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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Sept. 6, 19011 



Tti6 Bee-KeeDer's 



Or, Manual of the Apiary, 



BY 



PROE A, J. COOK- 



460 Pages-16tli 1899 Edition— 18th Thou- 

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apiary, leaving' the covers and bottoms 

 all off, and set an empty hive, with 

 frames removed, on top of each stack. 

 I divided 25 cents worth of bisulphide 

 of carbon into three parts, and put into 

 an empty peach-can which I set on top 

 of the frames, in the empty hive. I 

 put on the cover g-ood and snug, and in 

 12 hours the thing was done (less time 

 would do.) It's all right, and much less 

 trouble than sulphur (but keep bisul- 

 phide away from artificial light, and 

 don't inhale the gas that forms by its 

 evaporation.) 



The caging of queens on combs of 

 brood and honey in a cage made osS 

 inches of screen-wire, by turning down 

 and ravelling out the edges, as recom- 

 mended by W. Z. Hutchinson last year, 

 failed with me. The bees gnawed 

 under the cage, hugged the queen to 

 death, and I got $1.00 worth of expe- 

 rience. The best way I have tried is to 

 make the cage large enough to hold a 

 frame of hatching brood ; hang in the 

 center of the brood-nest, and put the 

 queen on that one frame. Let her staj- 

 till the brood hatches, then take away 

 the cage, and all's well. 



The honey crop will be light, but 

 fine, so far. Cyrene E. Morris. 



Carroll Co., Iowa, Aug. 17. 



Honey Crop Almost a Failure. 



Honey seems to be a thing of the 

 past with bee-keepers here, but heavy 

 rains make prospects for a fall flow. 



In my yard of 40 colonies, only 123 

 finisht sections of honey have been 

 taken off, and there were probably 700 

 or more, ranging from '4 to ^+ filled at 

 the time the rain began, since which 

 they have barely held their own, and 

 before the rain they were not doing 

 much. I have had a hive on a platform 

 Fairbank's scales, but the record is so 

 poor and broketi that I hesitate to give 

 it, but will do so anj'how ; perhaps 

 some will see a point that is obscure 



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