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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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or what is better draw out cembs. This 

 gives the queens room to lay and 

 gives us young bees in the fall. These 

 bees are the bees for spring business. 

 I give the new colony a young laying 

 queen about 8 days after I have made 

 it up. All will be doing well now, 

 I have my honey and two increases. 

 If my new colony has not enough 

 honey to winter on I put on a feeder 

 the last of September and feed granu- 

 lated sugar syrup quickly so they will 

 have it all capped well for winter. I 

 think it would be wicked to put them 

 in small hives, take their stores and 

 kill them off. 



I say again, I love the honey bee, 

 and the command is, " thou shall not 

 kill." My hive could be used in the 

 same way as the box hive and the 

 hanging frames could be manipulated 

 to requeen, keep out moth, to remove 

 too much drone comb, etc. Would it 

 not be an improvement on the old box 

 hive ? We could use them for swarm- 

 ing and secure the swarms by not put- 

 ting on sections, and work the increase 

 as we choose. Years ago I used those 

 box hives, the combs would be one- 

 third drone, the cells by age grew 

 small, the bees were small, the worms 

 would kill out the bees, and we had no 

 way to prevent it. Now you must 

 save increase or your acre would be a 

 small one. I am candid in saying I 

 like the tall or large hive with frames 

 for we cannot get a large meat from a 

 small nut shell. 



Sherburne, N. Y. 



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Notes and Comments. 



BY H. E. HILL. 



While press reports from California 

 indicate that the crop of honey is 

 "away short" in that state this 

 season, private letters from a few bee 

 keepers are quite encouraging ; from 

 one apiary has been taken 210 cases 

 of 120 lbs. each, with favorable pros- 

 pects of securing 100 cases more. 

 Several other apiaries have yielded 

 from 155 to 190 cases each. 



Since receiving two stings, one day 

 recently while working with the bees, 

 bee stings have less terror for me ; 

 they were inflicted by scorpions which 

 had taken up their abode in the hive. 

 "Bee stings" are, in comparison, a 

 pleasure. 



Basswood is quite abundant in cer- 

 tain Florida hammocks, one Volusia 

 bee keeper with a small apiary secur- 

 ing eight barrels of honey from that 

 source this year. It blooms in June. 



Mrs. L. C. Axtell, in Gleanings, says: 

 " Our bees winter ever so much bet- 

 ter, all things else being right, since 

 we quit bothering their brood-nest in 

 the fall." This, I believe, is the gen- 

 eral conclusion of the veterans which 

 the inexperienced would do well to 

 observe. 



To move a colony of bees a short 

 distance without loss of workers is one 

 of the "little things," in bee keeping 

 which has occasioned no little thought 

 and experiment. If the distance which 

 the colony is to be moved is very short 

 and there are no obstructions to its 

 practice, the plan of moving the hive 

 a few inches each day, is a success* 

 though tedious. It occurs sometimes, 



