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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Sept. 12, 1901. 



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Bees and Honey, or M.inag^ement of an Apiarj 

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Lanestroth on the Honey-Bee, revised by 

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Scientific Queen-Rearing, as Practically Ap- 

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A B C of Bee-Culture, by A. I. Root.— A cyclo- 

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Advanced Bee-Culture, Its Methods and Man- 

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Rational Bee-Keeplng, by Dr. John Uzierzon. 

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B!enen-Kultur, by Thos. G Newman.— Thi^ 

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Bienenzuclit und Honiggewinnung, nach der 

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Bee-Keeping for Beginners, by Dr. J. P. H. 



Brown, of Georgia.— A practical and condenst 

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Bee-Keeping for Profit, bv Dr. G. L. Tinker. 

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Apiary Register, by Thomas G. Newman.— 

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Dr. Howard's Boole on Foul Brood.— Gives the 

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Winter Problem in Bee-Keeping, by G. R. 

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mine has been one mainly ot enjoyment. 

 I've had my good times as I went along. 

 Worldng at the Ijees has been just as good 

 sportas going hunting or fishing, and it's a 

 sport of which one never wearies. So you 

 see my playtime has not been something to 

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Some one may say, " That's very pretty 

 talk ; but my experience has been that there's 

 hard work in bee-keeping, and lots of it.'' 

 Sure. But isn't there hard work in nearly all 

 kinds of play? Do you work any harder at 

 bee-keeping than you do when you hunt or 

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 a beet in the face, and is so sore and lame at 

 night that he can not be still?— Gleanings in 

 Bee-Culture. 



Doubling Up Storing Forces. 



Under the head of " How to get the bees of 

 two ((ueens to work in one super,'' Jas. Ham- 

 ilton gives in the Bee-Keepers' Review his 

 plan of precedure. It contemplates uniting 

 in such a way as to have only half of the colo- 

 nies working in supers. While it might be 

 very much better to have all colonies strong, 

 there may l^e, and often are, cases in which 

 all colonies are not sufliciently strong to make 

 good work in supers, when some sort of unit- 

 ing is desirable. In such cases Mr. Hamil- 

 ton's plan is well worth considering. He 

 says: 



If you expect a honey-flow by the first ot 

 June, say, examine all your colonies and 

 mark those that are strongest. They have the 

 best queens. Do this some time previous. 

 These colonies are the ones upon which you 

 expect to put supers. Remove all coniljs not 

 occupied' with brood. Now go to your sec- 

 ond weakest colonies, draw well-brooded 

 combs therefrom, putting one in place of 

 each empty comb taken from your best colo- 

 nies, replace these empty combs where you 

 drew the brood from. If your hive is an 8- 

 frame, you now have S frames of brood in all 

 of the strongest colonies. The bees in these 

 hives will soon be so strong ahat you may 

 put an upper story, which is simply to pre- 

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 of brood. This time I would draw two 

 frames from each of the third weakest colo- 

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 having an upper story. I would also put one 

 comb of honey beside these two brood-frames. 

 This is to prevent the bees from starving, in 

 case there might be a few cold or wet days. 



Now each colony intended for comb honey 

 has, all told. 10 frames of brood. The brood 

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This is uniting in the brood form, and it is 

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 a three weeks' honey-How, or about as long 

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But there is another plan, and I only rec- 

 ommend it when you have been negligent in 

 the performance of the former and the season 

 of honey is nigh at hand: 



Kill off the queens that have but the equiv- 



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