Aug. 8, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



507 





A Fine Honey-Flow. 



My bees were just able to make a living up 

 to .juneiS; since then we have had a fine 

 honey-flow from basswood and sumac. I will 

 have lOtK) sections from this flow, and at this 

 date about oue-half has been sold ri-rht at 

 home. L. B. McDaxiei.. 



Athens Co., Ohio, July i'J. 



Bees Carrying Eggs Down. 



Is this anyling new ; Two weeks ago I 

 noticed a colony of my bees, which had 

 swarmed in the spring, -had failed to provide 

 themselves a queen, so, as they had a super 

 on, I experimented by cutting a comb about 

 a stiuare inch containing eggs from another 

 colony, and grafting it in one of the sections 

 in the i|ueenless colony's hive. Three days 

 later I looked at the job. and the eggs were 

 gone. To-day I looked among the brood- 

 frames, and found a little patch of sealed 

 brood about an inch square, and a queen-cell 

 nearly ready to hatch. Clear case of carrying 

 Ijrood (or eggs) down, isn't it * 



Walker Co., Ala., .July 13. R. V. Goss. 



Best Honey-Year— Swarming. 



This is the best honey-year we have had in 

 northern New York for three j'ears. There is 

 lots of white clover and basswood. It has 

 been almost impossible to stop swarming ; 

 when I returned them, the second night, they 

 would come out again, so I lift up the back 

 part of the hive and run them in that way, 

 and they almost always stay. I have not had 

 a swarm come out when put back in that 

 manner. J. S. Deax. 



St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., July 11. 



Very Dry in Indian TePFitopy. 



The bees here in Cherokee Nation are doing 

 nothing on account of dry weather. Out of 

 48 colonies, spring count, I got 4 swarms. 

 The bees loaf and cover the hives. I have 

 raised the hives an inch from the bottom- 

 board. If cotton-bloom has any honey there 

 ought to be great quantities of surplus, as no 

 swariidng has made them very strong. So 

 far this season we have had nothing for them 

 to gather. If the cotton proves a failure, not 

 half the bees will have enough to winter on. 

 The hot winds are burning everything up. 

 The fruit burns or bakes on the trees ; corn 

 and grass look as if a heavy frost had struck 

 them. The leaves on the trees are falling 

 like in October. The oldest people living 

 never knew the rivers and streams so low, and 

 many are dry. The Indians are " conjuring '' 

 and burning great bonfires and all the big 

 drifts on the rivers, for rain. All over the 

 Indian country there is almost a total failure 

 of crops, and unless it rains in a very short 

 time corn and grass will burn up. 



R. N. Cr.\ft(in. 



Cherokee Nation. Ind. Ter., Jnlv IH. 



A Report from Arizona. 



On page 43.t we read what Editor Root says 

 about the heat of Arizona, which probably is 

 correct, but I deaire to call attention to the 

 fact that there is just 31P degrees difference in 

 the effect of the heat between a damp and a 

 dry atmosphere. At Chicago, my former 

 home, or in most of the Northern States, if 

 you wrap a thermometer with a damp cloth 

 it will register about the same, but here it 

 will drop 31) degrees. I am now making but- 

 ter by keeping the milk in a cupboard out- 

 doors, with a tank on top filled with water, 

 which drips down on burlap on all sides; the 

 air passing through the damp cloth lowers 

 the temperature. 



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tiiiiially while the thernioiueter has been reg- 

 istering from 104 to 114 degrees for the past 

 three weeks. The frames must be wired to 

 e.vtract when over 110 degrees. 



The niesquite was only half a crop this 

 year, and as last year was very dry the bee- 

 keepers lost heavily in bees, by the queens 

 dying from old age, and the drones having 

 been killed early. The young queens failing 

 to mate caused heavy losses, hence the honey 

 crop this year must be short. 



The bee-keepers held a meeting and decided 

 not to ship any honey until it will bring what 

 it ought to be wcjrth. The banks advance 

 money to all wh(j must have cash to meet 

 present needs. Eastern bee-keepers need not 

 fear our demoralizing the price of honey. In 

 the first place, we haven't more than half 

 a crop ; secondly, we propose to hold what we 

 have until it brings a fair price. 



Water for irrigation is now scarcer than 

 was ever known, and the country is over- 

 stocked with cattle, hence no more alfalfa 

 bloom for this year, unless heavy rains come 

 soon. B. A. Hadsell. 



Maricopa Co., Ariz., July 18. 



Poor Honey Season. 



It is an awfully poor honey season here; I 

 will get but little comb honey. It was too 

 wet and cool until about the last of June and 

 first of July, then it was too hot. We are 

 now having a wet time, and our wheat is cut 

 and unshocked. I have a large crop of wheat, 

 but little hauled in. My hay and corn prom- 

 ise a large crop. L. A. Hammond. 



Washington Co., Md., July 15. 



Good Season for Honey. 



So far it has been a good season for honey, 

 plenty of rain and the most hot weather I 

 remember ever seeing in one season — tempera- 

 ture from 100 to 106 in the shade a number of 

 days during the past two weeks, yet the bees 

 are storing honey very fast. I have about 

 300 pounds ready to take off, and shall com- 

 mence to take off to-day. 



I started in the spring with nine colones. I 

 now have '20 strong and good, and several colo- 

 nies have cast two swarms each, and. be- 

 sides, have filled from 24 to 36 one-pound sec- 

 tions. Several of the after-swarms have filled 

 the hive and are working in the boxes. One 

 old colony has cast three swarms, stored 36 

 pounds of section honey, and are now filling 

 the second supers. S. B. Smith. 



Millelacs Co.. Minn., July 22. 



Management for Little of No 

 Increase. 



Of course, there will always be more or less 

 weak colonies in the spring, but never rob the 

 good ones of brood to build up the poor ones. 

 Hive your apple-blossom swarms in the hives 

 in which colonies have died during winter. 

 The brood reared in these combs will be 

 clover workers in late June and July. 



Real swarming will usually begin before 

 the full honey-flow, frequently two weeks, or 

 even more. These swarms should be hived iit 

 tlie weak colonies, after removing and caging 

 the queens in the weak colonies, and given 

 plenty of room in the surplus chamber. The 

 next day, between noon and 3 p.m., when 

 most of the old bees are in the field, remove 

 all queen-cells from the colony from which 

 the swarm issued, smoke thoroughly, and 

 turn the caged queen loose on the combs. 

 The former weak colony is now one of the 

 best in the yard, and the colony from which 

 the swarm "issued, having been supplied im- 

 mediately with a laying queen, in two weeks' 

 time, or less, is about as good as ever. Colo- 

 nies so treated will rarely swarm again dur- 

 ing the season; but don't forget to give 

 lilenty of surplus room. 



Continue thus until all the colonies in the 

 apiary are ready for a rush of honey at an 

 hour's notice, or less. Then, if a slight in- 

 crease in the number of colonies is desired, 

 remove one-halt the brood from the colony 

 that swarms, till up with comb foundation 

 and rehive on the old stand, raise the front 

 of the hive one-half inch for ventilation, and 

 place the removed combs in a hive on a new 



