Oct. ID. 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



653 



taken and read with great pleas vac tlie Ameri- 

 ■ean Journal tor about four years, and I have 

 enjoyed its weekly visits immensely. 



1 have only 1.5 colonies, but I am prepared 

 to increase when spring comes again. Xot 

 boasting at all, but 1 have the name of keep- 

 ing the uicest apiary, and being the best 

 informed bee-man in this section, and I give 

 the credit to the American Bee Journal, as 

 that is where I get my knowledge. 



This has been an exceedingly poor honey- 

 _vear in northeast Mis.souri, owing to the 

 <irouth that has prevailed since in April. Yet 

 I am not as those who have no hope, and for- 

 getting the things that have passed I look 

 forward for better seasons and greater bless- 

 ings. 



Long live the American Bee Journal ! 



H. S. Carroli,. 



Shelby Co., Mo., Aug. 3. 



[The plant belongs to the Kvening Prim- 

 rose family. Its botanical name is (iaurga 

 biennis, and it goes by its first name — Gaurga. 



Writers on honey-producing plants do not 

 speak of it as being especially productive, but 

 bees are not easily deceived, and if they are 

 interested in the flower no doubt it is furnish- 

 ing them honey or pollen, probably both. — C. 

 L. Walton.] 



Bees Did Fairly Well. 



My bees have done very well this year, con- 

 sidering the very dry summer we have had. 

 with only a few local showers since April 17, 

 and none to do much good. We have taken 

 nearly .500 pounds of comb honey from " colo- 

 nies. 



White clover yielded well until killed by the 

 drouth. Persimmon bloom al.so was full of 

 nectar. There was a good deal of honey-dew 

 this summer. A man told nie that when he 

 cut his wheat the reel on the machine spat- 

 tered it over him, and that his horses' legs 

 were sticky with it. Some of the people here 

 say that it comes down like mist. 



My first swarm came out April 2T, and 

 went into an empty hive without clustering. 

 They sent out a swarm Aug. 31, and as there 

 was no one at home, they left for parts un- 

 known. 



Most of the bee-keei)ers here are of the old- 

 fashioned kind, and some of them feed their 

 bees corn-bread. Mrs. R. R. Titis. 



Wright Co.. Mo.. Sept. 21. 



Introducing Queens. 



Without desiring to lu'ovoke further dis- 

 cussion in respect to the matter of love, 

 hatred, or selfishness, in the honey-bee (sje 

 page 598), I wish to say that it surprises me 

 that any one should take seriously what was 

 said on pages 405 and 40(5 respecting these 

 attributes, and attempt to disprove my posi- 

 tion. It was distinctly stated by me that 

 neither jiosition is tenable. It is my belief 

 that such tiualities belong to a higher order 

 of beings. That love, haired, generosity, 

 selfishness, are all attributes which inhere to 

 mankind, but not to any of the lower animals. 



Then, so far as I am concerned, that matter 

 is disposed of. 



In regard to introducing a queen, it is no 

 «loubt true that an expert would succeed 

 after taking the necessary precautions in 

 running her into the entrance, but such prac- 

 tice is not in accordance with the instructions 

 given in any work upon the subject which 

 has come under my observation ; yet, it 

 doesn't follow that it can not be done; in 

 fact, many things are done with bees out of 

 the ordinary way with success. However, as 

 was said before to the beguimr. don't try any 

 such experiment with a valuable queen. 

 Wait until you have become better acquainted 

 with the business. Follow the instructions 

 given in the recognized works upon the sub- 

 ject. W.M. M. Whitney. 



Kankakee Co., 111. 



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Handling Disease. Infected Tools. 



Some have written us that, even after they 

 had used the McEvoy treatment for handling 

 foul brood, the disease broke out a^ain. 

 Many bee-keepers do not realize, in spite of 

 all that has been said, the importance of hav- 

 insr everything that comes in contact with 

 foul or black brood either burned up or shut 

 up in a tight box or room where bees can not 

 j^et at it. Metal tools, such as screwdrivers, 

 pries, etc.. should be puton a bed of live coals 

 for a few .seconds — not long enough to draw 

 the temper, but to destroy everything in the 

 way of microbes that may still be hanging 

 about the articles. Smokers should be 

 painted over with a strong solution of car- 

 bolic acid, anil the fire-cup can be disinfected 

 by making a good, hot. roaring lire in it. 

 Division-boards and bee-feeders, and things 

 like that, should either be immersed in boil- 

 ing water and kept there for a time, or should 

 be dipped in a strong solution of carbolic 

 acid— one part of the acid to filty of water. 

 When I speak of the acid I refer to the crys- 

 tals, and not to the solution that is ordinarily 

 obtained at the drug-stores. 



In burning old combs I would first make a 

 good bonfire and get a lot of live coals; then 

 lay the combs on top of the coals one by one. 

 But do not put them on too fast; and as a 

 further precaution (for the wax sometimes 

 runs down into the ground without becoming 

 sutticiently heated) I would bury the ashes 

 and the ground under them. Put them so 

 far below the surface that neither plow nor 

 spade will ever dig them up. — Gleanings in 

 Bee-Culture. 



Shallow Frames for Comb Honey. 



The tendency among exjiert bee-keepers is 

 toward a shallower frame than the standard 

 Langstroth. Some others prefer the Lang- 

 stroth because it has always given good re- 

 sults. But the other class consider that the 

 frame given us by the father of American bee- 

 keeping is a little too deep. They desire a 

 frame just shallow enough so that there will 

 be no honey, or very little at least, stored in 

 the brood-nest. Said Mr. \'ernon Burt: 



■■ With my shallow frames I often have no 

 more honey in them than the size of a silver 

 dollar; and I estimate that, if my colonies 

 had all been in the shallow hive, I should 

 have secured 20 pounds more per colony." 



This is a strong statement, but Mr. Burt 

 says he is ready to verify it by showing the 

 piles of honey that have come off the shallow 

 frames and the amounts that have come off 

 the deeper ones. While he does not claim 

 the bees would store any more hone.v in one 

 hive than in another, if we inrUide hnth the 

 super and the Ijrood-iiest^ yet he says that, in- 



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