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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



July 



opposition to the teachings of Dr. Mil- 

 ler. 



Has everybody all the long-tongue 

 bees they need, and what queen breed- 

 er that has such queens for sale, will re- 

 queen our 1000 colonies, and guarantee 

 their bees to be superior to the odds 

 and ends we now have which have come 

 from everywhere and nowhere in 

 l)articular. 



I have noticed this season that the 

 bees doing the least, were those beau- 

 tiful bees, and those colonies filling their 

 supers were— well they had neither 

 breeding nor manners, but honey. 

 galore; and would sting you for pure 

 love, (perhaps). Their tongues might 

 have been longer than their stings. 



Is it the proper thing for a dealer to 

 quote prices two cents above the mar- 

 ket and remit in final settlement two 

 cents per pound below market prices. 

 We have in mind 40 barrels of honey 

 that was bought and paid for on such a 

 l)asis. Yet the buyers furnish quo- 

 tations for publication. We are lead to 

 wonder if such dealers expect to have 

 any part in the great hereafter. Am 

 afraid they could not be trusted. 



Hollister, Fla., June 14, 1902. 



(If at auy tiiue our readers fail to receive hon- 

 est treatment at the hands of those who quote the 

 markets in these oolunins. they will confer a fa- 

 vor by advising us of the fact.— Editor.) 



Giving Surplus Room. 



(L. E. Kerr.) 



PRODUCERS of extracted honey 

 have only to give a lot of extra 

 room when the honey flow comes 

 on and then go and sit in the shady 

 corner of the apiary and watch the bees 

 work. The extracted honey man never 

 worries over the amount to be added, 

 whether one or five supers, only so 

 there is enough; he has no swarming, 

 in fact, none of the troubles which as- 

 sail the comb honey man at every turn, 

 in his troublesome career. 



The comb-honey producer is very 

 particular as to the amoimt of extra 

 room given^ and even then, perhaps, 

 will fail to get the bees above. Many 

 losses arise from this state of affairs, 

 one of which is that the nice, clean su- 

 per will be all colored up in a few days, 

 when perhaps, the bees will go to work 



and store a few pounds of dark look- 

 ing honey. Should they go to work at 

 once they will produce nice honey, but 

 they cannot work to any advantage if 

 too much room has been given. 



Why do we practice tiering up at all? 

 Why not give all the supers at once and 

 save work? The answer is plain, be- 

 cause caution is required to avoid the 

 giving of too much room, or the bees 

 cannot work to advantage. A certain 

 condition of the atmosphere must be 

 obtained around the bees before they 

 can work to advantage, and this can- 

 not be obtained when too much room 

 is given. Let the man who would call 

 these facts "theory," try giving three, 

 four or five supers at a time and see 

 how it works. 



In tiering up. after the first super 

 is getting pretty well filled, it is still 

 more important to not give more room 

 than the bees need. Still they must nev- 

 er be crowded. Most any one can learn 

 to give room just as the bees require 

 it if he is painstaking. Careless state- 

 ments that have crept into the bee jour- 

 nals of late to the effect that the average 

 bee-keeper does not give enough super 

 room, has caused me to sound this lit- 

 tle note of warning, and I only hope 

 that some who might make such a blun- 

 der may be caused to pause and reflect. 



Hurricane, Ark.. June 10, 1902. 



Transferring. 



(E. H. SchaefTle.) 



TO TRANSFER bees in midsum- 

 mer I don't think a better method 

 can be devised than to drum the 

 bees into a box, set the new hive, fill- 

 ed with worker com.bs, of full slieets of 

 foundation, on the old stand, place a 

 queen excluding zinc on the new hive; 

 over this place the old box, in three 

 weeks' time slip a bee-escape board un- 

 der the box and when the bees have 

 all gone down, take the box off. It 

 will then have nothing but the combs 

 and what honey may be in the comb, 

 no bees to mash, no brood to kill, and 

 all the brood hatched out and added to 

 the hives' army of workers. 



This season I have had an unusual 

 amount of transferring to do, from bees 

 bought in. 1 wanted to do this work 

 early and return the stores to the 

 bees. As February with me finds the 



