at the spring overhauling, for example, in 

 11104, you find a queen with whole wings, you know that there was a 

 supersedure the precious fall, and that a 1908 queen is before you, and 

 if you want to supersede her at two years old you will wait till I'JO.t. 

 See " Forty Years Among the Bees," page 52. 



2. The honey boards may be taken off when the harvest is over; 

 but if supers are left on there is no harm in leaving on honey-boards, 

 too; 



3. Opinions differ. Some think it better to put the queen in the 

 hive ( with a proper introducing cape) at the same time the old queen 

 is removed, while others think it better to have the bees queenless two 

 or three days. I don't know. When a flood of honey is coming in 

 you can do almost any way. 



4. If you allow the queen free range, she is pretty sure to lay 

 sometimes in the upper story, and late in the fall may find more of the 

 brood-nest in the super than in the lower story. Late in the season if 

 you put all the brood in the lower story, you will be likely to find the 

 the brood-nest there in the spring. 



5. It isn't the fault of the queen. Sometimes a colony will be 

 found greatly reduced while having a good queen. It isn't easy to tell 

 in all cises just why one colony should be weak in spring and another 

 strong. 



6. The plan you outline will generally succeed; liut your Italian 

 queen will be safer if, instead of giving" her to another colony, you 

 take her with one or two frames of her own brood and bees and form 

 a nucleus. 



7. Did you ever try the removal plan to prevent after-swarming. 

 When the prime swarm issues, place ii on the old stand with the old 

 colony close beside it. A week later remove the old colony to a new 

 stand. In most localities that will put an end to all swarming. If it 

 doesn't work satisfactorily with you, and you must depend on cutting 

 out queen-cells, then cut out all but one. If you leave two, there is 

 just as much chance for an after-swarm as if you left twenty. 



.S. You are very wise to decide that you don't care to winter a lot 

 of weaklings. Unite any time after the harvest is over. Not later 

 than September. Better have in each hive enough bees to cover 

 at least five combs. 



9. Chop down the tree and spilt it open. Have ready a good 

 smoker when the tree falls. 



10. I was HO years, 3 weeks, and 3 days old when I got my first 

 colony, or rather when my wife got it for tne, for she caught a run- 

 away swarm. At 41 there are very few things a man ought to be too 

 old to learn, and bee-keeping is not one of the few. 



"Shaken Swarms Without Shaking." 



On page 426 (1903) what was the further development of " Iowa's '' 

 plan? Will it work after grubs appear in the queen-cells! " 



I have had good results by putting the new brood-chamljer filled 

 with foundation below, the old brood-chamber bees and queen over a 

 Porter bee-escape board above all; then after one day's flight, so all 

 the old bees were below, or later as the case might be, introduce the 

 queen below. I tried this one a few times but it worked well as far as 

 tried. Maine. 



Answer. — I think "Iowa" did not report further. I tried the 

 plan with one other colony ; and while it might do for extracted honey 

 it would not do for comb, for the bees carried down the black comb 

 and capped the sections with it. Grubs in queen-cells would proba- 

 bly make no difference, unless trouble should be made by a young 

 queen emerging. Your plan is probably better. 





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All aliye excepting part of the bees. The 

 hives in some places were completely ridJled 

 excepting honey. Black honey or bottle- 

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 nies, and some " playing out'' every day, the 

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We have had a poor year. I got only 10 

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