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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 26, 1903. 



the catnip presented a most admirable, lux- 

 uriant growth. Yes, heie among the weeds a 

 fortune was smiling in my face ! _2 



About June 10, 1 cut the weeds with a 

 mower, leaving them lay where they dropped 

 to mulch the ground ; but in less than 8 days 

 nearly every catnip pjaut had withered away, 

 and withered away to stay dead for good, as 

 the whole 10 acres has only a few isolated 

 plants here and there. 



In the latter part of October, 1903, I sowed 

 a strip of land 2 rods wide by 10 rods long, 

 with some of the same catnip seed. This 

 ground had no protection, but had a good, 

 uniform stand that measured more than 3 

 feet high July 1, liXW. when it began to 

 blossom, and has blossomed continuously un- 

 til quite recently. Bees will not only work on 

 it from early rnorn until dark, but they will 

 work on it 'immediately after a heavy, con- 

 tinued rain, while the water is yet dripping 

 from the blossoms. It is perhaps the greatest 

 nectar-yielding plant in this State. 



Such is the story, in short, of perhaps the 

 most extravagant experiment of its kind up 

 to the present time; and while it was a fail- 

 ure, and the hope of ambition not realized, 

 lessons of value may be deducted as follows: 



First, that catnip will grow in the open. 



Second, that the ground must be rich. 



Third, that it must be sowed in the fall. 



Fourth, 2}.i pounds of seed per acre is a 

 great plenty. 



I will conclude by saying that I did not 

 gather any catnip seed this fall. Would you 

 like to know why ? J.W.Johnson. 



Stephenson Co., 111., Nov. 9. 



Queens Laying in Queen-Cells. 



On page 6ti3, there is an article on queen- 

 rearing, etc., by A. C. F. Bartz. 1 wish to 

 question his assertion in the closing para- 

 graph, in which he says: 



" But I believe if one would go to the 

 trouble and take away the brood-combs from 

 a colony intending to swarm, and insert sev- 

 eral, say three or four combs with queen-cell 

 cups, the queen would lay in them in such 

 rapid succession that nearly all of them would 

 hatch at the same time.'' 



I wish to say to Mr. Bartz, or any one 

 who intends trying this plan, I very much 

 doubt his getting a single queen-cell started 

 for some time; not until the queen has filled 

 all the vacant cells in the combs, and then the 

 queen will not lay in the cell-cups. 



It is not an uncommon thing to see a queen 

 lay in worker and drone cells, but I do not 

 hesitate to' say that a queen will not lay in a 

 queen-cell. If Mr. Bartz, or any other person, 

 ever saw one do so, let him hold up his hand. 



I think it Dr. Miller was asked if a queen 

 would lay in a queen-cell, he would say, " I 

 don't know ;" and he is one of our closest ob- 

 servers of the bee's habits. 



I know that worker-bees can, and do, move 

 eggs from one comb to another, and I believe 

 they always put the eggs in the queen-cells. 

 [zr Delos Wood. 



Santa Barbara Co., Calif., Nov. 5. 



Bee-Keeping in Alabama. 



I moved to this State last spring, with the 

 intention of turning my attention to fruit- 

 growing, but the dryness of the summer and 

 fall was much against young trees and plants, 

 owing to its being a mountainous country 

 with sandy soil. On finding much of the 

 land poor and greatly impoverished by rais- 

 ing cotton, and washing, I said, "Clover is 

 what this land needs;" but with one accord 

 they urged me not to waste any time and 

 money by sowing it, as it was too dry. This 

 did not convince me, so 1 ordered red, crim- 

 son, sweet, alsike and white clovers, and 

 sowed a little of each last spring, and, true 

 enough, what came up mostly died before the 

 fall rains came. That was the last of Octo- 

 ber, but I found a few roots of white and a 

 few of red, in a place where a horse had been 

 fed (they tell me on imported hay), that lived 

 and did well, and made seed, i concluded 

 that spring was not the time to sow it, so I 

 am sowing it now. 



Last spring I found a colony of bees that 

 were queenless, so I sent for an Italian queen ; 



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she did her part well, but the fall was dry, and 

 so far as I could see nothing to make honey 

 of. My sweet clover never came up, and the 

 only thing in the clover line is what is called 

 here " Japan clover," and I am very doubtful 

 if it is a clover at all ; at any rate, it yields no 

 nectar. In September I found the bees would 

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 Fill the glass full, then invert, and the bees 

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Cullman Co., Ala., Nov. 11. 



Building Outside the Hive— Separa- 

 toFs— Growing Alsike. 



The Editor asks for " experiences " of bee- 

 keepers. As I had experiences the past sea- 

 son, differing in some respects from any I 

 liave had before in more than 20 years of bee- 

 keeping, I will try to relate some of them, 

 though whether other bee-keepers will be 

 benefited thereby is a question. My wish is 

 that I may gain some knowledge, if some one 

 will tell where I made mistakes, if mistakes 

 were made by myself, or was it the bees? 



In the first place, my colonies were nearly 

 all very strong, probably caused by good feed- 

 ing in the spring, before the honey-tlow began. 

 In nearly every case the space between the 

 brood-frames and the bottom super was filled 

 with honey before the super was halt full or 

 ready to have another put under it, and burr- 

 combs and honey were crowded info every 

 space available — under the honey-boards, and 



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