July 18, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



459 



DO YOU WANT A HIGH GRADE OF 



Italian Bees and (|iieeiis? 



2-franie Nucleus with Untested Queen, $2.00. 

 purchaser paying: express charges. 



Naperville, 111., Mav 3X, 1901. 



De.^r Sir:— Bees arrived in jrood cooditioo. 

 Transferred them to hive and gave them honey. 

 Have reinforced them with halchinjr brood. 

 Are worl<ing when not too cold. Have ri(;rht 

 color, and are satisfactory. D. li. Givlek. 



I like TOur wav of packing bees to express. 

 E. K. Meredith, Batavia, 111. 



Months July and August. 



Number of Queens 1 6 12 



Golden Queens. 



Untested $.75 $4.00 $7.00 



Tested 1.25 6.50 10.00 



Select Tested 2.00 9.00 16 00 



Breeders 5.00 



Honey QtjEENS. 



Untested $.75 $4.00 $7.00 



Tested 1.2S 6 50 10.00 



Select Tested 1.50 7.00 12.00 



Safe arrival guaranteed. Descriptive price- 

 list free. D. J. BLOCHER, Pearl City, III. 



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 GOLDEN ITALIANS, the' GREAT HONEY- 

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 RED CLOVER QUEENS, the LONG-TONGUED 



ITALIAN.'?, which left all RECORDS 

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Bees Doing Well. 



Bt-es have been iloini:: well siuce .June 1. I 

 have a hive ou scales which is 13U pounds 

 heavier now than it was then ; the colony has 

 had extractinsf-eoniljs to store in, and has not 

 swarmed. There have been four days when 

 the bees of that colony stored 8 pounds per 

 day. The honey is very fine, being all from 

 white clover. 



Swarms have issued from all colonies 

 worked for comb honey. J. L. Strong. 



Pare Co., Iowa, June 28. 



Bees Working on White Clover. 



We have had a busy time this spring and 

 summer looking after our fruit and our api- 

 ary. 



I put 2,5 colonies of laees into the cellar last 

 fall, and took out the same number this 

 spring, most of them in tine condition. Three 

 or four of them were a little weak, but I soon 

 strengthened them Ijy feeding for a few days, 

 and the early blooin helped to get them iu 

 good condition. The bees throughout this 

 part of Iowa were extra-strong in numbers 

 when the white clover came into bloom. I 

 believe we are having the heaviest crop of 

 white clover we ever had in the State, and the 

 Ix-es have been making it count, both in 

 swarming and in storing fine honey. 



J. W. Sanders. 



Marshall Co., Iowa, .July i. 



Swarms Selecting a Home Uniting. 



I have been handling bees for about three 

 years, commencing with three colonies which 

 a good friend gave me. I got the "ABC of 

 Bee-Culture,'' Dr. Miller's " A Year Among 

 the Bees," Prof. Cook's work on bees, and 

 several other books, and also subscribed for 

 the American Bee .Journal. I now have about 

 60 colonies, and find the study a most inter- 

 esting one. 



I make all my own hives. The first year I 

 made box-gums. 14x12 inches, inside measure, 

 and 10 inches deep. The style of hive I am 

 now using is l-lisXl2',^, and 9\ inches deep, 

 inside measure. A larger hive than this it 

 would take the bees two years to fill up be- 

 low, as this is no bee-country. 



On pages 357 and 35S of the American Bee 

 Journal I find an article by A. P. Raymond, 

 on swarms selecting a location, and whether 

 they select it before or after they issue. Of 

 course, every bee-keeper has his own opinion 

 on the subject ; I will not express mine, but 



1 will relate a freak of my bees along this 

 line. I was in my apiary about 10 a.m. when 

 a swarm issued. Alter the usual excitement 

 al)out half of the swarm clustered and the 

 other half took to the woods. This confused 

 me a little, but I finally concluded to hive the 

 part that had clustered, thinking that perhaps 

 the queen was just as likely to be with them 

 as with the part that had left. After hiving 

 them I decided to follow in the direction the 

 rnnawavs had gone, hoping that I might 

 locate them in a small piece of woodland, 

 where they were last seen. After hunting tor 

 some time I found what I took to be my run- 

 aways up in a large poplar tree, going in and 

 out of a knot-hole. This tree was on a bee- 

 line from the hive they had just left. 



I went home regretting the loss of the bees, 

 but consoling myself with the thought that I 

 had half of tliem at home safely hived. 

 Evervthing went along smoothly until abcjiit 



2 or "3 o'clock in ilu- afternoon, when this 

 half-swarm came forth in great excitement, 

 and after circling iilioutfor a few minutes 

 thev, too, took to tin- woods, and in the same 

 direction the first oiu's liad gone. It occurred 

 to me that they w<rr making for the same 

 place, so I kept pn-tiy close behind them, as 

 the distance was not over 300 yards, and along 

 an open route. Th'-'. finally reached the old 



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Adel Queens and Bees! 



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Jamestown, N. Y., June 17, l')01. 

 Then Adeliiueens are beauties. The breed- 

 ixi; ouEi.N is the finest queen I ever saw, and I 

 have^bougUt queens from 11 of the most promi- 

 nent queen-breeders in the land. At present 

 the Alley queens are ahead for bees, honey and 

 gentleness. tj. W. Carter. 



AsTOR, IND., June 17, 1'Wl. 

 The Adel bees beat all 1 have in the yard. 

 Just took off 48 one-pound .sections, and there 

 are left two more supers half full. This colony 

 has the largest force of bees in my yard, and 

 shows no indications of swarming. 



Isaac Grubb. 



Pine City, Minn., June 21, IWl. 

 The Adel queen you sold me last year is very 

 prolific. Her bees are the gentlest and best 

 honey-gatheri 

 you a large oraer. 



Kingston, Jamaica, -W.I.. June 11, 1'lOl. 

 Find *2 for two Adel queens. Years ago when 

 I lived in Florida I got first-class queens from 

 you, and J. S. Morals, this island, is never tired 

 of praising your Adel bees and queens. 



■^ H. G. Bennett. 



One breeding queen, $1.00; half dozen, $5.50. 

 By return mail. 



HENRY ALLEY, Wenham, Mass. 



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