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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 12, 1903. 



anists as Helenium autumnale, or 

 sneezeweed. 



The white flower is tall thorough- 

 wort, Eupatorium altissimum, and 

 closely resembles the boneset. 



The third flower is a wormwood — 

 Artemisia caudata. — C. L. Walton.] 



A Long Swarming Season. 



Some 30 years ago I kept a few bees. 

 After moving to the city I had none 

 until 3 years ago, when, about the first 

 of July, I caught a stray swarm on a 

 theater sign. I had increased them last 

 spring to 5 colonies. They commenced 

 to swarm about the first of May, and 

 kept at it until Sept. 1, when the last 

 swarm of the season, a very large one, 

 came out. On Aug. 26, I had two out, 

 both very large. 



I have taken oif only 24 small sec- 

 tions of honey from the whole lot. I 

 doubled up, and returned to their old 

 hives enough so I only increased from 

 5 to 16 colonies, which I now have. 

 Several colonies have not enough to 

 winter on, and I am feeding them 

 sugar syrup. 



If I had hived each swarm that came 

 out I would now have 23 colonies. 



This knocks all my former experi- 

 ences endwise. Of course, there is no 

 money in such business. 



I would like to know if any other 

 subscriber for the Bee Journal has ever 

 had such an experience. Can it be be- 

 cause of my surroundings, or because 

 of peculiarities of the season ? 



Henry A. Stone. 



Kings Co., N. Y., Oct. 10. 



A Report— Paralysis— Cpossing Bees. 



From 56 colonies, spring count, I in- 

 creased to 81, and took off 1200 pounds 

 of comb honey and 300 pounds of ex- 

 tracted. My bees took the second 

 swarming fit the last of August, and 

 continued up to Sept. 10. I put most 

 of them back, but it cut down my 

 honey crop. 



The first part of this season was very 

 wet and cold, and it was June 20 before 

 any of the bees worked in the supers. 

 The white sumac was good, but the 

 basswood was cut short by cold, wet 

 weather ; there were three days when 

 it was too cold for bees to fly. 



I had 2 colonies that had paralysis ; 

 they would throw out 'i pint of bee.s 

 every night, and through the day the 

 ground in front of the hives would be 

 covered with live bees. They both 

 swarmed, and I hived the swarms on 

 full combs. One of them never showed 

 any signs of disease after that, and the 

 parent colonies were soon rid of the 

 disease, but one of the swarms still con- 

 tinued to have the disease ; they were 

 so reduced by the middle of September 

 that I gave them the sulphur cure, by 

 closing the entrance almost tight and 

 then putting a handful of sulphur in 

 the lighted smoker. I think a wet sea- 

 son causes more paralysis than a dry 

 one. I have tried the sulphur cure, as 

 Mr. Poppleton directs, and thought I 

 had them cured, but the next spring it 

 would make its appearance again. 



I notice by the American Bee Jour- 

 nal that Mr. Frank Benton says that a 

 cross between the Carniolan and the 

 Italian or Cyprian are the best honey- 

 gatherers. I agree with him. I had a 



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