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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 7, 1904. 



to make up. Main question whether it would be voted too 

 disagreeable to wear. Why not make the gloves first and 

 then put them under the quilts to bepropolized ? Holes and 

 bare spots better dealt with in the fabric perhaps. Page 366. 



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Dr. Miller's Answers 





Send Questions either to the office of the American Bee Journal, 

 or to Dr. C. C. Miller, Marengo, 111. 



Swarming. 



1. Do bees ever swarm ijefore one sees drones flying? 



2. Did you ever know bees to swarm and not cluster, and go for 

 pans unknown, before 7 o'clock in tbe morning? Maine. 



Answers. — 1. No, unless it be a hunger-swarm. 

 2. No. Yet some have reported the departure of swarms without 

 clustering. It is certainly not a common thing. 



Startlnj! a New Colony by Dividing. 



I am a beginner, and have one colony that has its brood-chamber 

 full. 1 put a lO-frame hive on top of their hive, and they are filling it 

 very fast. 1 want to lake that lO-frame hive and start another colony. 

 How will I do it* Illinois. 



Answer. — Very likely the colony will settle the matter itself by 

 sending out a swarm tor you to hive in a lO-lrame hive. If they do 

 not swarm enough to suit you, you can divide them. I suppose the 

 colony is in a box-hive with the 10-frame hive on top. The probabil- 

 ity is that the queen will go up into that upper story with brood and 

 eggs in it; lift off the upper story, move the lower story to a new 

 stand, and set the upper story on the old stand. That may not be the 

 best way, but it is about the easiest way for one of no experience. By 

 all means gel a book of instructions, and study it carefully. 



Milkweed Pollen-Masses and Bees. 



I herewith send you a few bees for exauiination. You will notice 

 a substance on their feet, which they bring in from the field, and it 

 seems that they pull off the little toot with! it by detaching it, then 

 they are brought out of the hive by the other bees. What is it? If 

 this substance gels on any other live bee it stiekes to it as you see it 

 on these. You will also see where the little feet are torn off. The 

 bees were brought to me by a friend about 10 miles distant, and he 

 says it is destroying his bees. I have never seen anything like it 

 here. Kansas. 



Answer. — Those bees have been working on milkweed, and the 

 little masses attached to their feet are from the flowers, hindering 

 them from climbing up in the hive, and then the other bees drive 

 them out. Your friend is needlessly alarmed; no great harm will 

 come to his colonies, and the trouble will soon be over. 



Scale Lice and Maples. 



We have something here that "gets me " in the way of honey- flow. 

 Our maples are covered with cotton pods like the sample I send. They 

 drop a syrup on the leaves and on painted tools under the trees so 

 thick that one can touch them with the tongue and they taste very 

 sweet. (A peddler came along the other day, and I had left mj' rubber 

 boots under the tree, and they stuck to his hand, and I have not seen 

 them since!) 



Bees are doing fine; we have had no swarms yet. W» do not run 

 for swarms — we want honey. If this flow continues we will have a 

 wonderful crop. It has lasted about 10 days now, and gets stronger 

 every day. The long slick I send you is one that has just started. In 

 about three days the sweet comes on them, and then the How com- 

 mences. I would like to know if this is the insect that makes honey- 

 dew, or is it something new? Iowa. 



Answer.— It " gets me" as well. I never saw anything of the 

 kind before. The maple twigs are covered with the largest scale lice I 

 ever saw, a fourth of an inch long, and proportionally larger in other 

 directions. Under the shell of some of these there seems developed a 

 white, cottony mass, perhaps four times the hulk of the original in- 

 sect. The most remarkable thing about it is, that when one takes hold 

 of one of these masses and draws it out, it stretches out into beautiful 

 silky fibres. Holding it over a two-foot rule, I stretched one 15 inches 

 before the last fibre broke. I wish some one would tell us more about 

 It, and I hardly know whether it belongs In the domain of the botanist 

 or entomologist. 



Italian Bees For Sale. 



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t strong l-frame Nucleus 1.00 



I " 2-frame ■' ( with tested queen) 2.S0 



1 Untested Queen 75 



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ey My crop last sea<;on was about 40,000 

 pounds of honey (nearly half comb) from 210 

 colonies, spring count, and increased to 280 col- 

 onies, which shows mv h^fs are hustlers- 



N. STAININGER, TiPTON. IOWA. 



The Emerson Binder. 



This Emerson stiff-board Binder with clotta 

 back for the American Bee Joarnal we mail for 

 but 60 cents; or we will send it with the Bee 

 Joarnal for one year— both for only 11.40. It i» 

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Introducing Queens. 



When you are ready to introduce a queen, 

 get a cup of hot water, or as much as you want, 

 and stir into it some honey or sugir, mak- 

 ing it thick enough 10 stick to bees. When 

 it is cool, take a spoon and sprinkle it between 

 the frames on the l:iees, and on the queen in the 

 cage; then open ihe cage and let the queen 

 run in where you have sprinkled the most 

 sweets, and the t5ees are as gentle and busy as 

 can Ije. Rudolph Bahr. 



Bighorn Co., Wyo., June 19. 



" Shook Swarms "—Honey Without 

 Bees— T Supers. 



I Eold 12 colonies, and lost one during the 

 winter, and one queenless, and have 1.5 left. 

 As I had a couple of dozen old combs, and 

 some of them with honey in, I have wished for 

 thai numberof swarms, and have had but one, 

 so I took it into my head to make a couple of 

 shook swarms. So I went at it, and to com- 



j mence 1 smoked them, which was all right, 

 then thumped on the hive, which has been 

 recommended by some. They were lying out 

 considerable, but the smoke drove them in, 

 but when 1 thumped on the hive they resented 

 it at once, and sallied out and were on the 

 war-path. The result was I had to give it up, 

 and I slill have no " shook swarms." I have 

 finally concluded not to believe all 1 read here- 

 after. 1 had gone through the hive a few 

 weeks before and hunted out the queen and 

 clipped her wings, and did not get a sting; 

 but the thumping was the last straw. 



It appears that some one gets wise occa- 

 sionally and informs us how honey is 

 made without bees, and when they have the 

 com!) built and filled they invariably have it 



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The Nickel Plate Road will run an ex- 

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 at one fare for the round-trip from 

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 points. No excess fare charged on any 

 train on Nickel Plate Road. Individ- 

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