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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 17, 



well as in stores, than I ever knew them 

 before. 



A bee-keeper who has 20 colonies 

 three miles north, and one with several 

 one mile south, have no surplus, and 

 their colonies are destitute of stfficient 

 stores to carry them successfully through 

 the season. No honey is the general re- 

 port, but I get honey, and they would, 

 too, If given proper care at the proper 

 time. Owners of such property do not 

 keep them, but the bees keep them- 

 selves or perish in the attempt. 



Peppermint was a sad failure by the 

 flood, and in consequence not 20 blos- 

 soms could be found in this whole terri- 

 tory. No white or other clover honey, 

 and with a small yield from wild red 

 raspberry. A short flow from coreopsis, 

 and last spring's seeding of Alsike, which 

 blossomed in profusion this fall, made 

 the bulk of my honey crop. Basswood 

 (American linden) bloom was in such 

 profusion that the limbs drooped with 

 their burden, but "nary a bit" of honey 

 from this source. 



Carson Van Blaricum. 



Calhoun Co., Mich. 



A Report. 



We have 52 colonies of bees. We 

 commenced three years ago with two 

 colonies : this year we had 2,500 pounds 

 of honey. 1 covered up 22 colonies out- 

 of-doors last year, and all came out in 

 fine condition last spring. We extracted 

 1,100 pounds of honey this fall. 



Garner & Barker. 



Plymouth Co., Iowa. 



Hiving a Swarm— Camiolan Bees. 



On July 2, 1896, a friend living about 

 two miles away came to me and said : 

 ' There is a swarm of bees down there 

 on a tree, and if you hive them you can 

 have them. I would not hive them for 

 a ten dollar bill." 



I told him that they were worth hiv- 

 ing, and I would go with him. So 1 

 fixed up an S-frame dovetail hive, put in 

 a few combs and filled up with empty 

 frames. Then we started for the bees. 

 When we got there I fonnd them on a 

 limb of a wild-cherry tree, about 20 feet 

 from the ground, so we started for a 

 ladder, saw, and some other things to bo 

 used in getting them down. On our re- 

 turn we raised the ladder and sprinkled 

 some water on the bees, which made 

 them crawl in a bunch, and wecould see 

 the combs which they had built on the 

 limb they were hanging on. We sawed 

 the limb off and lowered the bees, shak- 

 ing them in front of the hive, and saw 

 the queen march in with the bees, and 

 all was lovely — not a single sting was 

 administered in the whole affair. 



This swarm had built five combs on 

 the lower side of that limb — the center 

 one being about 9x14 inches, and the 

 rest rounding off; the two outside ones 

 being about the size of a hand. The 

 center combs had a lot of capped brood, 

 and every cell was worker-comb, and 

 not over two ounces of honey. By the 

 brood, I think that swarm was there all 

 of two weeks. I took them home and 

 they filled their hive, built nearly all 

 worker-comb, and were common black 

 bees. 



Some people call the Carniolans black 

 bees, and even go so far as to say that at 

 first sight one would call them so, and 

 possibly at last sight, also. Now, I do 

 not agree with that, but I do agree with 



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1 A 1 V Mention the A merican Bee Joumai. 



Mr. Abbott, when he said that it is just 

 as easy to tell a Carniolan from a black 

 bee as it is to tell a horse from a mule. 

 I am talking of pure Carniolans now. I 

 simply say "pure," for the reason that 

 I was deceived myself in purchasing 

 Carniolan queens. One breeder sent 

 me a Carniolan queen, and she looked 

 (to me) like a black. The bees with her 

 in the cage looked black, and when her 

 bees showed up they were about half 

 black and half Italian. Another breeder 

 sent me a Carniolan. The queen herself 

 looked like a Carniolan, also the bees 

 with her in the cage, but she was mated 

 to a black drone, and her bees were half 

 black and half Carniolan. 



But I have some pure Carniolan colo- 

 nies, and they are regular zebras in 

 color, having their abdomens covered 

 with rings of gray hair, and look very 

 pretty. They are rousing big colonies, 

 flying when the Italians are idle. They 

 are good comb-builders, gentle, and cap 

 their honey very white. I have my Car- 

 niolan and some Italians on frames 11}^ 

 inches deep, the same length as the 

 Langstroth, using bottom cover and 

 super of the 8-frame Dovetail hive. All 

 I change is the end-bar on the frame, 

 and place a rim 2J4 inches under the 

 hives, which gives a deeper hive to win- 

 ter my bees in on the summerstand, and 

 enlarges the 8-frame hive to the same 

 amount of room as a 10-frame Lang- 

 stroth. I like them better than the 10- 

 frame Langstroth, and not a comb has 

 broken down for me yet. 



Paul Whitebbead. 



Luzerne Co., Pa., Nov. 28. 



A 'Wonderful 3-Frame Nucleus. 



I wish to make a report of a 3-frame 

 nucleus which I received of an Illinois 

 breeder on May 8, 1896. I was sick 

 when they came, and not being able to 

 take care of them they had to stay in 

 the shipping-case until Sunday. Not 

 wanting them to stay any longer, with 

 father's help we put them Into a 9-frame 

 hive, with two frames of comb and the 

 rest comb foundation. About every 

 other day I opened the hive and spread 

 the frames, and dropped one of the out- 

 side ones in the center, so as to keep the 

 brood-rearing going on as fast as pos- 

 sible. The plums, apples, and locusts 

 were in full bloom, so the bees had a fine 

 field to work in. The queen was the 

 best I ever had, for from May 29 until 

 July 6 she kept the nine frames full of 

 brood. I took off two cases of 27 pounds 

 each, making 5-1 pounds in all. 



As it was my first season of Italian 

 bees, I thought I should like some in- 

 crease, so at the same time (July 6) I 

 took out the queen and the two frames 

 containing the least brood, and put them 

 into another hive, leaving the old hive 

 on the old stand with seven frames of 

 brood. I concluded to let them swarm. 



On July 2,5 I found one dead queen in 

 front of the old hive, and on the 26th 

 I found two more. Then on July 28 

 they came forth in good earnest, with a 

 very large swarm. Just as they got 

 nicely settled I undertook to hive them, 

 just the same as I did my hybrids years 

 ago, and instead of going into the hive 

 they went into the air and off for the 

 woods, and it was impossible to stop 

 them, so they were gone. But July 29 

 another swarm came out, which father 

 and I hived with success. The next 

 morning I found three queens at the 



