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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 3. 



condition when nectar is coming in, take 

 her head off, and give them a young 

 qneen. As a rule, the bees will super- 

 sede the queen themselves, and I believe 

 they do this many times before it is 

 necessary. 



Qet;)eral Iterrjs^ 



Drawn-Out Combs— An Old Idea. 



I see by the bee-papers that Mr. E. R. 

 Root is very much interested in having 

 drawn-out combs for section honey, and 

 that he would like to secure a machine 

 that would produce such combs. Well, 

 this drawn-out comb idea is very good, 

 but it is nothing new to the bee-men on 

 Fox river. The fact is, we, here on Fox 

 river, have known a " heap " about the 

 value of such an idea for the past 10 

 years, at least. And it may surprise 

 Mr. Root, and perhaps others, to learn 

 that we have machines here that will 

 make just such combs, and of any thick- 

 ness desired — from one-fourth to one 

 inch in depth, and of no greater weight 

 than the natural comb itself. Twelve 

 years ago I filled more than 50 supers 

 with just such comb. 



M. M. Baldbidge. 



Kane Co., 111., Aug 2(>. 



Wayside Notes— Bees a Specialty. 



If Mr. Aikin, of Loveland, Colo., would 

 kindly consent to furnish notes by the 

 way, as he travels by wagon down the 

 Arkansas valley and through several 

 States, he could not fail to interest the 

 great army of Bee Journal readers. 



Mr. F. L. Thompson, of Arvada, Colo., 

 recently advocated bee-keeping as a 

 specialty. His argument seemed to me 

 conclusive in favor. If he would con- 

 sent to publish both debit and credit 

 pages of his ledger for the year 1896, 

 with reference to the pursuit as one's 

 sole occupation, his views would be 

 gladly received. 



In the opinion of many, division of 

 labor must be carried much farther 

 among the American people than at 

 present. Instead of one individual fol- 

 lowing half a dozen occupations, and 

 reaching thoroughness in none of them, 

 each individual must study more to be a 

 master in one industry. 



Downing, Colo. S. W. DeBusk. 



The Locality and the Bees. 



Some say that one locality is all right, 

 but that their bees do not gather any 

 surplus, while others claim their bees 

 are all right, and that there is no sur- 

 plus to be gathered. So they do not 

 blame their bees for " loafing." Now 

 here is my experience, and gain : 



Last spring, as soon as fruit-bloom 

 opened, I gave each one of my colonies 

 28 sections, and they seemed in need of 

 them. The hives were crowded with 

 bees, and great quantities of brood com- 

 ing on, all looked prosperous, and bid 

 fair to give good results. I gave them 

 the room more to keep them from 

 swarming than with the expectation of 

 getting honey stored at that time. Only 

 two colonies cast swarms, which were 

 hived on empty brood-combs, and sec- 

 tions put on at once, so as to have the 

 bother over with ; they afterwards 



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MmUcix, Vie American Bee jounu^ir. 



What They All Say ! 



The Queen you sent me is the finest I ever 

 had, and 1 have bought them all over the 

 country. I am g"lad I can pet 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 like her. Hardy, prolific. g:reat 

 honey-gatherers and practkally non-swarm- 

 ing and non-stinging. New 4-page Catalog, 

 giving history of the Adels and safest meth- 

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We have completed a large addition to our 

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V?ATERTOWN. JefE. Co.. Wis.. Jan. 1st, 1896. 

 Mention the Amcrieayi Bee Journal. 



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 cut with one of your Com- 

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swarmed the second time, making four 

 swarms out of 12 colonies. So much 

 toward reducing the swarming-fever. 



Now, from all my 15 colonies I have 

 not secured a single section of honey, on 

 account of locality, as the bees were just 

 as strong as any, and just as many in 

 each colony. But from the one, I to-day 

 removed 56 sections of as fine white 

 honey as any one would ask for. This 

 colony did not swarm, nor has it cast a 

 swarm since I have owned it — three 

 years. One-half of this yield was se- 

 cured by my wishing to experiment. I 

 saw that they had finished the first 

 super of 28 sections solid, while all the 

 rest had idled around and done nothing, 

 so, being in a great hurry, I asked an 

 old bee-keeper if he would put any more 

 on, seeing that the honey-flow was over. 

 His advice was to remove the full crate 

 and let them store the balance for win- 

 ter stores. I thought differently, so I 

 secured more sections, put them in a 

 super, and simply set the empty ones on 

 top of the finished sections. This was 

 done on the morning of July 4, and to- 

 day I removed it with every section filled 

 to the very edge. I used separators be- 

 tween all sections, and 10-frame hives. 

 I placed in position another super, and I 

 am going to see if they will continue to 

 store surplus through the golden-rod 

 bloom, which will soon be on. 



All the while this colony has been 

 storing a good crop, others equally as 

 strong have never done anything more 

 than tear down the starters in the sec- 

 tions, and loaf around the hive, or try to 

 sting some one when passing by. Now 

 my question is, if they could and did 

 secure honey, why did not others in the 

 same yard, or some of my neighbors', 

 get at least a little surplus? They are 

 a poor variety of hybrids, so blood had 

 nothing to do with the working of the 

 bees. N. T. Smith. 



Weston, Ohio, Aug. 1. 



Thinks It a Bad Year. 



This has been a very bad honey year 

 in this part of California. I won't secure 

 more than one ton of comb honey, and 

 about the same amount of extracted, 

 from 54 colonies. Dan Clubb. 



Monson, Calif., Aug. 17. 



"Washington Cedar" Hives. 



On page 471, S. W. B., of Kendriek, 

 Idaho, speaks of having trouble with 

 new swarms in cedar hives bought of a 

 Tacoma manufacturer. We believe these 

 hives came from our factory, though not 

 sold to him direct. He wrote us regard- 

 ing it, however. 



Now we know the trouble is not with 

 the cedar lumber. For the past few 

 years, at least, the "Washington Cedar" 

 hives that have been put into use annu- 

 ally can be numbered by the thousands, 

 and we have never before received re- 

 ports of any one having this trouble. 

 We ourselves have had as many as 128 

 in use in our own yard at one time. 

 Bees have been kept in boxes made of 

 this lumber ever since there have been 

 bees in Washington. We transferred 

 some for a rancher, a couple of years 

 since, that had been there for 15 years. 

 He observed no trouble. Bees are found 

 in cedar trees, and if the scent were 

 offensive they would never have gone 

 there. Besides, the scent of decayed 



