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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 4, 19C1' 



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OverstocKed witii Bee-Hives 



I am overstocked 

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Tennessee Qneeas ! 



Fine lot of Choice Tested 

 Queens reared last season, 

 daughters of select imported 

 and select golden qiaeens, 

 reaied 3% miles apart, and 

 mated to select drones, $1.50 

 each ; untested warranted 

 Queens, from same breeders, 

 either strain, 75c each. No 

 bees owned nearer than 2}4 



iles. No 



mpur 

 i-ithii 



ithii 

 ailes. 



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2S years' experience. Discount 

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 with dealers a specialty. JOHN M. DAVIS, 

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Long-Tongued 3°Banded Italians 



bred from stock whose tongues measured 25- 

 100 inch. These are the red clover hustlers of 



■ica. 



$1.00 each, or 6 for $5.00. Safe arrival guaran- 

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I Red Glover Queens 



LONG-TONGUED BEEsIrE DEMANDED NOW, 



ONE Untested Italian Queen FREE as a Ppc- 

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 to the American Bee Journal for one year 

 (with $2); or, one Tested Queen free as a premium for sending 

 us FOUR new subscribers with $4.00). 



We have arranged with one of the oldest and best queen-breed- 

 ers (having many years' experience) to rear queens for us the coming 

 season. His bees average quite a good deal the longest tongues of 

 any yet measured. The Breeder he will use is direct from Italy, 

 having imported her himself. Her worker-bees are large, somewhat 

 leather-colored, very gentle, and scarcely requiring veil or smoke. 

 They stored red clover honey last season. 



All queens guaranteed to arrive in good condition, and all will be 

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are usually orediteil wiili. they would cer- 

 tainly know that a flight front the hive even 

 to the top of a tall tree (possibly from 100 to 

 :iOO feet) would not tire an old queen with 

 perfect wings. If swarming bees or queens 

 ever do get tired it is more reasonable to sup- 

 ])ose it would be after they had started on 

 their journey to a home, and maybe they do; 

 l)Ut to '■ stop to rest before they are tired !" — 

 well, I can't see the sense in it. 



In conclusion, I do not think bees select 

 tlieir future home before swarming, for the 

 following reasons: 



First, 99 percent of all swarms cluster a 

 certain or uncertain time before leaving. We 

 have no definite information on the subject, 

 as most observed swarms are hived as soon as 

 possible by the bee-keeper; but in most cases 

 it is from one hour up to 72. Bees fly very 

 rapidly — I think I am within the limit when I 

 say a mile in three minutes. There is ample 

 time for a thousand scouts to explore and 

 report every possible bee-tree within Ave 

 niiles of the cluster inside of an hour. Sec- 

 ond, the uncertainty of the time in clustering 

 indicates to my mind the greater difficulty in 

 one case over another, in finding the future 

 liiitne, and the greater probability that they, 

 like some human beings, do not cross a bridge 

 until they come to it, or do not select a home 

 until there is strong need of it. 



This is my view of it. But I'll change my 

 mind any time the weight of evidence is the 

 other way. Rip Van Winkle. 



Cook Co., 111. 



Drone.Traps. 



W. H. Pridgen says in the American Bee- 

 Keejier : 



In using the combined queen and drone 

 trap on hives that are sending out objection- 

 able drones, I usually have trouble in separat- 

 ing the tiueen from the drones in case a swarm 

 i.'^sues, without allowing the escape of many 

 drones. This can be overcome by a double 

 or combined trap. There should be a divi- 

 sion made of drone-excluding zinc through 

 which the t|ueen can freely pass, with an addi- 

 tional trap with ordinary cone above, to 

 catch the cjueen. That is, to separate the 

 queen from the drones, we want two traps, 

 one above the other, with the slide in the top 

 of the drone-trap, with perforations large 

 enough for the queen to pass through without 

 allowing the drones to do so. 



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Cost of Drone=Comb. 



Froljably the majority of bee-keepers dis- 

 courage the presence of much drone-comb, 

 .lust as probably the majority have a good 

 deal more drone-comb than is profitable. The 

 Ijee-keeper who has supplied his bees with 

 full sheets of worker foundation is not safe 

 for all future time. Here and there a mouse 

 will nibble a hole in a comb in winter, and by 

 line means and another there will be holes 

 that the bees must fill in, which holes will 

 almost invariably be filled with drone-comb. 

 If no attention is paid to the matter this will 

 increase from year to year, but the bee-keeper 

 lierhaps gives it little thought. If his atten- 

 tion is called to it, he will say, " Yes, there is 

 -i.mc ilrone-comb in most of my hives that 

 liaM' romh of any age. but it doesn't amount 

 lo much. There isn't an average in each hive 

 uf luiirc than enough to fill a pound section." 



l.i't us figure up the cost of a piece of drone- 



,• 1) I if that size — t inches square, or 16 square 



inclies. Counting 18 cells to the square inch, 

 iir :-l6 for the two sides, Iti square inches will 

 contain .itti drone-cells. Suppose only one 

 brood of drones is reared, and that each drone 

 lives 150 days; what will be the cost of those 

 .■)Tt) drones? Taking the estimate that it costs 

 .0141 ounce of honey to rear a drone, and 

 that it consumes .0O63."i ounce of honey daily, 

 it will consume in 00 days .381 ounce of 

 honey, which, added to the cost of rearing. 



