July 2, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



427 



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HIVES, SJMOKERS, EXXRAtiXORS, FOUWOAXIO.^' 



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Mo. 



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 Omaha, Neb. 

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Adel (jaeeps and Bees. 



nAll my Queens are reared by the good old- 

 fashioned system — the way they were reared 

 when all queens lived three years— the bees 

 stored lots of honey and gave such great satis- 

 faction. These Queens are large, hardy, and 

 reared from the best honey-gathering strain I 

 ever saw. Queens not coming up to above guar- 

 antee replaced or money returned. 

 '"One queen, $1.00; 3 queens, $2.75; 6 queens, 

 $5.00; 12 queens, $9.00. My new book on Queen- 

 Rearing given to all who purchase three or 

 more queens. Send for Catalog. 

 20Atf HENRY ALLEY. Wenham. MASS. 



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Arrive Grand Canyon — ' 



Saturday, Aug'. 15, 5:30 p.m. 

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Our specialty is making SECTIONS, and they are the best in the market. 

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ing largely on wild mustard, which grows 

 among the grain on many farms in this sec- 

 tion. I was not aware that the honey-bee 

 worked to any extent on this plant. 



On the 11th and 12th inst. we had a glori- 

 ous rain, and the weather has twen cool and 

 moist since. White clover is appearing in 

 considerable quantities, and if weather condi- 

 tions now continue favorable we expect to be 

 into the honey-flow about ne.tl week. 



I put on my section supers last week. Three 

 of the colonies are working like Trojans in 

 theseutions; the others seem a little lazy at 

 starting. 



Tell Dr. Miller that my colony with laying 

 worliers didn't have any laying workere, after 

 all, but it had a drone-laying queen — a late 

 arrival last fall, I suppose. When you wrote 

 me that you could not supply me with a queen 

 for some weeks, I simply pinched her bead 

 of! aud set the hive over another colony, 

 which was not very strong in bees. The two 

 together made a splendid colony, and the new 

 arrivals did not molest the other queen ; in 

 fact, she has done far better work since I 

 united them than before. W. A. Hanna. 



Ontario, Canada, June 16. 



Not a Promising Season. 



With us during fruit-bloom the weather 

 was rainy, and the locust trees failed to bloom, 

 therefore a considerable source for honey was 

 a failure. Basswood is scarce, and white 

 clover not abundant. W. R. Young. 



Frederick Co., Md., June Vi. 



Italians vs. Blacks— Great Breeders. 



On page :h6.d, Geo. B. Whitcomb is prepared 

 for, was. and is expecting, the support of 

 G. M. DoolitMe, but I will send him a shell or 

 two, and after the smoke has cleared away he 

 will see that " foxy old grandpa " is on the 

 other side. 



In the first place. Mr. Doolittle has Italian 

 queens that are equal to any queens in Amer- 

 ica, and he would not exchange one of his 

 Italians for a half-dozen blacks. Nor does he 

 agree with Dr. Gallup on his umbilical-cord 

 theory. In fact, the best authority gives it a 

 black eye. 



Now, as to Mr. Alley's queens. I have never 

 seen any of them, but I am satisfied that the 

 queens were all right when they were mailed, 

 but nearly if not all queens are injured to 

 some extent in shipping through the mails. I 

 have never had a queen from a distance that 

 was any good, but I use them as breeders 

 only, and rear as good queens from them as 

 can be found in America. 



Now, Mr. Whitcomb, get yourself a pure 

 Italian queen, and rear a lot of queens from 

 her and requeen your apiary with them, and 

 you will have no more use for blacks. 



Now, while my gun is loaded, I will fire a 

 shot at A. C. F. Bartz. On page 300, Mr. 

 Bartz, in speaking of stimulating brood-rear- 

 ing in spring, says the bees having been 

 out of the cellar about a month or more, four 

 or more combs are being filled by the hun- 

 dreds every minute. Now, look here, hun- 

 dreds of bees hatching every minute four or 

 more comijs — hundreds means at least 200, so 

 200 every minute means 288,000 bees in 24 

 hours, or o,",H8,000 bees in 21 days. That's 

 very good, Mr. Bartz, for a queen with four 

 or more combs. A. S. Anderson. 



Kendall Co., Tex., June 14. 



TransfeFFing Bees— Saving Combs. 



On page 376, Miss Rebecca Halley descrilws 

 how she transferred a colony of bees. No 

 comb or brood was transferred, but comb 

 foundation was oflered as a starter, and, of 

 course, something of an inducement to the 

 bees to occupy a new home. 



I have transferred hundreds of colonies 

 from all manner of cavities, such as trees in 

 the forest, round log hives, board box-hives, 

 etc. Oftentimes the comb was worthless, or 

 about so, except such as contained brood 

 often hatching; in large numbers. To trans- 

 fer this for the double purpose of saving the 

 young bees and serving as an inducement to 

 the bees to occupy their new home I deem 

 good economy, even if the comb is too poor to 



