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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 16, 



Number of Pounds in a Day. 



Jt is impossible to give a definite 

 answer as to how much a colony of bees 

 weighing a given amount will bring in 

 pounds of honey per day. There are so 

 many conditions to be taken into ac- 

 count, such a.s the weather, the kind of 

 bees, the strength of the colony, the 

 source of the honey-flow, and the 

 strength of it. A good colony, how- 

 ever, will gather from one to five pounds 

 of honey per day from clover in a fair 

 flow, and from one to 10 pounds from 

 basswood ; and strong colonies have 

 been known to store even as much as 20 

 pounds in a day. But such instances 

 are exceptional. — Gleanings. 



"Some Don'ts" for Honey-Buyers. 



Don't buy honey that has stood in the 

 open air, especially in a damp climate. 

 The cappings of comb honey are very 

 porous and affected by all strong smell- 

 ing and damp surroundings ; conse- 

 quently, do not use honey that is kept 

 near tobacco, salt or smoked fish or 

 meats, candles, etc. 



Don't buy honey in which any comb 

 is immersed, for fiure extracted honey 

 does not need comb in it to deceive the 

 eye. for it appeals to the palate as well 

 as the eye. 



Don't use strained honey, as it is 

 squeezed from the comb in which dead 

 bees, larva, pup;i;, the bee-moth's larv.e, 

 and even worse, are present. 



Don't think that honey is expensive, 

 as one quart of honey is equal to five or 

 six pounds of butter in lasting and food 

 results. 



Don't forget that cheap syrups (and 

 some expensive ones) bring you two un- 

 welcome visitors— first the doctor, next 

 the undertaker. 



Don't buy honey without the label of 

 some apiarist, producer, or reliable firm. 



Don't stay without honey when you 

 can get a pure, ripened and wholesome 

 article at a fair price. 



Don't leave your extracted or comb 

 honey open ; cover it.— Extract from a 

 " Honey-Leaflet" published in the Bee- 

 Keepers' Review. 



The Elwood Method of Dequeening. 



About the time when the colonies be- 

 come so crowded with bees and honey 

 that there is danger of their getting the 

 swarming-fever, and, preferably, before 

 that troublesome disorder has actually 

 begun to make them dissatisfied, the 

 apiarist hunts up the queen in each 

 hive; he takes one or two combs, with 

 some hatching brood, and adhering bees 

 enough to make a small nucleus, and 

 hangs them in a nucleus hive, which 

 stands near the colony, and the queen is 

 placed on these combs, to be kept in the 

 nucleus until she is needed again. Nine 

 days after this operation the dequeened 

 hive is carefully gone over and evei-y 

 queen-cell removed from the combs. The 

 colony is now hopelessly yiteCTUess— that 

 is, there remains, at this time, only 

 sealed brood in the hive, from which it 

 is impossible for the bees to rear a 

 queen. In this hopeless state the bees 

 are left for a week or ten days, when 

 the old queen is re-introduced into the 

 hive. 



During the nine days succeeding the 



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