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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Jan. 4, 1900. 



bees were then carrying tbem out of the 

 hive about as soon as they batoht, as they 

 were then killing off their drones. They 

 were crawling in front of the hive all 

 over on the ground, as they were too young 

 to fly. I lost that colony in the winter, so 

 I had no experience as to what that kind of 

 a bee with a drone head would amount to. 

 Besides the head, they had stings, and were 

 perfect in every way, like the workers. I 

 should say one-third of them were bees like 

 that. Has anyone ever seen bees like that? 

 If so, please let us hear from them, and 

 what the cause is. I was led to think the 

 queen had been detained from her wedding- 

 trip too long for perfect workers. 



John Pederson. 

 Chautauqua Co., N. Y., Nov. 30, IStm. 



A Beginner's Experience. 



Let me give my experience as a beginner 

 in bee-keeping. I am of mature age now. 

 My father kept bees when I was j-oung — I 

 think that's the reason why I always had a 

 liking for bees, and to have some pastime 1 

 bought, in 18'JS. 7 colonies of black bees, and 

 I got "sold" badly. They were in old, home- 

 made boxes, and non-movable frames. I 

 could look in on top and that was all. 



Well, I took the hives home and put 

 tbem on stands, and they were ready for 

 business. By May 1 two had taken French 

 leave; two more were robbed out and fol- 

 lowed suit. By this time I got a bee-book 

 and studied it, and found I had made a bad 

 mess of it so far. I got new. modern, S- 

 frame hives, with full sheets of foundation, 



to put new swarms in. I had two prime 

 swarms and four after-swarms, the after- 

 swarms coming out close together. 1 united 

 them in two hives; this gave me four 

 strong colonies in modern hives. Two I 

 gave Italian queens. I was unable to find 

 the old queens myself, so I got a doctor 

 who also keeps bees to find them for me. 



Fall came, but no honey for me; but all 

 except one were well supplied for winter, 

 and the one I fed. My cellar is cold but 

 dry, the south wall being above ground. I 

 put Hill's devices and chaff cushions over 

 the bees, in a super, and rai.sed the hives 

 about I'o inches from the bottom-board. 

 When the cold snaps came, and the ther- 

 mometer went down to the freezing point, 

 I put a large kerosene lamp in the cellar, 

 and this raised the temperature five or six 

 degrees, but the thermometer was never 

 above 40. 



April 10 1 took the bees out; they were 

 all alive and strong, all having plenty of 

 honey except one, and three days after- 

 wards they bad from two to three frames 

 well filled with eggs. 



Bee keepers in this neighborhood lost 

 heavily last winter — one lost all, and others 

 from one-third to a half. None read a bee- 

 paper but the doctor. 



My bees went to work in fine shape. 

 About May 1 I transferred the three old 

 colonies to modern hives, and thereby lost 

 one queen. I gave them a frame with eggs 

 from my Italians, and they soon had a hy- 

 brid queen. By June 9 the first swarms 

 came. After the black bees bad swarmed I 

 cut out all queen-cells and gave them one 



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of my Italian queen-cells in a cell-protec- 

 tor. Thus I have all but five Italians or 

 hybrids. One Italian colony gave me four 

 supers full of honey, but had little honey 

 below. Seven colonies, spring count, gave 

 me 300 pounds of comb honey, and increast 

 to 16. No other bees have done as well 

 here. My bees are now in the cellar, packt- 

 the same as last winter. 



This success I attribute to reading the 

 American Bee Journal and bee-books. The 

 old beekeepers around here are surprised 

 at ray success, and are asking me now for 

 advice. But to take a beepaper in order 

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 their comprehension! H.G.Walker. 



Stearns Co., Minn., Dec. 7, 1S99. 



Two Young Laying Queens in Hive. 



Has anyone ever found two young, lay- 

 ing queens in one hive ? I found two such 

 in one hive, and they had been there long 

 enough to have eggs and hatching brood in 

 the hive. The hive had 14 frames, and the 

 queens were settled in the opposite ends of 

 the hive. I know they were both young 

 queens, because the old one was dipt, and 

 there was plenty of evidence that she had 

 been superseded. 



I started in with 43 colonies, spring 

 count, and got 700 pounds of comb honey, 

 which I sold at 12i,j cents, and could have 

 sold 10 times as much. I also increast to 58 

 colonies, all in splendid condition for win- 

 ter. I winter bees on the summer stands. 

 I lost eight colonies last winter, three be- 

 ing queenless, and the balance from bad 

 feed (honey-dew). By the way, it looks as 

 if the "bug-juice" theory is getting a 

 black eye. I never could believe in that 

 theory. It certainly could not be the nat- 

 ural product of the body, and, if not, then 

 they must gather it from some source like 

 bees do. 



I am nearly 07 years old, and it won't be 

 long until I will have to give up my bees, 

 and none of my family can take my place 

 with them. R. R. Stokeseerrt. 



Vermillion Co., Ind., Dec. 12, 1899. 



WE PRESENT 

 herewith acut 

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 Company for booklet on Feed tirinders, and say 

 you saw" their advertisement in the American 

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