July 14, 19()4. 



THE AMERICAN IIliH .I()l!H^^» 



493 



white clover bloom, and raspberries 

 and basswood are promising a full 

 bloom also. 



The winter loss of bees here was 

 generally heavy, some losing all they 

 had. I lost 8 colonies out of 39, but 

 they were light in bees ; but as the 

 spring has been favorable for their 

 building up, they have become quite 

 strong. The bees have a strong incli- 

 nation to swarm here this spring, 

 which is not favorable for the gather- 

 ing of a large crop of honey per colony. 

 Geo. E. Moore. 



Marathon Co., Wis., June 30. 



Shaken Swarms Without Shaking:. 



Replying to H. Vanderwerp, page 

 459 : I am using the plan as described 

 on page 411 this summer, and have no 

 difficulty about ventilation. Listening 

 at the side of the hive I hear no un- 

 usual commotion, so I imagine the 

 field-bees soon begin to go through the 

 escape, the anxious ones first, and 

 those left are quiet in the presence of 

 the queen and brood. I have used the 

 plan for two seasons now, and so far it 

 has worked well. Turner Busweli,. 



Somerset Co., Maine, July 4. 



Formalin for Disinfecting Ex- 

 tpaeted Honey. 



Will Mr. France, who has tested the 

 formalin gas treatment for foul brood, 

 tell us through the columns of the 

 American Bee Journal whether it can 

 be used to disinfect extracted honey ? 

 If so, how do you proceed ? 



The great problem that confronts 

 the bee-keepers of southern California 

 just now is how to beep their bees from 

 starving for the next 6 or 8 months, 

 and at present market prices extracted 

 honey is cheaper feed than sugar, but 

 many are afraid to feed honey bought 

 in the general market owing to the 

 danger of introducing the disease that 

 has caused so much trouble. 



If the gas treatment is not available, 

 what is a guarantee against contagion 

 in this way ? J. B. Whitaker. 



San Diego Co., Calif., June 23. 



We referred the foregoing to Mr. 

 France, who answers as follows : 



I doubt if formalin is able to kill 

 germs of disease in honey. We have 

 to extract very closely infected combs 

 before using. If I bought honey to 



The Demand for 



Moore's Strain of Kalians 



EXCEL IN STORING CAPACITY. 



B, S. Taylor, a large honey-producer of Per- 

 rU, Cal., who sent me an order for 75 queens at 

 one time, Siys: 



" I have a larg-e apiary mosUy of your stock, 

 and I have never, ia my 3u years' experieace, 

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feed bee.s, to be safe I would bring- the 

 honey to a boil, and stir well, the can 

 of honey being- set in lars^er can of 

 boiling water. If at the boiling point, 

 and well stirred, it will kill all life, and 

 not color the honey much. 



Never set honey in a dish on the 

 stove, but in an outer one of boiling- 

 water. N. E. France. 



Poor Ppospeets for Honey. 



I lost 21 colonies out of 26 in March. 

 There is no honey here yet, and the 

 prospects are very poor — too dry. But 

 I hope we will get some honey later. 

 John T. Paintin. 



Johnson Co., Iowa, June 28. 



No Crop Prospects. 



The prospects for a honey-crop — 

 there are none. The bees in this lo- 

 cality are making a living, and that is 

 about all. Last lall I had «0 colonies, 

 and when I inspected them this spring 

 I found I had lost only 4 colonies, one 

 more was queenless, and one queen a 

 drone-layer. All had plenty of stores 

 and were in good condition. 



I am a deputy county inspector, have 

 so far inspected 735 colonies, and have 

 found only 7 colonies with foul brood. 

 We are fighting it hard here. 



E. W. Lee. 



Riverside Co., Calif., June 24. 



Golden Italian and Brown Bees. 



I don't often write anything for the 

 " Old Reliable " — the best and greatest 

 of all the bee-papers — simply because I 

 am not able to advise, from lack of 

 knowledge and experience, therefore 

 when a fellow can't say any sensible 

 thing that would be of some advantage 

 to somebody, it is best to say nothing ; 

 but this time I will write a short article 

 for two reasons, to-wit : 



1st. To reply to "California," on 

 page 458 



2d. To learn something, if some of 

 our kind apiarists will reply to my 

 letter on the subject named herein. 



"California." on page 458, says, 

 " The golden Italians have never been 

 known to go into a super in this 

 place," etc. That is precisely my ex- 

 perience. Last August or September 

 I sent off and got some golden Italians, 

 and some long-tongued, yellow, clover 

 queens. I bought of reliable breeders, 

 and I believe they thought they were 

 giving nie the very best they had ; but 

 the golden Italians have proven a per- 

 fect failure. They have not filled a 

 single super frame, and if I had not 

 added some of my native brown bees 

 to them to strengthen them at the be- 

 ginning of the honey-flow, they would 

 not have entered the supers at all. 

 Now, what causes it ? Most of the 

 brown bees have died of old age, leav- 

 ing only the golden Italians. In open- 

 ing the super I find only the latter 

 roaming about over the combs in a 

 lazy, listless sort of a way, with no 

 seeming energy. 



The yellow, clover bees, which, by 

 the way, look to me like hybrids, judg- 

 ing from tlieir color, have done much 

 better, only one colony of them having 

 swarmed this season, and have filled 

 the third, and are now on the fourth 

 super, that is, those that did not 

 swarm. Those that swarmed have not 

 quite filled one super. The golden 



