1896. 



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having a large number of late-reared 

 bees for winter. I have not room here, 

 however, to discuss the question. [Sup- 

 pose you write an article, elaborating 

 your ideas ou this subject. We should 

 be pleased to publish it. — Editor.] 



G. W. Demaree — I would keep up 

 breeding by feeding just enough thin 

 honey or sugar syrup to keep the bees 

 busy rearing brood. But if there is some 

 honey in the fields for the bees to gather, 

 I would leave the breeding to the in- 

 stinct of the bees. I have never known 

 my bees to make a mistake along this 

 line, if they can get a good supply of 

 honey and pollen. 



J. E. Pond — I find if bees are properly 

 cared for during the season, that they 

 will take care of themselves iu this re- 

 spect. For myself, I don't care to have 

 my bees breed very late in the season, 

 and never attempt to force them so to 

 do. They should be kept breeding dur- 

 ing late, summer by feeding, if there is 

 not sufficient forage for them. Any 

 other thing being done, as a rule, I think 

 is labor thrown away. 



Qei;)Gral Itetrjs^ 



Good Year for Bees. 



I put my bees out on April 18. I then 

 had 75 colonies, but before the honey 

 season came on they dwindled down to 

 65. I have secured 5,000 pounds of 

 extracted honey from clover, linden, 

 buckwheat and golden-rod, and have 

 increased to 100 colonies, by natural 

 swarming. The bees are still working 

 on buckwheat and golden-rod. This has 

 been a very good year for bees around 

 here. Mrs. Tompkins. 



Billings Bridge, Ont., Aug. 17. 



Plenty of Rain and Honey. 



Plenty of rain means plenty of honey. 

 We had a fine flow from clover this sum- 

 mer, which is coming into bloom again 

 this fall. I have gotten about 1,500 

 pounds of clover honey, and if I get 

 sone fall honey yet, I oughtn't to 

 "kick." Blackheart, weeds and golden- 

 rod, buckwheat and Spanish-needle are 

 all just beginning to bloom. There was 

 about 40 acres of flax within one mile of 

 my bees, but 1 never saw a bee on it. 



Hurrah for the American Bee .fournal ! 

 Long may it live ! Jacob Wirth. 



Eickel, Ills., Aug. 17. 



Keeping Bee-Eggs— Killing Drones. 



On page 4-4-2 the question is asked, 

 " How long will a bee-egg keep ?" 1 do 

 not know anything about a worker-egg, 

 but a drone egg, or eggs, will hatch and 

 mature after they have been out of the 

 hive 30 hours and flung into the pile of 

 other old combs, and I suppose a queen- 

 egg will hatch the same, or any other 

 egg, as all worker-eggs could produce 

 queens if so desired. Queen-cells capped 

 or uncapped can be kept from the hive 

 long enough to go l,50i» miles, but I 

 should prefer not to send them by mail, 

 and warrant them all right. 



On page 466, in regard to bees killing 

 drones, it is suggested that the bees 

 worry them and drive them out of the 

 hive. I have seen workers this year 



—An Extra-Fine Grade of— 



Comb Honey ! 



Any one wishing something: very nice in 

 While Clover or Basstvood 



Comb or Extracted 



for K.\iiibltion or any purpose where a giit- 

 edge article is desired, should write for prices 

 and particulars to, 



JEWELL TAYLOR, 



35A4t FOKESTVILLE, MINN. 



Minitimi the American Bee Jourtini,^ 



What They All Say ! 



The Queen you sent me is the finest I ever 

 had, and I have bought them all over the 

 country. I am glad I can get the best right at 

 home. Find $1.00 for another. 



Mason E. Marvel. 



Aug. 16, 1896. Oakland. Mass. 



The above Queen was an Adel. I have 300 

 more just lilie her. Hardy, prolific. grea.t 

 honey-gatherers and practlcallj' non-swarm- 

 ing and non-stinglug. New -i-page Catalog, 

 giving history of the Adele and safest meth- 

 od of Introducing Queens, sent free. 



