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Oh, listen— it is coniius '■ 



Don't you see the chiltlreu niuning f 



Uou't you hear the gentle humming 



Of the bees 



In the trees 

 In the meadows, on the leas '. 



It is coming — lovely June time 

 With its golden, radiant noon-time 

 And its paradise of bloom-time ; 



Coming soon — 



Perfect June — 

 Even now we hear its tune ! 



Starry daisies, crimson roses, 

 Banks of moss whereon reposes 

 Violet, queen of woodland posies, 



These will come 



When the sun 

 Just a few more rounds has run ! 



Bluebii'ds, bobolinks and thrushes. 

 Sweet will break the wood's deep hushes 

 When the east with morning flushes 



On the hills 



And the rills — 

 All the air with music thrills. 



— Buffalo Express. 



Sivarniing without Mucli Brood 

 or any Queen-Ceil. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



QiEKV 719.— 1. Will bees swarm vpithout 

 much brood in the hive, or any queen cell 

 .started. 2. How long do they swarm before 

 the queen hatches, or is she hatched when 

 they swarm ;— B. 



1. Occasionally. 2. About eight days, 

 as a rule. — G. L. Tinker. 



Yes, when they desert their hives. The 

 writer had better read a little on bee-cul- 

 ture.— Dadant & Son. 



1. Sometimes they will. 2. Sometimes 

 before, and sometimes after ; the time 

 varies from nothing to several days. — J. M. 

 Shuck. 



1. Sometimes, but not often. 2. It 

 varies slightly ; about seven days. This, 

 of course, in case of first swarms. — A. J. 

 •Cook. 



1. Sometimes. 2. Usually in a normal 

 condition a colony casts a prime swarm 

 •eight days before the new queen will hatch. 

 — J .AMES Heddon. 



1. Yes. 2. Anywhere from a few min- 

 utes to twenty days. Read up the bee 

 books and papers Mr. (?) " B.," or else keep 

 •closer watch of the inside of the hive.— A. 

 B. Mason. 



1. Not generally, but there are a few 

 exceptions. 2. The new queen generally 

 emerges from the cell in about eight days 

 after a prime swarm issues. — C.H.Ijibbern. 



1. Rarely. 2. The first issues a week or 

 ten days before the young queen hatches, 

 and the second swarm goes with a young 

 ijueen.- C. C. Miller. 



1. Yes. They may swarm from want of 

 stores, moth in their combs, and many 

 other causes. 2. From six to nine days, 

 if the colony is in a normal condition.— J. 

 M. Hambaurh. 



1. Such a swarm would be abormal. 2. 

 I have had a queen hatch as soon as the 

 swarm was fairly out of the hive ; gen- 

 erally, however, the queen hatches about a 

 week after the swarm issues, but the time I 

 varies.— R. L. Tatlor. ' 



1. They will sometimes swai-ni with no — 

 or at least ()nly the I'udiments of, qucen- 

 cells — but never normall}', I think, without 

 a good deal of bi^ood. 2. Usually 7 to 12 

 days. — EiKiKXE Secou. 



1. If the honey flow is good, Italians will 

 often swarm without queen-cells ; but not 

 without plenty of bees and brood. 2. In a 

 normal condition, usually from 2 to 12 

 hours, but with a sudden flow of honey, 

 they may swai-m before a queen-cell is 

 started. — Mus. L. Harri.hon. 



1. Yes. 2. It depends on conditions. As 

 a general thing, look for queens from first 

 swarms in 7 to S days ; in second swarms 

 you will often find several queens come 

 forth at the same time. I have picked up 

 7 dead queens in front of a hive the ne.xt 

 morning after being hived. — H. D. Cutting. 



1. I have known them to do so. 3. To 

 get an answer to this question, such as 

 would be of value, I advise "B." to get 

 some good text book on bees, and study it 

 carefully (say, " Bees and Honey " by the 

 editor of the A.merican Bee Journal), as 

 too much space would be required to give 

 an answer of value here. — J. E. Pond. 



1 Under certain conditions, yes ; as a 

 rule, no. 2. The first or prime swarm 

 comes with the sealing of the first queen- 

 cell. The young queen from this "cell 

 hatches in seven days, and leads out an 

 after-swarm two or three days afterward, 

 if all is favorable. " B." had better buy a 

 good bee-book, and " post up " a little. — G. 



