Dec. 24, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



829 



wedding-flight, whereas she had never been 

 allowed to live to take the llight, as the bees 

 had killed her. Hereafter, if I can I prefer 

 letting the queen hatch in the hive she is to 

 occupy, and what cells hatch in my hands 

 when removing them will never be used, un- 

 less it is an emergency ; and before doing so 

 she will get the water-cure. The kingbirds 

 and I have buried the liatchet, and will be 

 friends. I will kill no more of them. The 

 queens will get the water-cure when clipping 

 hereafter, as I usually have some balled from 

 the scare she gets, which starts her running 

 when released. The older bee-keepers may 

 hoot at the idea, but I believe the attack origi- 

 nates mostly from fear on the part of the 

 queen. If it comes from the scent of being 

 handled, the water will remove it. Try it, 

 boys, as I did, and see what is in it. 



Mr. Davenport, our neighbor on the North, 

 was complaining about too much pollen be- 

 ing deposited in the brood-nest. Same thing 

 here. The plague is a serious affair with me, 

 as the combs often become so filled with it 

 that there is but little room for brood. I can 

 help it by breaking in the caps on honey, and 

 have it carried up-stairs, which will enlarge 

 the brood-space. My bees will not carry 

 honey up-stairs from the brood-nest unless 

 the caps are broken. I have read that the 

 bees would clean the combs of pollen, but I 

 waited a long time for them to do it, and 

 waited in vain until I hit upon that plan : 



I had a lot of combs which were a mass of 

 pollen; these I was melting into was ; they 

 had been in empty hives where the bees had 

 carried all the honey that was in them, and 

 had become dry. I found that by giving 4 of 

 these with 4 of foundation to a new swarm 

 they would clean them out as free from pollen 

 as could be. I, too, tried soaking them, but 

 it was " no go " — the pollen appeared to 

 swell tight, and stayed there ; but if they had 

 no honey in them they appeared to dry out, and 

 bees did the rest, but with honey in them the 

 pollen staid in the frames. I wonder what is 



Mr. Hasty's opinion about it. All that I car 

 see for us in this pollen district to do, is to 

 remove the frames that are pollen-bound, and 

 place them where the bees can clean out the 

 honey, but not to allow robbing to originate 

 from it, then leave the combs in the empty 

 hive to dry, and not give over 3 or 4 at once. 

 I would like a more simple remedy, but must 

 use the above until some one tells me of a bet- 

 ter plan. 



I will say to Yon Yonson, that Tom Carter 

 says we will try his method of catching 

 fish next summer, when the haycocks bloom. 

 He is all right, and can come again. 



I wonder if there is any danger of the bee- 

 keeping sisters going off and starting a bee- 

 paper of their own. Hope they will not, un- 

 til we get some of those bachelors married ofT. 

 Say, ladies, those fellows have no pluck, or 

 they would have had a lady cook long ago. 



A. F. Foote, of Mitchell Co., Iowa, appears 

 to be worried over the problem of keeping 

 down increase. Some people like trouble well 

 enough to take a spade and dig for it. If Mr. 

 Foote will clip his queens* wings, and remove 

 the queen when the swarm issues, the bees 

 will return to the old hive, and he has then a 

 double-header for business. 



Mr. Patton, of Alabama, tries a dig at Mr. 

 Davenport, of Minnesota, about his black 

 bees. Say, Mr. Patton, come up here with 

 some of your Italian bees and see if our dark 

 bees don't "put it all over" your yellow 



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