THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



67 



[For tho American Bee Journal.] 



What We Lack ! 



-This vicinity is. upon uit 



oil lioncy-in-uducin!;- li)cality._ 



von-d wi'Ui a goml portion ot 



Inciii'' iilauts, in abun- 



timu into a strong stock liive, and the bees will 



j clean out the dead cues and not injure the 



j comb. If kept in a damp place it will mould 



i with the dead bees in. In summer it must be 



j k(;pt from the moths. If moth eggs are already 



in, keep the comb in a veiy -warm room until' 



they hatcli, then set it out ol tioors and let them 



freeze. That is, in the winter— summer would 



not be a good rime to frrc.-e tiiem. Mr. Qniuby, 



in his Bee-keepers' boc.k, explains how lu get 



them nut of cornb in summer, by fumigating 



with sulphur. 



I still think that bees could have been man- 



flrsl week in June. Durmg the reign ot me ; ^^^^^ ^^ .^^ ^^ j^.^^.^ stored hnney enough to wm- 



clover, they generaUy fill their hives ueaiJy i ^^^. ^^^^ . fj,i,i th^ i^gt summer's' operations have 



All), and do up tlieir swarming. ! ^^^^ weakened mv faith. A swarm of bees if 



Before the dovcr is g.me '1>'' ''^sswooa , ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ,j^^ -^^^^,.^.^^ j^ ^^^^.^ sufficient 



comes in bloom, and liists until about the mid- ' . . °_ ., :„,'. , .. , __ 



die »)f July. About this time we rsuaUy have a 

 dioulh. The hasswoods pass ont of bloom ; 



3In. EniTou: 

 whole, a very p 

 That is, we are favor 

 the princiiml honeyi 



"^"Ourbees do v-rv Hl'l^ ^x^'^Pt to ffet their 

 spiiiig, nniil iliewhite clover 



own living, in th 

 mukf.'t its iippcarauee, 



■iiicli IS gene 



■ally 



winter on in six or eight days of honey wea- 

 ther. I have swarms that gathered enough 

 from sumac in six days, to winter two swarms. 

 Still 1 Jiave neighbors whose bees starved in 

 December. 



Ei-isHA Gallup. 

 Osage, Iowa. 



the clover, being mostly on high pasture lane, 

 dries np; and from this time until tlK; blossom- 

 ing of buckwheat (which is about the middle 

 of August), the bees remain idle; but consume 

 iT>o«'t of the clover and basswood honey which 

 Ihey Inivo on hand. 



When the honey fails, the queens stop breed- 

 ing ; the coinl)s become nearly empty ; and the 

 bees rapid y decrease in numijcr. 



When the buckwheat crop does come in, it 

 comes all at ouce, and is of a comparatively 

 short duration. But there is now such abun- 

 dance of honey that the empty combs are rapid- 

 ly refilled— ottVn brood r,,.mb.^''und all. 



Of course this is not always the case. It was j ted in a late number of the '■'•Gountry Gentle 

 90 this year ; it was so last ; but a season giving i man, of bees bghting on persons wlii-n swarm- 

 a yield of honey between the middle of July and I ing, call to mind an occurrence in which I had 

 the midille of August, is the exception, and not I a prominent part. About ten years ago one of 

 *^* "■"'<-'• i '"V townsmen bought a swarm of bees^in an old- 



riow, is there not something which we can I fashioned box hive, containing about one-halt 

 «ow, to keep up the supply at this pei iod ? If | bushel of bees, wliich he desired me to transfer 

 not,_ we must resort to feeding. The alsike clo- I into two hives of L. L. Lanestroth's patent 

 ver is probably gone before this lime. How is 1 The bees were drummed ourinto a box the 

 «7.n borage, or with the melilot clover ? I combs transferred to the two hives and the'bees 

 Will some one who has raised them, and who | divided. While hiving the first h'llf the other 

 has not an axe to grind, please tell us and 1 half arose and lit on the back of mv'neck hat 



[From the Country Gentleman.] 



Courageous Handling of Bees under 

 Difficulty. 



Messks. Tucker & Son :— The cases repor- 



oblige 



J. F. Tillinghast 

 F.vcTORYvri.LE, Pa., Aug. 25, 1869. 



[For the American Bee Journal.] 



To Clean and Preserve Combs. 



and collar. There was no one who dared come 

 ! near me, and you may imagine I had to carry 



a steady head. I finished hiving the first half 

 ! and look off my hat and shook off the bees at 

 I the entrance of the second hive-then mv coat ; 

 I carefully brushing the bees from my neck, and 

 : hived and put both swarms on iheir stands and 



only received one stiug in the little finger! and 



then the bee got squeezed between the fingers 



I had neither bee-hat nor gloves on 

 The transaction wa;- 



• n ,. . , "f-^ssed bv the owner, 



ith some friends invited to see the operation 

 om the windows of the house. He said it was 



r have received numerous letters from differ- ' 

 ^t parts of the country, all about the same pur- I 

 port, ami making simihir inquiries, thus- ' 



Several of my swarms )f bees have starved to ! „ 

 death already What shall I do with the cum>.sv i ^^'^ S^'e^^test ieat he ever saw performed 

 and now shall I get the dead bees out, where I ^t t, Joel Curtis 

 cor^hs^M .'" ''' n"'' ^-"''""^ destroying the ^^^^ ^^^•^^™. Co^^N., Jtrnc 26, 1869 

 a d?v mom . '« V 1 ^ ':rP'y-l^<-'ep your combs in —«>___ 

 a dry room; and by all means preserve them, for | ^ver 



consider combs already built in Quantiiv^Mffl i -' -" 



cieut to tin a hive, almoJt if not'quK;u.';-:St ' ^" "•^'^•'^-'' 



i-y colony which has a new queen, should 

 to a swarm of h..,.'=~"Tr."J' ""^ 4"oe eciuivaieut i .f.ncnn.lhw "^ ",' ' ^l^'^'' ^^^^ 'ipiariau may be 



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