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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Oct. 17, 1901. 



The New vs. the Old. 



I started in the spring- with 47 colonies, 6 of 

 them too weak to give any surplus: increased 

 to 85, have doubled back to 79, and taken off 

 3800 pounds of honey, mostly extracted, and 

 plenty of stores left for winter. 



The above has been done where bees in five 

 box-gums could not exist together for want 

 of flowers. I give the improved hive and the 

 Italian bee credit for the above. 



L. W. McRae. 



Washington Co., Ala.. Oct. 2. 



Honey Conditions in Nevada. 



The Nevada State Journal (Washoe Coun- 

 ty's leading paper), says: 



" Nevada's honey crop is almost a failure. 

 Around here the bee-men are telling the same 

 story." 



Such is the fact, all things considered. I 

 have averaged 40 pounds per colony, and for 

 the season I think I have taken the prize in 

 this locality. I know of some who have 

 secured only 50 cases of comb honey from 200 

 colonies; others have secured none at all. 

 Although honey is scarce, buyers are offering 

 only from 9 to 10 cents for comb, and 4 to 5 

 cents for extracted. The A. I. Root Co. have 

 a man in the field that is offering the best 

 prices— 10 cents for comb, and 5 cents for ex- 

 tracted. No sales have been made as yet, as 

 we are after higher prices, if possible. 



"Nevada Sage-Brcsh." 



Washoe Co., Nev., Oct. 2. 



Slow Honey-DealeFs. 



I shipped to B. Presley & Co., St. Paul, 

 Minn., on .July 31, 1901, 675 pounds of as nice 

 white honey as was ever put into cases, and 

 lor two months I could not get a word from 

 them— not even an acknowledgement of the 

 receipt of the honey. Finally, after getting 

 an attorney to write them, they sent me the 

 sum of S6S.50, or a trifle over 10 cents per 

 pound. C. H. Harlan. 



Kanabec Co., Minn.. Oct. 5. 



Good Season for Honey. 



This has been a fairly prosperous year, not- 

 withstanding the extended drouth. The 

 weather during the summer was fair and free 

 from storms and wind, thus giving an unusual 

 number of working days. We had a heavy 

 run early in the season from catnip ; white 

 clover, also red clover, being dwarfed by the 

 drouth, was visited more frequently than 

 common by the bees; and we also had a fairly 

 good fall flow from heartsease, goldenrod, and 

 many other flowers that secrete only during 

 dry, hot weather. 



My surplus at home is 407 pounds to the 

 colony, spring count, from 75 colonies; one 

 colony stored 629 pounds, one-fourth of it in 

 sections. Another finished up 437 one-pound 

 sections. I hived 50 swarms, which will amply 

 pay all expenses. I sold 105 colonies for ?;525, 

 and the latter part of May I had a chance to 

 sell .500 colonies for S3.500, but during the 

 negotiations the heavy June How came on, 

 and I refused to sell. I produce section 

 honey, extracted, and chunk honey, and sell 

 all of it without regard to color for 15 cents 

 per pound, mostly to local dealers in this and 

 adjoining towns. 



I am engaged in quite a number of other 

 enterprises in connection with bees. Many 

 neighboring farmers, who own their own 

 farms, valued at .?8000 to S14,000 each, inform 

 me that their average annual profits do not 

 exceed -5800, while my average profits from 

 sales of honey and bees from my home apiary 

 have been for 16 years 300 percent on the in- 

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I am one who believes bees pay, and pay 

 better than almost any other kind of business. 

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tinancially, and not tor health or pleasure. I 

 think an industrious person who would ordi- 

 narily succeed in other affairs will do so in 

 handling bees, but the man who has failed at 

 farming or mercantile business I would not 

 advise to go into the bee-business. 



J. L. Gandt. 

 Richardson Co., Nebr., Oct. 3. 



An "Infallible" Method of IntPO- 

 dueing Queens. 



Bees are subject to more modes of manipu- 

 lation than any other domestic animal we 

 have. There are all kinds and shapes of 

 hives, all sizes of frames and sections, differ- 

 ent makes of foundation, and different ways 

 of introducing queens, all of which go to 

 "rattle'' the amateur, and place him in a 

 state of flux. A will say, " My hive is the 

 only one." B says, " My way of manipulat- 

 ing bees is the best way ;" and now here I am 

 saying that my way of introducing queens is 

 infallible. Yes, infallible only in colonies 

 where a laying queen has been taken out 

 within a very few days, say not to exceed 

 four, and there is lots of hatching brood, and 

 this may be done just as soon as the old 

 queen is removed. When you have found the 

 old queen, and killed her or disposed of her 

 in some other way to suit your convenience, 

 take every bee out of the cage containing the 

 new queen, and lift a frame from the hive 

 and put into the cage from 1.5. to 20 youny 

 been from one hour to one day old, being 

 doubly sure there are no old bees put into 

 the cage. Remove thecorkor cardboard, and 

 in from 24 to 48 hours the queen will be liber- 

 ated and laving. I have had them out in six 

 hours. 



Queens are very nervous little things, and 

 when the cage is "filled up with the little in- 

 nocent, fuzzy things, she is contented, and 

 the colony at once will say, " Look at the 

 new queen; why, the cage is full of our own 

 bees;" and they do not molest her. '• So we 

 will hustle her out," and surely they will, 

 and when she emerges from the cage her 

 nervousness has all disappeared, and she takes 

 up her duties and commences laying in a very 

 short time. I even take my imported queens 

 now and introduce them in this way. This 

 may not be my own invention, yet I have 

 never seen it mentioned, but perhaps it has 

 been ; but some amateur may profit by it, 

 nevertheless. A. D. D. Wood. 



Ingham Co., Mich. 



PooraSeason— Old Bee-Books, Etc. 



I am a new scholar in J*ee-keeping. I 

 bought two colonies last fall ; one swarmed, 

 and I captured it. The season was poor, and 

 I will feed to carry them over winter. I did 

 not get a taste of honey. Although my 

 first attempt is a failure I will continue; that 

 is the reason I sent my dollar for membership 

 in the National Bee-Keepers' Association. 



I have been deeply impressed b.v the high 

 character. Christian spirit and brotherly love 

 shown, each to the other, at the bee-keepers' 

 conventions and rallies. I would have en- 

 joyed meeting the brethren (and sisters, too) 

 at Buffalo, and receiving advice and pointers 

 (though I have received some pointed ones 

 from the bees). 



I love to read the American Bee Journal so 

 much that I feel lost when I do not have it 

 with me. 



I have just read three old books on bee- 

 keeping — one by Moses Rusden, .July 18, 1679, 

 dedicated to the "King's Most Excellent 

 Majesty." This book is in four sections, has 

 143 pages, gives very clear the habits, and 

 nature, and functions, of the "king-bee;" 

 tells how to handle bees (iip-to-ilate, l!M)l.'), 

 how to construct hives, treats on diseases of 

 bees, etc., and closes his volume with, " If 

 any man knows anything more than I impart, 

 let him disclose it; otherwise, improve with 

 me this art." 



The next book is by Thomas Wildman, 

 1770, " A Treatise on the Management of 

 Bees." His writings are very clear and en- 

 joyable to peruse. He describes a movable- 

 frame hive (^wiVc np-lo-ilate .'). The engrav- 

 ings are remarkable and fine. He quotes many 

 of the older writers. I wish you could read, 

 this book for its many interesting points. 



