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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Sept. 13, 1900 



ing-, either by driving' a nail into each end of each frame, or 

 by shoving- little sticks down between the end-bars. A 

 sponge full of water in each hive is a good thing. On a 

 wagon, let the frames run across the wagon-box ; on the 

 cars, parallel with the rails. 



Feeding Poiil-Broody Honey. 



Can honey taken from foul-broody colonies be boiled 

 and fed back ? If so, how much water should be added, and 

 how long should it be boiled ? Massachusetts. 



Answer. — Opinions vary greatly as to the length of 

 time required to make such honey safe by boiling, and on 

 the whole there is so much danger that it is better not to 

 use it for bee-food. It will not hurt you to eat it, but it 

 might be death to the bees. 



Clipping Queens— Basswood, Etc. 



You will likely receive my order from the publishers of 

 the American Bee Journal, for one of your queen-bees. I 

 am not in a rush to have her, only before you cage her be 

 kind enough to clip her just the way you clip a queen, for I 

 keep every fertile queen-bee dipt, and I would not like to 

 meddle with her. 



My way of introducing a queen is this : I remove the 

 queen in the hive (if any), then I hunt out a frame of just- 

 hatching brood. I then fit wire-cloth bee-tight over both 



sides of this frame of brood and some honey, and here is 

 where I let the caged queen and the several bees with her 

 run on them. I put them in the hive for three days ; after 

 the third day I take the wire-cloth off. It has always workt 

 nicelj' for me. 



I inclose a wild honey-3'ielder that grows on the ore 

 banks. When I go there and stand still, I see bees on it by 

 the thousand. Just as far as my eyes can see the ground is 

 like velvet, and bees on all day. In the morning the nectar 

 on this velvet shines like silver. 



Also basswood was in full bloom this summer, but I 

 could not see a bee on the blossom, but it was full of bugs 

 and wasps. Why was this ? Pennsylvania. 



Answer. — Unless there was an accidental omission, 

 every premium queen sent out has had the two wings on the 

 left side dipt, not because that is better than having the 

 other two dipt, but because it is more convenient. 



The plan of introduction that succeeds is all that can 

 be askt. As yours succeeds, it is all right. Indeed, one 

 might expect success with such a plan without trying it. 



Why didn't you give us the name of the plant that 

 makes the ground look like velvet ? The sample sent is 

 beautifully delicate, and it is easy to imagine that a wide 

 expanse of it must be an attractive sight. Perhaps the 

 editor can have it named for us. [Later it will be named. 

 — Editor.] 



Basswood seemed to act with you as goldenrod gener- 

 ally does here — flies, bugs and things on it, but no bees. I 

 don't know why, unless because there isn't enough nectar 

 to pay a self-respecting bee for the time needed to gather it. 



The Adel Queen 



vou sent me in 18')'' is tlie best queen I ever saw. 

 Her colony stored 42 pounds whitest honey in 

 !■> days, commencing- Aug. lUh, now working- 

 on third super. Send two more queens. 



Geo. H. Weavkr, Rome, N. Y. 

 Ode queen, $1.00. Send for September prices. 



37Atf HENRY ALLEY, Wenham, Mass, 



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What ? Our New Champion Winter- 

 Cases. And to introduce them thruout 

 the United States and Canada we 

 will sell them at a liberal discount 

 until Oct 15, l')0O. Send for quota- 

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 the No-Drip Shipping-Casks. 

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The Sure Hatch Incubator Company, of Clay 

 Center, Ntb., write us that they will make an 

 exceptionally fine exhibit at the Illinois State 

 Fair. This will be in charge of Nellie Hawks, 

 the well known poultry writer. She will bring 

 incubators from Nebraska full of eggs one week 

 before the fair, timing them to hatch during 

 the fair. This is the Sure Hatch Conipanv's 

 favorite method of demonstrating the efficiency 

 and simplicity of their machine, and. as Mrs. 

 Hawks will be personally in charge of the ex- 

 hibit, the interest of the visitors and practical 

 value of the exhibit to them is bound to be in- 

 creast. Many people regard Mrs. Hawks as 

 the Fannie Field of to-day in the poultry busi- 

 ness. Probably no one has done more than Mrs. 

 Hawks to dignify the poultry business, and at 

 the same time simplify the proper raising of 

 poultry on the part of common people. Nothing 

 else indicates the growth of the poultrv busi- 

 ness belter than the sale of incubators 'which, 

 but a few years ago, was regarded with sus- 

 picion by the masses, but now take their place 

 as a farm necessity along with the plosv and 

 cultivator; the only essential difference being 

 that these latter are used bv the men, and the 

 incubttors by the women-folks, both contribu- 

 ting to the farm profits. We trust that all of 

 our readers who see the Illinois Fair will visit 

 the exhibit of the Sure Hatch Company. You 

 are sure of a hearty welcome. 



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



cisely the same as those he rears for his own use, so of course they & 



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 5^ 



J this colony 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 rears queens from this &| 



■^ one. ^. 



^ The demand nowadays is for BEES THAT GET THE HONEY S' 



^ when there is any to get, and Dr. Miller has such bees. You will ^ 



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