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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 23, 1903. 



their old hive. If you cannot cut off the limb on which 

 they are clustered, hive them in a hive or box, and then 

 empty them in front of the hive. As often as they swarm 

 return the swarm, and about two weeks after the first 

 swarm issues you will be done with all swarming of that 

 colony for the season. 



2. No, it's decidedly a bad thing- to have much swarm- 

 ing, and if you do not care for increase it would be better 

 not to have any; but it is hard to convince the bees that 

 they ought to respect your wishes. An easier way to man- 

 age than the one given in the preceding answer can be fol- 

 lowed if you want one swarm from each colony and want 

 no after-swarms. When the prime swarm issues, hive it 

 and place the hive on the old stand, putting the old colony 

 close beside it. A week later take away the old colony and 

 put it on a new stand at some distance, and there will be 

 little danger of any more swarming. You see that removal 

 at about the time the young queens will' be hatching out will 

 so deplete the colony by taking away their field-force that 

 they will have little heart for further swarming. 



3. If you are working for comb honey and have your 

 sections full of worker foundation, there is no need of a 

 queen-excluder. If working for extracted honey it is better 

 to have the excluder. Oueen-excluding honey-boards may 

 be had of any dealer in bee-supplies, and cost from 15 to 22 

 cents each, according to the kind. 



tiettins ttie Poul Brood Inspector's Help. 



How is the foul brood inspector's aid obtained to treat 

 that disease. I think that my neighbor's bees have it, and 

 he is like most farmer bee-keepers, very ignorant of the dis- 

 ease. It may mean much to my apiary if not gotten rid of. 



Illinois. 



Answer. — I do not know of any foul brood law in Illi- 

 nois that will prevent your neighbor from keeping diseased 

 bees if he wants to ; but if you will write to Mr. J. Q. 

 Smith, Lincoln, 111., the foul brood inspector appointed by 

 the State Association, you can get all the help that is to be 

 had. 



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Transferring, Forming Nuclei, Etc. 



1. How many pounds of comb honey will it take to 

 make one gallon of extracted ? 



2. Will the bees store enough honey in the lower story 

 of the hive to last them all the winter? 



3. Would the first of June be too late to transfer, or to 

 form nucleus colonies ? 



4. Which would you think to be the best, to sell honey 

 at home at 10 cents per pound, or ship it North and sell it 

 for 15 cents per pound ? 



5. Do bees gather much honey from the blossom of the 

 Cottonwood tree ? 



6. Is it the best plan to rear queen-cells in nucleus 

 colonies ? 



7. I have some brood-frames full of honey. Would it be 

 a good plan to give it to my nucleus colonies ? 



8. I have some colonies that haven't swarmed this year. 

 Do you think it is cold weather that is preventing them 

 from doing so, or is it something else ? 



9. If you would make nucleus colonies now, do you 

 think it would be a good plan to commence feeding them 

 now, so they would have plenty of stores for winter ? 



10. How soon after a virgin queen is introduced into a 

 colony will she begin laying ? 



11. How many nuclei can I form from a 10-frame col- 

 ony having plenty of brood ? 



12. Is it necessary to have a queen or a ripe queen-cell 

 to introduce into a nucles as soon as you form them, or can 

 one wait a while ? Mississippi. 



Answers. — 1. A good quality of extracted honey weighs 

 something like 12 pounds to the gallon, and the difference 

 in the weight of the wax is very little. 



2. Yes, and no. If the hive is large enough, yes. If 

 small enough, no. That's on general principles, but colo- 

 nies differ, and some colonies in a very small hive will make 

 sure of their winter's supply, while others will have the 

 brood-chamber so fully occupied with brood till late in the 

 season that there will be no room for stores. 



3. Not at all. 



4. I don't know. If it is comb honey, taking into ac- 

 count the chance of loss from breakage, besides freight and 

 commission, perhaps the 10 cents in hand would be better. 



5. I think not, if the Cottonwood of Mississippi is like 

 the Cottonwood of Illinois. 



6. I prefer to have them in strong colonies, at least 

 until sealed. 



7. Yes. 



8. Not necessarily cold weather. I have colonies every 

 year that make no attempt to swarm, and they are the 

 very ones that give the largest crops. 



9. It ought hardly to be necessary to feed unless there 

 is a dearth. 



10. That depends upon her age when introduced. She 

 will generally begin laying when from 8 to 12 days old. 



11. Probably about 4, for there will likely be about 8 

 frames of brood, and you will need 2 frames for each 

 nucleus. If, however, you have two or more nuclei in one 

 hive, so that they can have the advantage of mutual heat, 

 and if your colony is very strong in bees, you may be able 

 to make a nucleus for each frame of brood. 



13. No, you can't suit your convenience in the matter, 

 only it is a waste of time to have a nucleus long without a 

 queen or cell. 



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The honey crop in southern Wisconsin is 

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"Cheeky" People— Queenless Col- 

 ony. 



Everybody seems to think they can get 

 along with the information they can pump 

 out of another bee-keeper that is posted. So 

 I have come to the conclusion that the best 

 way to get rid of such parties is to charge for 

 the information and see it it would have any 

 effect. So the other day there was one came 

 along. He had a swarm and no hive for it, 

 and wanted nie to show him how my hives 

 were constructed, which I did. Well, he 

 said there would be no use for him to under- 

 take to make one, for he would make a com- 

 plete failure of it, and he asked if I would 

 make one for him. I said I would. So I put 

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 on his hive and constructed an N-frame body, 

 frames with starters, one super complete with 

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