1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



63 



stroth. I have three or four 8-trame hives. 

 My experience has been that the bees go 

 into the supers just as soon in an 11-frame 

 hive as if it had but S frames, and I get 33 

 sections of honey in a large hive just as 

 quick as I do 24 sections in an 8-frame hive, 

 and I do not think the bees are as apt to 

 swarm so often. I give them supers at the 

 proper time. 



My best colony produced 160 perfect sec- 

 tions of honey the past season. 



M. M. Miller. 



Chatsworth, HI., Dec. 9, 1S95. 



Bees Near a Railroad Track. 



In reply to a question asked recently 

 about locating an apiary near a railroad, I 

 would say that my bees are in winter 

 quartei's just 1.5 feet from a railroad side- 

 track, and 30 feet from the main track, 

 where the trains are passing as often as one 

 every half hour. I have opened the front 

 of my bee-house when the trains were pass- 

 ing, paid strict attention to them, and I 

 could not perceive any difference in them. 

 The bees do not seem ,to pay any attention 

 to the jarring and confusion of the trains 

 passing. I have a neighbor that has been 

 in the bee-business several years, and his 

 bees are kept, in winter and summer, less 

 than two rods from the same railroad, and 

 he is successful with his bees. In my opin- 

 ion it does not make any difference, except 

 when the bees are coming home loaded, 

 and a train is passing, it might make it a 

 little inconvenient for them, as they might 

 have to rise higher than they would had 

 the train not been there. I shall locate my 

 bees within less than four rods of the track. 



Homer, Minn. E. B. Huffman. 



Colo. Foul Brood Inspector's Report. 



By request of some bee-keepers of this 

 locality, I herewith send the last report of 

 our County Bee Inspectors, for publication. 

 Thefirstcolumnof figures shows the number 

 of colonies inspected, and the second col- 

 umn the number found diseased with foul 

 brood : 



Arapahoe county 4,3.')9 587 



Boulder " 327 8 



Bent " 19 13 



Huerfano " .512 



Jefferson " 2,830 89 



Larimer " 1.5 4 



Weld " 470 39 



Mesa " 1,893 203 



Total 9,934 933 



Of those colonies found diseased, 307 were 

 ordered to be destroyed. There were quite 

 a number of colonies affected with paraly- 

 sis, which were not included in this report. 



For the benefit of those bee-keepers who 

 intend to remove with their bees to this 

 State. I would say that it is to their inter- 

 est to have their bees inspected before doing 

 so. Section 7 of our State law on bee-dis- 

 eases reads as follows: 



"Should the owner or possessor of diseased 

 colonies of bees, or any portion of said col- 

 onies, be they queens or workers, or of any 

 affected appliances for bee-keeping, know- 

 ingly sell or barter, or give away, or move 

 or allow to be moved, such diseased colo- 

 nies, or portion of colonies, or infested ap- 

 pliances, he shall, on conviction before any 

 justice of the peace, be liable to a fine of 

 not less than S,50 or more than .^100, or to 

 imprisonment in the county jail for any 

 term net exceeding two months." 



Frank RAncHFUss, 

 Sec'y. Colo, titate B.-K. Association. 



Duff, Colo., Dec. 7, 1893. 



Best Hives and Bees — Report. 



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 through an age of darkness. This state- 

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 for where is there a bee-keeper of any note 

 ■who has not made glowing and expensive 



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mistakes 1. I will name a few of my blunders 

 pertaining to our pleasant pursuit. 



The first is a lot of 8-frame hives I made, 

 which are a nuisance in this locality, for 

 the reason that they are too small, as the 

 bees are often found in a starving condition 

 before clover blooms, owing to breeding 

 and increase of bees; being so small the 

 bees are liable to swarm too much. The 

 hive will not accommodate bees enough to 

 work to the best advantage. I know this is 

 true, as I have had 12-frame hives in the 

 apiary for several years, and it is a common 

 thing to find 10 frames of brood in these 

 large hives during the summer. Another 

 thing, I want my bees to gather their stores 

 for winter and spring use, for I despise 

 being compelled to feed my bees through 

 the spring, for the reason they do better on 

 natural stores gathered the previous season. 



I will sum the matter up as follows : I 

 want a handy hive so I can manage my 

 bees with the least amount of labor, and at 

 the same time get a good crop of honey, if 

 the flowers furnish the nectar, as I have a 

 small farm to look after and do the work 

 on it as well as to tend the bees. 



What strain or race of bees will we keep ? 

 This is settled in my mind. I would not 

 give one imported Italian queen for one 

 dozen of the choicest 5-banded Italian 

 queens in existence. I have imported 

 queens direct from Italy, also had the 

 golden queens from many breeders, so I 

 think I know what I say. I like gentle 

 bees, also bees that will winter ou the sum- 

 mer stands and not dwindle down to a 

 handful per hive. 



My report for 1^95 is as follows: I com- 

 menced the season with 75 colonies that 

 wintered without loss, and increased to SO 

 colonies ; secured a. crop of honey amount- 

 ing to 1.2~8 pounds, an average of 17 pounds 

 per colony. I had an average of 41 pounds 

 per colony in 1894. C. A. BuNcn. 



Nye, Ind. 



Three Seasons' Reports, Etc. 



I suppose we ought to report our honey 

 crops, good or bad. This is my third year 

 of bee-keeping. In 1893 my bees averaged 

 110 pounds per colony, spring count; in 



1894, a fraction over 80 pounds ; and this 

 year they only averaged 3754 pounds. But 

 I must not complain, for I know several 

 bee-keepers around here that have from 5 

 to 40 colonies that have not any surplus at 

 all. I have come to the conclusion that If 

 we keep many bees ou these ridges we shall 

 have to sow forage for them. They appear 

 to do better along the Mississippi bluffs. I 

 think the reason is because the bluffs are 

 so steep that they can scarcely be pastured 

 with sheep, consequently there is more for- 

 age for the bees. 



I had one colony this year that every 

 time I went into the yard I would see one, 

 two or three bees crawling around the 

 front of the hive apparently blind. Their 

 heads were very small, and sometimes I 

 saw a very small eye on one side of the 

 head. I would like to know if any one else 

 ever had such a case. I have never seen 

 anything of the kind in any bee books or 

 papers. I think I know what I ought to 

 have done with that queen —I ought to have 

 pulled her head off and given them a better 

 one. Daniel, Smethdrst. 



Seneca, Wis., Dec. 16, 1895. 



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