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the hive to act as a bait for the laying workers. I 

 next placed a new hive on the old stand, giving it 

 some frames with eggs and brood to see if the field 

 bees on returning would start quecnoells. I was 

 much plf.Tsed to tind the plan successful and queen- 

 cells started, and so gave a ripe queen-coll which 

 duly hatched, and the queen was accepted. 



To return to the old hive with its single frame, 

 1 found there sufficient bee« to cover only this one 

 frame, and to save tluse I shook them up with the 

 bees of another hive in the apiary with which they 

 united quietly and i)eaceably. This latter plan may 

 be dangerous, as the laying workers might kill the 

 queen in their new quarters; but I felt the chances 

 were against it, which proved to be the case. The 

 whole plan wa-s extremely simple, and proved very 

 effective; and I hope if any of your readers try it 

 they may also report success. 

 C. HoQ.AN', Sec. Annapolis Valley Branch Maritime 



Beekeepers' Association. 



Port Williams, Nova Scotia. 



The Beekeeper's Opportunity 



With a bountiful harvest, and tlio market any- 

 thing but favorable on account of the European 

 war, beekeepers have an excellent opportunity to 

 try advertising as a means of disposing of their 

 honey. The consumers would use more honey than 

 they do at present if the many excellent points of 

 this article of diet were kept more constantly before 

 them. Think of the " slump " in breakfast food 

 si;les if the manufacturers were to cease their ad- 

 vertising for a month! 



Mr. W. W. Lourance, of Ccnterville, Texas, has 

 for several years past sold his honey by inserting 

 the following small advertisement in the classified 

 columns of a farm paper which circulates largely 

 among the Texas cotton, fruit, and truck growers : 



Honey that will please you at right prices. 

 Bulk comb and extracted; one-gallon pails, five-gal- 

 lon cans, freight paid. 



HONEYDALE .VPIARIES, Box 43, Centerville Tex. 



" We have been blessed with a bountiful harvest 

 this season," says Mr. Lourance. "And I find this 

 little advertisement one of the best means in secur- 

 inir a market for my honey." 



The newspaper offers the man with honey to sell 

 a medium by which he can multiply his possible 

 customers from a few hundred into many thousands. 

 Too long have we neglected to use this powerful 

 means in helping to secure a market for our prod- 

 ucts. 



Beeville, Texas. Maurice Fi.ovd. 



Why Eobbers should Not be Trapped 



In Glkaximos for October 1.5, last year, I noticed 

 an article bearing the title " Trapping Kobbers Not 

 Recommended;" and the answer given by Chas. II. 

 Cargo as follows: "Because it puts the bees in an 

 inferior hive while killing out another and stronger 

 hive." 



If it is one of his own colonies that is doing the 

 robbing, then he docs not lose much by letting them 

 rob; but if it is some other beekeeper's bees that 

 are doing the robbing, then he loses all but a little 

 comb that may remain in the hive after the robbing. 

 Uobbing bothers but little the beekeeper who is on 

 his job. 



I would not recommend trapping robbers, be- 

 cause it may lead to the trapping of not only robbers 

 but bees that are in search of food for the purpose 

 of building up new colonies at some other beekeep- 

 er's expense or loss. 



I took an empty hive, put some honey in it, and 

 set the hive outdtors where my neighbor's bees 

 could get at it. By leaving the entrance open for 



twenty-four hours or longer, thousands of his bees 

 found the honey and were at work carrying it away. 

 But I soon stopped this by putting three robber- 

 traps (Porter bee-escapes) into the entrance of the 

 liive. In a few hours I liad a hive full of trapped 

 bees. Now, all that I had to do was to introduce 

 a queen, then I would have a new colony at ray 

 neighbor's expense; but, no — I let them go. It was 

 au experiment thivt I was trying, and I found that 

 it worked. But there may be people who would 

 trap bees for the purpose mentioned above if they 

 only knew liow. So it would not be wise to recom- 

 mend trapping robbers. 



Meadville, Pa. A. B. McGuibe. 



Fall Honey-plants 



Oakland County, Michigan, sliould have been 

 named Lake County, as there arc 28;^ named lakes 

 and 100 that are not named. Around these lakes 

 are acres and acres of wild flowers, such as golden- 

 rod, wild asters, boneset, and a plant that resem- 

 bles boneset very much, and from which the bees 

 gather large quantities of honey of a light-amber 

 color. There is a plant that has a small white flow- 

 er, and blooms after the frost kills the others. I 

 have seen bees on this plant up to the first of 

 November, and have counted seven bees on a small 

 twig. There are hundreds of flowers on a single 

 plant. Then we have a plant that grows 5 to 7 

 feet high that has a blue flower on which the bees 

 work in large quantities. 



There are 50 different varieties of goldenrod 

 alone, besides different varieties of asters, boneset, 

 spearweed, buckwheat, and several other kinds of 

 fall dowers that grow around these lakes in great 

 abundance. The goldenrod is just coming into 

 bloom now ; and if the frost holds off, and we have 

 warm weather during the next two weeks, thousands 

 of acres can be seen. 



I have taken 00 lbs. per colony of extracted honey 

 from these fall honey-plants, after leaving 25 to 30 

 lbs. to winter on. The honey is very thick. If left 

 on the hives until it is all capped over, it is almost 

 impossible to extract it. In the northern part of 

 the state there are thousands of acres of waste land 

 — yes, hundreds of thousands of acres — that was 

 timbered over and that have gone back to the state, 

 as the owners would not pay the taxes on it. Tho 

 waste land has grown up to wild red raspberries 

 and other wild flowers. 



The lamented W. Z. Hutchinson took 15 colonies 

 up to this waste land and increased them to 150, 

 and wintered the 150, then got a large crop of 

 honey, and sold it at 10 cents per pound. 



Rochester, Mich., Aug. 28. J. M. KlNZln. 



Bobbing 



Occurred in late September, when the days, as I 

 remember, were shading, growing cooler, with the 

 frost not far away. I enrolled my hives in ntimber 

 'fore I left them to their slumber, and prepared 

 them for the coming of their resurrection day. 



Ifcard a wicked little bee with her hum exultant- 

 Ifcc had been tippling in the barroom of an unde- 

 fended hive. Somehow so it chanced as into hives 

 I glanced, I was tackled, worsted, routed, scarcely 

 saved myself alive. 



Garbed with yards and yards of netting, veil and 

 smoker not forgetting, forth I beat it to the riot like 

 a Yaqui to the fight. First the entrance neatly 

 covered where the robbing I discovered; left them 

 shrouded with the netting till the coming of the 

 night. 



V/lien the evening lamps were lit I could feel 

 that all was fit. My forty hives I'd cellared, and 

 was left in peace to sit. 



Fennviile, Mich Emii,V Jackson. 



