Jan. 29, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



77 



Imnch just large enoujjh to lill the smoker, 

 aiul just loucU a match to it, and you aru 

 ready for business. You may set your smoker 

 down, and when you piclt it up it is all ready 

 for business; it will not go out when ouce 

 tilled, and lasts nearly half a day. 



As to shade-boards, 1 make tbem with shin- 

 gles and strips, say Ix-'i inch, shingles only 

 one thickness. As to size, any man can 

 choose what suits him best. It it did not 

 take so much time and space I would give my 

 plan of putting them together. 



Our honey crop in this part of Minnesota 

 was not good. I commenced last spring with 

 00 colonies, and took about '.'.iO pounds of 

 comb honey. I put Ul colonies into winter 

 quarters. E. B. Hcffm.\n. 



Winona Co., Minn., Jan. 2. 



Bee-Keeping in Cuba. 



The Gleaniutrs in Bee-Culture's man "Ram- 

 bler.'' and other Americans with bees in their 

 bonnets, have invaded the western end of our 

 beautiful Island, but I want to tell you this 

 I.aGloria Colony is rapidly branching out is 

 the bee-industry. 



We have had the preliminary meetings of 

 bee-keepers, representing several hundred 

 colonies of bees, looking to the formation of 

 •■The Eastern Cuba Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion." Our aim is to represent several thou- 

 sand colonies of bees, audco-operatein knowl- 

 edge. Then, too, we aim to join the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, if permissible, and 

 get in with the National commercial organiza- 

 tion, if one is formed. 



Our field for honey-production is good — 

 royal and other palms, black mangroves, and 

 many varieties of flowers through the woods. 



Cuba,'Dec. 6. Dr. E. M. Davidson. 



Poorest Crop in 30 years. 



Our last years' honey crop was one of the 

 poorest in my 30 years' experience in bee- 

 keeping. Some of my colonies began to 

 starve by Sept. 1, consequently I fed all the 

 bees in the month of September, and hope to 

 get them through the winter all right. Pros- 

 pects for next season are very good. 



Johnson Co., Kans. M. Zahner. 



Introducing Queens. 



The past season was a very poor one here, 

 very little comb honey. 



As 1 have never seen it in print, I will tell 

 the way I introduce a queen, and have never 

 lost one by this way ; 



The next morning after the queen arrives I 

 remove her from the colony I wish to intro- 

 duce her, and wait until they get to the 

 height of their excitement, as bees always are 

 when their queen is lost. I then place two 

 little sticks, 'Vxl inch thick, just far enough 

 apart so the cage of the queen comes in will a 

 little more than reach, and set them on top of 

 the frames, so the queen will not be over the 

 space between two frames; and put an empty 

 super on the hive, put on the cover, and leave 

 the colony entirely alone for four days, so as 

 to give the bees plenty of time to eat the 

 candy out and release the queen. 



■If the bees should happen to start queen- 

 cells you can wait two days and cut them out, 

 unless you want your bees to swarm. 



Sometimes a queen will arrive in a feeble 

 condition, or daubed all over, and then in- 

 stead of waiting for the bees to eat out the 

 candy I release her myself as soon as the bees 

 are very uneasy from the loss of a queen, wiih 

 the result that I have always found them safe 

 and sound. Frank S. Degroff. 



St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Dec. '29. 



The Blight Question— Sowing for 

 Bees. 



In Prof. Cook's article, page 2'2, he strikes 

 the nail on the head (as he usually does), 

 when he says; '' All must combine, and all 

 will combine, as ever the right comes upper- 

 most, and ever is justice done." I am strictly a 

 lay member, but would be pleased to be kept 

 in the straight and narrow path. 



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