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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



July 25, 1901. 



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Fine lot of Choice Tested 

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 Queens, from same breeders, 

 either strain, 75c each. No 

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

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 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 

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 They stored red clover honey last season. 



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work, brings no adequate returns. The queeu 

 lays only as she is fed stimulative food by the 

 wurl<ers, and the worlcers will feed her only 

 this stimulative food when there is some 

 reasonaljle prospect for a successful outcome. 

 And while feeding will bridge over three or 

 four days of bad weather, or even a week, yet 

 there comes a time when they seem to lose 

 hope and settle down on the firm determina- 

 tion that they will make no further efforts at 

 •' expansion " till they see some sign that 

 there is to be propitious weather in the 

 future. And during such long-eontinued, 

 cold, wet spells as the present. I have found 

 that tlie colony which was fed every day had 

 very little, if any, more eggs or larviv in the 

 hive at the end of two weeks than did the one 

 having a reasonable allowance of stores, 

 which had not Ijeen feed at all. But when 

 we have fairly comfortable weather, but a 

 dearth of nectar from no flowers bein^ in 

 bloom, or those in bloom not yielding any 

 nectar, then good results can be obtained in 

 feeding, or other ways of stimulating. 



Close Imitation of Natural Swarming. 



This is given as follows by G. M. Doolittle, 

 in Gleanings in Bee-Culture, in a conversation 

 with a neighbor, the first question being asked 

 by Mr. Doolittle: 



"Have you any queen-cells on hand ;"' 



" 1 suppose there are plenty in any of those 

 hives which have swarmed during the last 

 week." 



•■ You will see why I asked about the queen- 

 cells before we get through. Now, to the 

 plan : Take a box holding from three pecks 

 to a bushel, and place it on a wide board a 

 few feet from the hive you wish to make the 

 swarm from, raising the front edge on a little 

 block, enough so the bees can run under. 

 Now open the hive you wish to make th& 

 swarm from, and find the (jueen, caging her 

 on one of the combs, when all the frames are 

 put back in the hive again. If you do not see 

 plenty of unsealed honey, uncap some along 

 the top-bars of the frames and close the hive. 

 Now blow in quite a little smoke at the en- 

 trance of the hive, and rap on the sides of it 

 as you would in driving bees, rapping at in- 

 tervals, and leaving the entrance open so that 

 the bees returning from the fields may enter 

 the hive. In from five to eight minutes open 

 the hive and take out the frames and shake 

 the bees in front of the box, and thus con- 

 tinue till you get at least three-fourths of the 

 bees in the box. When you come to the 

 frame which has the queen on it, place her at 

 the entrance of the box, and let her run in 

 with the bees. When you get the desired 

 amount of bees in the box, put the frames 

 back in the hive and close it." 



•• Why do you run the bees into such a box 

 instead of into a hive all prepared for them .'"'" 



'■ If you will not be impatient I will tell you 

 so you will see the reason. Now, we will 

 suppose that you have three-fourths of the 

 bees and the queen in your box. You are 

 next to take the box of bees to the shade of 

 some tree and lean the box against the tree 

 in an inclined position, with the open side of 

 the box outward, leaving it there three-quar- 

 ters of an houi', at which time you will find 

 them clustered in the upper part of the box 

 as they would be on the limb of a tree, if they 

 had swarmed naturally. During the three- 

 quarters of an hour, if you have more to 

 make, keep on making from other hives in 

 the same way. At the end of the time, hive 

 the bees that are in the box. the same as you 

 would hive any natural swarm. Put the hive 

 on the stand you wish them to occupy, and 

 see that all of them go into the hive, and they 

 will stay and work the same as a natural 

 swarm would," 



'■ Then this leaving them the three-quarters 

 of an hour with the open side of the box out 

 is to make them think they have left home, so 

 they will mark their location as does a 

 swarm T' 



•• Exactly." 



" 1 see now why mine would not stay when 

 I shook them into a hive. But what about 

 what is left in the old hive ?" 



•■The next day, after making such a swarm, 

 give the old colony a queen<'eU from one of 



