July 23, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



477 



make a superior ijueea, and cell-cups started 

 and eggs deposited therein' 



Try the experiment again and make this 

 colony hopelessly queenless in about three or 

 four weeks after this period commences, and 

 you will soon have all the laying workers you 

 want, and as long as they live in that colony 

 you can get a laying worlter. 



Now, then, the point I want to make is, it a 

 worker-egg out of the swarming season will 

 not produce a laying worker, and one during 

 the swarming will produce a laying worker, 

 why will there not be relatively the same dif- 

 ference in queens! I claim there will be, 

 against all the evidence of text-books, pro- 

 fessors and scientists, according to my prac- 

 tical experience. 



One word more: The importance of hav- 

 ing a large force of nurse-bees of the right 

 age is all right and necessary, and plenty of 

 tield-bees to develop extra heat at night and 

 bring in honey and pollen by day ; and, above 

 all, good stock to breed from. But don't 

 think for one moment you can go on from 

 one generation to another, taking eggs from 

 your breeder during the time she has plenty 

 of room, without at each consecutive genera- 

 tion getting a more tender, short-lived gen- 

 eration of bees, until you have a race of bees 

 like Mr. Alley would have us to understand 

 pure-bred Italians had become. 



Linn Co., Oreg. Geo. B. Whitcomb. 



Much Swarming. 



My hees swarmed some the latter part of 

 April and the first of May. Honey was then 

 coming in freely to the middle of May, and 

 from then on to the last week in June bees 

 would attempt to rob and sting anything they 

 could catch hold of. At this date the bees 

 are having a feast even late in the evenings. 

 It is quite a thing to see them come in miss- 

 ing the hives. Those that swarmed in April 

 swarmed again last week. In all my 18 years 

 of keeping bees I never had a colony to swarm 

 so early in the season, then later on to swarm 

 again. I am now beginning to store honey in 

 the attic of my dwelling-bouse. 



E. B. Kauffman. 



Lebanon Co., Pa., July 13. 



Many Years a Bee-Keeper. 



I think the American Bee Journal worth its 

 weight in gold to any bee-keeper, and I now 

 would not be without it if it cost .¥5 per year. 

 I have 4S colonies in my apiary, and they are 

 all doing tine work. I run an apiary in Wis- 

 consin of 100 colonies, but I think my 48 colo- 

 nies here are going to beat the 100 there. 



I am now .55 years old, and I might say I 

 have been practically brought up with the 

 honey-bee, as my father kept bees every since 

 I can remember. So you see they are as 

 much pets to me as my wife's canary is to her, 

 and I can truly say they (the bees) are her 

 pets, too, for she thinks as much of them as I 

 do. Warren- Goccher. 



Hubbard Co., Minn., July 11. 



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Wlial Yon Yonson TUlnks 



Vel, my ying, it is plenty bad for da N. B.- 

 K. A. to hole deirs big convenshul vay olT in 

 Cally forny. Ay don't see vy for dom haf to 

 tag da (1. A. R. fellers around. Ay don't lak 

 Cally foniy a toll, cause it is too far oS. Ay 

 never can go horsbak an ride ole Yim clear to 

 Cally fiiriiy. Mebby da Ingins git ole Vim's 

 scalp to hang in deirs belt, an den ay vould 

 be lak da feller vat vent up in a Imloon, an 

 ven dorii git about 2 miles high somting broke 

 an doin hav to valk back. 



But, my goodeness, ay seen feller vat sed 

 dat Cally forny she is awful fine country, an 

 be say dom rais awful fine fruit an punkins, 

 an evry ting vat is nice; but he say. Yon Yon- 

 son, it's better you not vent to Cally forny, 

 cause ven you see vat fine fruit dom rais, an 

 get taste of das fine climate, den you vil be 

 spoiled for das country, an yust hanker for 

 das nice country and elimate. An mebby it 

 don't vas any som Svede mans in Cally forny. 

 Vel, mebby so, but evry body vat can, better 

 go, cause dom get cheap ticket, and dom git 

 to see plenty much fine country, an dom sure 

 lurn a hole lot at da convenshul. Ay don't 

 know vy for dom call da town Lost Angeles. 

 Ay never hurd of any vat got lost in Cally 

 forny. Course it vas fellers dere vat got 

 plenty much bees, but dom don't vas da hole 

 sidevalk, caus lUenois got mor bee-keepers as 

 Cally forny, but dom don't got quite so big 

 patch of bee-hives. An Illenois got plenty 

 good legislature, vat give us foul brood law 

 an money to back it. Ay rote to lots of dom 

 law mans, an ask dom vil dom pleas be so 

 good an vote for da bill, cause foul brood is 

 vorser for bees dan hog colery iss for hogs, 

 an if da bees all di dan ve don't git any more 

 hunny, an dat vil put an end to da hunny 

 moon. Some of dom mak answer an say dom 

 vote for it all rite ven dom git chance. An 

 you bet dom did, too. 



Vel, ay see it vas som fellers vat give Mr. 

 New York fits cause he by hunny and ven he 

 sell it he put his name on it an call it 

 " Y'ork's hunny." Vel, if he pay for it cours 

 it is York's hunny. 



Now, ay bean rais plenty strawberries, an 

 ay bean selling strawberries forpurdneer four 

 veeks, anay sell more as 100 quvartsa day, 

 some days, an ay put Yon Yonson's nameon 

 every box, an dom go lak hotpankakes, cause 

 it is youst som nice berries in da bottotn of da 

 boxes same it is on da top. An ven dom 

 peples see Yon Yonson's name on da box dom 

 know it vas good fruit, cause Y'on Y'onson iss 

 honest. Y'ou know ven he put his name on 

 da boxes he haf to be, or you bet he ketch it 

 on da phone in grate shape. 



An ay tank Yon Yonson's name on fruit in 

 das country means more as if Y'ork's name 

 vas on dom. But in Chicago Yon Yonson's 

 name on hunny is youst bout so good som 

 nutting, cause dom peoples in Chicago don't 

 vas cultivate Yon Yonson's acquaintance lak 

 dom do York's. An if ay sen my hunny to 

 Mr. New York, an he put his name on it, an 

 den if it don't give good satisfaction den dom 

 peoples vil com aroun an do Y'ork's trashing 

 for notting. An Yon Yonson he plent lucky 

 dat he don't vas York. 



Now, it ay vont to sell hunny to York, den 

 it is my bissnes to send him nise hunny, in 

 nise shape, and packed honest; an den if ii 

 bring more mony ma York's name den mine, 

 den he can give me more for da hunny. An 

 he mak more, too. An ay tank ve bote be 

 plent big foolish if ve don't git so much ye 

 can. All if Mr. New York can pay me more 

 for my hunny po das vay, den he iss velcome 

 to put his photograf on every box is he vant 

 to. An yust so long he can take der hunny 

 an pay vel for it, and sell it for good price, 

 he help keep der price up. 



Yon Yonson. 



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