July 14, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



489 



you find a colony ceasing work and loafing when other colo- 

 nies keep on at work ; and when bees return from the field 

 laden with pollen and join the outside cluster without goiiifj 

 inside to unload. 



3. Extracting supers may be left on till the close of the 

 harvest; section supers should be removed as soon as all, 

 or nearly all, the sections are sealed. Otherwise the cap- 

 pings will become darkened. 



4. Between '• and 2 o'clock. But swarms may issue 

 almost any time in daylight if they're particularly anxious 

 to make you trouble, especially after swarms. 



5. That depends upon what you want to do. They are 

 not necessary unless you want to save cells that a free 

 queen might destroy, or that the bees would destroy where 

 they have a laying queen. 



6. There is usually not much danger of a queen meeting 

 a drone from the same hive, as she flies to a distance on her 

 wedding-lrip. To make sure against inbreeding, it is not a 

 bad plan to introduce fresh blood by purchasing a new 

 queen occasionally. 



Heavy Colonies Lost in Wintering— Section Comb-Foun- 

 dation With Drone-Size Base. 



1. In this locality 99 percent of the bees that died were 

 the strongest honey-gatherers of last season, and went into 

 winter quarters heavy with stores. Can this be explained 

 by the theory that they filled their brood-chamber too full 

 late in the season, and were unable to rear sufficient young 

 brood to withstand the severity of the past winter ? 



2. Don't you think it would be a good plan for the 

 manufacturers of foundation to furnish the section founda- 



tion with drone-size base ? It would save the bees consid- 

 erable work in comb-building where full sheets are used. 



Indiana. 



Answers. — l. Yes, that would easily explain it. Not 

 that it was so very late, either, but perhaps as early as 

 August, for later than that it would not make so much dif- 

 ference. 



2. You would probably not like it. Generally there is 

 less drone-comb in the brood-chamber than the bees would 

 have if left to their own devices, and with little or no drone- 

 comb below and abundance above, the queen would be likely 

 to make trouble above. To be sure, you might keep her 

 down with an excluder, but that would be trouble and ex- 

 pense, and you would find that some sections would not be 

 finished up as promptly as they should be, for the bees 

 would hold the cells open for the queen. I think, however, 

 that if you care to try it you can get drone-foundation. 



Perhaps Piclded Brood. 



I send by this mail a piece of honey-comb from a hive 

 which has a disease of some kind. Please examine and re- 

 port, with advice as to remedy, etc. West Virginia. 



Answer. — I'm not an expert in brood diseases, but I 

 think there may be nothing more than pickled brood at the 

 worst, and all trouble may soon disappear. If, however, it 

 continues, it may be well to send a sample to one of the 

 experts in such matters, as Dr. Howard, or Messrs. McEvoy 

 or France. In the meantime you will do well to get Dr. 

 Howard's pamphlet and inform yourself on the subject as 

 fully as you can. 



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My bees are working' finely. I have 

 caugfht all that have swarmed. So far 

 they have stored quite a lot of honey. 

 Robert Durling. 



St. Lawrence Co., N.Y., June 29. 



Expects a Good Crop. 



My bees are doing well. I had 3 col- 

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 We are having plenty of rain, and I 

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 this year. W. H. Hobert. 



Muscatine Co., Iowa, July 4. 



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Busy with Berries and Bees. 



I have been very busy ; our straw- 

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 1,200 quarts the best week. The best 

 da)''s run was S17.7S. We sold every 

 berry excepting what we ate and gave 

 away ; that is, we did not lose a box by 

 spoiling. We sold lots on the 'phone. 

 This is the fifth week and we will get 

 2 or 3 cases to-day. 



In order to keep the bees quiet dur- 

 ing strawberry time I wired old combs 

 and made double deckers of 14 strong- 

 est colonies. Four days ago I set off 

 the top deck, which had about 4 frames 

 of brood and 4 of nice white honey. I 

 gave the old colony some of those 1000 

 drawn combs in section-boxes and am 

 extracting those 4 frames from each 

 upper deck, and gave the 4 frames of 

 brood a ripe queen-cell. The double- 

 deck colonies seetii to have passed the 

 swarming fever, mid they had 2 supers 

 on top before I t ok ofi^ the top deck. 

 They are now working finely in 3 su- 

 pers (most of the. I.) I took off 2 supers 

 of fine white sect ons, and have about 



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