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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 19, 1903. 



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it doesn't make any diHerence ; only if 

 the apiarist has as many colonies as he 

 ■n'ishes. he should force only those that 

 have cells started, as they would swarm 

 anyway." Now. Mr. Hairston. I challenge 

 that statement (mind, in a friendly way), 

 that is, if you do not comply with the 

 aforesaid reasons. If you left the parent 

 colony with either queen or cell they 

 would be forced queens that had hatched, 

 and not hatched as Nature intended. For 

 Nature forces nothing, but everything ex- 

 ists simply because it is needed. 



Now, to illustrate this theory : You are 

 expecting to go away in two days and 

 you must fit up 3,000 sections with full 

 sheets of foundation, as you will not re- 

 turn until after it is time to put them 

 on. You get the foundation, and you 

 find you have only enough for about 500, 

 that is, if you use full sheets, but you 

 cannot, as you will not have time to get 

 any more, and you must fit up all of the 

 sections with some foundation. Now 

 what? Why, you are forced to use start- 

 ers. Had you known in time, you would 

 have been prepared and had plenty of 

 foundation for the 3.000 sections, and 

 could have used full sheets, and by doing 

 that you see you could have done as you 

 intended, instead of being forced to do 

 something that you did not intend to do. 

 Robert J. Gary. 



Fairfield, Co., Conn., Jan. 26. 



Poorest Season in 20 Years. 



The last season was the poorest one 

 for honey we have had in this locality for 

 over twenty years. No honey in this lo- 

 cality, and bees that have not been fed 

 will all starve before spring, I think. I 

 fed mine too late, and I am afraid they 

 will not winter very well. C. Job. 



Putnam Co., Ind., Jan. 17. 



Prevention of Increase. 



.•Vs soon as I see a colony preparing 

 to swarm, as indicated by starting queen- 

 cells, I smoke or drum on the hive to 

 cause the bees to gorge themselves with 

 honey. I then lift the hive from the old 

 stand and put a new hive on the old 

 stand, prepared as follows : Put two 

 frames of honey, one in each end of the 

 hive (I use the Gallup frame), then fill 

 the hive with drawn comb, or full sheets 

 of foundation ; now" put a sheet of wire 

 cloth on the new hive, and the old hive 

 on top. Put the queen and shake most 

 of the bees into the new hive, cut out all 

 queen cells, alow a small entrance to the 

 upper hive, close the hive up snug and 

 warm, and the job is done, until the 

 brood nest below is well established, 

 which will be in about ten days. I then 

 take a look for queen cells that I fancy 

 are present ; I cut them out, then the 

 wire cloth is removed and a queen-ex- 

 cluding honey board put in its place. I 

 have tried putting the brood above the 

 queen excluders, but it gave very poor 

 results, the bees seeming to rush up to 

 the brood, and I think they killed the 

 queen because she would or could not go 

 there also. J. M. Cruicksh.\nk. 



Ontario, Canada, Jan 26. 



Bees Probably Lost from Spraying. 



Five years ago I had 50 colonies of 

 bees, fall count. The following summer 

 I lost 17 colonies. They came through 

 the winter all right, were very populous 

 and did extra well until apple bloom 

 came, when I began to notice a decrease 

 in the bees. One colony, in particular, 

 which w-as in an improved Simplicity 

 hive and about ready to swarm, had a 

 good start in the super, a fair size swarm 

 hanging- on the outside of the hive, when, 

 all at once, during apple bloom, there 

 were no bees on the outside of the hive 

 and none in the super. The colony did 

 not die, but did notliing since then, until 



