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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Aug. 8, 1901. 



stand. The next colony that swarms treat in 

 the same manner, and place the brood re- 

 moved in a hive close beside that taken from 

 the former hive. Give these nuclei ripe cells 

 from your best colonies, and when both 

 queens have laid their brood-chambers full, 

 remove one queen and unite. This is now a 

 first-class colony at once. The surplus queen 

 should now take the place of the poorest one 

 in the yard. 



Should no increase be desired, hive as be- 

 fore, and set the brood one side. Hive the 

 ne.ft swarm that issues also with this swarm 

 by shaking the bees down a yard from the 

 entrance, and catching the queen as she 

 attempts to run in. Return her to the hive 

 from which she came, and give her the extra 

 brood from the other colony. \ow place 

 plenty of sections on the double colony, give 

 plenty of ventilation, and you will be sur- 

 prised at the honey stored in a brief time. 

 Should the season warrant, in about one 

 week contract No. 2 to six combs and put on 

 sections. 



Usually a heavy run of honey (here at least) 

 coming on suddenly puts a stop to swarming. 

 I have known more than one-half of my colo- 

 nies to start cells on a light run of buck- 

 wheat honey, but the main crop coming with 

 a rush has prevented a single swarm issuing. 



If in a locality where there is a run of buck- 

 wheat, or other honey, rom the middle of 

 August through September, do not let brood- 

 rearing slacken after clover, but keep all 

 queens busy, as only eggs laid before July 20 

 can be of much account for such a honey-flow ; 

 also, know approximately the date of com- 

 mencement of the different honey-periods, 

 and remember that it is work done by the 

 queens five or more weeks previous, and" not 

 during the honey-flow, that gives the surplus, 

 and that at the commencement of a honey- 

 flow every cell in the brood-nest should eon- 

 tain a young bee, so that the surplus has to be 

 stored in the supers. 



Be ready for the season, and when your 

 time is worth from five to ten or more dollars 

 per day in the apiary, don't be caught any- 

 where else. Wm. W. Case.' 



Hunterdon Co., N. .J.. .July 1.=). 



Beginning Bee-Keeping Again. 



The spring and winter of IDtlO I lo.st all of 

 my bees from some cause, and became dis- 

 couraged and stopped all of my bee-papers 

 except the "(Jld Reliable." I have again 

 made a start in bees, buying two colonies in 

 box -hives, and increased to six in movable- 

 frame hives. I have 25 hives and fixtures that 

 I made two years ago when the wreck came. 

 We have an old-time honey season now, the 

 first in four years. If it doesn't get too dry 

 it will be a glorious honey-year. I took oft 

 some fine honey yesterday— the first in two 

 years, and you may be sure, Mr. York, it 

 tasted good. You can imagine a lover of nice 

 clover honey, and don't think he was not 

 .thankful. F. McBride. 



Hardin Co., Ohio, .July 21. 



Harvest Rich, But Short. 



The honey harvest has been rich, but rather 

 short. At the beginning of the white clover 

 bloom the weather was cool and wet, and the 

 flowers did not yield much nectar, but after 

 a while it turned warm, and the bees made 

 up for lost time. With the yield of honey 

 the bees commenced to swarm. I have not 

 had so much swarming for a long time. I 

 have several large colonies, where two prime 

 swarms went together. I put two of them on 

 scales, and kept a record for several dajs. 

 One was hived .June IS on empty combs in a 

 10-frame Langstroth hive, with two upper 

 stories filled with nine combs each. On the 

 morning of Junelil they weighed 91 pounds; 

 June 20, 96 pounds, the day being cloudy aud 

 showery: June 21, clear and warm, 'llB'.. 

 pounds; June 22, 12.5'; pounds; June 28, ln'l 

 pounds. 



The other was hived on empty frames with 

 two surplus cases of 32 one-pound sections 

 each, filled with comb foundation ; weight on 

 the morning of June 22, 111 pounds; June 23, 

 114 pounds; and June 24, 122 pounds. 



I had 29 colonies to start with, but there 

 was enough honey in the fields for 200 colo- 



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niestohave cUjiie eciually well. Last .year I 

 had 15 colonies, and it was all they could do 

 to get one-half as much honey. 



Since the close of the white clover harvest 

 the ijees have been working some ou red 

 clover, not alone the long-tougued, but also 

 the short-tongued, the 5-banded and 3-banded. 

 hyl)rids, and other bees. In fact, bees will 

 work to some extent on red clover in this 

 part of the country for a few days every year, 

 if they have the right kind of weather. 



Say, Mr. Editor, if we stretch the bees' 

 tongues is there no danger that we may 

 shorten their stings ? 



The weather is extremely hot and dry at 

 present, the thermometer ranging here from 

 100 to 108 degrees in the shade. My bees are 

 expo.sed to all the rays of the sun ; there are 

 no shade-trees over them. In ordinary warm 

 weather they usually hang out. but this is too 

 much tor them, and during the heat of the 

 day they all go into the hive and come out 

 again as the day draws to a close. How they 

 keep the combs from melting down is more 

 than I can understand. My hives are painted 

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I have extracted 1460 pounds, with about 

 •JOO pounds more on the hives; and I took off 

 •-'00 one-pound sections, with 120 more to take- 

 off as soon as the weather gets a little cooler. 

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Poweshiek Co., Iowa. .Fuly 2'j. 



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Question on " Jouncing " Bees. 



I am quite taken with Mr. C. Davenport's- 

 " jouncing" out the bees (page 420). I find 

 that a frame B'*„xir''K solid full of honey, 

 lifted from a fourth 10-inch story, is more 

 than I can manage to shake the bees out of 

 into the hive. Perhaps an old and experi- 

 enced bee-keeper could. Then, a hive with 

 10 such frames has quite a tendency to 

 " jounce " down on the ground, when lifted 

 from its resting place, and to attempt to furry 

 it to the honey-house — I would rather wheel 

 00 such frames in a cart. But there, to me, 

 appear difficulties. I sometimes find a frame 

 with just a little rim of honey over the top, 

 and the balance of the frame full of unsealed 

 brood and eggs, or perchance a nice queen- 

 cell. I do not want to injure, nor do I want 

 to put them through the extractor or 

 "jounce;" while some of the frames in the 

 same story are full of honey that ought to 

 come out. Then, again, not using an ex- 

 cluder the queen may be in any story, and, of 

 course, " jounced " out with the rest, or pos- 

 siljly carried to the honey-house. Isn't she 

 liable to be lost, and not get back into the hive i 

 In brushing them off she is of course brushed 

 off with the rest into the hive, but when 

 there are 2, .3 or 4 stories (and I would use 

 still more if I could handle them so high), a& 

 each story is emptied it is set off on the 

 ground to get at the one below — a frame I do 

 not want to extract from is left in the hive. 1 

 have occasionally found the queen turn up 

 missing. How would Mr. D. do in such 

 cases ? 



This is my first experience with bees, and I 

 am after all the information I can get on bees 

 and their management. All I have learned of 

 bees so tar I have gotten from text-books and 

 bee-papers. As to papers, something new is 

 coming up in every paper, and I want to 

 know all about them. I met a man a few 

 days ago who said he had been keeping bees 

 six years — said he had been taking a certain 

 bee-paper, but had quit : intimating that the 

 papers could not teach him anytliing. Where 

 do vou class such a man ! A. J. Burns. 



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