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fact it is all that our bees have had to 

 live on for weeks past, and all they 

 will have for weeks to come, until 

 basswood blooms. I do not see but 

 what this juice is good enough to rear 

 brood with ; bees swarm and do well 

 on it, and it beats buying sugar at the 

 present prices. Of course, wc are not 

 thinking of taking any surplus from it 

 — we will take no surplus until Jnly 1. 

 from basswood. 



How to Make a IliTe-Stand. 



I wish to give my plan of a hive- 

 stand. I think that this subject has 

 been sadly neglected by the bee- 

 writers. I make the stand It! feet 

 long, by taking three common fence- 

 boards, some good oak-stakes, and a 

 few nails ; this is all the material nec- 

 essary to hold 5 colonies. Now drive 

 five or six stakes ou a line with the 16- 

 feet length of the board, nail one board 

 to these stakes, having it perfectly 

 level lengthwise ; this makes the rear 

 side of the stand. The front side is 

 made in the same waj', placing the 

 two far enough apart so that the hive 

 will rest on them nicel}'. The front 

 board should be dropped enough to 

 give the hive a proper pitch. 



The third boai'd I nail ou top of the 

 edge of the front board ; this lays out 

 flat on the ground, or is supported bj' 

 a few brick, that is, the outer edge. 

 The front of the hive rests on this 

 board, and it makes a nice place to 

 shake oft' bees, or for young bees to 

 cluster and romp. 



I place these stands 8 feet apart. I 

 have used them for five years, and I 

 must say that thej- are a success in 

 every sense of the word. They are 

 well adapted to the Langstroth hive. 

 This stand is economical and hand}-, 

 and it "shapes up " the apiary nicely ; 

 it gives a chance to keep down grass, 

 weeds, etc. 



Dunlap, Iowa, June 8, 1889. 



TWO QUEENS. 



Experiencv ivitli T^vo Queens 

 in One Hive. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



BY F. HONE. 



There is plenty of clover here, and 

 basswood will also bloom in a short 

 time. The bees could get an abun- 

 dance of honey if the weather was 

 favorable ; but for several days it has 

 been cold and rainy, so that they can 

 hardlj- leave the hive. They just com- 

 menced swarming, when, about four 

 da3s ago, the bad weather set in and 

 stopped all. As a curiosity, I will state 

 that several days ago, on examining 

 my bees, I found two queens in one 



hive — one was balled at times, and at 

 times she was treated friendly. On 

 examining closer, I found one open 

 queen-cell, and so I knew that the 

 balled rpieen was a young one. The 

 old queen was all right, prolific, and 

 all the time laying eggs ; the weather 

 had been good for several days, so 

 that she could have swarmed out, if 

 she anticipated any danger from her 

 daughter. 1 took the young queen out, 

 put her into a paper match-box, and 

 towards evening 1 put her with the 

 box in a hive, out of which I had trans- 

 ferred a colony with several handfuls 

 of bees remaining in it }-et. Contrary 

 to expectation, it rained in the night, 

 the box got wet, and let the queen out 

 amongst the remaining bees, where I 

 discovered her the next morning, 

 being treated friendly. The bees had 

 not become wet, but had found a pro- 

 tected place in the hive. I introduced 

 her into a queenless colony, and have 

 not looked again. 



Sigel, Ills., June 10, 1889. 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



1889. Time and Place of Meeting. 



Auk. 31.— Haldimand, at Fisherville, Ont. 



K. O. Camphell. Sec, Cayuga, Ont. 



Sept. —.—Maine, at Livermtire Falls, Me. 



J. F. Fuller, Sec, Oxford, Me. 



Dec. 4, 6.— International. atBrantford.Ont.. Canada. 

 K. F. Uoltermann. Sec, Brantford, Ont. 



t^~ In order to have this table complete. Secre- 

 taries are requested to forward full particulars of 

 time and place of future meetlDKS.— BD. 





"IVhite Clover Full of Neetar 



S. Burton, Eureka, Ills., on June 6, 



1889, says : 



I had the first swarm on May 3, and 

 then came a check, so that the bees 

 killed oft' the drones, and the weather 

 kept so cold that they could not work 

 much ; but they have had four fine 

 days to work, and plenty to work on. 

 White clover is vei\v fine, and full of 

 nectar, so that it can be smelled when 

 one goes where it is. Hook for swarm- 

 ing to commence soon, as the bees are 

 working veiy hard now. 



making Colonics, etc. — R. L. 



Tucker, Lexington, Mo., on June 8, 



1889, writes : 



This spring I had 140 colonies of 

 bees ; by uniting the weak and queen- 

 less ones, I had al)out 120 colonies in 

 good condition. My first swarm came 

 out on May 4 ; since then I have in- 



creased my ajjiary to 145 colonies. I 

 have had about SO swarms .so far, most 

 of which I put back, taking out most 

 of the brood that was ready to hatch, 

 and giving them old combs instead. 

 The increase comes in by putting the 

 combs removi'<l with bees enough to 

 care for the brood, on a new stand. I 

 take out enougli from two old colonies 

 to make one new one. This is the best 

 plan that I have tried for producing 

 comb honey, as it allows the bees the 

 privilege of swarming, yet it does not 

 weaken them euongh to take them out 

 of the sections. Honey is coming in 

 nicely from white clover ; but we are 

 having too much rain for the best 

 results. 



Basswood Bloom and Frosti. 



— F. Greiuer, Naples, N. Y., on June 

 11, 1889, says : 



The cold, wet time which we have 

 had for three weeks, has given the bees 

 a severe set-back. Basswood bloom 

 has been injured veiy materially by 

 frosts, and, in consequence thereof, 

 the yield from this source will probably 

 be verj" light. 



IVhile Honey Crop A. W. 



Smith, Parksville, N. Y., on June 8, 



1889, says : 



Bees never wintered better in this 

 locality than they did the past winter; 

 but the weather has been so wet and 

 cold, that they have scarcely made a 

 living from the white clover, so far, 

 and the prospects are that the crop of 

 white honey will be very light. 



Have Done Well So Far — Fred 

 Kanzler, Santa Claus, Ind., on June 

 10, 1889, says : 



M)" bees have done well so far. I 

 took about 40 pounds of honey from 3 

 of my colonies. I wintered 11 colo- 

 nies, and one was queenless in the 

 spring, which I united with another, 

 and it was the first one that furnished 

 me with the sweets. 



Doing Well tills Season. — E. 



Briggs, West Point, Nebr., ou June 11, 

 1889, writes : 



Bees generally are doing well this 

 season. I have had 4 swarms this 

 spring, from 9 colonies, 8 of which 

 werein fine condition in the spring. I 

 have been keeping bees three years, 

 but the first two years my bees made 

 only a fair living. The Bee Jouunal. 

 I find, is a very valuable paper iu the 

 bee-business ; it has been about my 

 onl}- instructor. 



