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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 10, 1903. 



and those bees that you return will practically all die off before win- 

 ter, so the number of bees in the hive in winter will be little ailected 

 by returning the swarms. All the same, it needs a sharp lookout, 

 whether you return swarms or not, to see that bees in an 8- frame hive 

 have plenty of stores for winter. Save up some frames of sealed honey 

 to give needy colonies. If you don't need them this fall, you may be 

 very glad of them next spring. 



English Standard Brood-Prame. 



What is the size of the English standard brood-frame? and how 

 many frames to a standard hive? Maine. 



Answer. — nxSJ-^ik^id 10 or 11 are usually used in a hive. 



Keeping ComD Foundation— Vetch for Bees. 



My questionsj mayi be foolish, but I am a foolish bee-keeper; I 

 don't know much, but one thing I Know is, that I have the bees and 

 have to handle them. During the month of April we had a freeze 

 that put my bees back, but they are coming out all right now. I have 

 9 colonies. 



There are a few bee-keepers around here that use old boxes and 

 logs for hives, but I can not make them hear when talking to them 

 about subscribing for the American Bee Journal, or using good hives. 



I am going to study " Forty Tears Among the Bees." 



1. If I order more foundation than I use, how can I keep it from 

 spoiling? 



3. Do I have to have tools that are made for the purpose of fast- 

 ening it in? 



3. What about vetch for bees? I enclose a few seeds. Should It 

 be sowed with rye, or what would be best? Missouri. 



Answers. — 1. I hardly know what you can do with it that it will 

 not keep, unless you put it in an oven where it will melt, or spread it 

 out in the sun and rain (or a year. Just keep it covered up wherever 

 it is convenient. Even if you have it tilled into sections, keep them 

 where they will be dry and nice, and they will be all right. Although 

 bees take hold of fresh foundation a little more readily than that which 

 has been kept over, there isn't much difference. But if you leave it 

 on the hives in the fall, when no honey is coming in, it may become 

 60 bad that bees will not touch it next year. 



2. It will probably pay you to get a foundation fastener, although 

 you can get along without one. 



3. I know nothing about it from personal experience. I thank 

 you for the seed. 



Returning Swarms. 



Have I done right by my bees? I got tired of their swarming so 

 much, so when the swarm came out I let them settle, and then went 

 to the hive they came from and took all the queen-cells out, and took 

 the swarm that was hanging on thetree and put it back in the old 

 hive. That settled their swarming. Is there any danger of making 

 them queenless? I do not clip my queens, as they are so hard to find. 

 I keep from 50 to TO colonies. Wisconsin. 



Answer. — You need not fear queenlessness, for the bees would 

 not swarm without a queen, which would still be left when all cells 

 were destroyed. 



fldels * HARD RECORD TO BEAT * flflels 



My father has ad Adel colcDj that stored 75 pounds section honey. It cast a swarm that has 

 filled nine 24-pi)ucd tufeis up lo date— 19C3. I am ready to back up this statement. 



F. R. KozAK, Maquoketa, Iowa. 

 I got 210 ] pound sections frtm one Adel colony. Another has filled 8 supers, and I expect 2 

 more supers this year ficm same colony. J. C. Oidenberg, Belleplaine, Minn. 



One Queen and "Impioved Queen-Rearing," $1.S0. Send for 16-page Catalog. 

 30Atf HENRY ALLEY, Wenham, MASS. 



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We have arranged with several of the best queen-breeders to supply us during- 1903 with The Very Best Untested 

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In the first place, you must be a regular subscriber to the American Bee Journal, and your own subscription mus 

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Send us SI. 00 and the name (not your own) and address of One NEW subscriber for the American Bee Journal, and 

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Now, go out among your bee-keeping neighbors and friends and invite them to subscribe for the old American Bee 

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Should there be no other bee-keepers near you, and you desire one of these tine Queens any way, send us $1.50 and 

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 to send enough more than the $1.50 to pay all that is past due also. 



We prefer to use all of these Queens as premiums for getting new subscribers. But if any one wishes to purchase 

 them aside from the Bee Journal subscription, the prices are as follows : 

 One Queen, 75c.; 3 Queens, $2.10 ; 6 Queens for $4.00. 

 We are filling orders almost by return mail. 



Now for the new subscribers that you will send us — and then the 

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