March 7, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



157 



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 a ffreat deal of other work. 

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" Vegetable " Qardening Free.— No book ever 

 publisht on g-ardening has proved to be more 

 popular nor of more practical value than 

 "Vegetable hardening," written bv Prof. S. B. 

 Green, of the University of Minnesota. It is 

 now used asa text-book in the Minnesota School 

 of Agriculture, in the North Dakota, South 

 Dakota, Iowa, Virginia, Massachusetts, and in 

 the Illinois and Washington State Agricul- 

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 special edition of this book, issued for the Ames 

 Plow Company, which contains 240 pages, more 

 than 120 illustrations, and treats of the cultiva- 

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 of a Matthews New Universal Seeder in any of 

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queen-cells in witli aliuiit a quart of lices, and 

 when loDkin;; lifter tliem a few days later 1 

 liiseovereil that four of the cells were open, 

 but I could find only one queen. I afterward 

 fdunil the oiJHT I liree in worker-cells, appar- 



iith 



In sturtni^^ a new colony I put the queen 

 and one frame of brood into a hive, then 

 shake the bees from the frames into the hive, 

 and give the broi>d to weak colonies. Nearly 

 all the bees given to thi' queen will stay with 

 her. I also give a frame of brood with a 

 i|ueen-eellor a queen to the fleld-bees that re- 

 turn; in this way I have more bees, and there 

 is no need to cover the brood to keep it from 

 chilling. B. E. Gixxek. 



Placer Co., Calif. 



Is it an Erpop ?— Another Was. 



On page T8, F. J. Gunzel reports U,(l(l() 

 pounds of honey from 94 colonies, whicli, as 

 1 figure it, would be an average of about ITO 

 pounds per colony. I wonder if it isn't a mis- 

 take—something like the one on page 74, first 

 column, where the treacherous type makes 

 Mr. Aikin say, " The cheapest barrel we could 

 buy would cost us ?10U.'' J. D. Gehrixh. 



Douglas Co.. Kans., Feb. 7. 



[Of course, that barrel cost should have 

 been -SI. 00. Just the omissioniof the deciiual 

 point— that's all. — Editor.] 



Bee-Keeping in the Yazoo Valley. 



The Yazoo Valley in Mississippi is a very 

 unhealthy part of the country. I was sick 

 there all summer with chills.. It is also a very 

 poor honey locality, as it rains too much. My 

 advice to bee-keepers is to stay away from 

 there. The great bee-keeper who was the 

 cause of tny moving there has rendered his 250 

 colonies into wax. About once in six or 

 seven years they have a good honey-flow from 

 the willows along the Mississippi River, and 

 there are only a few places where that is 

 plentiful. Daniel Wurtu. 



Anderson Co., Tenn., Feb, 4. 



Do Bees Select their Future Home 

 Before Swarming? 



While wrestling with "la grippe '' I have 

 had plenty of time to read the I?ee Journal, 

 and have noticed the discussion as to whether 

 or not bees select their future home before 

 swarming. I believe that first swarms always 

 do — second swarms never. First swarms not 

 only select their home, but if it is a tree they 

 clean it out before taking possession. 



In l.'<47, while hunting in the woods near 

 Utica. X. Y., I discovered bees going in and 

 out of a hole in a hemlock tree, and stijiposed 

 1 had found a bee-tree. I went with others 

 the next morning to cut down the tree ; it 

 was a sultry morning in June, and before 

 reaching the woods a brisk shower came up, 

 and wlien we arrived there it was (|uite 

 cloudy. We could not see any bees about the 

 tree, luit we decided to cut it down. As soon 

 as it fell we ruslit to the hole to stop it up so 

 that the bees woulil not get out and sting.us. 

 (We knew nothing about bee-smokers in 

 those days. ) To our surprise we did not see 

 a single bee. We sat down on the log to rest 

 and eat our lunch; the sun came out bright 

 and hot, and while eating and discussing, and 

 wondering what had become of the bees, we 

 heard a roaring sound overhead, and on look- 

 ing up discovered a swarm circling where the 

 tree formerly stood. After awhile they set- 

 tled on one of the fallen branches, and v,e put 

 them in a Ijox and took them home with us. 

 We always went then, as now. prepareil to 

 save all wild bees which we found. We cut 

 down lii bee-trees the past season, and left 

 seven which we did not have time to cut. 



In ls.-i:i, near this i)lace, I found a swarm 

 in a large oak-tree— or supposed l' had. We 

 went the next day to c\it it, and found the 

 bees working in and out. As soon as the tree 

 fell we rusht forward to stop up the hole, as 

 usual, hut only a few were coming out. and 

 these soon disappeared. We cut the tree oi)en 

 and found only a few bees— they were clean- 

 ing out the place, and getting it ready for 



Tennessee Queens I 



Fine lot of Choice Tested 

 Queens reared last season, 

 daughters of select imported 

 and select golden queens, 

 reated 3\i miles apart, and 

 mated to select drones, $1.50 

 each ; untested warranted 

 (jueens, from same breeders, 

 either strain, 75c each. No 

 bees owned nearer than 2J4 

 miles. None impure within 

 3, and but few within 5 miles. 

 2.H years' experience. Discount 

 on large orders. Contracts 

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Three Great Potatoes.— Amoup the catalogs 

 we have recently received is that of L. L. Olds, 

 the well-known potato specialist of Clinton, 

 Wis. Mr. Olds has been in the seed business 

 for 14 years, and makes a speciality this year of 

 three great potatoes: " l*at"s Choice " — a splen- 

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 year; "Potato Pingree "—introduced in 18'**», 

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