March 19, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



189 



how much '20,100 pounds will maku to the 

 colotiy, or theie will be another rouud-up like 

 two years ago, and then not know for sure 

 how" much I had per colony ? As near as 1 

 can figure out, they averaged a little better 

 than 213 pounds per colony, which I think is 

 very well. I got about 225 pounds of bees- 

 wax during the season. 



The Danz. hives and 4x5xl-V sections have 

 come to me to stay ; they are the hives for 

 comb and extracted honey. F. J. GrNZEL. 



Poinsett Co., Ark., Feb. 2. 



Dividing to Prevent Swarming. 



X notice in the Bee Journal quite a lot about 

 dividing colonies of bees in many difl'erent 

 ways, but all arriving at the same result — pre- 

 venting swarms. Now, it all used the Hed- 

 don hive for increase, they would find it easy 

 work. I don't need to move a frame or shake 

 a bee to make anew colony. .Just smoke a 

 strong colony enough to drive the queen into 

 the upper story of the Heddon hive, then re- 

 move the upper half to a new stand, and place 

 it on another empty Heddon with starters or 

 empty comb: the same with the colony on the 

 old stand, putting both empties under. It 

 the queen is left on the old stand they are 

 more liable to rob the new colony, but, it this 

 happens, exchange places, and there will be 

 no fighting, and in a few days it is hard to 

 tell which colony is working the stronger. 



I also noticed that some doubt what I men- 

 tioned last summer in regard to bees disliking 

 black. I wish those having cross bees would 

 try the different colors in dresses and then re- 

 port later on, whether the bees make a dis- 

 tinction. 



Last summer a beginner transferred a few 

 black bees ; they went to robbing, and nearly 

 all went into one colony, but no fighti-ng. It 

 I had been there I would have exchanged 

 hives often enough to have had them all even. 

 The advice given was a little different, but 

 mine would have been too late. 



Samuel Heath. 



Armstrong Co., Pa., Feb. 2. 



Bee-Keeping in Nopthern Ontario. 



You say the columns of the Bee Journal are 

 open for the best ideas of interest to bee- 

 keepers. I find it interesting, and also notice 

 that the correspondents tell plain tacts about 

 bees and honey. 



I am surprised at the statement that you 

 are troubled (in the States) with so many in- 

 sects, also foul brood, in connection with bee- 

 keeping. In this part of Canada we have no 

 foul brood or insects, and no dwindle. When 

 our bees are put away in the fall we never see 

 them until next spring, when they come out 

 in millions, strong and healthy, and every 

 bee on the offensive. There is a right and a 

 wrong way to keep and handle bees, and, if 

 not properly handled, foul brood and insects 

 will attack the colonies. 



It is said that the honey crop has been very 

 pour with our American cousins. It has not 

 been so with me where I live. I never had 

 such a large quantity as the bees gathered 

 last fall, hundreds of pounds from a iew col- 

 onies. But every colony that I have is as 



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