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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 9, 1903. 



the brood-chamber for the queen to lay, 

 plenty ol ventilation when weather is warm, 

 and I extract whenever the bees begin to seal 

 the honey in the super, so the management is 

 nothing unusual. Yet I have not h^d a 

 swarm issue in eight years. 



I have five colonies back of my home, and 

 my lot is 30 feet wide, with neighbors on both 

 sides. So a swarm could not very well get 

 out without being seen, and my queens' wings 

 are clipped ; that is, I clip one wing quite 

 short. 



The orginal queen was a gold-dust Italian, 

 and the ones I now have are of her stock. I 

 am not selling queens, but I do think I have a 

 stock that won't swarm if given fairly good 

 management. I have kept bees oft and on 

 for 16 years, but never very many colonies at 

 a time. I use S-frame dovetailed hives, and 

 run for extracted honey altogether. 



D. A. Harbah. 



Rock Island Co., 111., June 34. 



Too Cold for Bees. 



Bees are doing fairly well. It has been too 

 cold. We had two frosts this month. Our 

 bees are too far from good clover fields, which 

 are abundant two to four miles away. 



Rock Co., Wis. Theo. S. Hurley. 



[Too Much Cold Weather. 



The honey crop will be fair, but not nearly 

 so big as expected. We have had too much 

 cold weather here. Besides, bees were weak 

 on account of the drouth last year. 



Jas. Hornback. 



Riverside Co., Calif., June 1". 



Self-Spacing Brood-Frames. 



As there has been so much said about the 

 Hoffman and ot/ier self-spaced (or fool-proof) 

 frames, I will tell why they are not wanted. 

 In Cuba, for instance, we have to extract 

 from the brood-chamber regularly, so that the 

 same frame is part of the time in the brood- 

 chamber and part of the time in the super. 

 Now, here is the point : Seven frames are 

 used in a 10-trame super. Now, when you 

 jerk the cover off from one of these supers all 

 that you can see is honey. And when you 

 uncap, one side or edge of the knife is dull 

 for chopping the wax and honey off the top- 

 bar. Now, just tell me where your staples 

 would be? 



Here in Illinois I am using six frames in an 

 8-frame super, and I want a frame that can 

 be used both above and below. So for ex- 

 tracted honey you or anybody else want a 

 self-spaced frame. 



Comb honey is a little different thing. I 

 like a self-spaced frame for that myself. I 

 have a few staple-spaced frames and about 50 

 hives with Hoffman frames, and every time 

 I go over them a few of them get their legs 

 broken. I was with Moe in Cuba last winter, 

 and will probably return to the Island. 



Leslie Burr. 



Grundy Co., lU., June IS. 



Sainfoin or Espareette. 



Bees are doing well here considering the 

 dry weather that we have had this spring. 

 We expect a great quantity of bloom from 

 white sweet clover, but the cattle are begin- 

 ning to learn to eat it too freely this year. I 

 planted some yellow sweet clover seed in a 

 field where the cattle could get it to eat. Say ! 

 they put that yellow clover out of sight as 

 readily as a small boy would a candy-stick. 



But I have, I believe, struck luck in another 

 direction. Some years ago Mr. Dadant gave 

 a write-up of his travels in some of the old 

 European countries, and mentioned sainfoin, 

 or espareette, clover as a good honey-plant. 

 Well, I have been schemingaround ever since 

 to get hold of it. My plants are now two 

 years old, and the way those little bees hustle 

 around on that sainfoin would make any 

 one's heart glad. My clover has been in 

 bloom three weeks now, and although we 

 have had very little rain the bees have been 

 working hard on my little p'ot of it every 

 day. It is a good fodder-plant, making good 



Italian Qucc^ns, 



Bees and Nuclei. 



We have a strain of 

 bees bred specially for 

 honey - gathering and 

 longevity, at the follow- 

 ing prices : 



One Untested Queen $ .60 



One Tested Queen 80 



One Select Tested Queen. I.(i0 



One Breeder Queen l.M 



Oise - Comb Nucleus (no 



Queea) 1.00 



These prices are for the re- 

 mainder of the season. 

 Queeuj sent by return mail. 

 Safe arrival guaranteed. For price on l>oz. lots 

 send for Catalog. J. L. STRONG. 



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July and August. 1 6 12 



Honey Queens (Untested). $ .75 $4.00 $7.00 

 " " (Tested).... 1.25 7.00 13.00 



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2-£rame Nucleus (no queen) 2.00 11.00 21.00 

 Breeders, $3.00 each, after June 1. 

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 Our bees are shipped in light shipping-cases. 

 Purchaser pays express on Nuclei. 

 Safe arrival guaranteed of all stock sent out. 

 Batavia, III., Aug. 21, 1901. 

 Dear Sir:— I thought I would let you know as 

 to results of the nucleus sent me. They were 

 placed in 10-frame hives and now they are in 

 fine condition. From one I removed 24 pounds 

 of honey and had to give 6 of them more room, 

 as they were hanging out. They have more 

 than reached ray expectations. 



Yours respectfully, E. K. Meredith. 

 Davenport, Iow.a, Dec. 31, IWl. 

 Your queens are fully up to standard. The 

 honey queen that you sent my brother lakes the 

 lead. She had a rousing colony when put up 

 for winter. The goldens can be haodlecl with- 

 out smoke or veil. Very truly yours, 



John Thoeming. 



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