March 16, 1905. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



221 



that,' too, without much labor. I have had 

 men tell me (of coarse men who knew noth- 

 ing about the business) that there was more 

 money in bees than in anything else. One 

 object in writing this letter is to show that 

 there are two sides to bee-keeping as well as 

 all other things, and another is to answer Dr. 

 Miller's question on page 8, as to how I kept 

 my bees from swarming. . 



In the spring of 1003 I purchased 2 colonies 

 from a neighbor, and he gave me another 

 which he had in a nail-keg. He said he had 

 never gotten any honey from the nail keg, 

 but had lots of swarms. 1 bought 5 dove- 

 tailed hives, set them up, put in foundation 

 and made ready for the first swarms that might 

 issue. At this time I was living in Eagle Co., 

 Colo., and as I was away from home a 

 great deal, and fearing the bees would swarm 

 in my absence, I divided the strongest colony 

 and bought a queen for the queenless portion. 

 The nail-keg colony became so strong that a 

 great many bees had to sleep outdoors at night, 

 and in the daytime they hung out in a great 

 cluster. But nan/ a swarm did they cast. 



On Aug. 18 I removed to California, after- 

 wards selling my bees and hives. In April, 

 1903, in partnership with another man, I pur- 

 chased 59 colonies. These bees had to he 

 moved 12 miles, and though handled by an 

 old bee keeper (I being absent at the time), 

 they were loaded into lumber wagons without 

 any cushions, and without any ventilation ex- 

 cept a wire-screen over the '•^^'^Vi entrance, 

 and trotted over rough roads, and the.result 



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