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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



April 30, 



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TEXAS QUEENS. 



It you are in need of Queens, let me have 

 youi^jrder. Price-List Free. 

 UAUm J. D. GIVENS, I.l«beu, Xez. 



their business-end quite freely, and also are 

 great swarmers. 



Last spring I left them in April, gave 

 every hive two sets of Langstroth frames, 

 one above the other, except a few that had 

 a set of frames six inches deep on top, but 

 many- of them swarmed, so the people said, 

 and decamped, us there was no one to look 

 after them that understood the business, 

 and the man that I expected to assist was 

 sick. Now, some claim that bees will 

 swarm here anyway you fix them, but I 

 think not, and believe the same bee here, 

 with like treatment and conditions as at 

 the North, will perform the same, every 

 time. At the North, 30 years ago, we were 

 troubled beyond endurance with over- 

 swarming, but after we got the Italian bee, 

 and supplied different conditions, our 

 trouble was at an end, and now we have to 

 force our swarms if we get enough natural 

 ones to supply or make up our usual winter 

 losses. 



Bees winter here with but little loss, ex- 

 cept from lack of stores. Last November I 

 introduced 11 pure Italian queens. Some I 

 divided into three colonies, and it is won- 

 derful how these little colonies have pulled 

 through. I now expect to ship some of 

 these colonies North this spring, to rein- 

 force the weak ones up there. Still, this 

 will be useless unlessi we have a better sea- 

 son up there than we did last year, for bees 

 here gathered a surplus, while up there I 

 had to feed to get them in a condition for 

 winter. Chester Beloing. 



Claremont, Va., March 24. 



Clipping' the ftueens' Wings. 



There is a time to feed bees, and a time 

 not to feed; a time to contract the brood- 

 nest, and a time, again, to enlarge it; a 

 time to put on section-cases, and a time to 

 take them off; a time when bees will 

 swarm, and I know there is a time when 

 they will sting. 



There was a good deal said about clipping 

 and non-clipping of the queens' wings, but 

 I do not reruember seeing anything as to 

 the proper or best time to clip them — ex- 

 cept not to do so before the queen is fer- 

 tilized. It is very nice and pleasant when 

 a colony swarms, to go in front of the hive 

 and pick up the clipped queen, place her in 

 an empty hive, and let the bees do the rest 

 while you wait. Last summer I found a 

 clipped queen 10 feet from her hive, in the 

 grass. They had swarmed two days before. 

 The bees had balled her, and she had been 

 out in the open air for two days and nights. 

 Some man may say he would rather not 

 have his queens clipped, for they are too 

 liable to come out and get lost in the grass. 

 Well, I would rather the queen would get 

 lost, than to have the queen and whole col- 

 ony come out and fly away, which they are 

 liable to do if you are not on band at the 

 time. You may lose the clipped queen, but 

 the colony of bees will return if the queen 

 is unable to go along. 



It has been my custom, whenever I found 

 the queen (after she was fertilized), to clip 

 her wings, but my experience from slight 

 observation is, that if you have a colony 

 that is doing well, and the queen is laying 

 nicely, you had better let her alone, for 

 fear the clippingof her wings will make her 

 stop laying for a time. Will not some one 

 with more experience tell me if this is not 

 true, if there is not a proper time to clip 

 the queens' wings, and just when that is ? 



Brooklyn, N. Y. I. N. Hoagland. 



How He Began Bee-Keeping. 



Thank you, Mr. Ball, for what you have 

 to say on page '20'3. Your remarks are 

 short and to the point, and come from my 

 own State. If you will take notice, the 

 most of the big honey and bee stories come 

 from some far-away State or country, 

 which seems strange, as I know of quite a 

 number of bee-keepers in this State, there 

 being no less than six within three miles of 

 me. Now, is this State a poor pasture for 

 Ijees, or don't we feel at liberty to tell what 

 we know about bee-keeping, honey crops, 



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Beginners should have a copy of the 

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