March 22, 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



189 



But, of course, the whole business did 

 not amount to anything-, except that it 

 was very interesting to nie. 



With the approach of winter, all my 

 bumble-bees disappeared, and none of 

 them wintered in their little clay hives, 

 so that only the pleasant remembrance 

 of my boyhood undertakinffs remained 

 with me, and they ever will. 



Hall Co., Nebr. Wm. Stoi.i.ev. 



[The above experiences will probably 

 suffice on this subject for the present. 

 Altho it is interesting reading', it is not 

 specially helpful to very many of our 

 readers. — Editor . ] 



Hunting Bees. 



It appears my question to Dr. Miller, 

 signed "Massachusetts," has brought 

 out some good points in regard to hunt- 

 ing bees. As several bee-hunters have 

 come forward to substantiate my state- 

 ments, I will venture to give one or 

 two more of my observations along the 

 "line." 



I have noticed when working up on 

 the " line," and the bees are working 

 strong on the bait, one can tell when 

 he gets pretty near the tree, by the 

 number of bees that will be seen hunt- 

 ing and flying about in the grass and 

 around the trees. I suppose the)' are 

 bees that have not found the bait, but 

 know there is a big boom in honey 

 somewhere not far off. 



I also find when timing bees from 

 the bait to the tree, it makes quite a 

 difference whether it is a young bee or 

 an old one with ragged wings. It 

 takes the old one much longer to go 

 and come. A. E. Willcott. 



Hampshire Co., Mass. 



Ordeping Bee-Supplies Early. 



I have never made a kick, I think, on 

 anything contained in the American 

 Bee Journal. I will have taken it 8 

 years next June, if I mistake not. It 

 is my favorite bee-paper, but the edi- 

 torial on page 136, on "Early Orders 

 for Bee-Supplies," is a case of "last 

 straw that breaks the camel's back." 



Of course, I know the dealers' adver- 

 tising amounts to a good deal more 

 than my paltry $1.00 on subscription ; 

 nevertheless, I know most, if not all, 

 papers are conducted ostensibly in the 

 interest of the subscribers. 



Now this old warning about order- 

 ing supplies early is. or has been, 

 printed in bee-papers and supply cata- 

 logs almost times without number. I 

 think it is high time we hear some- 

 thing about dealers shipping goods in 

 a reasonable time after getting our 

 cash, or else informing us why they 

 can not. I know of no other business 

 that makes a regular thing of taking 

 your cash order and not sending goods 

 for months afterwards. (It makes me 

 hot all over.) 



Now I want to tell some of my expe- 

 rience. I may not have dates exact for 

 4 or S years ago, but the last deal or 

 two is fresh in memory, I can assure 

 you. 



I bought supplies first of a large Wis- 

 consin firm. The first order was filled 

 within a few days, but they got slower 

 and slower. The last order, given in 

 December or January, was received 

 about March 10. I think I did order 5 

 hives yet after this, and got them the 



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The Queens Dr. Miller will send out on our orders will be pre- 

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 will be from his best stock. His best colony in 1899 had a queen 

 reared in 1898; May 5, 1899, it had brood in 4 frames, and he gave it 

 at that time a frame of brood without bees. It had no other help, 

 but May 25 a frame of brood with adhering bees was taken from it, 

 and the same thing was repeated June 3, leaving it at that time S 

 frames of brood. It stored 178 sections of honey, weighing 159 

 pounds (and that after July 20, in a poor season), being 2-3 times the 

 average yield of all his colonies. A point of importance is the fact 

 this colonj' did not swarm, and an inspection every week or 10 days 

 showed that at no time during the entire season was there even so 

 much as an egg in a queen-cell. Dr. Miller expects to rear queens 

 from this one during the coming summer. 



The demand nowadays is for BEES THAT GET THE HONEY 

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