HENRV AL.LE:Y, Weiiliaiu, ITIastt. 

 35Atf Mention the American Bee Journal. 



I'or Sale at I..oyv Prioesi and 

 on I'>a!<y Xerins. 



The Illinois Central Railroad Company offers 

 for sale on easy terms and at low prices. 150- 

 000 acres of choice fruit, gardening, farm and 

 grazing lands located In 



SOUTBEPJ ILUIIS. 



They are also largely interested in. and call 

 especial attention to the 600.000 acres of land 

 iu the famous 



YAZOO VALLEY 



OF MISSISSIPPI 



lying along and owned by the Yazoo & Miss- 

 issippi Valley Railroad Company, and which 

 that company oilers at low prices and ou long 

 terms. Special inducements and facilities 

 offered to go and e.xamine these lands, both 

 in Southern Illinois and in the " Yaz lo Val- 

 ley." Miss. For further description, map, and 

 any information, address or call upon E. P. 

 SKENE, Land Commissioner, No. 1 Park 

 Row. Chicago, HI. 33D6t 



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Menticm tne American Bee Jo-urjid. 



dragging drones from the hive that 

 seemed and looked all right, but before 

 they got through with them they lay on 

 the ground on their side or back, kick- 

 ing, and never left the spot where the 

 workers left them. 



I have kept bees and helped to handle 

 them for five years, and I think that I 

 have had as much experience in that 

 length of time as a great many would 

 have in 10 years, for after carefully 

 reading Father Laugstroth's book of 

 1856, I and my brother (who had les- 

 sons from an old, experienced bee-keeper 

 of 30 years, and up to the times, and 

 ahead, for all that) went around trans- 

 ferring bees from box-hives into all sorts 

 of movable-frame hives that people had, 

 that had been sold to them for the best, 

 and some who had put a swarm in and 

 had never looked Into them since the 

 swarm went in. Stranger. 



Northfield, Conn. 



No Honey-Flow T'et. 



The bees are doing well in Kearney, 

 and along the Platte river, but five or 

 six miles north, where 1 live, there is no 

 honey-flow yet. J. C. Knoll. 



Kearney, Nebr., Aug. 11. 



No Rain and Hot Winds. 



Bees have done no good here this year, 

 and are on the verge of starvation now. 

 We have had no rain for many weeks, 

 and the hot winds are blowing every 

 day. Our cotton crop, instead of from 

 2 to 3 acres as usual, it will require 

 from 15 to 'AO acres to make a bale on 

 the uplands. H. C. Braley. 



Greenwood, Ark., Aug. 17. 



Still a Protracted Drouth. 



We are still in a protracted drouth. 

 The rain we had on July 10 gave us but 

 little relief. It has been so hot and not 

 a drop of rain since, and no rain for two 

 months before. Bees gathered a little 

 surplus extracted honey from cotton, 

 but they are idle now. Could we have a 

 good rain any time this month — enough 

 to put cotton to growing and blooming — 

 we could get some honey yet. 



J. D. GiVENS. 



Lisbon, Tex., Aug. 18. 



Mailing ftueens — Important Matter. 



I would like to say a few words in re- 

 gard to mailing queens. On page 376 

 it is said that in a small cage six bees 

 are sufficient. I had a number of queens 

 sent to me last season, from Arkansas, 

 and I find the cage ought to be well 

 filled with bees. I will give my reasons, 

 as I am speaking for this part of the 

 country. It is at long distance, and in 

 transit bees and queens have to come in 

 contact with quite a cool atmosphere 

 en route. I never had a queen arrive 

 dead where there were plenty of bees 

 with her, but 1 have had them come so 

 where there were but a few bees in the 

 cage. 



I sent to Massachusetts last season 

 for a queen, and she arrived dead ; the 

 dealer sent me another, and she came in 

 the same way. He then sent another, 

 and she came alive, but very weak, and 

 died before the bees released her. I 

 wrote to the dealer and told him he did 

 not put bees enough in the cage. The 

 reply was : " It is laughable to have 