M. DOOLITTLE. 



1. In normal conditions bees will not 

 swarm when there is little brood and no 

 queen-cell. When there is plenty of brood, 

 and the hive crowded with bees, and weather 

 is hot, especially if the hive is poorly ven- 

 tilated, they will sometimes swarm with- 

 out starting queen-cells. 2. Usually a 

 young queen is hatched in from six to eight 

 days after the issue of a swarm with the 

 old queen. — M. Mauis. 



1. When all the conditions for natural 

 swarming are correct, they usually have 

 plenty of brood and queen-cells started. 

 Demoralized bees often swarm out and 

 leave the hive in the conditions you state. 

 2. In this matter bees observe " no in- 

 variable rule." Generally five to eight 

 days, but sometimes the first queen is 

 hatched when the old queen leaves with the 

 swarm. — J P. H. Brown. 



1. Not usually ; sometimes when the 

 queen is old and feeble. In rare cases bees 

 will swarm on a sudden impulse before 

 cells appear to a close observer. One of my 

 first swarms the present season went out 

 leaving no queen-cells started. How often 

 it occurs is a fact not always known, as 

 the hive is not always opened immediately 

 after the swarm issues. 2. If the weather 

 is regular, and everything works by the 

 general rule, the first young queen will 

 hatch on the eighth day after the swarm 

 issues, — G. W. Demaree. 



1. Abnormal swarming often occurs ; 

 but when bees are in a normal condition, 

 they do not swarm with no brood in the 

 hive — nor queen-cells started. When it is 

 very hot, or in the midst of a great honey- 

 flow, they sometimes leave the hive for 

 want of room, in the condition stated in the 

 question. 2. The old queen leaves with the 

 swarm six or eight days before the first 

 queen is hatched.— The Editor. 



Rev. Dr. John Dzicrzon. 



■landlins' B«'«'S. — This is the title of 

 a nice pamphlet containing 28 pages and a 

 cover, published by Chas. Dadant & Son. 

 It is a chapter from their book, Langstroth 

 Revised, and is an excellent thing for be- 

 ginners. Price, 8 cts. For sale at this office. 



John Dzicrzon, born in 1811, in a 

 village of Middle Silesia, studied, in 

 1830. at Bre,slau, Roman Catliolic the- 

 ology, having, at the same time, a 

 strong inclination for natural history 

 studies. In 1835 he was located as 

 priest at Carlsmarkt, in Silesia. His 

 parish was small, and his labors light. 

 All his spare time was given to practi- 

 cal bee-eulture, and the careful study 

 of all the previousl}' published bee- 

 literature, and the careful testing of 

 the various discoveries concerning the 

 nature of the bee. 



Of great value to him now, iu his 

 observations and experiments, was his 

 arrangement of the hive with movable 

 combs, which he used long before 

 they were known in other circles. His 

 first essays appeared in the Frauen- 

 dorfern Blattern, His first contribution 

 to the Eicltstadter BiencM-Zeitung ap- 

 peared in No. 12, 1845, page 122. 

 Shortly afterwards, a nevv and im- 

 proved system of bee-culture, by Pas- 

 tor Dzierzon, was published bj- the 

 Bruckisch, commonlj' called "Theorie 

 and Praxis." So little profit did Dzier- 

 zon then anticipate from this valuable 

 work, that he allowed it to pass into 

 other hands, and it was published with 

 various notes, which served to deterior- 

 ate and mar it. 



Later, this supplement to " Theorie 

 and Praxis" was published under com- 

 mission by Beck, in Nordlingen. Since 

 1846, he has been a constant contribu- 

 tor to the Eichstadter Bicnen-Zeitung, 

 and, at the great annual gatherings of 

 the German bee-keepers, he is the king 

 around whom they all cluster. 



But he had a hard battle, until he 

 had broken the way, and made such 

 able opponents as Busch and Barou 

 von Berlepsch, his friends and well 

 wishers. 



It is well known how he searched 

 deeper into the natural history of the 

 bee, and called to his aid the honored 

 zoologists, Leuckart and Von Siebold. 

 The result of all his scientific researches 

 and practical experiments, he gave to 

 the world in his great work, the sec- 

 ond edition of which was jjuljlished in 



