June, 1908. 



American Hee Journal 



catch and cage the queen, move the old hive to 

 a new place, and set the new hive where the 

 old hive stood. The swarm, having no queen, 

 will be sure to return within a few minutes, 

 and findmg its old hive gone wil 



th. 



it left the old one. As 

 e bees are entering the hive, free the queen 

 d let her run into the hive with them. 



Drone-Brood in Worker-Cells. 



1. Is it common to find considerable drone- 

 brood in worker-cells in colonies where all 

 combs were drawn from worker foundation, 

 this drone-brood being started in spring at the 

 beginning of brood-rearing, and a considerable 

 quantity of it being intermixed with the work- 

 er-brood? 



2. I notice it in one of ray 2 colonies, and it 

 seems to be largely in the upper part of the 

 comb. Is it on account of the foundation sag- 

 ging, thus making the cells a trifle larger? 

 The queen in this hive being of last season's 

 rearing, would you think because of this drone- 

 brood in worker-comb that she was inferior? 



Maine. 



Answers. — i. It is not common. 



2. If cells in the upper part of comb are 

 larger because of stretching of foundation, it 

 may have some effect in preventing the queen 

 from laying in these cells, and if she does 

 lay in them the eggs may be drone-eggs. 

 If drone-brood is found only in these enlarged 

 cells, it ought hardly to condemn the queen. 

 If, however, drone-brood is mixed in with the 

 worker-brood, said drone-brood being in worker- 

 cells of regular size, the probability is that the 

 queen is beginning to fail, no matter what her 

 age, and very likely it will not be long till 

 she becomes a drone-layer. 



Controlling Swarming — Average Per 

 Colony. 



1. How do you control swarming in your 

 apiary? I know you would tell in your book, 

 "Forty Years Among the Bees." I have a 

 bee-book and also take two bee-papers, but I 

 would like to know your own method, as I do 

 not like to invest any more money in bees for 

 a while, until I see how I am coming out. 



2. How many colonies of bees have you? 



3. Did you ever try the Heddon hive, or 

 J. E. Hand's method of swarm-control? What 

 do you think of either, or both? 



4. What percent of your colonies swarm? 



Ohio. 

 Answers. — i. I give abundance of super- 

 room, and as much ventilation as can be given 

 without interfering with corab-buildtng in su- 

 pers. My bottom-boards give a space 2 inches 

 deep under bottom-bars. A rack is put into 

 this space during harvest that prevents build- 

 ing down and gives much air. During a good 

 part of the season I shove the super forward 

 so that there is a ^i^ -inch space at the back 

 end between hive and super. About once in 

 10 days I glance through the hives to find 

 whether cells are started. If not far advanced 

 I destroy thera. Sometimes they give up, but 

 10 days later, if they still persist, I take the 

 case in hand. On page 70 of the American 

 Bee Journal is given a way for treating them. 

 If the queen is in any way objectionable, I 

 kill her, and 10 days later give them a new 

 queen. 



2. Never had more than 400 colonies, and 

 have now cut down so that counting nuclei 

 and all there are today (May 25) bees in 141 

 hives, but hardly more than 130 colonies stron«' 

 for the harvest. 



3. I have had no experience with either. 



4. Perhaps not more than one percent swarm 

 and are hived regularly, but I don't know how 

 many swarm out and return; perhaps 10 per- 

 cent. 



Dead Bees and Granulated Honey. 



My neighbor has bees that are dying. The 

 honey has granulated in the hive. What is the 

 reason? Wisconsin. 



Answer. — Without knowing more of the case 

 it is hard to tell what is the trouble. It is 

 possible they are starving, having eaten out all 

 the honey except a little that remains in the 

 form of drv granules. I have known bees to 

 starve even when clover was in bloom, although 

 not yielding. The remedy is to feed at once, 

 either honey or sugar syrup. Sprinkling with 

 water the combs with candied honey may do if 

 there is honey enough left. 



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Dandelion and Apple-Bloom. 



Bees are hatchin;; now. They have been out 

 of the cellar for .^ weeks. A few dandelions 

 are now open. an-I the bees are on the wing. 

 There is no other bloom yet, altbouph apples 

 are nearly out. We hope for a week of this 

 bloom. T. F. Bingham. 



Farwell. Mich.. May 15. 



Extracted Honey. 



The past winter while in Duluth, Minn., I 

 was confronted with something I had not ex- 

 pected to find. I was assured by a gentleman 



who keeps a large grocery store in Duluth, 

 that the honey sold him by a Mr. Kimball, of 

 Minnesota, was m eager demand; in fact, three 

 times the amount was sold to that of comb. 

 He sold the extracted honeyi at 30 cents per 

 poiind. and comb in bee-way sections at 22 

 cents per pound. In some of the other stores 

 I found California extracted honey and comb 

 honey in the plain sections selling at 25 cents 

 per pound, with the preference for comb honey 

 at the other stores. 



I have reasoned that Mr. Kimball has been 

 in the habit of extracting his honey late in 

 the season, as recommended by tbe bee-papers. 

 His honey no doubt is largely raspberry, and 

 that it sells better than California's best, is 

 welcome news for bee-keepers in this section. 



I have read with much interest the articles 

 on comb and extracted honey in the Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Review, and concluae that 1 will nroduce 

 comb honey, as I would rather do so. The 

 new non-swarming methods enable us to do this 

 with ease. By the way, Mr. Davenport, don't 

 vou think the pairing method and also the 

 'false-bottom methods described by tiie contribu- 

 tors of the American Bee Journal, together 

 with the JJudley Tube method as shown by 



