March 21, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



189 



honey-bee, but tbey copulate in the nest 

 where they are hatcht. I have seen more 

 than half a dozen couples so engaged in a 

 «ingle nest at the same time. 



The bumble-bee never builds its own nest, 

 t)ut it hunts up a nest that has been previously 

 built by fleld-mice. I once found the bones 

 and hair of a mouse in the bottom of a nest 

 occupied by the bumble-bee. It is not likely 

 that the queeu-bee killed the mouse, as it is 

 probable that it had previously died of old age, 

 or some accident. D. S. Heffkon. 



Cook Co., 111. 



Wintering Bees— Swarms Settling. 



My bees are diiing fine. I take common 

 dry-gooiis boxes, having the top and bottom 

 separate, set the hives on the bottoms of the 

 boxes, then set the boxes over the hives, and 

 fill in with chaff, leaving a space in front of 

 the entrance. I have tried this plan for two 

 years, and have not lost a colony. I get the 

 boxes as near 30x20x20 inches as I can, and 

 succeeded in getting two hardware dealers to 

 save me 37 last fall, at 30 cents apiece. 



I have seen a great deal in the Bee Journal 

 in regard to bees settling after swarming. I 

 have hunted bees ever since I was old enough, 

 and have kept bees for several years, so I will 

 give some of my experience. 



I keep several hives up in the trees every 

 year, and have never failed to catch bees in 

 them. I have seen them work in and out of 

 the hive for 42 days before they came to stay, 

 but never knew them to take" possession iit 

 once. Three different times I have seen them 

 hang on the front of the hive from 3 to 50 

 hours. If the bees settle because the queen 

 is tired, she must be very tired to hang within 

 4 inches to a foot of the entrance so long. I 

 have seen them in the woods hanging just 

 below a small hole in a tree, and have gone 

 back in a few days and found them at work. 



Last spring a swarm issued from one of my 

 colonies, and started off. I followed them to 

 one of the neighbor's, where they settled on 

 his barn, about 4 feet from the ground. My 

 neighbor went back home with nie to get a 

 hive, and as we crost the railroad track we 

 noticed several bees flying around. I found a 

 queen with 17 bees. This was about 40 rods 

 from the cluster. I bought a hive and a 

 queen-cage, put the <iueen in the cage, and set 

 the hive at one side of the track, and askt my 

 neighbor to watch the cluster, and if they 

 entered the hive he might take them home 

 and keep them. The second day at noon they 

 went into the hive. Next day I went over 

 and liberated the queen for him. They stored 

 34 pounds of surplus honey, and cast one 

 swarm. Do you suppose they were over on 

 the barn waiting for that queert in the hive to 

 rest '. I think that sometimes they have to 

 settle in order to rest the ipieen, but I have 

 caught the queen in my hand while flying in 

 the air, after more than three-fourths of the 

 bees had clustered. H. Gilbert. 



Jasper Co., Iowa, Feb. 4. 



Bee-Keeping Experiences. 



I paid •>3..=J0 for the first colony of bees I 

 ever bought, and they were in a big box-hive 

 made of oak. Some time afterward I moved 

 a little further west, and workt for a man 

 who kept about 25 colonies. We got the 

 fever to go still further west, so we sold what 

 we could and traded the balance. We sold 

 what honey we had at IH cents per pound, and 

 could have sold more if we had had it. 



During the civil war, while on the field of 

 battle one day. in an old house that was full 

 of bullet-holes, I found a colony of bees, 

 which I gave to the good woman who had 

 ■done some sewing for me. X have some relies 

 from the old battle-field where the battle of 

 Monmouth was fought. 



After the war I struck out for the West, 

 and landed in Madison, Wis., about the mid- 

 dle of May, ISW. That part of the country 

 was then a wildernes.s, with very few houses 

 ■scattered about. I soon found a bee-keeper 

 with two colonies of bees in oak box-hives, 

 and offered him ^W for one. He did not 

 want to sell, and that was all the liees there 

 were in the village. Soon after ihis I heard 

 of a man 10 miles out in the country who 

 kept bees, so I went to see him, ami offered 



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