June 11, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



381 



ot bees into the cellar. I took out 45 alive, 

 and sold two for ?10. Three became queen- 

 less and dwindled away. I now have 40 good 

 colonies. They are getting some honey from 

 fruit and dandelion bloom. We will soon 

 have white clover. I usually tjet most ot my 

 honey from basswood. I lind that the way to 

 get honey is to have lots of bees when the 

 harvest comes, keep them together as much 

 as possible, and decapitate the drones with an 

 uncapping knife. I think that helps to keep 

 down the swarming-tever. I hived one swarm 

 last year. The bees weighed ii pounds. It 

 came the last of June, and stored 75 pounds 

 in sections, and is strong this spring. 



I will report again after harvest. 



Wm. Cleary. 



Kossuth Co.. Iowa, Mav 17. 



Working on White CloveF. 



Bees are working on white clover, which is 

 in full bloom — about two weeks earlier than 

 usual. If there is not too much rain the 

 honey crop will be much larger than last year. 



The American Bee Journal is a great help 

 to me in earing for my bees. 



Geoffrey A. Hunt. 



Tipton Co., Ind., May '26. 



Bees in Fine Condition. 



My bees are in fine condition. I never saw 

 bees so uniformly strong as mine are this 

 spring. The weather here now is all that 

 could be desired for an abundant harvest of 

 nectar. A. J. Kilgore. 



Wood Co.. Ohio, May 25. 



Working on CloveF. 



Well, this spring was a hard one for the 

 bees. Frost killed all ot the maple, elm, box- 

 elder and peach bloom, and impaired the 

 apple, cherry, plum, gooseberry and pear 

 bloom. I had to feed the bees to keep them 

 alive. They are doing nicely now. They had 

 a tine time on the raspberry and blackberry, 

 and are now working on white clover, of 

 which there is a profuse bloom. They com- 

 menced work on it over a week ago. 



D. C. McLeod. 



Christian Co., 111., May 2S. 



Loss in Wintering— Various Matters. 



My bees were put into the cellar Dec. H in 

 pretty fair shape, but the lo,«s was heavy, 

 owing to not having my cellar completed. 

 Out of 39 colonies I have 15 left, but they are 

 doing well now, storing honej- from willow, 

 dandelion and fruit-bloom. 



Some of my colonies have tive frames of 

 brood, which is good for this part of the 

 country at this time. The colonies which 

 seem strongest are five that have been out 

 since March 9. 



I think a cleansing flight does a good deal 

 of good. All the colonies that I gave a flight 

 this spring were quiet when I put them back, 

 while before they were restless. 



I notice in the "A B C of Bee-Culture," 

 page 92, dandelion is said to come in bloom 

 just after fruit-bloom. Mr. Doolittle, in his 

 comments, says that in his locality it comes 

 iiist with fruit-bloom. In our part ot the 

 country it comes just before fruit-bloom, and 

 it seems to me it must be of importance in 

 early brood-rearing. 



On page 92 ( 1903), in my report, the types 

 made me say in regard to ginseng, " It will 

 be marketable in from 7 to 10 years for the 

 seed to germinate." It should have been, 

 "It takes IS months for the seed to germi- 

 nate." 



I like the looks of that money in the treas- 

 ury of the National Bee-Keepers' Association, 

 and I expect to be a member very soon. 



It is only about 15 miles northeast of here 

 where A. I. Root has started his maple-sugar 

 plant, and feeds the " chicks " of the neigh- 

 borhood on "maple-cream." I hope he will 

 visit my apiary some day this summer, if 

 possible. 



I think every bee-keeper should have a bee- 

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 not read the bee-papers Is bound to get be(e)- 

 hind the times. B. L. Byer. 



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In any business it is a good plan for the dif- 

 ferent men engaged in it to get together for 

 the purpose of talking over iteips of especial 

 interest, in order to become better acquainted. 

 This seems to be very true in the bee-busi- 

 ness, and can be best carried out, I believe, in 

 a convention where a question-box is the 

 principal program. Each one feels as if he 

 is helping the other, and certainly all feel 

 that they are helped. 



Such a convention was the one held at Chi- 

 cago, in December I wish simply to 



say that those who has never attended a con- 

 vention of this kind do not know what they 

 have missed. There is something to be gained 

 which is not found in bee-books or bee-litera- 

 ture of any kind. Go and find out, and re- 

 gret only that you never went before. — Edi- 

 torial in Gleanings in Bee-Culture. 



A Kink in Making Wax-Cakes. 



A lining of damp paper put inside a vessel 

 into which melted wax is to be poured will 

 prevent the wax from coming in contact with 

 the vessel, hence there will be nc dish to clean 

 up afterwards. Strange as it may seem, the 

 paper will also peel off readily from the cake 

 of wax. Neither will the cake crack while 

 cooling, as it is not stuck fast to the walls of 

 the dish. Mr. H. R. Miller, of Missouri, wrote 

 me about this.— Bee-Keepers' Review. 



Postponing Alsike Bloom. 



Generally it would be better to have alsike 

 bloom later than its usual time, so as to come 

 when white clover is waning. G. M. Doolit- 

 tle says in Gleanings in Bee-Culture: 



" Alsike clover can be made to bloom very 

 nearly when wanted, within reasonable limits, 

 by turning stock on it, and letting them keep 

 it eaten down short until about two weeks be- 

 fore you wish the bloom to commence, when 

 it will give a good crop of blossoms and a fair 

 crop of hay, though the hay crop will not be 

 quite as large as it would if it could have had 

 its own way." 



Four Requisites to Successful Win- 

 tering. 



Given a box through which no drafts can 

 pass (no upward or lateral ventilation), a 

 plentiful supply of honey to burn, plenty of 

 bees to burn it, plenty of o.xygen to burn it 

 with, and you have a formula which spells 

 Success. — A. C. Miller, in Bee-Keepers' 

 Review. 



Best Conditions for Queen-Rearing. 



Arhtur C. Miller discusses the matter in 

 the American Bee-Keeper in his usual vigor- 

 ous style, putting special emphasis upon the 

 matter of humidity, to which probably most 

 of us have never given a thought. It is well 

 known that the right amount of moisture 

 makes all the difference between success 

 and failure in hatching out a clutch of eggs; 

 why should it not make a difference with re- 

 gard to bees' eggs ! Mr. Miller says : 



I believe it is generally conceded that the 

 best queens are ordinarily reared at that sea- 

 son of the year when increase (swarming) 

 usually occurs, and certainly they are more 

 easily reared then. There must be a reason 

 for this, and if we can find it, it will materi- 

 ally assist us in so shaping our methods when 

 rearing iiueens "out of season'" as most 

 nearly to approach the normal conditions. At 

 " swarming time " colonies are overflowing 

 with bees: young bees (nurses) are super- 

 abundant ; combs are loaded with stores of 

 honey and pollen ; fleld-bees are busy bring- 



