Sept. 8, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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me that the hills were a-roar with my 

 bees. I could not understand what all 

 this meant, so I started for the hills, 

 and what a sight I beheld ! I don't 

 know how bumble-bees are marketed, 

 by the hundredweight or by the bushel, 

 but I will call it by the bushel. Every 

 tree of any size had on it I should think 

 a half bushel of bumble-bees, all try- 

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 would hit one against the other, and 

 some would fall to the ground. I 

 thought then I would cross my bees 

 with the bumble-bees, but later I was 

 told by those working in the hay-fields 

 that they had found millions of nests 

 but not one bit of honey. No honey- 

 bee could have lived to get any honey 

 from those blossoms. The weather 

 was nice all the time they were in 

 blossom, with sprinkles of rain almost 

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C. M. Lincoln. 

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Too Dpy for a Good Honey Crop. 



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Swarm Issuing with no Eggs in the 

 Queen-Cells. 



On page 499 in the American Bee 

 Journal I notice you seem to doubt 

 whether a swarm ever issues inside of 

 8 days after the first egg is laid in a 

 queen-cell. 



I had one swarm issue June 24 this 

 year, without even so much as an egg 

 in a queen-cell. 



The colony was not interfered with, 

 and had considerable room to work. 

 This swarm acted rather queer. It was 

 hived on the returning- plan (the 

 queen's wings were clipped). I placed 

 one comb partly filled with brood in the 

 hive to catch the first pollen, and 9 

 frames of foundation, and on top of 

 this I placed the super from the old 

 colony. In a few minutes the swarm 

 returned nicely as usual, but the bees 

 were not all in the hive yet when some 

 of them started out again. They were 

 scarcely all out when they started back 

 in (I having caught the queen and re- 

 turned her with them both times). 

 When most of the swarm was in they 

 started out again as before, but this 

 time the queen remained in the hive. 



I removed the comb of brood which I 



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