Aug. 13, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



525 



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How Moores strain of Italians roll In the 

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T D vr.. r.^"I°' '^^^■' Not. 19, 1902. 



. J. P. MooRE.-Dear Sir:-I wish to write you 

 in regard to queens purchased of vou. I could 

 Jl^^' """e" sooner, but I wanted to test them 

 thorough y and see if ibey had those remarka: 

 ble qualities of a three-banded Italian bee I 

 must confess to you I am more surprised every 



n.w^ ,; V,, 5^^"S that they get honey where 

 ness of h^.'nHr""' '7'.°^ '" '°^' ^"^ for gentle- 

 PrtfnS p D d'°^' ' "^"■'^ °=^«'' seen thi like. 

 * riend E. R Root was right when he said your 

 bees have the longest tongues; for they get 



,h,°nL'"f^'^ °'i"^ *^"- I '^i" "press my 

 thanks for such queens. I am mon. thai 



SiTnl^-i'''"' ''""^ "^ outapiTrTes n^ex" 

 spring wi h your queens. 



Yours truly, Henry Schmidt. 



The above is pretty strong evidence that red 

 clover is not the only plant which requires 

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Daughters of my 23-100 breeder, the prize- 

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 the close of the season. 



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 very best strains. You can- 

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The Fred W. Muth Co,, 



Front and Walnut, - CIMCINNATI, OHIO 



from spring, we would have had a " tjumper '• 

 crop. The quality is excellent. 



I have been kept constantly " at the post " 

 early and lale. I feared overstocking my 

 pasturage here at home, and took 2.5 colonies 

 to another yard 6 miles away, but it would 

 have Ijeen better to have kept them here until 

 after the white clover flow weakened, which 

 isaboutnow, I have 110 colonies here, and 

 will move some of them out to other yards to 

 ail up for winter stores, in place of feeding 

 them sugar, as I did last fall. T. W. Hall. 



Sioux Co., Iowa, Aug-. 1. 



Exceptionally Good Season. 



Last season I started with o colonies in box- 

 hives, 2 of which I transferred to frame-hives 

 before they swarmed. The H not transferred 

 early in the spring gave me ,s good swarms, 

 and the last one on .June 10, 20 days after 

 each box-hive colony cast the first swarm I 

 transferred them to standard or Simplicity 

 hives, and now have 13 colonies, all in good 

 condition. Some of the prime swarms are 

 now working in the third super, and may 

 need more room in a week or two, if the 

 honey-flow continues. It has been excep- 

 tionally good this season. 



H. A. SCHOPPENHORST. 



Warren Co., Mo., July 2?. 



Best Season in 10 Years. 



This is the best honey season we have had 

 in 10 years. My best colonies have given me 

 200 pounds each of extracted honey up to 

 this date. I have tried for comb honey, 

 averaging also 100 pounds each. 



Although northern Michigan is better 

 adapted to the production of extracted than 

 comb honey, I have mastered this problem 

 with the aid of more experienced apiarists. 

 George J. Moloney. 



Cheboygan Co., Mich., .July 22. 



A Tlieop.y on Queen-Rearing. 



I have been much interested in the discus- 

 sions in the American Bee Journal on queen- 

 rearing. I have made a special study on that 

 line for several years, and have had some ex- 

 perience in rearing queens artificially. Like 

 Mr. Geo. B. Whitcomb, on page 475, I have a 

 theory. Although he was loaded with smoke- 

 less powder, I think he missed the mark en- 

 tirely. Now, I will not use any powder, but 

 will just hand in my theory, and the readers 

 of the "Old Reliable" can compare it with 

 Mr. Whitcomb's. 



We will suppose a colony of average 

 strength; take them from their winter quar- 

 ters the first of April ; the bees begin gather- 

 ing pollen, they have plenty of stores, and 

 the queen quickly fills the comb within the 

 cluster with brood. Now about this time the 

 brood hatches. The weather being warmer, 

 the bees gathering from fruit-bloom, the 

 queen is soon laying at her full capacity, and 

 soon has all the empty comb occupied, and 

 now she must stop laying so rapidly there 

 will not be so many laryse for the nurse-bees 

 to feed. There is an over-supply of royal 

 jelly, and the young bees are hatching by the 

 thousands, with practically nothing to do, as 

 there are several nurses for every larva. Now 

 is the time, if the weather is favorable, that 

 they will make preparation to swarm, and 



