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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug. 27, 1903. 



in this escape-board by cutting two inches out 

 of the rim in the front end. Now bore an 

 inch hole through the board, one inch from 

 the two-inch rim entrance. 



Kill the queen from colony No. 2 and set 

 the colony on this board, bottom-board re- 

 moved, and also the body with the brood and 

 bees from colony No. 1 on top of this, cover 

 up and you are finished. You will now have 

 shot-tower hives, n In France. Work is now 

 going on in the supers in double time; hip, 

 hip, and the colony is gaining in strength 

 daily. 



Fifteen days later, in transferring, the two 

 brood-stories should be taken off and placed 

 beside the parent colony. Eight days later 

 reduce down to 20 frames, give them a strip 

 of eggs, (( la Alley, and you will have a num- 

 ber of queens 25 percent superior to those 

 reared under the swarming impulse. 



Two weeks after the eggs are given, kill the 

 queen in the old colony, give half of the 

 brood to the parent colony that has the cap- 

 ped cells, and, at the same time give the old 

 colony two cells from this parent colony, pro- 

 tected, nfa West. You will now have your 

 whole apiary requeened, which is very essen- 

 tial in the " shook " swarm system. — Geo. 

 RocKENBACH, in Progressive Bee-Keeper. 



The Canadian Honey Harvest. 



The white honey harvest is well-nigh over, 

 and so far as we have been able to ascertain 

 the crop will be a good average. Quebec and 

 Eastern Ontario suffered for lack of rain in 

 the early part of the season, and, as a result, 

 only a light crop has been secured. Western 

 and Southern Ontario have had a good yield 

 from clover. Basswood is doing fairly well 

 at this date of writing, although the unsettled 

 weather is rather against the bees working on 

 it to the best advantage. We have not yet 

 heard from the Western and Maritime Prov- 

 inces. The quality of the honey this season 

 is excellent, both in color and body. Many 

 have mentioned the fact of the thickness, 

 making it unusually difficult to extract. 



Some have feared a lowering of prices, but 

 we see no necessity for this if an effort is 

 made on the part of the larger producers to 

 distribute the product. Some have already 

 sold at figures bordering on last year's prices. 

 The general advance in other things should 

 certainly have an influence in at least main- 

 taining prices. Local markets are usually 

 crowded by small producers at this season, 

 and the tendency is depressing. It is gener- 

 ally better to hold a little later. — Canadian 

 Bee .Journal. 



Excessive Swarming in Colorado. 



It seems that excessive swarming this year 

 is not confined to a very small area. In Illi- 

 nois it is perhaps worse than in any previous 

 year, and this is what is said about it in Col- 

 orado, by the Rocky Mountain Bee Journal: 



"Usually bees do not swarm much in Col- 

 orado, normally casting not to exceed 40 per- 

 cent of prime swarms, with a still smaller per- 

 centage of after-swarms. This year, however, 

 has pulverized all previous records. Swarm- 

 ing began about May 20, and did not cease 

 until after .July 15. And just about every- 

 thing swarmed. One subscriber, in renewing, 

 facetiously remarked that, in his locality, 

 ' even the drones swarmed. ' This is the tenor 



Lono Tonflues VaiuaDie 



South as well as North. 



How Moore's strain of Italians roll in the 

 honey down in Texas. 



HuTTO, Tex., Nov. 19, ino2. 



J. P. MooKE.— Dear Sir:— I wish to write jou 

 in regard to queens purchased of you. I could 

 have written sooner, but I wanted to test them 

 thoroughly and See if they had those remarka- 

 ble qualities of a three-banded Italian bee. I 

 must confess to you I am more surprised every 

 day as I watch them. They simply " roll the 

 honey in." It seems that they get honey where 

 others are idle or trying- to rob; and for gentle- 

 ness of handling, 1 have never seen the like. 

 Friend E. R. Root was right when he said your 

 bees have the longest tongues; for they gel 

 honey where others fail. I will express my 

 thanks for such queens. I am more than 

 pleased. I will stock my out-apiaries next 

 spring with your queens. 



Yours truly, Henry Schmidt. 



The above is pretty strong evidence that red 

 clover is not the only plant which requires 

 long-tongue bees to secure the greatest quantity 

 of nectar. 



Daughters of my 23-100 breeder, the prize- 

 winner, and other choice breeders: Untested, 

 75 cents each; six, J4 00; dozen, $7.50. Select 

 untested, Jl.OO each; six, $5.00; dozen, $'i.uO. 

 Safe arrival and satisfaction guaranteed. Cir- 

 cular free. I am filling all orders by return 

 mail, and shall probably be able to do so till 

 the close of the season. 



J. P. Moore, L. Box 1, Morgan, Ky. 



31Atf Pendleton Co. 



Please mention Bee Journal -when •WTitlng 



$300,000,000.00 kUkfi 



' and you maj have part of It if you worli 

 for U8. Unole Sam's poultry product pays 

 that sum. Send 10c for aampies and partic 

 ulars. We furnish capital to start yoii in 



' buBiness. Draper Pabll8blagCo..Cb]caKo,lU 



fiease mention Bee Journal -when wiitinp: 



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INGHAM'S PATENT 



Smokers 



2SAt( T. F. BINQHAJW. Farwell. Mich. 



