July 25, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Dear Sir:— Bees arrived in trood condition. 

 Transferred them to hive and -rave them houey. 

 Have reinforced them with hatchinj^ brood. 

 Are worUin^ when not too cold. Have ritrht 

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I like your way of packing bees to express. 

 E. K. Meredith, Batavia, 111. 



Months July and August. 



Number of Queens 1 Q 12 



GoLDEK Queens. 



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Tested 1.2S 6.50 10.00 



Select Tested 2.(X) 9.0U 15 00 



Breeders S.0O 



HoxEY Queens. 



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Good Honey-Flow. 



Bees are cluing' will, and are in frood condi- 

 tion. The lioney-llow is good — never better. 

 From June .5 to .Ume 1.5 it was cold and 

 windy. We have bad no swarms to amount 

 to anything:. I have taken off nearly 3000 

 pounds of honey. G. W. Vanguxdt. 



Uinta Co., Utah. July 7. 



Short Crop of Honey. 



The basswood lioney-flow is over with us, 

 and a very short crop. We are having a 

 drouth in this part of the State, that is hurt- 

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W. J. PlOKARD. 



Richland Co., Wis.. July 13. 



Queen-Rearing. 



The greatest truul^Ie in queen-rearing is 

 making up the nuclei to receive the cells. 

 Many good colonies have to he divided in 

 forming these nuclei, and there is always a 

 loss to the apiarist. I have used the follow- 

 ing plan for a good many years, with very 

 little trouble : 



I have two extracting supers on every 

 brood-chamber, and after the honey season is 

 over I take from the top super two combs, 

 and put two brood-combs in place of them. 

 The next day I give thehi a cjueen-cell. and 

 raise the cover a little to make an entrance. 

 As soon as the queen hatches the bees will 

 gladly receive her. ilating soon takes place, 

 and I have a laying queen in the super. As 

 soon as the queen is taken out I destroy all 

 queen cells, and the work is done. 



Year after year 1 have succeeded in rearing 

 a number of queens in this way without any 

 loss or hindrance in my apiary. 



Jamaica. JosEPnrs Small. 



Do Bees Select Their Future Home 

 Before Swarming? 



This subject is attracting some attention 

 among the readers of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, and I have been amused at the various 

 views expressed by " Rip Van Winkle," on 

 page 429. 



I have been a bee-hunter ever since the 

 '60"s and have found hundreds of swarms un- 

 der almost every conceivable condition, from 

 a hole in the ground to a whole lot of 

 other places, and my opinion is that it de- 

 pends altogether upon circumstances. 



It the parent colony happens to be located 

 near, or within a mile or so of a timber lot, 

 and if the bees have visited it for honey, and 

 the trees are large, with suitable holes to 

 make homes for bees, if you are in those 

 woods during the swarming season you will 

 see bees looking the trees over. These 

 searcher bees are from a colony near by about 

 ready to swarm, or they are from a swarm 

 that has clustered near by that may have 

 come many miles without discovering a home 

 to suit them. 



I have kept bees for uianj- years, and have 

 been situated near the timber and also on the 

 prairies, and have st\idied their haliits. On 

 the prairie four miles from timber I have had 

 swarms strike out. and they must have gone 

 many miles before finding even a bush to set- 

 tle on, and they were Hrst swarms, too. They 

 certainly had not selected a future home. 

 When located near tlie timber I used to go 

 into the woods in curly swarming-time and 

 see the searcher bees h>oking the trees over 

 tor a home, and would find them cleaning out 

 a hollow tree, or siiinctimes two or three of 

 them, and have soiiietinies followed theju 

 from the hive to the tree they were preparing 

 twoortnree days IwiHre, and in these cases, 

 of course, they h:cl selected their future 

 homes before swarmin:,'. 



.\gain, 1 have followed aswarni.«™7( ikIIix 



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