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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 9, 1904. 



substituting bees from the hive she is to be in- 

 troduced into. Now, I think the queen is as 

 much to blame for her misfortunes as the bees, 

 and it she goes out of the cage in a frightened 

 way is generally killed ; the escort bees are 

 always killed with me. Who would not be 

 frightened to see their daughters butchered 

 before their eyes? Now, you will find that 

 bees in a cage will not hurt her, as they are 

 frightened themselves, and soon get used to 

 feeding her. 



Now. don't say you can't do it; just release 

 the bees on a window and pick the queen up, 

 start her head in the hole in the cage, and she 

 will go in like a flash. Hold the thumb over 

 the cage until you put a piece of wood in. 

 Then go to the hive where you want to intro- 

 duce her, take out a comb, and pick young 

 bees up by their wings, put their heads in, 

 and they will go in all right. Of course you 

 will have to take out their queen 12 hours be- 

 fore introducing the new queen. 



Linn Co., Mo., May 13. Irving Long. 



Cured Foul Brood with Gasoline. 



Several years ago I had one extra-fine Ital- 

 ian colony that was badly affected with what 

 had the appearance of being foul brood. I 

 used extracting combs above, which were 

 empty, and taking the combs out I sprayed 

 them well with gasoline. It penetrated the 

 combs until the wax was almost soft enough 

 to fall to pieces. As soon as it bad evaporated 

 and they were dry, I put them in the lower 

 part of the hive, putting brood above, also a 

 queen-excluder above, and as soon as the 

 brood was all hatched out I treated them the 

 same way I had the combs. As soon as the 

 brood appeared in the first combs I had treated 

 I examined it and found no trace of diseased 

 brood. Every colony that I treated in that 

 way was cured. Before using the gasoline I 

 had destroyed some colonies, but I never had 

 to do so after I had discovered the effect of 

 gasoline. W. A. Fee. 



Spencer Co , Ind., May 16. 



Report for 1903— Good Prospects. 



I started in the spring with about 310 colo- 

 nies, and increased to about 280, losing a few 

 by starvation. 1 now have about 270, and 

 may lose a few weak ones yet. 



My honey crop was mostly white clover, 

 and I took off about 30 tons, nearly half comb 

 honey. The bees are doing finely, fruit-bloom 

 is just opening, and our prospects for 19U-1 are 

 very good for a big honey crop. 



N. Stainingeb. 



Cedar Co., Iowa, May 6. 



Outlook for a Fair Crop. 



The outlook in this part of the country is 

 good for a fair honey crop this season, and 

 the bees here would rejoice in this if our mar- 

 ket here would only quote better prices, for 

 at the present cost of living and supplies there 

 is not much to be cleared out of 7 to 10 cents 

 for amber, and 10 to 13 cents a pound for bet- 

 ter grades of comb honey. 



It might be of interest to learn that in my 

 time of bee-keeping, which is going on i) years 

 now, I never heard of the California Central 

 Honey-Producers' Association outside of oc- 

 casional mention in the American Bee Jour- 

 nal ; and as we bee-keepers in this part of the 

 State deem ourselves quite centrally located, 

 we would be pleased to hear something more 

 about it through the medium of the American 

 Bee Journal. And, furthermore, we would 

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 Joaquin, by hearing from them through this 

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San Joaquin Co., Calif., May 30. 



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