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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 16, 1901. 



ami the mountains around about us are clad 

 in mantles of snow. 



t)ur crop last season amounted to over 8,000 

 pounds of comb hone.v (we do not extract 

 any), which we consider pretty good for the 

 season, as there was a drouth which cut our 

 corn crop short by over one-half. 



P. I. Huffman. 



Rockbridge Co., Va. . April 32. 



Clipping Queens' Wings. 



(i. .M. DooliMle enumerates the advantages 

 iu the American Bee-Keeper, viz. : Greater 

 ease of finding a clipped queen in a hive; 

 security against runaway swarms; freedom 

 from climbing trees or getting swarms from 

 difficult places. Either one of which might he 

 sutlieient reason for the practice. 



Queens Hating in the Hive. 



This is reported in Gleanings in Bee-Culture 

 by 11. L. Jeffrey as a success, but Editor Root 

 thinks there may be some mLstake about it. 



A Swarming.Sticlc. 



For those who depend upon having their 

 bees settle so as to hive them, it is by no 

 means a pleasant thing to have the cluster on 

 a very high tree, or in the middle of some 

 thorny shrub, tree, or hedge. Mr. J. F. Mun- 

 day has this to say abouta " swarming-stick " 

 which he uses: 



It is therefore advisable for a bee-keeper to 

 prepare suitable places near his apiary for 

 his swarms to settle on. The plan I adopted 

 wasthe fulluwiug; 1 bond :.!■ aii-.-i -holr in 

 the tni> mil of the feiic.' » lii.-l: ,-n.l..M.,l nn 

 apiury. 1 then got a slirk hIhmii ih.. IVri 

 long, one end uf wliii.-!] wnuM slii) iiiio ihc 

 hole made in the rail ; on the other cud of tlic 

 stick I fastened a small l>ago£ dry grass about 

 the size of a small pumpkin. Before nuiking 

 the bag, I placed the material of. which il was 

 made (a piece of maize-bag) on the toj) ol' tlie 

 frames of a hive of bees for a few dins lo 

 obtain the si'cnt of the bees on it. A\.-ll, I 



siin|.l\ lilarr.l tliK MirK wilh the lilll.- I.a-.'f 



gra^s 



il of llll 



swarms settle on it. or rather them, tor I had 

 four of them in different places. 



Now, I do not wish to imply that all my 



thev I 

 when 

 their 



its,.! 



ilh 



from 



111 on it from tlie lio 

 to the hive. AVitli 

 tii'd. or with my liai 



liciaclifd a few bet 

 ^ tliiiii fall at the mouth of the 

 II 1 iiotired them entering the 

 'lily 1 shook oil the rest oi the 

 lien most of the bees had en- 



I returned the swarm-stick to 

 e fence again. 



Foul Brood An Important Subject. 



Every little while there comes a frantic in- 

 quiry from some bee-keeper to know what is 

 the matter with his bees, and what he shall do 

 for them. He suspects the presence of foul 

 brood, but is in utter ignorance as to what the 

 symptoms are. Heretofore he has seen much 

 about foul brood, but has always skipped it in 

 his reading — let those troubled with the dis- 

 ease trouble themselves with the reading. The 

 wise bee-keeper will not wait till he is per- 



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