Aug. 29. 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



557 



lioney. We got about 50 pounds of comli 

 lioney from the new swarms, but none from 

 the old colonies. Two of the old ones be- 

 came iiueenless, and died during the .summer. 

 The seven remaining colonies wintered all 

 right on the summer stands, but last season 

 they did nothing. I got no increase and no 

 honey, and they were so light in the fall that 

 I did not expect any of them to survive the 

 winter. I think that fully 50 percent of the 

 bees in this vicinity died during the winter. 

 But by feeding mine pretty lilx'rally during 

 the warmer days of winter and early spring, 

 they all came through in pretty good condi- 

 tion, and, notwithstanding the excessive 

 wind, heat, and drouth, my bees have done 

 much better than could have been expected 

 considering the very unfavorable season. 

 They have increased just 100 percent, and 

 most of them are beginning to work in the 

 supers. 



One of the old colonies, I think, is iiueen- 

 less, at least I failed to find any (jueen. 

 although I may have Overlooked her. They 

 have considerable honey and unhatched 

 brood, but no newly laid eggs. I found quite 

 a number of old, torn-down (|ueen-cells, but 

 no new ones. H. A. Cheney. 



Barton Co., Kans.. .July 25. 



Drouth and Heat in Iowa. 



The drouth and heat have been hard on 

 bees, and I had trouble holding swarms after 

 being hived. I got three swarms from one 

 colony in five days, and they are doing well 

 for the chance they have. The forepart of the 

 season was good, the bees having basswood 

 and white clover to work on. I am in a good 

 location, on the Des Moines river. 



W. Irvine, Sk. 



Webster Co., Iowa, Aug. 12. 



Should Bee-Keepers Encourage Cir° 

 culation of Bee=Journals? 



The Australian Bee-Keepers' Review uses 

 the following good logic : 



Some think that the increase of the circu- 

 lation of the bee-journals is a damage to the 

 business by increasing the number of bee- 

 keepers. I wonder if these good people 

 stopped to think that a man doesn't subscribe 

 for a bee-journal until after he commences 

 keeping bees. It's the ignorant bee-keeper 

 who does tuost harm to the business, and 

 every new subscriber means the exchange of 

 an ignorant man for one better informed. 



The Two Kinds of Queen-Cells. 



These cells are called by the (iermans yu'e- 

 foniitrncted and jiustronstructei/, and were thus 

 designated by Samuel Wagner, the able edi- 

 tor of the American Bee Journal, in the first 

 volume. The two kinds are thus described in 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture in a Stray Straw : 



When bees rear a young (|ucen for swarm- 

 ing or superseding, a cell is built whose bot- 

 tom is quite different from the bottom of a 

 worker or drone-cell, being smoothly con- 

 cave like the inside bottom of a teacup. The 

 cell is much, larger than a worker or drone- 

 cell, its diameter being about 5-16 of an inch. 

 Because it is built of this large size before it is 

 occupied, it is called a /yceconstructed queen- 

 cell. After a preconstructed cell is built out 

 to a certain extent it is called a cell-cup. and 

 many cell-cups are started that are never occu- 

 pied. If a colony becomes Mueenless when 

 no occupied i|ueen-cells are present, the bees 

 proceed to rear one or several queens fnjni 

 larva- in worker-cells. The first change 

 noticed in one of these worker-ceils is that 

 the outer part of the cell is enlarged, the 

 walls having the appearance i.f being pushed 

 apart so as to increase the diiinieter. Then a 



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