36 AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER February, JB 



methods just outlined are largely thoughts: Could not an apiarist, who ^ 



theoretical, for I have never put eith- has a very late flow only to count on, 



er one of them fully to the test. Yet, reduce all his colonies to nuclei in the 



in the last three years I have had to fall, build them up slowly the next 



modify my own methods to meet cer- spring, and thereby gain in saving of 



tain peculiar local conditions, and I stores and in wear and tear on queens 



have been led to entertain great faith more than enough to compensate any 



in what I have outlined above. possible extra work? 



r\r ^ ^} • r i • J Wildly theoretical that, but it will 



Of one thmg I am certam, and / . . , 



• ■ . u u u J bear thmkmg over. And the man who 

 every apiarist who has had many . ® 



years of thoughtful experience will ^^"^'"^ '"' '°^^^'*y' *^^ *'™^ ^"^ ^"'"•'^- 



concur, I know, that management ^'^^ ^^ ^''''^ ^oney flow, and who 



must be complementary to existing lo- ^""es his colonies so as to get them 



cal conditions if one is to look for the ^^ ^^^ ''^^'^ P'^"^ ^°'' ^^'^ ^^^ ^^^" 



best results. I have found that I '^ ^T"'^^^!' '^ ^^'^ "^^" ^^o will make 



cannot in Connecticut follow the bee-keeping pay. 

 method which proved so successful in Norwich, Conn. 

 Massachusetts. I have had to modify ' 



my method to a large extent, and can- HARDSCRABBLE COMES AGAIN. 



not as yet feel that I have solved the tt r au ^i i. r a j • 



, , -^ . , ,,^, ^ . Here lieth the remnants of Adrian 



problem perfectly. Where I former- ^ . u « -i j • ^ -i n/r • t- i 



, , , , „ ,, , Getaz who "sailed into Massie. Fool- 



ly kept bees the now usually opened . , , .,, ,, . , . 



, ^, , , . . , ish children. Massie s pieces not yet 



up about May loth and continued with n *. j tt .ji r\ r 



, ,. , . , collected. Headless Queens from 



only slight interruption through June: c^^ xj n a • • c -n r- 



, -^ , . , ^ , , , , Sleepy Hollow Apiaries of By George 



here there is often a dearth of honey y r- '^ -u ^ ■ Air u • 



^ ^, James. Cant but-in. All business- 



from May 25 till late in Tune. There ^„ j t ^ u 1 1 n 



, , . , ,', . end. Lazy-bee, lazy-bee, fly away 



a colony which reached swarming , , , ^ t .1 iv/r-n 



•,, ,, , home and hump too. Latham-Miller 



strength May. 15th would store a good , . • • -^ «/- /- 



,* ,-, , . , , -,1 combine are a nppin it. "Cozy Cor- 



surplus, while one which took till ,, . . ,, ..,1 ., 



T ' , , , ner in my mind s eye there loometh 



June isth to become strong would j • ^ • 1 



\ ,^ , , ,,^ a nondescript mass o red curtains, 



store little or no surplus. Here a , , , . ., , .,, 



, , . , , . brass lanterns, cigar-nbbon pillows 



colony which reaches swarming . • u tt ■ -j.^ u/s 



•^^, . ,, .,, , . , and sich. How is it? "Once upon a 



strength in May will have a tired-out ,. t^, . u >> t, u r 1 -n ^ 



. , ,, , ^ , .,, time — Thats all. Bully formula. Put 



queen by the middle of June and will • ,, ^ ai ^ -i. «/- ,-1 t, •• 



, ,, • , T 1 , '" the stuflin to suit. "Camera Club, 



not do so well in the July harvest as „ . rr ,.> • . , • «, • ^- , ,.. 



... , ,.,,•' , stuffed variety or plain big stick? 



will a colony which does not reach ,,,, ,,.t j-tjt^ j- .u 



•^ ,.,,,. T What be I a doin? Just reading the 



its maximum strength till late in June, j . r 1 t r , 



,, _ , , , Jan. number. Last week I found an 



My July harvest comes too early — , , • 1 j ^.x 1 



r , , , ,. r ,- *^'d crome plum dotty, crazy as a loon. 



July loth to 20th — to admit of my di- r>- u 1 ^ t ^ i-i 



. ,. , . , . , Bimeby he sort of got more easy like 



viding colonies and getting each part , j ^ 1 • j -r^ c 1 -j l 



. r , , , ., , 5, and I got his drift. Seems he d been 



ready for the harvest; but if the flow ,. j • • 



, , reading some advice in your paper 



were ten days later I could make the ,. ^ • , • ^ 1 • , j r n 



, : ^ . ^ bout picking out a subject and foller- 



scheme work to perfection. Even as ■ r -i. 1 1 c^ ^ j • -.li r 



.^ . T -.. , , , in or it ])ack. Started in with one of 



it is 1 can divide and get the two ^ • , ^• 



, . ■, r ■ , . . . your contemporaries, hunting up 



halves to do fair work in the sections. .^, , ■ , r • ■ , ^ 



. J T /• i xi - X 1 M 1 . the history of raising queens by trans- 



And I find that I can build up a wm- r • , i- 4. rr , 



J , , , , . ... ferring larvae. First oft he ran into 



tered-over baby-nucleus so that it will , ^v ,, . , i-j n ... 



, . , . X , r, o"e of them small type set solid all to- 



store surplus from this July flow. ^.u • ji ■ i.^ j ^ 



■^ gether in one endless sight destroy- 



The following — almost wild scheme ing craze producing non finding fool 



— has more than once engaged my jumble blanket things which are 



