American Hee Journal 



March, 1915. 



which the smoke had to be blown or 

 fanned on the bees. This seemed to 

 be just enough to enrage them. Be- 

 sides, they were dangerous when not 

 disturbed. More than once I got 

 vengeance by burning a colony. When 

 my first smoker and veil came I had a 

 colony of such bees in a box hive ban- 

 ished to the most remote corner of my 

 land, in an almost impassable place of 

 brush and briers. I put my veil on, 

 got the smoker in fine trim, and went 

 for this hive. I completely covered 

 them with smoke and gave them z ^'ood 

 rol>bi>!,i,' and left them to do their worst; 

 then 1 transferred them. 



On this little job the smoker and 

 veil were worth far more to me than 

 they cost. In a few days I ordered an 

 Italian queen, and when she arrived I 

 paid this colony another call, killed its 

 queen and introduced the new one, and 

 the furious black bees rapidly disap- 

 peared. I had an altogether different 

 colony of bees in color and temper. 



Try my plan on your cross colony. 



Fears Ravages of Thieves 



" Mr. Wilder : — My bees have done 

 well for a long time, and I now have 

 100 colonies here, and am thinking of 

 taking 50 colonies to a new location 

 about 4 miles away, near a small town, 

 but no one lives near the location. It 

 is in a wealthy community and they do 

 not want any beekeepers there. I fear 

 damage will be done my bees. Would 

 you move any of them there ? Is there 

 any way I can protect them from 

 thieves or keep people from harming 

 them? What should I offer for the 

 location should I decide to move 

 them ? Do thieves ever trouble you, 

 and what do you do about it ? 



"Stanford, Ky. J.M.Ware." 



If you expect to make much increase 

 this season, it would be best to move 

 half your bees to a new location. But 

 whether you should move them to the 

 location you have in mind is a ques- 

 tion. If it is a very desirable one on 

 account of the great amount of honey 

 plants and convenient to market, you 

 might do so. Be sure the location is 

 on a good and influential man's land, 

 and that he will protect your enterprise 

 on his premises. As to keeping thieves 

 away from your bees, it will be rather 

 hard to ^lo, but signs of warning set up 

 or tacked on trees near the apiary will 

 help some. Watch for them, catch one, 

 make him pay damages in court. This 



G. PIANA. BALDUCCI, C. CARLINI, 



DADANT. 

 APIARY 



PROF. COTINI AT THE PIANA 



HONIiY PRODUCING APIARY OF GAETANO PIANA 



will stop it for the future. 



The land owner should not charge 

 you over $10 a year for the location, 

 possibly less. Yes, thieves give me 

 much trouble, and we have lots of them 

 who do damage, destroy and carry 

 away honey each season, or carry off 

 colonies and destroy them. 



Notes From <^ Ab r oad 



By C. I' Dadant. 



Faenza, our next stop, is the city 

 where the style of pottery called 

 "faience" originated. There are still 

 several factories of this material there. 

 It is a city of only about Ki.OOO inhabi- 

 tants. We reached the hotel late in 

 the evening. The pretty, plump, dark- 

 eyed landlady first gave us a very small 



room, but when our good friends ex- 

 plained to her what distinguished (?) 

 visitors we were, she broke into a 

 great exclamation, and at once con- 

 ducted us to what must have been the 

 bridal chamber of the hotel, a large 

 room, with a very high arched ceiling 

 and beautiful wall and ceiling paint- 



ings. It looked like a church nave. 

 W '. have no small churches in America 

 so beautifully finished. 



The following day we had a great 

 meeting of beekeepers and a banquet, 

 and you should have seen us trying to 

 talk Italian. However, we had a fine 

 interpreter in Mr. Triaca, whom we 

 kept busy answering questions. After 

 the banquet. Count Visconti made a 

 speech in Italian, of which I under- 

 stood very little, but it must have been 

 finely appreciated, from the applause 

 it drew. Then a photographer came 

 to make a picture of the meeting, 

 which we give, and after that we had 

 an automobile ride. We traveled some 

 1.5 miles, through a pretty country, just 

 at the foot of the Apennines, visited 

 four or five towns and several apiaries. 

 The finest apiaries we saw were those 

 of Gaetano Plana, whom I have men- 

 tioned in a previous article and of 

 Lucio Paglia. .At the Plana home, the 

 mother was much interested in us, be- 

 cause one of her sons, only 17 years 

 old, had left shortly before for South 

 America. It seemed to her as if she 



