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comb, and a pound of bees from your black 

 colony, and they will raise a queen and | 

 get her to laying "just as well as to keep the 

 whole stock employed in doing this. After 

 tlie queen gets to laying, remove your black 

 queen, and take the queen from tlie nucleus, 

 and introduce to tliem. Tliis oii^lit not to 

 take (wer 48 hours, while by yiuir plan it 

 would take two or three weeks. It is always 

 poor economy to keep a strong colony of 

 bees waiting for a queen to be laised in the 

 usual way. This is wliere the atlvautag^ of 

 having nuclei comes in. Whenever a queen 

 is lost, or one is to be replaced, we should be 

 able to get a queen from some luicleus or 

 some weak colony. After-swarms often fui- 

 nish ail extra queen when wanted, and on 

 this account I think it is well to hive and 

 care for every after-swarm. aUhoiigli it con- 

 tains no more tlian a jiint of bees. If you 

 can not get a lajiiig (pieeii, a (pieeii-cell 

 makes us usually a full week alicad, and we 

 can often get (jueen-cells from some colony 

 that happens to be raising cells, or some col- 

 ony that is pieparing to swarm. 



ANOTHER REASON WHY IT PAYS TO 

 TAKE A BEE-JOURNAL. 



KKi;i"iN(; iii:i:s as a speciai.tv, oit iia\i.\(i otmkii 



KINDS OF Bl'SI.NKSS. 



«B()UT the flrstof last Deceinher I was templ- 

 ed, by seeing a copy of O LEAN i.NC.s, to send 

 you my subscription for sumo, and now 1 

 <^ati not see how I did without it or how you 

 can iiirord to furnish such a practical jour- 

 nal for the price. Hut while you have gaiiied my 

 future subscription, you have lost my order for 

 sections, as I find by a manufacturers adsertise- 

 ment in (Ilkaninos that 1 can buy close at home, 

 and yet [ hnd to go to Ohio to find out that fact. 



t)f my 40 stands, but 30 produced surplus honey; 

 but the 30 produced over 12.'',0 lbs. comb honey <we 

 extract none), in boxes holding 1»' to l.'i lbs., worth 

 l;jii cts. per lb., or fl.V). My total expense for sur- 

 plus boxes, marketing, etc., I estinuited at al)()ul 

 $30.00; net profit, about SU'u. 



I did not expend over a week in attending^ to my 

 bees all summer; but 1 gave them attention at the 

 l)ropertime. I laid down the grain-cradh^ in the 

 midst of harvest, to make and jjut on extra surplus 

 boxes, so as to kc^ep the l)usy little fellows at work, 

 and right faithfully they did it, rolling in the nec- 

 tar sweet wliile I was binding the golden sheaves. 



You see, 1 am a one horse farmer, and 1 also grow 

 fruits, stiawberries, grai)es, some wheat, corn, 

 hay, an<l garden truck f.jr sale. I believe in mixed 

 husbandry. During the winter I am engaged in 

 teaching, one mile from my home. I am busy 

 every day in the year except Sunday, and partly 

 that day also, as 1 have a class in our Sabbath- 

 school. I don't know any thing about hard times, 

 as I keep my hands and brain busy, work hard, 

 sleep soundly, keep a clear conscience, follow the 

 golden rule, drink no intoxicating drinks, neither 

 smoke nor chew, keep my barn well filled, have a 

 wife well willed, and an only sou, an excellent lad 

 who is a young bee-keeper. 



For some years I used the American hive with its 

 sunken top, but found that a nuisance, and cut 

 them all down to a level top. 



My neighbors wonder how I get so much more 

 honey than they. Why, by simply keeping them at 

 work while the honey lasts. When the honey sea- 

 son in over, no use to give empty cases. T always 

 keep an empty honey-case on top of the brood- 

 chamber, in winter time, for upward ventilation, as 

 I find that, where the brood-chamber is covered 

 lightly, the combs get quite moldy toward spring. 

 I think my bees have paid me mere than lOJ per 

 cent per .\ejir since I have had them, l>ut I don't 

 think it will pay nine out of ten who engage in bee- 

 keeping to depend on bees entirely fur a livelihood. 

 I never calculate on any net proceeds from my bees 

 until I have the honey crop stored. As an adjunct 

 to other things 1 feel sure it will pay those who give 

 them proper attention. Count me as a subscriber 

 toGt.KANiNfis as long as 1 keej) bees. 



Green Spring Furnace, Md. F. (J. KiN>iKi.i.. 



JONES BEE-ENTBANCE GUARD. 



DIRE* TIO.NS KOK ISE, AFTEK SEVEUAI. VEAHS' EX- 

 PEKIENCE. 



f?rnniS device is to be placed over tlie en- 

 CVy trance of the hive in such a way that 

 H the projecting pieces of zinc, which 

 -*- look like teeth, rest directly on the 

 bottom-board. These teeth-like pro- 

 jections will be easilv recognized in the cut 

 below, altliough we make them with a 

 scpiare wooden block at each end now, 

 instead of having them all of metal, as 

 shown in tlie picture. Tlie iinplcmeiit liad 



ESTRA.VCE-filAriD EOU SKPAUATI .\(1 DKONES FROM 

 WORKERS. 



better be fastened in place by a couple of 

 screws or light nails. If used on a chaff 

 hive you will have to fasten a little strip of 

 board" just below the entrance : for the por- 

 tico hive, it rests on the alighting-board just 

 as it is. To use it on a Simplicity hive, you 

 will need the alighting-board shown below. 



AI.U.IITINC-BOAHI) FOR SIMPLICITY HIVE. 



Cut away the (mtside corners of each of the 

 three corner-blocks until the entrance-guard 

 rests on the alighting-board. Fasten it as 

 before, then move the hive forward until 

 the front end of the hive strikes the en- 

 trance-guard. If any other hive than those 

 mentioned, modify according to circum- 

 stances, as per directions above. After hav- 

 ing it fixed over] the entrance, perhaps the 

 simplest way to dispose of all the drones is 

 to remove all the combs from the hive, shake 

 off bees, queen, diones. and all on the ground 

 in front of the hive. Put back the 

 combs and replace the cover. The worker- 



