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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 8, 1904. 



QUEMS ! 



extra prolific 



J _.„■ orders as we shall 



Prices of Golden or 3- 



„>. „„.. have a good supply, ready to mail, 

 stock is hardy, all our outyards wintered on 

 their summer stands, right near bleak Lake 

 Erie; our present strai 

 fine workers. Hurry in 

 soon unite for winter, 

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ielect Tested 1.50 8.00 IS.OO 



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R. H. SCHMIDT CO.. Sheboygan, Wis. 



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AUG. LOTZ & SON, 



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had placed in the hive and they re- 

 turned the third time, but this time 

 they stayed and went to work nicely. 



The colony in question had a num- 

 ber of queen-cells started, but I am 

 very positive not one of them had even 

 an egg in it. 



Two years ago I had a prime swarm 

 issue from a colony about June 1, and 

 just 16 days later the first afterswarm, 

 so I should think it must have been a 

 case nearly like the above. I also ex- 

 amined this colony after giving the 

 second swarm, and found one young 

 queen just ready to come out of the 

 cell, and another cell about ready to 

 hatch. F. J. Strittmattbr. 



Cambria Co., Pa. 



Encouraging Report. 



We have had some fine rains. All 

 sorts of fall flowers are blooming. 

 Queen-rearing is going along smooth- 

 ly. The outlook is for a late flow, if 

 frost does not cut the bloom. 



H. G. QuiRiN. 



Huron Co., Ohio, Aug. 24. 



Grasshoppers Injure the Honey Crop 



We have harvested 18,000 pounds to 

 date, from 700 colonies. Grasshoppers 

 and blasted alfalfa blossoms explains 

 the light crop. E. F. Atwater. 



Ada Co., Idaho, Aug. 22. 



King-Birds— Enemies or Friends ? 



The article by " Clover Blossom ", 

 in defense of the king-bird, is quite 

 misleading and erroneous— at least so 

 far as these birds are concerned about 

 here. He says it is "a harmless bird, 

 which is actually our friend." (Page 

 551.) And then follbw two quotations, 

 one from Chapman's Bird Life, and 

 one from Farmer's Bulletin No. 54. In 

 both these cases evidence that the 

 king-bird is not a bee-eater is looked 

 for in the wrong place, namely, the 

 stomach. Now, king-birds or bee- 

 martins might be examined by experts 

 by the thousand, and no evidence of 

 their bee-eating proclivities be discov- 

 ered in their stomachs, as they rarely, 

 if ever, swallow the bees that they 

 catch. I shot 11 of these birds in 1903, 

 and so far 8 this year, and I intend to 

 shoot every one that I see anywhere 

 near my apiary. 



After reading that article I deter- 

 mined to give the bee-martins one 

 more chance, as there happened to be 

 two — one old bird and one young one — 

 that I had been " laying for," and had 

 not managed to get a shot at, as they 

 would fly away as soon as they saw me 

 approaching. However, I knew their 

 favorite perches while catching bees, 

 so I determined to watch them from a 

 safe distance, and see what, if any, 

 damage they did. At night I cut the 

 grass short under their perches and 

 sprinkled the ground with sawdust, 

 and next day sat at a window in my 

 house close to the apiai'y with a pair of 

 opera-glasses to keep watch. The fol- 

 lowing was the result: 



August 12 — 10 a.m., old king-bird 

 catching bees, seen distinctly through 

 glasses — 53 bees caught in 40 minutes, 

 and in 67 flights. Found remains of 

 50 bees below perch. 10:50 a.m., young 

 king-bird, 27 bees caught in 40 minutes 

 in 54 flights — 25 remains of bees found. 

 August 13—3 p.m., old bird, 61 bees 



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