Sept. 13, 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



589 



came. I fear that the conditions are 

 going- to be about the same this year, 

 unless we get some warm weather be- 

 fore long. Jesse McDoNAi.DsoN. 

 Worcester Co., Mass., Aug. 27. 



A Proliflc Queen. 



In the summer of 1868 I sold a neigh- 

 bor a queen for $5.00, which was the 

 common price at that time for a war- 

 ranted queen. She was reared on the 

 old plan of making a colony queenless. 

 She was given to a colony of black 

 bees in a box-hive, and in the spring 

 built the colony up very strong and led 

 out a swarm early in the season, which 

 was also hived in a box-hive. In due 

 time the old colony sent out a second 

 and third swarm, which were also 

 hived in box-hives. Then on the 20th 

 day from the first swarm, the colony of 

 original queen swarmed again, making 

 four hives well stockt with bees from 

 the old queen, as no bees from the 

 young queens had hatcht at this time. 

 J. L. Strong. 



Page Co., Iowa, Aug. 27. 



Bee-Papeps Hustle the Bees. 



Bees swarmed little, and this means 

 lots of honey, altho a few bee-keepers 

 here did not get a pound of honey to 

 take off. I tell them that bee-papers 

 make my bees hustle. 



E. B. Kauffman. 



Lebanon Co., Pa., Aug. 20. 



Bees in Fine Condition. 



There has been much that was both 

 instructive and interestijig in the 

 American Bee Journal the past year, 

 all of which I have enjoyed very much. 

 The latest is Mr. J. G. Norton's bee- 

 hive incubator. His description of it 

 is fine. I had been waiting for it. 



My bees have been in fine condition 

 all summer, but the early drouth spoiled 

 the white clover, and the extreme heat 

 will shorten the fall crop. All together, 

 I will probably have between 1,200 and 

 1,500 pounds from 18 colonies, spring 

 count. The quality of the honey is 

 fine. I had only five swarms. 



Mrs. Paui, Barrette. 



Crawford Co., Wis., Aug. 28. 



When to Sow Sweet Clover. 



T have been gathering some sweet 

 clover seed that I intend to scatter 

 along the highway thru this country. 

 When is a good time to sow it ? 



L. J. Bergh. 



Dane Co., Wis., Aug. 31. 



[A good time to sow sweet clover 

 ought to be when it seeds itself, which 

 is just now, around Chicago. — Ed.] 



Two Kinds of Yellow Sweet Clover. 



I feel like congratulating you on 

 publishing so able an article as that 

 from S. A. Deacon, in two recent is- 

 sues. It is the most pointed (and right 

 to the point, too) article I have read in 

 a long while. He is too sharp for Mr. 

 Dadant. 



If I remember correctly, you said 

 something awhile ago about yellow 

 sweet clover being earlier than the 

 white. Well, that is so, and still not 

 so. I have been into the sweet clover 

 "field" IS years or more, and I find 



H. G. Quirin, the Queen -Breeder, 



Is as usual atr^'iii on hand with his 

 iiiipiDveii strain of 



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The A. I. Root Co. tell us that our queens are 

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 " If there is a queen in the U.S. worth $1 00, this 

 queen is." Queens bred from her, soon as they 

 begin to lay, fl.oo each. 



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Price of Queens after July i. 



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Bees from these Queens all 

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Beeslor Sale 



IDU colonies of black and yellow bees in eight- 

 frame dovetailed liives, two supers to the hive, 

 just as good as new, and all on full worker 

 combs. i^ilO buvs the lot. 



37Ait F. GENT, Rockford, Minn. 



there are two varieties of the yellow. 

 The early is very early, blossoming- in 

 May, and nearly all ripe bj' the time 

 the white commences to bloom ; and 

 the late yellow is two or three weeks 

 later than the white. The early yellow 

 is small, not more than half as large as 

 the white, btit the late is fully as large 

 as the white. I have gathered the seed 

 of the white, and had it all thrasht, but 

 have not cut any late yellow as yet. I 

 gathered the early yellow the forepart 

 of July. Aaron Snyder. 



Ulster Co., N.Y., Aug. 27. 



Not Much Honey. 



I did not get much honey this season, 

 but bees are in fine condition. 



Mrs. T. p. Evans. 

 Allamakee Co., Iowa, Aug. 25. 



Bees in South Africa. 



An apiary near Spion Kop, consist- 

 ing of seven bar-frame hives, is cleared 

 out, but in this case some broken 

 frames scattered about gave the im- 

 pression that they had been "taken 

 up" on the Boer system by thrusting 

 some lighted grass into the entrance : 

 the owner also losing a good supply of 

 bee-appliances, as well as all his house- 

 hold goods and farm implements. 



The tragic fate of another colony in 

 a fine, full-size glass observatory hive, 

 standing in a garden inside the town, 

 was not involved in the mystery at- 

 taching to the others, for it was blown 

 to atoms by a shell that burst close to 

 it, and a splinter from it knockt a cup 

 of tea out of the owner's hand, who 

 himself escaped uninjured. 



A little lot of bees up near the top of 

 the mountains managed to escape the 

 general ruin, and beyond one or two 

 isolated hives that I have not yet heard 

 about, I think it is almost all that is 

 left in the district. But the owners do 

 not intend to give up bee-keepiuff, as 

 one was down here last week and took 

 back two colonies to make a fresh start, 

 and I have just heard from my old 

 friend that he has captured a stray 

 swarm, evidently a starvation one, and 

 is bringing it up with the syrup-bottle. 

 — British Bee Journal. 



Carbolic Acid for Robbing. 



"With all the virtues attributed to the 

 bee, she. nevertheless, falls from grace 

 in at least one respect, and that is in 

 the utter disregard she displays for the 

 good old maxim, " Honesty is the best 

 policy." Her motto is to get honey 

 honestly if she can, but to g'ef it. and 

 this disposition of hers to get it when 

 none is to be obtained by honest quest 

 is frequently the cause of much per- 

 plexity and vexation of spirit to the 

 inexperienced. My troubles in this 

 line have been as deep as any, and first 

 obtruded themselves upon me when I 

 found it necessary to extract during 

 times of scarcity of nectar, and was 

 guileless enough to replace the combs 

 in the hives at once after extracting. 

 I know better now how to manage 

 these things, and I find that I can ex- 



