Aug. 22, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOUKNAL, 



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tered, and we hived them and took theni 

 home. 



Another similar ease was in Iowa. A swarm 

 was prepared to come out, but the weather 

 turned Imd for ei^ht days, and wheu they 

 finally eanie out. they left in just such a 

 hurry. I ran about a mile into the woods and 

 came up to them as they were troing into 

 their tree. They could be heard by their loud 

 hum or roaring at a distance of ten rods. I 

 ran in the right direction, and then would 

 stop and listeo. The last run I made I passed 

 them about six rods. Of course I cut down 

 the tree at once, and took them home. 



A man at Tustin reported a swarm of bees 

 in his pile of fruit-boxes ; that was four years 

 ago, and he wanted rae to get them, so I 

 went, and no bees were there. But they 

 came the following day. The man saw the 

 scouts there, and supposed they had already 

 taken possession. They were probably scouts 

 from a clustered swarm. I do not believe 

 one swarin out of a thousand looks up its 

 locality before clustering, in this climate, as 

 there is no necessity for it on account of the 

 weather being always favorable. 



I found a swarm on the 19th of last April. 

 They had been clustered for two days, had 

 daubed the limb of the tree where they clus- 

 tered all white with wax, I now ha%'e eight 

 colonies. Dr. E. GALLtP. 



Orange Co., Calif., .July 1.5. 



No Rain for Over Two Months. 



There has been no rain in this vicinity in 

 over two months, and corn is ruined; there 

 are few vegetables, and bees may have to be 

 led for winter. Water in wells and cisterns 

 is giving out, and fruit is scarce. Honey will 

 bnng a good price, or should do so. 



E. T. Flanagan. 



St. Clair Co., 111., Aug. 7. 



The " Jouneep "— by the Original 

 Jouneer. 



Upon receipt of the American Bee .Journal 

 for .July 5, I was a little surprised — gratified 

 more than a little, and actually felt flattered 

 over the kind words that Mr. C. Davenport 

 uses in his euthusiastic praise of my quick 

 method of getting bees out of an extracting- 

 super — via the " jouneer." 



The " jouneer," in my practice, was devised 

 for the purpose of quickly ridding a shallow 

 Ileddon super of bees, and the crudi affair 

 illustriited in Gleanings in Bee-Culturj some 

 three years ago, worked so well that I made a 

 ueat, substantial device, constructed with a 

 cloth tray upon which all of the bees were 

 caught, reducing the killing of bees to a 

 minimum, and getting them in such shape as 

 to dump them on the top of the brood-frames 

 instead of scattering them all over the ground. 



It seems to me that three years after 

 description is a long time to wait for bee- 

 keepers to catch on to such a very short cut. 



But wheu I consider that my own enthusi- 

 asm over my device was somewhat ruI«1uciI 

 by the sort of half-way ridicule with wliicli 

 my statement in relation to its benefits were 

 received by some of my brother bee-keepers 

 here, I do not wonder, then, that only one 

 man, so far as heard from, has taken kindly 

 to it. 



Perhaps the name "jouneer" has some- 

 thing about it that excites the risibilities, or 

 the fact that the Rambler used it had some 

 adverse efTect. Any way, the bees are not 

 shaken out. they are given a sudden, ([uick 

 jar, or for a more euphonious word. •■ jounce," 

 and tlie device, a "jouneer." 



I have used the principle more or less for 

 the past few years, and have kept mum about 

 it for a'mut three years. 



When I left my own apiary in the southern 

 end of this State, in charge of other parties. 

 I had some misgivings about turning over my 

 jouneer to them. As the parties were very 

 sensible young men, I ran the risk, first 

 showing tbeni by practical demonstrations the 

 u.se of the device and its cllects. After the 

 ixtracting season had well advanced, I re- 

 leived a letter from the parties, saying. "We 

 are falling in love with yourshallow super aud 

 the jouneer." That settles it as far as the 

 Shaflner Bros, are concerned: they know a 



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