1902 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPEK 



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and allow both queens to remain; and 

 tiiey will soon build up a rousing col- 

 ony. Such colonies are excellent for 

 feeding back extracted honey 10 have 

 partly filled sections finished as the two 

 queens will keep the brood chambers 

 full of brood and the feed will go into 

 the sections. Yours truly, 



J. E. Hand. 



HOW THFA' DO IT IN CAN.^DA. 



Little Britain. Ont.. Oct. 18, 1901. 

 Dear Editor: 



Your invitation to send in reports 

 impressed me — well, see Gal. 6:10 and 

 Prov. 11:25. I secured about 20,000 

 pounds of white, and about 4,000 pounds 

 of dark honey this season. This I have 

 accomplished, but to tell how I did it Js 

 a longer tale. I suppose it would be in 

 keeping to tell the dollars I got out 

 of it. too. I sold 5,500 pounds to Dead- 

 man, of Brussels and 4,800 to R. H. 

 Smith of St. Thomas, at 6 1-2 cents 

 per pound. They found cans and paid 

 freight. One of the season's operations 

 was to hastily scour the neighborhood 

 for sap tanks, just when I was the busi- 

 est, extracting; because, forsooth, the 

 above mentioned cans did not arrive in 

 time. You can imagne, and the Lord 

 knows something of the remarks I 

 made at that time. I got 7 to 8 1-4 cents 

 in 60 pound cans, crated and carted ten 

 miles for the most of the rest of it. 

 Eight cents per pound for 2,000 pounds 

 in I pound glass jars, for export to 

 Liverpool. The dark I have yet, and find 

 it sells best in 10 pound pails, six in a 

 crate, in Ottawa and "down east." 



I raise two or more combs of brood 

 from below, which I allow the bees to 

 fill with clover honey, and if not needed 

 place them back in the brood chamber 

 I extract it with the rest; if needed, I 

 in the center. I put on the supers, con- 

 taning 12 Jones frames, about apple- 

 bloom time, and have queen-excluding 



zinc nailed over tht- bottom, a la Doo- 

 little. Some seasons this is too early, 

 but as a rule it is safest, as it prevents 

 undue swarming, and gives plenty of 

 time for the boss to attend to 200 col- 

 onies, wthout hiring. Then, when bees 

 get to work, lively on alsike (we grow 

 60 acres to the square mile, here) I 

 extract the fruit-bloom, thorn, dande- 

 lion, willow, locust, etc., which has a 

 peculiar flavor, and is not candied much 

 by that time. I get seven cents for it; 

 and it seems to be just the thing for the 

 English market, as it closely resembles 

 the heather. About this time I got a boy 

 to help this season, as usual, and we 

 managed to get around to the 200 or 

 more once a week; four out yards of 30 

 to 40 each and 70 to 80 at home. I use 

 a spring wagon, one horse and a "bike." 

 I extract it in an old log house, imple- 

 ment shed and a wood house, at out 

 yards, and at home in a good 

 house. 



When I find a dead colony in 

 spring, not already robbed out, I 

 pose the combs so it will be robbed, as 

 I do also with all colonies having not 

 more than a few square inches of brood. 

 This stimulates the others and tends to 

 curtail the operations of the wax-moth. 

 I spread the combs about an inch apart 

 and uncover the hive. Respectfully, 

 R. F. Whiteside. 



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the 

 ex- 



Phorelgn Phun. 



A subscriber of tue Progres Agrieole 

 asks what i.s the best way to take the 

 dead bees out of the combs when a col- 

 ony dies in the winter. The editors 

 jiravely reply that there are three ways 

 r~'^ do it. 



1st. Pick tile bees out one by one, 

 with a toothpi.';k. 



2d. Put the comb.-; where the mice 

 can get at them. They Avill eat the 

 bees. They may damage the combs 

 some, but that don't matter. 



3d. Feed the bees bountifully in the 

 fall and the dead (?) bees will come 

 out of the combs in the spring, of their 

 own accord. — Adrian Getaz. 