Please mention Bee Journal when writing. 



Italian Quec^ns, 



Bec^s and Nuel&i. 



We have a strain of 

 bees bred specially for 

 honey - gathering and 

 longevity, at the follow- 

 ing prices : 



One Untested Queen $ .60 



One Tested Queen 80 



One Select Tested Queen . 1.00 



One Breeder Queen 1.50 



One - Comb Nucleus (no 



Queeo) 1.00 



These prices are for the re- 

 mainder of the season. 

 Queeu., sent by return mail. 

 Safe arrival guaranteed. For price on Doz. lots 

 send for Catalog. J. L. STRONG, 



16Atf 204 E. IiOgan St., CLARINDA, iOWA. 

 Hease mention Bee Journal when -writinfi; 



SWEET CLOVER 



And Several Other Clover Seeds. 



We have made arrangements so that we can 

 fHrulsh Seed of several of the Clovers by freight 

 or express, at the following prices, cash with 

 the order: 



5B> 10ft 250) SOm 

 Sweet Clover (white).... $ .75 $1.40 J3.2S f6.00 



Sweet Clover (yellow) 90 1.70 4.00 7.50 



AlslkeClover 1.00 1.80 4.2S 8.00 



White Clover 1.50 2.80 6.50 12.50 



Alfalfa Clover 1.00 1.80 4.2S 8.00 



Prices snbject to market changes. 



Single pound 5 cents more than the 5-pouud 

 rate, and 10 cents extra for postage and sack. 



Add 25 cents to your order, for cartage, if 

 wanted by freight, or 10 cents per pound if 

 wanted by mail. 



GEORGE W. YORK A OO. 



144 & 146 Erie Street, ■ CHICAGO, 11,1,. 



of reports we are receiving from nearly all 

 localities of the Slate. 



" This season was a peculiar one. The flow 

 Ijegau slow and drizzling — just strong enough 

 to maintain active brood-rearing, but not 

 strong enough to settle the colonies down to 

 gathering and storing in the supers. There- 

 suit has been a very large increase of bees 

 throughout the State. The heavy winter loss 

 is recovered, and we believe it no exaggera- 

 tion to say that there are more colonies of 

 bees in Colorado to-day than ever before in 

 her history." 



Across the Mediterranean. 



A bee-keeper of Italy migrated with his 

 300 colonies across the Mediterranean Sea to 

 Tunis, but failed to maKe a success ot bee- 

 keeping and producing honey. He succeeded, 

 however, in selling out to the French Bee- 

 Keepers' Association there and came home a 

 richer man. — American Bee-Keeper. 



Germany and Bee-Keeping. 



The German government is looking into the 

 matter ot bee-keeping and adulteration of 

 honey at the present time. A government 

 experiment station with 10 colonies of bees 

 has been established near Berlin, and a bulle- 

 tin has been issued ot late, treating princi- 

 pally upon the adulteration of honey; it also 

 tells of the number of colonies kept in Ger- 

 many, etc. It appears there were kept in 

 1900, 3,605,350 colonies. Ot these 1,151,771 

 were in frame hives and yielded 16,171,200 

 pounds ot honey ; the others — box-hivee, 

 straw-skeps, etc. — gave a yield of 13,729,000 

 pounds. The frame-hive colonies yielded 

 three pounds to two of the others. — American 

 Bee-Keeper. 



Packages for Bulk Comb honey. 



The packages used in putting up this article 

 are now most largely 3, 0, and 12 pound tin 

 friction-top pails, thai are put up in crates 

 holding 10 of the 12-pound cans, 10 of the 6- 

 pound cans, and 20 of the 3-pound cans. 

 There is also some demand for bulk comb in 

 60-pound cans, two in a case, the cans having- 

 8-inch screw-tops. These are sometimes or- 

 dered where the buyer desires to put the 

 honey into glass packages for a fancy trade. — 

 H. H. IItde, in Progressive Bee-Keeper. 



Brushed Swarms. 



So much has been written in regard to 

 brushed swarms, I determined to try the pro- 

 cess without combs and use frames with 

 starters or full sheets of wired foundation, 

 and add a Doolittle feeder with three pounds 

 of extracted honey. I place an empty hive in 

 rear ot a strong colony, removing the combs 

 one by one, and brushing all the bees from- 

 them back into the old hive, and place the 

 combs in the empty hive. Then remove the 

 hives with brushed bees and feeder to another 

 stand, and place the hive with combs of 

 honey and brood in place of the old hive just 

 removed. The returning bees with capped 

 brood soon hatch out another queen, and the- 

 feeding ot extracted honey enables the bees 

 to build up combs rapidly and prevents a dis- 

 position to abscond. It would be a great ad- 

 vantage to introduce a young queen if you 

 have one, but I am experimenting without. 1 

 have tried the plan on quite a number, and so- 



