Sept. 20, 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



605 



bee-business. I had eiRht colonies, 

 spring count, two of them ahnost 

 ■worthless. I increast to 24 artificially, 

 and the}' soon commenced to swarm, 

 and it seemed as tho they were going- 

 to swarm themselves to death. They 

 run mv number of colonies up to 34, 

 produced over 1,000 pounds of surplus 

 honey, and all are in good condition. 

 How is this for bee-keeping in North 

 Carolina ? I have imported Italians, 

 golden Cyprians, and Holy Land bees, 

 and find them all good races. Cyprians 

 are the best of all for comb-building 

 and honey-gathering, but a little too 

 hard to control when excited. 



H. E. COFFEV. 

 Rutherford Co., N. C, Sept. 11. 



A Very Dry Season. 



We are having a very dry season, no 

 -white honey at all. Nuclei have 

 swarmed out by the dozens. A neigh- 

 bor has had several colonies starve, or 

 nearly so. There is very little brood 

 or honey in the hives. It is the driest 

 season I ever saw. If we have rains 

 we may get buckwheat honey. Hay 

 -was ' , of a crop. W. L,. Coggshall. 



Tompkins Co., N. Y., July 25. 



No Surplus Honey. 



We have had no surplus honey this 

 year, and bees have barely lived thru 

 the season. We expect them to get 

 some winter stores from goldenrod this 

 ■week. I have been breeding for non- 

 swarming bees for years. If some call 

 the Dadant hive a barn I would be 

 pleased to know what you would call 

 some of mine — perhaps a ranch. They 

 ^re 30 inches long and 18 inches wide, 

 with air space. Thev have 22 frames 

 10j^xl2 inches. P. W. CoRYA, M.D. 



Jefferson Co., Ind., Aug. 30. 



Swarming. 



On page 310 I read about Mr. Smith's 

 second swarm in 21 days. Three years 

 ago I bought a colony of bees of a man 

 who found them in a tree which he cut 

 down, giving him 20 cents for it. I 

 dipt the queen's wing and put them 

 into a frame hive, where they staid 

 until May 22d, when they swarmed. I 

 caught the same queen and put her in 

 a 10 -frame Langstroth hive. The 

 swarm was the largest lever saw. May 

 26th they swarmed again, leaving a 

 very good colony in the hive, also a 

 queen-cell with an egg in it. The 

 queen was an Italian. How is that ? 

 M. H. SOSSOMAN. 



Franklin Co., Ark., Sept. 4. 



Wetting Sections Before Folding. 



There are a gopd many of us who 

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 sections when we only want a few. 

 When all are wet those not used mil- 

 dew or mold, which makes them look 

 dark. Here is a way to wet sections 

 before folding them : 



Take what you can grasp in one 

 hand, having the grooves all one way. 

 Bunt the ends against something to 

 make them even, then hold in both 

 hands and press down edgewise to even 

 them the other way ; while in this 

 shape incline them oversidewise about 

 IS degrees, which will make all the 



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