1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



637 



vest. At that time I place eight combs 

 of sealed brood in the upper story ; at 

 the same time I prevent further egg-de- 

 positing in the upper story by interpos- 

 ing a queen-excluder At the arrival of 

 the honey-harvest the bees will all be 

 hatched, emptying the combs to make 

 space for the product of the honey-flow. 



Experience shows that it requires no 

 special inducement for. the bees to store 

 honey in the upper story, the combs of 

 which being the natural home and usual 

 place of ingress of the young workers. 



The above described procedure is also 

 a preventive to swarming ; or at least it 

 materially assists in the prevention of 

 swarming, which (as an established fact) 

 is necessary for the production of ex- 

 tracted honey. 



In connection with the above, I would 

 add the following suggestions : Never 

 allow honey to accumulate to any excess 

 in the hives, but extract it in proper 

 time ; that, is, before the bees are con- 

 fined to a limited space ; for if you don't, 

 you will weaken the energy of the bees 

 for working. 



Another means of the prevention of 

 swarming, I think, lies in the procuring 

 of flve-banded Italian bees, which I be- 

 lieve to be more or less non-swarming. 

 A. G. Hkiss. 



Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 15. 



A Report from Indian Territory. 



I am a bee-keeper of nearly two years' 

 experience. I commenced with two col- 

 onies in box-hives, increased to four last 

 year, transferred them to dovetailed 

 hives last June, and increased, by pur- 

 chase and artificia! swarming, to 11 col- 

 onies. This year has been very dry — no 

 rain since the middle of June. I have 

 fed 400 pounds of granulated sugar. I 

 Italianized all my bees. 



I have made a great many blunders, 

 and if it had not been for the American 

 Bee Journal, I should never have suc- 

 ceeded so far. J. T. Hairstgn. 



Salina, Ind. Ter., Sept. 13. 



Queens antl Qiieen-Rearin;;. — 



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Queen-Bearing' on a Canadian Island. 



We learn from the Toronto Globe that 

 a party consisting of Mr. Edmund Har- 

 ris, President Long Point Company ; R. 

 F. Holtermann, President Ontario Bee- 

 Keeper's Association and also an officer 

 of the Ontario Agricultural College, and 

 others, visited Long Point the other day 

 to inspect it as to the adaptability of the 

 island for bee-keeping. Some forty-five 

 colonies are being kept on the Point by 

 the company at present as an experi- 

 ment. Mr. Holtermann thought the 

 place had great natural advantages for 

 bee-keeping, especially after the bass- 

 wood blossoms opened, and suggested 

 that the island had great advantages for 

 the breeding of queens. It is more than 

 likely that Mr. Harris, the President 

 M'ith his well-known shrewdness and en 

 terprise, will develop large apiaries on 

 the island. The honey, which was sam- 

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 first class, and it is the intention to put 

 it on the New York, Boston, and other 

 United States markets. — Gleanings. 



Honey-Room Bee-Escapes. 



R. C. Aikin, in the Progressive Bee- 

 Keeper, makes quite an invention auxili- 

 ary to the new bee-escapes for honey- 

 rooms — runs the bees into a largish box 

 with one side of screen wire, instead of 

 causing so many to wander around out- 

 side a la loose children. Having collec- 

 ted a lot of them he hives them in with 

 the colony where they will do the most 

 good. As he brings loads of supers from 

 out-apiaries with very little time spent 

 in getting the bees out to start with, he 

 would else be overrun with orphan bees, 

 neither old nor young being able to find 

 any home on getting out in a strange 

 yard. His going-to-be way is to have a 

 honey-wagon in milk-wagon style, bee- 

 tight, and with the escape fixed in it. 

 Then most of the old bees would get out 

 and go home in the apiary where they 

 belonged. — E. E. Hasty, in Review. 



Replacing' Aged Queens. 



Question. — I have several old hybrid 

 queens that are past their usefulness, 

 and I wish to replace them. How and 

 when shall I proceed to do it ? 



Answer. — First as to the when : This 

 can be done at any time ; but I find that 

 the bees supersede more queens .just 

 after the main honey-flow for the season 

 is over than at any other time of the 

 year; consequently, where I wish to su- 

 persede queens for any reason I do it 

 ,)ust after the basswood-blossoms drop 

 off, as the most of the honey in this lo- 

 cality comes from basswood. Now as to 

 the how. Unless a change in variety of 

 bees is desired, I would advise the begin- 

 ner to leave this matter of suporsedure 

 of queens to the bees, as they will make 

 fewer mistakes, if this matter is left to 

 them, than the smartest bee-keeper in 

 the land — especially where there is any 

 Italian blood in the bees. But if we 

 wish to change the breed of bees, then 

 of course the apiarist must do it. The 

 plan I use most, and like best, is to start 

 queen-cells just before the basswood 

 honey-yield closes, when the bees are in 

 the best possible condition to rear extra 



