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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug. 18, 1904, 



stock keep it cropped down. Sweet 

 clover, catnip, and other blooming 

 plants are plentiful. 



The last week in June and the first 

 two weeks in July it seemed as if the 

 bees thought they had nothing else to 

 do, but swarm. Since July IS I have 

 had no swarms. What a fine thing it 

 would be to have a strain of non- 

 swarming bees ! 



I have increased from 20 colonies to 

 32, putting all other swarms back. The 

 colonies are now very strong, with 

 from 2 to 4 supers on. Those with the 

 4 supers are chock-full and boiling over 

 with bees. The wind was so strong 

 that I was afraid they would blow over 

 if tiered up any more, so I had to take 

 off 21 sections and replace with empty 

 ones. Those taken oflF were all well 

 filled. 



It is reported in this vicinity that 

 bees were never known to be so cross. 

 I know that in the four years that I 

 have kept them I have never seen mine 

 so cross. 



My friends Blunk and Carver are 

 making a good record with their bees, 

 I believe. " Joe " has been harping to 

 me about fish, and the best I could do 

 for him was to give him a clipping 



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about a catch that was made in some 

 Wisconsin lake. It will please the 

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I am looking for a good yield of 

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Webster Co., Iowa, July 30. 



Treatment of Robber-Bees. 



When I find that there is a case of 

 robbing in my apiary I go to the be- 

 sieged colonies and throw flour on the 

 robbers as they pass in and out. In 

 this way I can locate them at once. I 

 then throw wet hay over the entrance 

 to the hives of the robber colonies, 

 thus preventing them from going in 

 with their load. They will worry 

 around until they are tired out, and 

 they will never return to rob. When a 

 man has trouble at home he is not 

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West Virginia. Subscriber. 



Experiences of the Season. 



I have had an experience this season 

 which will cause old, experienced bee- 

 keepers to smile, and doubtless some 

 of them are willing to give me good 

 advice and remedies for my so-called 

 troubles. 



I have said in previous articles that 

 I was a small bee-keeper, and keep a 

 few colonies partly for the pleasure of 

 working among them, as the honey- 

 bee and I are great friends, and it is 

 very seldom that we have any misun- 

 derstanding. 



In this section, last winter was a 

 very hard one on bees, and the loss 

 was great, mine being about 35 per- 

 cent, which was a little below the aver- 

 age. I started in the spring with 15 

 colonies in fair condition. The spring 

 was wet, late, and cold, and the nights 

 have been cool up to the present time. 

 My bees commenced to swarm June 12, 

 and kept it up till July 23. I am hop- 

 ing that they have done swarming for 

 this year. I now have 44 colonies, and 

 would have had many more had I not 

 doubled all afterswarms. I have had 

 39 swarms from my 15 colonies in the 

 spring, several of my first or prime 

 swarms having cast swarms. 



The above is ray record on swarming 

 this season up to the present time. If 

 any one has a better record please let 

 us hear from you through the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal. 



I will now give the honey record : I 

 have taken off 165 pounds of section 

 honey, and have a number of supers 

 nearly full, which I will take off in a 

 few days. Some of my colonies are 

 storing honey in large quantities, 

 while others that seem to be equally 

 strong are not storing any surplus 

 honey. I have a few old colonies that 

 have cast three swarms each, and filled 

 a super of 28 sections. I have one 

 swarm that filled the hive and 28 sec- 

 tions in 22 days after issuing from the 

 parent colony, and in 18 days after I 

 took off the second super of 28 full sec- 

 tions, and the next day they swarmed. 

 I have another swarm, or, rather, 

 double swarm (for two prime swarms 

 issued at the same time and clustered 

 in one), and the next day after hiving 



