Nov. 28. 1901 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



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wiiiterinj,' llii'ir Iji'fs above ground. My bees 

 were not ))iciiarecl us Mr. McEvoy e-\piainpd 

 to us at till' BiilTalo convention — Ihey were 

 simply put in the bee-house with a full hive 

 of frames and honey, and tiered four hi^j^li. 

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 Allegany Co., N. Y., Nov. 3. 



Bees "Away Up North." 



Last tall we had tliree fine colonies of bees, 

 filling two stories each, but the winter proved 

 too much tor them. We had 4^^ months of 

 continued cold weatlier, there being scarcely 

 a day when they could leave their hives tor a 

 Wight, so when we opened them it was to find 

 them all dead except a handful on the top ot 

 hive No. 2, which we put into a new one and 

 made them cozy. We did not think it ot any 

 use to give them a queen until July li— they 

 looked as it they meant to stay, not losing a 

 single bee. I was sorry we lost so much time, 

 but got a queen introduced; two days later I 

 put a hole through the candy in the cage with 

 an awl, and waited three weeks, when 1 found 

 the queen still a prisoner. I opened the cage 

 and let her down with her attendants, and to 

 all appearances all were thankfully received. 

 It was interesting to see those old bees renew- 

 ing their youth and guarding their hive with 

 such an air of importance when the few yel- 

 low babies came out for their first play-spell 

 — those bees must have been about 10 months 

 old. I wonder where they have gone. I 

 would have given them a decent funeral had 

 they not taken themselves away ; but I think 

 they died happy, and I am not at all sorry 

 that this year has been a failure, as I have 

 had some needed lessons and much enjoj- 

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I am as much interested in the bees as ever, 

 although I am not beyond the one precious 

 colony. I am as fond of the American Bee 

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Muskoka, tint,, Canada, Nov. 5. 



Workers Decide as to Brood-Rearing. 



A good deal of previous observation, and 

 closer observation this fall, lead me to believe 

 that the rule is that queens continue laying 

 for a time after workers cease rearing brood 

 in the fall. At least, it is a very common 

 thing to find eggs and sealed brood present, 

 but no unsealed brood. — A Stray Straw in 

 Gleanings in Bee Culture. 



Deep vs. Shallow Brood=Franies. 



For a long time I have been on the fence — 

 undecided which to choose. Each kind 

 seemed to possess some advantages. I did 

 not want to give up, so I kept using halt-sto- 

 ries and full stories, shallow and deep (11 

 inches) frames in equal numbers. I can get 

 along very well in my home yard with the 

 shallow hives; but when it comes tooutyards, 

 give me deep-frame hives, every time. In 

 stocking up an outyard Iwasohliged to make 

 out the desired number partly with half-story 

 hives. I anticipated dilliculties at the time, 

 and I found them when it came to managing 

 the hives. When two or more sectional hives 

 are used as one, the combs or frames of the 

 upper section will generally be more or less 

 fastened to the lower one by bits of comb or 

 otherwise, making it unpleaeant to separate 

 the two; then it requires so much more hand- 

 ling of frames to get through a hive just when 

 time is most valuable that it almost seems like 

 wasting it. When using only one shailuw 

 chamljer as a hive, the bees have a way of 

 boiling over as soon as opened up, which is 

 very annoying. 



r used tij tliink that the shallow frame 

 would be very nice for nuclei; but after try- 

 ing it for years by the side of deep frames it 

 does not suit nu- nearly as well as the latter. 

 I can And queens much quicker on a deep | 



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