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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



[September. 



even if he had to pay a little more for 

 it than it is worth, in order that the 

 price of honey may be maintained at 

 a higher figure, instead of his being 

 compelled to place his own honey 

 on the market in competion with in- 

 ferior grades. Such was the condition 

 in 1904, when all kinds of honey were 

 dumped on the market, causing the 

 honey market to go to pieces in a 

 short time. This could be avoided to 

 a great extent if progressive bee- 

 keepers would act on the above sug- 

 gestion. 



It has often been said by many bee- 

 keepers that in working artificial in- 

 crease by shaking, that they had dif- 

 ficulty in having the bees build work- 

 er combs from foundation starters in 

 the frames. 



I have made considerable increase 

 this season in this manner with but 

 very little difficulty in making the bees 

 build worker combs. I always select 

 a young queen to be placed in the 

 hive with foundation starters, as she 

 is likely to be laying well *nd the 

 bees will build mostly worker comb. 

 However, each time I visit my out 

 apiaries I look into these swarms and 

 see that they do build worker comb, 

 placing the combs that are not finish- 

 ed in the center of the brood nest 

 where they will be built into nice 

 worker comb by the next time the 

 apiary is visited. I think the reason 

 so many swarms build drone comb af- 

 ter being treated by this method 

 is because the bee-keeper fails to look 

 into those hives until it is too late 

 to remedy the combs, except by cut- 

 ting out the drone comb, and if they 

 are left until the following spring, it 

 is useless to cut out the drone comb 

 before swarming time as they will 

 build drone comb again, so it is very 

 important that the combs are built 

 properly while the queen is young. 



department are about the same as last 

 year. 



August 6th. The weather has been 

 very warm the past two days and if it 

 continues thus I look for a nice crop 

 of honey. 



S. Francis. 



Secretary Colorado S. B. K. Ass'n. 



I have treated seventy-five swarms 

 in this manner this season, and every 

 one of them have as nice worker 

 combs as was ever built by any bees. 



I have just received a program of fiQt-i fQ T^he 

 the Colorado State fair which will be 



Bees Dying Outside. 



It is a known fact that bees about 

 to die leave the hive and die outside 

 if possible. At least such is the gen- 

 eral opiniol^ Mr. Luby, an Irish 

 apiarist, undertook to verify the truth- 

 fulness of that opinion. 



In the fall of 1876 he placed eight 

 colonies in a room of uniform but not 

 high temperature. The hives had a 

 large hole in the bottom and were 

 placed on boxes without top and with 

 glasses on the sides and furthermore 

 provided with an opening that could 

 be closed entirely or covered with a 

 perforated zinc. All the hives except 

 two were arranged so as to be com- 

 pletely in the dark. The two others 

 were near a window. 



In the dark hives, the bees were 

 quiet during all the winter. All the 

 noise heard was now and then the 

 sound made by a dead bee falling 

 through the hole in the bottom of the 

 hive down on the bottom of the box. 



In the other two, now and then, a 

 bee would be seen coming out of the 

 hive into the box, try to get out of 

 the box and finally die there without 

 ever attempting to regain the cluster 

 no matter how close to it they might 

 come in trying to find an opening to 

 lead them outside. When the boxes 

 were opened so they could get out 

 they invariably went to the windows 

 of the room, and out if the windows 

 were open. Two of the hives left out 

 of doors were arranged the same way 

 and gave the same results. The bees 

 dying in the hives had all the appear- 

 ances of old age and were always full 

 of honey. — L'Apiculteur. 



Bee-keepers' Associations 



should include a free subscrip- 



American Bee- 



LllC V^UlUldUU OlctLC Iclll WlllLll Will UC -WT- ATT" '11 1 



held at Pueblo, September gth to 13th. Keeper. We 11 accept yearly 



1907. The programs can be obtained subscriptions at 25 CeUtS. Try 



by writing to the Secretary of the .1 1 



fair. The premiums in the apiarian ^^^ plan. 



