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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 19, 1903. 



them to fill their extracting frames for winter ; 

 remove the queen-excluder so the queen can 

 go above to lay, which she will do almost in- 

 variably ; if she does not, blow a little smoke 

 into the entrance which will drive her up. 

 When you find that she is up, put the ex- 

 cluder on again, and after the required time 

 to hatch the brood has expired, place a new 

 hive where the old one stands, and remove the 

 old one, putting in the frames that are in the 

 super with the bees that adhere to them. The 

 Old hive will have but little honey in it, as 

 they have put it into the extracting-frames. 

 The combs can be rendered into wax, as it is 

 generally cracked and old, and probably some 

 of it filled up with pollen. 



I want to do this work in the first part of 

 the season. I have always had the best re- 

 sults from transferring as I have stated. The 

 whole strength of the colony is used to pro- 

 duce heat, so the changes in the weather do 

 not interfere with brood-rearing; in fact, they 

 transfer themselves— they hardly know they 

 have made a change. J. G. Creighton. 



Hamilton Co., Ohio, Nov. 5. 



The Season in South Carolina. 



Our honey crop was a failure here this year 

 in the spring and summer, and our bees were 

 about ready to starve Aug. 1, but the cotton 

 commenced to give some honey, and then they 

 gradually built up, so that by Sept. 15 they 

 were in good shape, and we had a good flow 

 from Oct. 1st to the 20th, so the bees are in 

 fine shape for winter. 1 have 70 colonies at 

 home, and 15 at an out-yard, and they all 

 have plenty of winter stores, and some of 

 them could spare some, as the two-story hives 

 have from 50 to 75 pounds each. 



W. M. Bailey. 



Spartanburg Co., S. C, Nov. 7. 



Bees as a Side Issue. 



We had a bad summer. As it was so rainy 

 and cold all through the early part the bees 

 nearly starved in June, but by careful man- 

 agement I got a little surplus— all fancy— and 

 I sold it at from 17 to 20 cents per section. I 

 am now ready to commence the winter with 

 2S colonies, all in fair condition. 



I found a bee-tree in May, cut it down and 

 hived the bees; they had a fine leather-colored 

 queen, and built up nicely, and are in good 

 shape. I am a farmer, and keep a few colo- 

 nies of bees as a side-issue, to help pay taxes. 

 Ira Shocket. 



Randolph Co., W. Va., Nov. 6. 



Late Queen-Introduction— Rearing 

 Queens. 



I received a queen this afternoon, and not- 

 withstanding the cold, ahe and her attendants 

 were in first-class condition. It required great 

 care to hunt out a queen in a strong colony of 

 mongrel bees, covered all over with flaming 

 war-paint, but I did it, and got only one sting. 

 The temperature at the time was 40 degrees 

 above zero. 



I can not sympathize with those who make 

 so much complaint of getting poor queens 

 from queen-breeders. I have bought queens 

 from many persons for more than 30 years, 

 and I can not recall more than one really in- 

 ferior. I got one a few years ago that, for a 

 time, laid comparatively few eggs, but later 

 she kept her hive full of very fine bees, and 

 the queens reared from her were among the 

 very best I ever had. 



Late last season I reared a queen in a small 

 nucleus, which had lost its queen on her ex- 

 cursion to meet a drone; I gave it a bit of 

 comb, only large enough for one cell, so the 

 bees had but one larva to feed. I think there 

 was not more than a pint of bees. The young 

 queen seemed well developed, and became fer- 

 tile, and began to lay a little in advance of the 

 usual time. She pleased me so much that I 

 introduced her to a full colony, and she has 

 proved one of the very best queens in my 

 apiary. She has done so well the past season 

 that 1 want to try her another year, at least. 

 From this experience, and from some others, I 

 am satisfied that good queens can be reared in 

 nuclei as well as in full colonies. Yetl would 



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Box-Hives vs. Modern Hives. 



I see that many disparaging remarks and 

 many sarcastic comments appear from time 

 to time concerning '• box-hives " and all who 

 use them. And while uot in any way an ad- 

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 hives are still used, and always will be. That 

 overwhelming reason is the expense connected 

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 you select. And remember that the despised 

 " box-hive '' is always perfectly satisfactory to 

 the bee. 



To illustrate the expense connected with the 

 change from box-hives to modern hives, I give 

 my own experience : 



I have kept from 10 to 15 colonies of com- 

 mon black bees in box-hives for the last three 

 years, from 1900 to 1903, and this year I trans- 

 ferred them to S-frame dovetailed hives, 

 using the combined stand and bottom-board, 

 and gable covers. Last spring I had 11 box- 

 hives, with all colonies strong. I bought 20 

 hives, I'.j stories, and 5 extra supers, sec- 

 tions enough to fill all supers, enough extra 

 thin foundation to put full sheets in all sec- 

 tions, and light brood to fill all frames with 

 full sheets; bee-escapes, veil, smoker, founda- 

 tion fastener, book, paint, etc., makingatotal 

 expense of .$50.30. 



Later on I purchased 16 Italian queens for 

 S13.00 ; making a total of .¥63.30 for the first 

 year. Expenses for the next season will be 

 .¥51.00; for 1905, S63.74; for 1906, S80.39; and 

 from that on, when I shall have an apiary of 

 50 3-story hives, the annual expense for sup- 

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