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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 30, 1904. 



to bother with bees, although we are in a good location, with lots of 

 alfalfa. The black bees are great robbers, and I think they brought 

 the disease from some other place. Kansas. 



Answer.— Your diagnosis is likely correct, and I can hardly sug- 

 gest anything better than to follow the treatment laid down in your 

 book. 



By all means try to clean out the disease, even if others about you 

 have diseased bees. Some of the Colorado bee-keepers in regions 

 diseased even with foul brood depend largely on keeping disease 

 under by means of shaken swarms. Shaking a swarm upon founda- 

 tion is of itself good treatment against any disease of the brood. 



Wants Brown or Black Queens— Holy Land Bees. 



Where can I get some big brown or black queens, '.^ dozen? My 

 bees are getting so mixed up with the Holy Land bees. I have had an 

 awful time with Holy Lands. They swarm, and swarm, and not a 

 speck of honey from them. I cut 28 queen-cells out of one hive. 

 They started to swarm in March. They crowd in the supers but only 

 build a little comb and then swarm before they even till the brood- 

 chamber. No more Holy Lund bees for me. I have tried them every 

 way. Two colonies of blacks, that did not swarm last year, have 

 gi\en 230 pounds of comb honey. Originally they were wild bees, but 

 they are more gentle than any golden or leather-colored ones around 

 here. The golden Italians have never been known to go into a super 



In this place ; they have lieen tried again and au'.iin, and now they are 

 just as bad as the Holy Lands. I have 20 colonies of bees now, but 

 could have had 100 colonies of Holy Land btes, if I had let them 

 swarm all they wanted to. 



The honey-flow is all over now, only a few days more, but I can- 

 not complain, as my black bees did well; I think they would take the 

 prize anywhere. 



The wasps have commenced coming around, so I will have to 

 make all the hive-entrances smaller, for they "get away " with a weak 

 colony in a moment. 



Honey is quoted at 11, 12 and 13 cents in San Francisco now. 



I gave some of the old American Bee .Journals to bee-keepers 

 around here. I have learned a great deal more out of the Bee Journal 

 than from all the books. California. 



Answer. — I don't know where you can get the queens you in- 

 quire for, as it is hard now to And black or brown bees in their purity. 

 If you did get them, very likely they would be no larger or better than 

 the ones you now have. Possibly it might be worth your while to try 

 the leather-colored Italians. 



It is pleasant to know that you have learned more from the Amer- 

 ican Bee .Journal than from all the books, yet after all that is not to 

 the discredit of the books. No doubt you have learned all the more 

 from the Journal just because you were first familiar with the books; 

 and they are making a great mistake who are depending on the Jour- 

 nal without ever having read a single book of instruction about bees. 



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Wood Co., Ohio, June 21. 



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