July 23, 1903. 



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ehart':«l him S^.50, and he thought it was out- 

 raneims and said he would not pay it. Well, 

 if he doesn't I shall levy on the bees this fall. 

 That Ls a specimen of some of the people I 

 have l(j contend with, and there are lots of 

 them around here. 



A .sure cure for a queenless colony : Shake 

 all the bees off in front of the hive and run a 

 swarm in with them. At the same time give 

 them a frame of brood in all stages, and the 

 work is done. In eight days take out all 

 (lueen-eells but one, and you have as good a 

 colony as you have in the yard. 



My liees are doing well this year. I started 

 with 2i colonies, spring count, and swarming 

 is over now and I have 56, and all good and 

 strong except one, which has a poor queen, 

 and I shall introduce a queen. 



I am working hard to keep up with the 

 bees, but as this is the first rush I have ever 

 had it keeps me guessing, as I have to do all 

 the work and can't get sections at any price 

 half the time. 



I wonder what Yon Yonson is doing. 1 

 have not heard from him for some time. I 

 was amused at the way he did with his golden 

 Italiaus that would not work upstairs, as. I 

 had some that were .that way. So I did the 

 same as he did, divided them, and they are all 

 right. I suppose that man that crossed his 

 strawljerries with milkweeds is having a fine 

 time eating strawberries and cream. 



By the way, I think that the best cross some 

 of those big bee-men could make would be a 

 cross with the golden Italian and the light- 

 ning-bug, so as to have a night force on in 

 the busy season. Well, Yon Yonson, study 

 over this and see what you think of it, and let 

 us know. I am inclined to think that those 

 big queen-breeders could do a big business if 

 they could make a success at the cross. 



.J. M. Butler. 



Mercer Co., III., -July 10. 



Big Swapming— Time to Read. 



Prospects are good for a big honey crop 

 here. I have had 100 percent swarming from 

 300 colonies. I have " shook '' about --,■, and 

 am cutting cells out ot the rest, as it is getting 

 too late for shaking. Do you think I have 

 been busy i I weigh only 120 pounds, and 

 do nearly all my own work. 1 am not like 

 the fellow that stopped taking the American 

 Bee .lournal because he didn't have time to 

 read it. I read it and four more. 



M. W. Harvet. 



Montrose Co., Colo., July 3. 



Rearing Queens. 



Now, I am going to use a little of that high 

 pressure, stnokeless powder (that we of the 

 Pacific States believe in) at a few of those 

 queen-breeders, while you have the pleasure 

 of listening to those old-black-powder out-of- 

 date things roar back at me. But that is all 

 right. Let them roar. They will only get 

 mixed up in their own smoke. 



In the first place, please read over J. A. 

 Green's article on page 197. Then read Mr. 

 Alley's article, page 198, both in the issue of 

 March 20. After reading those articles please 

 bear in mind that Mr. Green's queenless col- 

 ony became queenless at a time of year (ac- 

 cording to uiy theory) when there would in 

 no prohaljility be a live bee in the colony 

 reared from a fully-developed egg. 



Now, then, before we go any further, it is 

 just as well that I state my theory : 



1st. A laying worker is a worker-bee that 

 was led and reared as a worker from a fully- 

 developed egg, that on account of the queen- 

 less state ofthe colony is trying to set herself 

 UD for a queen, and at any time during the 

 life of those bees after swarming-time a col- 

 ony may possess them. 



2nd. A worker-queen is a queen reared out 

 of season at any time of year from an unde- 

 veloped egg, or the egg from any queen hav- 

 ing pk-niy of empty combs in which to lay, 

 and is ni>i retarded in egg-laying. Such an 

 egg will produce but two things. If fed as a 

 worker it will produce a common worker, 

 never a laying worker. Second, it will pro- 

 duce a worker-queen if all conditions are 

 right for its development, but it will never 

 produce !i long-lived prolific queen proper. 



3d. A queen proper is a queen reared from 



