1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



271 



bees dwindle away before many young 

 bees are reared. 



I found so little brood that I con- 

 cluded the queen with her wisdom 

 foresaw the scarcity of stores and 

 ceased her work too early for the good 

 of her home and future interest, so 

 Avith watchful care I am providing for 

 my bees. In good seasons I do not 

 find it necessary to do as I am doing 

 now, yet I believe it would be a good 

 thing to do when we tiud the colonies 

 not very populous with bees. I do not 

 disturb any of the other brood frames 

 as there is danger of the bees balling 

 the queen to protect her ; they will 

 sometimes do this when disturbed. 

 Then, too, in disturbing the brood 

 frames it is liable to kill the queen. I 

 think it is hurtful to a colony to dis- 

 turb them much in the fall. Early in 

 the season it does them no harm, that 

 is after the settled warm weather has 

 begun. I have had to do more of it 

 this season than usual with my nucleus 

 to keep out the worms! I never knew 

 the bee moths to be so troublesome as 

 they are this season, and also the large 

 black cricket. They see.n to take 

 refuge in the nucleus hives near the 

 ground, and have even driven out 

 small nuclei of bees and taken posses- 

 sion. I have laid it to them anyway, 

 as I know of no other cause. 



In about two weeks I will look at 

 those frames that I put in, and if no 

 brood is shown I will know that the 

 queen is not prolific or she is not there. 

 If I find her I will replace her with a 

 young laying queen, and if for any 

 reason there is no queen will give 

 them one. This insures to each colony 

 a good queen. 



To take care of bees means work, 

 and if we do not have time or want to 



work with our bees, then we must not 

 expect to be successful in the business. 



Colonies that have not enough stores 

 by the 15th of September, or even the 

 1st of October, should be fed as fast 

 they will take the food through the 

 night. Feeding should be done early 

 enough to have it all capped over be- 

 fore ci)ld weather, as bees do better 

 with sealed stores. This work of rear- 

 ing broud can be done in the month 

 of October to advantage if the weath- 

 er is warm enough for bees to fly. It 

 is better to look to the interests of 

 your bees late than not at all. 



I wish to correct a mistake in my 

 article in the September number of 

 the Bee Keeper where it reads "I 

 have proved the deep frame in 

 wintering, also the yellow bees." I 

 intended to say the darker bees (the 

 first cross fi'om a yellow and pure 

 black, which we must call mere 

 hybrids and not a mixed up race). 

 The other mistake was, "The honey I 

 can sell for two cents a pound more 

 than from any apiary of blacks." It 

 should read " from any apiary of yel- 

 low bees," for the black bees cap their 

 honey thick and the whitest of any 

 race of bees. This gives my correct 

 view as to the kind of bees from which 

 to obtain first class honey, that which 

 is called fancy white. 



Sherburne, N. Y . 



We have a few copies of A. B. C. 

 of Bee Culture, with paper cover, 

 which we will send post-paid for 50c 

 each. 



Clubbing List. 



We will send the American Bee-Kkkpkk with 



the — PUB. PKCE. BOTH. 



American Bee Journal, (SI 00) 81 35 



American Apicultunsi, ( 75; 1 15 



Bee- Keeper's Review, (1 00) 1 35 



Canadian Hee .Journal, (1 00) 1 25 



Gleaninps in Bee t ulture, (1 OU) 1 35 



