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July, 1913 



American Hee Journal 



ing outfit 1 am now using consists of one 

 cell-bar coiitainins i6 holes with cork plugs 

 to which the cells are attached, and at the 

 end of g or lo days the cylinder cages are 

 slipped over the corks 



Among the thousands of queens I have 

 reared since using this cage, my percentage 

 of loss, as Dr. Miller states, has been ex- 

 ceedingly small, unless from the cause be- 

 fore mentioned. This cage greatly aided me 

 in rearing many premium queens that have 

 brought testimonals by the score. 



Chicago. Ill . May 5. Arthi-r Stanley. 



Notes on European Bees and Honey 



The bees around this section are almost 

 all wiped out by foul brood. liuropean and 

 American. The former disease is mijch 

 more malignant. I shall have to get a dif- 

 ferent breed of bees to withstand the dis- 

 ease. I think I will try the Carniolans: the 

 blacks have not the stamina. 



I was in Europe last year, and saw only 

 the black bee in France. Italy and Germany. 

 The apiaries are all small that I saw. and 

 mostly house apiaries. I went afoot from 

 Chamonix. France, to Zermatt.' Switzerland, 

 about 100 milesaround the Mt. Blancsystem. 



The bees work on clover at Chamonix. 

 and on Alpine roses, which were about 2000 

 feet above Chamonix. This town is aboiit 

 4000 feet above sea level, so the bees gath- 

 ered honey about 6000 feet above sea level 

 and above the timber line. 



At this place men were grading for rail 

 road to Mt. Blanc. It starts from Fayette. 

 The men start to work at 4 o'clock in the 

 morning, and receive about Q cents an hour 

 of our money. It would interest me to know 

 what kind or color of honey they get from 

 the Alpine roses. The honey we had at the 

 hotel was very light and aromatic. I am in- 

 clined to think that all honey gathered at 

 high altitude is light in color. We had honey 

 at all the mountain hotels for breakfast, in 

 cities of coast-traveled Europe also. The 

 price of honey ranged from 25 to 40 cents per 

 pound in glass jars— dearest in Italy and 

 cheapest in England. 



I think it would be a good plan for all bee- 

 keepers in this country to try to introduce 

 honey at hotels. Rohert E. Yeager. 



Cameron Mills. N. Y. 



other colonies, and to start a strong nucleus, 

 so that in the latter part of .June, with two 

 full-depth extracting bodies above an ex- 

 cluder. I did not expect it to swarm at all. 

 But June 28 a swarm issued. I did not think 

 it would do very much, though hived on a 

 full set of combs, so I set it on the stand of 

 the parent colony with the latter beside it. 

 giving one of the supers to each. 



The second evening, as I did not want to 

 weaken the parent colony too much. I took 

 it away entirely, having destroyed all the 

 queen-cells I did not want, but leaving two 

 or three for a short time. 



The next day. just 50 hours from the time 

 the prime swarm issued, the old queen came 

 out again with a swarm. Giving them a- 

 sprinkle while they were clustering. I made 

 a hasty examination of the hive they had 

 left, and found 2l-i frames of eggs; every- 

 thing else plugged with honey above and be- 

 low, and a medium-sized colony of bees left. 

 Well. I was not quick-witted enough to do 



Cool in Ontario 



We are having very dry weather here now 

 and cool nights. Minimum temperature 

 last night 33 degrees. We need rain to bring 

 on the clover. My bees are working hard 

 on wild cherry blossoms just now. Our Mus- 

 koka woods are full of wild raspberries 

 thimble berries, and a great variety of wild 

 flowers. We are a few miles south of the 

 45th parallel. 



I like the journal very much. 



W. H. Cross. 



Gravenhurst. Ont., May i8." 



Foul Brood Lessening — Bulletin Does 

 Good 



Bees are booming on white clover and 

 raspberries; in fact, Iroquois county is a 

 bee-paradise this year, and foul brood is 

 less. I have inspected 200 colonies, and only 

 g were diseased, while last year with a less 

 number there were 75 diseased. This year 

 I find foul broodonly with those bee-keepers 

 who say. " I never look at my bees." 



The bulletin that our State Inspector, Mr. 

 Kildow, distributed is the best I ever saw 

 on foul brood, for it is as plain as can be 

 made. I took a man in Sheldon, with the 

 bulletin, out to see his bees, and I opened his 

 hives. "You have European foul brood." I 

 said, "look at the bulletin." He looked at 

 the cut, then at his comb, and said. "It is 

 worth ten dollars to me to have it made so 

 plain." Where bee-men take an interest in 

 their bees they are bound to succeed. 



Watseka. III. Jesse H. Roberts. 



DepNtv //ts/'cclor. 



The Prime Swarm on Parent Stand 



I notice in a recent issue of the American 

 Bee Journal, the plan advocated of putting 

 the prime swarm on the parent stand with 

 the parent colony beside it, and then later 

 moving the parent colony away, for two rea- 

 sons : to avoid secondary swarms and to 

 make the prime swarm strong. I used the 

 plan to some extent during the summer 0/ 

 IQI2. and it is good, but there are exceptions. 



One colony on which the plan was tried 

 was extra strong. It had supplied brood to 



what should have been done, so I hived the 

 swarm that cameout— extra large this time- 

 on a full set of foundation and an empty 

 super above, and put them on a new stand. 

 I exchanged one of the frames of eggs for a 

 frame of brood with a queen-cell, and that 

 bunch built up into a nice colony. 



What I should have done was to put the 

 swarm with queen back on the old stand, 

 put the eggs in. and stack up extracting 

 bodies three or four high. That extra 

 swarm cost me 100 pounds of honey. 



Wesley L Roberts. 



Lime RidE.e. Wis.. Mav 13. 



[In the above case, the swarm was taken 

 away, instead of the parent colony. The re- 

 'sultwas sure to be different, as it left the 

 parent colony much strengthened. Those 

 divers experiences are very good informi- 

 ti:)n for beginners.— Editor 1 



Mr John Wallace, ok Grand Junction. Colo., and a Bottom-Board with 

 Feeder Attachment. 



Fine Yellow 



Italian bees & queens. If 

 vou need a fine yellow 

 Queen quick, try Faien 

 and you will order more. 

 Extra fine queen, only 

 $1.00; untested. 75C. 3-fr 

 nucleus, only $2.75. Full 

 colony in 8-fr. hive with 

 fine tested queen, $5.50. 



J. L. Fajen, Stover, Mo. 



BREEDING QUEENS . . . 



Can be sent out any time after Mayi. 

 We have a choice lot of Italian queens 

 at J2 50. $5.00. and $10.00. Xo untested 

 queens before July. Send f.^r circular. 



Doolittle & Clark, - - Marietta, N. Y. 

 Oiioiidag-o County 



