Aug. 27, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



557 



nal about sumac being a good hone.v-llower. 

 The kind of sumac that grows on the dry hills 

 of this section yields a little honey in July, 

 and it is of a dark color. It is quite diflferent 

 from that which grows in the lowlands of 

 Minnesota. 



My father sells honey at one of the city 

 markets at half a cent higher than that quoted 

 by the California National Honey-Producers' 

 Association. Of course, only merchants buy- 

 ing a few cases will buy. He also retails ex- 

 tracted honey. 



No doubt the California National Honey- 

 Producers' Association is all right for Eastern 

 buyers, but honey may come up a little after 

 the 15th of this month. E. Archibald. 



Los Xngeles Co., Calif., Aug. 7. 



A SboFt Report. 



I have 38 colonies of bees, and doing well. 

 I have taken off SOO pounds of honey, and 

 have 1500 more in sight. John DeGroff. 



Peoria Co., 111., Aug. 10. 



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Translated from the French. 



IXTRODiciSG Bees. — Jlr. Fitzhoff, (Jour- 

 nal de P Abeille rhenane), says he put the 

 caged queen in the hive. Next day, he takes 

 the cage (queen included) puts it in a cup of 

 cold water and then turns the wet queens 

 loose. He says he has never lost a queen, 

 even when introducing to colonies with lay- 

 ing workers. Though he does not say so, I 

 suppose that the queen is alone in the cage, 

 without candy or attendants. 



Apiflt.e Super-Clearer. — In a quart of 

 boiling water put one ounce of carbolic acid 

 (crystals) and one ounce of glycerine. When 

 Deeded, wet a cloth with the mixture and put 

 on the supers to be cleared. A few minutes 

 will empty them of all the bees. 



Do Bees Move Egos? — Mr. (iailet (Api- 

 <!ulteur) says yes. In July, lsS9, he intro- 

 duced a queen in a wire-cloth cage without 

 attendants and without food (the usual pro- 

 cess in Europe) to a colony having no un- 

 sealed brood. Some accident prevented him 

 from releasing the queen until four days later. 

 To his surprise, he found eggs in several of 

 the cells around the cage. He supposes the 

 queen dropped her eggs which fell through 

 the' meshes of the wire-cloth, and were car- 

 ried by the bees into the cells. 



Paraffise and Wax. — The adulteration 

 of wax with paraffine is not often practiced 

 here, but it may be well to know how to as- 

 certain the fact. 



Heat the suspected wax in a porcelain ves- 

 sel with a large quantity of concentrated sul- 

 phuric acid. There will be a considerable 

 foaming. Keep the heat a few moments yet 

 and let cool. The wax will be transformed 

 into a semi-liquid black residue; while the 

 paratline will remain intact, come on the top 

 ■ solidify. The acid must be as concentrated 

 as possible, otherwise it would act only very 

 slowly and imperfectly on the wax. It must 

 be in excess, otherwise the residue would be 

 too thick and retain the paraftine. A portion 

 of the paralline remains in the residue even 



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OcONOMOwoc, Wis., Aug. 1, 1903. 

 I like your queens. The best of any that I 

 ever had. Respectfully yours, 



Frank D. Gunderson. 



Litchfield, III., Aug. 3, 1903. 

 Dear Sir : —Enclosed please find money order 

 for $1.50 for which send nae two untested honey- 

 queens. The one I bought of you two years ago 

 is all right. There are no better. 



Respectfully yours, 



GUS PiCAMAN. 



Notice. — No tested stock sent out before 

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Bee-Stlngs for Rheumatism. 



Dr. Perc, of Marburg, addressed a brilliant 

 gathering of physicians the other day on the 

 healing properties of tiee-slings in cases of 

 rheumatism of the joints and muscles. The 

 professor pointed out that it has been itnown 

 from time immemorial as a cure among the 

 poorer classes of people who have no faith in 

 medical science. He has tested it thoroughly 

 and proved its efficiency in ,500 cases. 



If a patient is suffering with rheumatism 

 the stung part does not swell at lirst, nor un- 

 til the bee-poison is frequently introduced. 

 Then the rheumatic pain gradually vanishes. 

 Dr. Perc allows his patients to be stung at 

 first by a few bees, and then gradually in- 

 creases in numbers. In one sitting he allows 

 70 bees to sting the patient. He describes the 

 case of a woman who sulTered excruciating 

 tortures from rheumatism. In the course of 

 her cure she was stung 6,952 times, and this 

 resulted in a complete cure. — Exchange, Ber- 

 lin, May 24. 



Pervention of Swarming. 



An ordinary bee-keeper that has been in 

 the business for a number of years will tell 

 you that when a colony gets to a certain 

 strength, that is, after the white clover has 

 been in blossom some 13 or 14 days, every 

 colony that was in good condition will have 

 one super half to three-fourths full. But 

 now comes the critical condition. After said 

 super is nearly full, the colony will begin to 

 loaf for a week before it swarms, and this 

 same week is lost if we wait for a natural 

 swarm; henceforth be wise and transfer when 

 the super is half full. 



Some apiarists will tell you that every col- 

 ony will act different from others. Nonsense. 

 The bees must be controlled and made to do 

 that which you wish, « la Aikin. Providing 

 you have bees, and there is any nectar in the 

 field, " shook " swarms will work with the 

 same vim as the natural swarm, and doubling 

 that of a loafing old colony with a lot of 

 worthless brood after the flow is over. 



My method is as follows : The colonies are 

 grouped in pairs to begin with in the]lspring. 

 Colonies No. 1 and No. 2 stand side by side. 

 Spread them about IS inches, and place a bot- 

 tom-board with a Heddon half-super or hive 

 betweem the two hives, and place in it seven 

 shallow frames with one-half inch starters. 



Now go to colony No. 1 and pry off the 

 super, but do not take the cover off the super. 

 Use very little smoke; next find the queen 

 and place her with the frame of brood she is 

 on, in the newly formed hive, with three of 

 the empty frames on one side and four on the 

 other. Now take from the same colony two 

 more frames that contain no brood and place 

 one on each side of the empty frames, and the 

 brood-chamber is complete. Place an empty 

 super, containing only starters in the sections, 

 on this newly formed colony. Take the 

 cover off the other super and place the super 

 on the empty super, and the super from col- 

 ony No. "J on top of these two supers. Now 

 cover the luewly formed hive with a thin 

 board with a ''s inch rim to make it look like 

 an escape-board, a la Porter. Cut an entrance 



