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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



March 19, 1903. 



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good as three or four colonies that others 

 have. You might asl;. How is that i Here is 

 the reason : My queens are known as " The 

 Proliflcs.'' The honey-bees are of a large 

 size, and they are great comb-builders and 

 fast honey-gatherers. On my 200 acres of 

 farm land we have any amount of basswood 

 blossoms, goldenrod, and thousands of wild 

 flowers and other nectar-giving flowers for the 

 bees. We have also all l<inds of trees, the 

 leaves of many having honey on the upper 

 side of the leaf. We hiave also rivers, creeks, 

 and lakes of the purest and best running 

 water, and no swamps or stagnant water, so 

 you can see that we have here a veritable 

 land flowing with milk and honey. It is fool- 

 ish for one to expect honey from bees when 

 there is no proper forage for them when the 

 water is not good and the climate ditto. We 

 have myriads of birds from the States in sum- 

 mer. The bees and birds seem to know a 

 healthy climate. 



Again, I have never met a man yet who 

 knows how to feed his bees. Like man, and 

 all else, the honey-gatherers need and want 

 delicacies. I get diU'erent kinds of honey in 

 the fall, and there is nothing in the medicinal 

 pharmacopia that can come up to it. I never 

 have thin honey. I have a beautiful orchard, 

 with a southern aspect, and in the spring it is 

 a perfect picture to see the bees covering the 

 apple-blossoms, and the hum is like a locomo- 

 tive wading through a snow-drift. Our Yan- 

 kee cousins come to spend the summer at our 

 lakes here in Muskoka, and they have said 

 they never saw such splendid honey as they 

 have eaten in our towns and villages. As to 

 the keeping qualities of my honey, it is 

 always as good the following June as when 

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Ontario, Canada. James Brown. 



Vapious Methods of Rearing Queens. 



I have 40 colonies of bees, ranging from 

 blacks to bright golden Italians. 1 have 

 queens imported direct from Italy, queens 

 reared by the Doolittle and by the forced 

 method, also queens reared by-the bees as 

 nature called them at swarming-time, and by 

 the supersedure plan, but I have had no ex- 

 perience like Dr. Gallup, with any of the 

 methods. 



By the way. Dr. Gallup, will you please 

 tell us why that colony in the basswood log 

 did not do as those colonies you had in your 

 3(! and 48 frame hives— rear a queen to suit 

 the capacity of the hive, and swarm the next 

 season ; I have had colonies in logs, with 

 proof of their being therefor a number of 

 years, whose queens were reared by Nature's 

 plans, and I have to see the first one that was 

 in any way superior to the queens reared by 

 the Alley or Doolittle methods, under proper 

 conditions. 



Now, Dr. Gallup, I'll tell you what I'll do: 

 I will take 5 colonies, containing queens by 

 the Alley or Doolittle method; you take 5 

 colonies containing queens by Nature, and 

 set them beside mine, and if I don't get more 

 honey from my .5 colonies than you will from 

 yours, in this locality, I'll board you one 

 year for nothing, while you prove to me how 

 you did it. 



The bees are all on the summer stands, and 

 are in fair condition at this time. 



There is much white clover, which has been 

 well protected by the many snows, and pros- 

 pects are good for a wliile clover honey-How, 

 it the weather is favoraljle at that time. 



A. ZlEOLER. 



Huntington Co., Ind., Feb. 9. 



Fruit-Tpee Spraying. 



This was the subject of the monthly meet- 

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