Aug. 18, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



573 



the brood was not sealed, and most of 

 it was dead in the cells. I had all the 

 combs cut out and put into water, with 

 instructions to pour off the water after 

 soaking a few hours, and bury it out of 

 reach of the bees. I then ordered the 

 comb boiled and the wax removed from 

 the surface of the water upon collect- 

 ing. The hive and frames which were 

 filthy and not of very good quality, I 

 ordered burned. I turned the bees into 

 a new, clean hive with comb founda- 

 tion starters 4 inches wide, with in- 

 structions to feed them until they went 

 to work. 



Upon returning home I changed all 

 my clothing. I hadused a screw-driver 

 to pry loose the frames in the diseased 

 colony. This I held in a blaze until 

 the handle was scorched to a brown 

 color. In addition to this I washed it 

 in verj- strong soap-suds before taking 

 it about my own apiary. 



I may have been unnecessarily cau- 

 tious about spreading this disease, but 

 I cannot underrate the amount of harm 

 that might have come to me as well as 

 to my neighbors who keep bees. 



Had the colony referred to been my 

 own I should have taken it away at 

 night, poured coal-oil all over and 

 through the hive with bees fastened in, 

 and burned up the entire disgusting 

 mass. 



I have not a particle of friendly feel- 

 ing for bee-keepers who are careless 

 with foul-broody colonies, or those peo- 

 ple who tell the public through the 

 press that bee-keepers make honey- 

 comb, fill and cap it over, and that they 

 mix glucose in large quantities with 

 small quantities of honey, then label 

 and sell it for pure honey. I feel con- 

 fident that a great of this could be pre- 

 vented if we were more watchful, and 



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Dr. G. Bohrer. 

 Rice Co., Kans., July 26. 



Swarming Experienee— Short Crop. 



I had this summer in the swarming 

 line an experience which was entirely 

 new to me. In two instances after a 

 colony had swarmed and the young 

 queen had begun to lay they swarmed 

 again. I was present when one of the 

 swarms issued, so I opened the hive 

 and found one comb with a few eggs 

 in it (200 or 300, may be), and 3 or 4 

 queen-cells with eggs in them. The 

 second swarm came out at one of my 

 out-yards and was hived by the owner 

 of the land. I was there 3 days after- 

 wards and opened the hive the swarm 

 came out of, and found one comb half 

 full of larvii- and eggs, and one half 

 cell, that is not yet capped. That will 

 answer the query in the editorial pub- 

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 Swarming." 



The honey crop in this section will 

 be very short. White clover yielded 

 very little honey. Alsike for the first 

 time in my experience failed to give 

 any crop, the bees hardly noticing it. 

 Basswood is now in bloom, profusely 

 so, but for the first week it failed, too ; 

 now the tees are at work on it, and 

 have been for S days, but it is nearly 

 over. Honey will surely command a 

 good price. Gustave Gross. 



Vernon Co., Wis., July 22. 



A Report from Nevada, 



The outlook is bad from present 

 weather indications, and I fear a short- 

 age of the honey croj). It has been 

 average up to date, and what we have 

 secured has been first-class, mostly al- 

 falfa. The second crop of alfalfa is 

 late. As the weather has been hot it 

 does not grow fast. I think the frost 

 will catch the blossoms before they 

 can be of much value to bee-keepers. 



Churchill County has organized a 

 bee-keepers' association. 



John W. 1/yEi.L. 



Washoe Co., Nev., Aug. 1. 



Haps and Mishaps with Bees. 



I want to tell you of my haps and 

 mishaps among the bees since putting 

 them out of the cave last spring. I took 

 out the same number that I put in last 

 fall— 24 in all. I had to feed a few in 

 the latter part of the winter. After 

 taking them out of winter quarters I 

 united 2 colonies with others, and 2 

 dwindled out. This latter circumstance 

 very much surprised me, as the hives 

 seemed to be quite heavy. But on ex- 

 amination I found that th6 most of the 

 frames were chock-full of pollen. 



A great many of the bees died during 

 the winter, and this left the colonies 

 pretty weak. I began to feed, and that 

 started brood-rearing, as they began 

 to build up. Up to July IS the season 

 was cold and wet, so much so that the 

 bees were confined to the yard almost 

 continually'. Since that time they 

 have piled up the honey. 



I am in a splendid locality on the Des 

 Moines River, where there are good 

 nectar-blooming plants from early 

 spring until early fall. We have no 

 white clover in the pastures where the 



