May 9, 19i 1 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



301 



the ChoctawliaU-lu-e River, iieai' a ^wal]lll lo 

 miles aiiuss. Tlie dariiii. rieli soil produces 

 many honey-yieUliiif,'- i>laiits. arul furnishes a 

 .secure retreat for hears; one visited the api- 

 ary, and ate and destroyed io colonies. On 

 an arm of St. Andrews Bay. where air apiary 

 is located, a bear destroyed several colonies, 

 liut was shot, and much meat secured and a 

 line pelt. Mrs. L. Harbison. 



Washington Co., Fla. April l(i. 



Last Year an Average One. 



My bees wintered well. Last tall I put .54 

 <?olonies into the cellar, and last Week took 

 out that number in tine shaiie. Last year 

 was an average one with me. as I got about 

 1,800 pounds of comb honev. 



R. A. Hi NT. 



Fillmore Co., Minn., April 115. 



Hard Winter on Bees. 



I have lost 4 colonies out of K! wintered on 

 the summer stands. It was a hard winter for 

 ))ees. there being no chance for them to Hy. 

 Joseph N. Rowlee. 



Oswego Co., N. Y., April 2'A. 



Bees Building Up Nleely. 



Bees are building up nicely, and are swarm- 

 ing, but not storing very much more honey 

 than they consume. Our tirst honey harvest 

 win be from the second cutting of alfalfa, 

 which win be in May. 



I appreciate the American Bee Journal very 

 much. Mrs. A. Bowen. 



Merced Co., Calif. April 16. 



Gathering Pollen and Honey. 



We have had a very liackward, cold spring, 

 but the bees have wintered well, and it is nice 

 weather now. They are liringing in pollen 

 and some honey from the woods. I have "0 

 colonies, having lost 6. The prospects are 

 ^ood. Clover wintered splendidly, both 

 white and alsike. Daniel Stuart. 



Ontario. Canada, April sr. 



Bees Gathering Honey. 



My bees wintered tiptop, and are briugiuii 

 in lots of honey to-day. The American Bee 

 Journal is all right. (Jilbeht Brows. 



Fulton Co., N. Y., Ai.ril -J?. 



Wintered With Small Loss. 



The bees have come thru the winter in 

 good shape, with a loss of 4 colonies out of 

 60. It is snowing here to-day, and the tem- 

 perature is 36 degrees above zero, 



Edwin Hutchinson. 



Livingston Co.. N. Y., April 19. 



Bees in Eastern Pennsylvania. 



I am starting in the bee-business in a 

 locality which 1 suppose is about the poorest 

 in the United States. Bees are kept in small 

 <iuantities by almost every farmer in the 

 neighborhood — from one to live colonies — in 

 the old-style box-hive. They all complain ot 

 little surplus honey, only from -> to Id pounds 

 from their best colonies. I Know of sonit 

 that didn't get a pound for thiee years in 

 succession. Bee-plants are ven scaue 

 around here, except that of fiuit bloom and 

 white clover, which, some \eiis iie ijuitt 

 plentiful. Almost every foot t)t soilisiulti 

 vated. and all weeds and wild lloweisalon^ 

 the fences and roadsides are ( ut down Theie 

 is no buckwheat raised liere iin moie whuh 

 used to produce large quantities of hone\ 

 We need the long-tongued liees \en badU in 

 this part of the country, a^ thtie aie hun 

 dreds of a* res of red clovci aiound heie 

 where barrels of Imncv arc t;oin„ to waste 



I bou-hi srvciMl I-.. ionic- of black bees last 



spring :ii sl.iiu |mm- cnli.iiy, and expect to 



transfer SI inic of tlicrn into dovetailed hives, 



.and later on supply them with Italian queens. 



F. M. Mayberrt. 



Montgomery Co., Pa., April l'?. 



Tennessee Queens ! 



riiie lot of Choice Tesled 



'iieens reared last season, 



aughters of select imported 



lid select golden queens, 



eaied 3]i miles apart, and 



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untested warranted 



"Jueens, from same breeders, 



^ .her strain, 75c each. No 



es owned nearer than 2% 



lies. None impure within 



and but few within 5 miles. 



years' experience. Discount 



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6A20t Spring Hill, Tenn. 



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At the Ontario convention, reported in tlie 

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Sugar for Feeding. 



It is good in the fall, perhaps better than 

 honey ; but for spring, honey is away ahead, 

 says A. Alberti in Deutsche 111. Bztg. The 

 sugar needs a digestion that the honey does 

 not, and in the fall and early winter this 

 matters little because the food is taken in 

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Hoffman Frames. 



These have been strongly championed by 

 Eiiitor Root, but he now admits that there are 

 localities in which propolis is so bad that 

 Hoflman frames are impracticable. 



A Plan of Producing Comb Honey. 



Here is a matter for you to try in your api- 

 aries. It is the system to Ije used with shal- 

 low divisible-l:)rood-chamber hives. You have 

 eight-frame hives.' Take two of these for a 

 brood-chamber thru the spring. Manage so 

 as to have the brood as much as you can in 

 one of the chambers, say by having the brood- 

 nest in the ujiper one, and spread it and 

 manipulate to get these combs solid full of 

 lirood. The success does not dcipcnd on this 

 getting the one set of combs snliil full of 

 brood, tlio to obtain he«t results it will pay to 

 do this. With this double brood-chamber 

 there is so much room you keep down the 

 swarming fever, and I think the room to 

 sjiread. esi>ecially downward, gives a greater 

 vigor of work than a crowded hive. 



Ten days liefore the flow begins, put the 

 (|ueen in the lower chamber with a little brood 

 — one comb with any amount of brood will be 

 plenty ; an excluder on this, and the rest of 

 tlie brood on top. At the end of ten days, 

 when the flow is just starting, take in a new 

 stand the lower hive with the i|iu-cii. and put 

 the top chamber on the old stand with noth- 

 ing but its sealed brood antl no queen, but 

 give a virgin queen or ripe jirotecteii cell, or 

 wait two or three days and give a queen or 

 cell. Give only a cell or a virgin queen, be- 

 cause the brood is all sealed that is left on the 

 old stand; and while the virgin is mating, 

 and getting ready to lay, the Ijrood is hateli- 

 ing; so when she does begin laying, the last 

 of the brood is about ready to emerge, and 

 your colony is just in the condition of a col- 

 ony that iias swarmed naturally, and their 

 young queen just ready to lay, except that 

 you have kept tlie strength of the colony on 

 the old stand, and have been getting section 

 work. As the lirood hatcht the brood-comlis 

 were tilled with honey; but as that young 

 queen licgins to lay. that honey goes nji to 

 the sections out of her way, and you have no 

 swariniiig. cither. 



This system anticipatesqultea contracted 

 lod-chumber left on the old stand, which 



lit 



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would be till 

 divisilile-chainlierhivc, lii-n.r ilinr would not 

 lie any great aiuoiiut of Imiiic.\ -iMivd in it 

 during the time the queen wu.^ uul la,\ lug. To 

 make the best test with the eight-frame hives, 

 I suggest that you use but six to the lH>dy, 

 using a dummy at each side; thus you have a 

 twelve-frame hive before the separation at the 

 start of the How, and six left when divided. 



The whole plan contemplates a big hive u|) 

 lill the How. then a very small one on the old 

 stand, and yet all swarming effectually con- 

 trolled, the force of fielders right where they 



