Nov. 28, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



763 



and her daughter were together. In that 

 caBe I lose the imported queen. Now for my 

 never-failing plan : 



First, I have a wire-cloth tent that sets over 

 the hive, with room for me to work under. I 

 take the smoker, and make the bees fill them- 

 selves with honey by rapping on the hive, 

 etc., and in five to ten minutes I open the 

 hive and take out each frame until I find and 

 kill the old ([ueen; and as I take out the 

 frames I set each one outside of the hive in a 

 box the size of the hive, with a bottom- 

 board attached. I then shake all the bees 

 from each frame to the ground directly in 

 front of the hive, with alighting-board re- 

 moved, and then replace each frame in the 

 hive. 



Understand, the old queen is now dead, the 

 bees are all on the ground, and the frames 

 back in the hive. 



I now replace the alighting-board, and they 

 immediately start to crawl in; after about 

 1-4 or 1-5 of them have crawled in, I take the 

 queen I wish to introduce and drop her in a 

 cup of extracted honey, take her out and 

 drop her on the alighting-board near the en- 

 trance. I then close the hive (if I failed to do 

 so sooner), raise a side of the tent and get 

 out, leaving the tent over them until they are 

 quiet. 



I have introduced in this way at all seasons 

 of the year, from April to October, and have 

 yet to lose the first queen, and I have intro- 

 duced hundreds in this manner. I can guar- 

 antee safe introduction in every case where 

 the instructions are strictly carried out. If 

 bees are thoroughly filled with honey, and 

 enough smoke used to keep away prowlers, 

 you can introduce a laying queen at any time, 

 and I have not yet failed in introducing virgin 

 queens in this manner. T. .J. Baxtek. 



Craven Co., N. C. 



Poorest Hone.y Season in 15. 



I have kept bees for about 1.5 years, and 

 this has been the poorest season for honey in 

 this locality I have ever experienced. People 

 out West seem to think honey-dew is no 

 good, but we think it is strictly first<dass. 

 and are always glad to see it come. Three 

 cheers for Prof. Cook's article on patent 

 medicines, on page 698. Hit 'em again, Prof 

 Cook. ' Harry P. Gkogan. 



Scott Co., Va., Nov. 2. 



Spring Dwindling and Its Cause. 



I have not been in the bee-business long, 

 and can not compare with those great, big 

 fellows at the Bullalo convention. It seems 

 that the bee-keepers «?£ fear spring dwindling, 

 and that was one of the first subjects dis- 

 cussed by that worthy body. My experience 

 has been, that with proper food and all 

 tucked up snug and warm, yet one thing 

 lacketh here in southern Ohio. It seems as 

 if winter and summer have this section for 

 their battle-ground — first one victorious and 

 then the other. Bees generally can find pol- 

 len by March 20, about which time a few 

 warm days swell the maple-buds, when the 

 bees rush forth, and, of course, cornmence 

 brood-rearing. This condition lasts long 

 enough to stimulate brood-rearing, wheu, un- 

 expectedly. Old Winter makes a charge from 

 the north west,and drives the mercury down to 

 10 degrees below the freezing point, holding 

 this position for from three to six days. The 

 bees remain quiet for a day or two, or until 

 the supply of water in the hive is exhausted, 

 and the brood is ready to die for want of it; 

 then the little martyrs go forth, rain or snow, 

 aud never return, and there you have a gen- 

 uine case of spring dwindling in the strongest, 

 well-paeked and provisioned colonies, none 

 exempt. 



I passe<l through just such an experience 

 last March, and again in April, yet I lost no 

 t)ees, though some of my neighbors did. I 

 looked out one evening in March, when the 

 snow was eight inches deep, and still falling, 

 and I saw a sight that almost took my breath 

 — thousands of bees flying, so it seemed to 

 me. I rushed out to find the siu>w covered 

 with them. I closed the entrances of the 

 hives, and in 10 minutes they came up be- 

 tween the hives and boxes I had them packed 



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