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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug. 6. 1903. 



label. We simply know we are right in our 

 position in this matter so far as we are con- 

 cerned. Others can do as they please with 

 the honey they produce or handle. But any 

 honey we put on the retail market must be 

 " York's Honey," as we propose to stand back 

 of every pound we put out. — Editor.] 



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Getting Swarms Down from Tree- 

 Tops. 



Elsewhere I speak of the fact that we have 

 been shinning up trees to get swarms. You 

 may wonder why we did not pursue the good 

 old orthodox plan of having the queen's 

 wings clipped, or why the colonies had not 

 been shaken, to stop all of this unnecessary 

 climbing and chasing. In the first place, 

 some of our customers object to having their 

 nice queens clipped — don't like the looks of 

 them. In the second place, the swarming 

 weather caught us by surprise. We had about 

 given up having any honey-flow, and the 

 problem had been to keep our bees from starv- 

 ing. But the season opened up and the bees 

 swarmed, and how should we get them out of 

 our tall basswoods ? No way under the sun 

 but to climb after them. 



We used a jack-knife to cut ofl the limb on 

 which the swarm hung, then by carefully 

 dodging among the limbs we climbed down to 

 the ground as best we could, handing the 

 swarm to an attendant as soon as he could be 

 reached. But the jack-knife in cutting jarred 



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the limb. I finally took down a big pair of 

 pruning-shears, two big potato-sacks, and 

 some stout string, supplying the boy who did 

 the " shinning" with all these before he went 

 up the tree. The shears were handy for clear- 

 ing out a space through which to let the bees 

 down. After reaching the swarm, the boy 

 would proceed to slide the bag around the 

 limb, and with the pruning-shears clip it off. 

 He could then with his rope let down bees, 

 limb, bag, and all, or he could climb down 

 without danger of jarring the bees off, or 

 without fear of being stung. 



In descending through the tree, holding a 

 limb from which a big swarm is hanging, one 

 is liable to bump it against the foliage, dis- 

 lodging many of the bees, filling the air full 

 of them. These will in all probability alight 

 on the limb nearest where they were first clus- 

 tered, with the result that another climbing 

 is necessary to get all the bees. The coffee- 

 sack or bag saves all this trouble. 



The pruning-shears are a vast improvement 

 over the jack-knife. When the bees swarmed 

 we had to hack away with this ever-present 

 and usually convenient tool, but which, on 

 occasions of this kind, was any thing but con- 

 venient or suitable. 



I have been wondering if it would not be a 

 good thing for those who do not clip the 

 wings of their queens to have a special belt 

 gotten up in which could be fastened a small 

 short saw, a pair of strong pruning-shears, a 

 smoker, a rope, and perhaps some other tool 

 that might be necessary to complete the 

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The majority of bee-keepers believe, and be- 

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 swarms is to do so by the clipped-wing plan. 

 But something will happen, on account of 

 which they will not get at the job, or per- 

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 either case a swarm or two is liable to get to 

 the top of a tree, and nothing but climbing- 

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 convenient and handy his tools are, the more 

 effective will be the work. — Editorial ins 

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