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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



October 



ity, eyen if you take a good laugh at 

 me. My plans are to save all these 

 young and valuable queen? till spring 

 as they are capital. I go over my 

 yards and whenever 1 find a colony 

 to weak in bees or honey to go through 

 the winter as they ought, I cage the 

 queens of all such weak colonies, 

 leaving theni in their respective hive.-; 

 I now go to ray extra strong colonies, 

 and get a frame or frames, as the case 

 may be, of bees and honey till I have 

 enough to make a good colony for the 

 protection and care of each queen till 

 next March. 



Just before I put in the new bees 

 with the weak colonies, I shake the 

 bees oft' their combs on the bottom 

 boards of their hive, and also shake 

 the frames of bees in on them, that I 

 have brought to unite with them, 

 place back the frames of combs and 

 honey, secure the queen in cage as be- 

 fore close up hive, ventilate, and car- 

 ry to the room as in common uniting; 

 in four or five days 1 place them out 

 on their stand where wanted, in the 

 evening and all is well. I then have 

 a good colony, no other colony hurt, 

 and ray queen saved. [ proceed thus 

 till all are sufficiently strong for 

 winter. 



I received some fine queens a few 

 days ago and when they arrived I 

 had no place for them. I went to 

 some extra strong colonies, those that 

 had upper stories on them, procured 

 eight frames of bees and honey from 

 different hives, until I had eight for 

 each queen, put them in hives, placed 

 in my queens in cages on the candy 

 plan as before and they are still in 

 the room ; I put wire cloth on top of 

 hives and left off the covers and 1 am 

 confident 1 will not lose a single 



queen; today or tomorrow I will 

 place them on stands, \\\\\ have my 

 fine queens in as good shape for win- 

 ter as any of the balance and no col- 

 onies short or hurt. I have no rob- 

 bing, no disturbance of any kind and 

 if followed as I have directed will be 

 be a grand success at all times when 

 the weather is warm. I do not think 

 it will pay any one to use up or ex- 

 tract all the combs of honey they 

 have at the close of the season as I 

 think that at many times in the fall 

 I have used such honey to better ad- 

 vantage than t(i have sold it at a good 

 price. 



Beeville, Texas. 



" How TO Manage Bees," a 50c 

 book, and the American Bee-Keep- 

 ER a year for only (!0c, or A. B. C. 

 of Bee Culture — last edition — and 

 the Bee-Keeper one year for 75c, or 

 including Gleanings one year for $1. 65 



A MAN WHO doesn't CARE ABOUT BLOOM- 

 ERS, ANYWAY. 

 JOSEPH B. FORAKER, EX GOVERNOR OF 

 OHIO. 



If women want to wear bloomers when 

 riding a bicycle I don't believe there is much 

 use in objecting. They will do it anyway, 

 so there is no special need of saying any- 

 thing for or against the costume. I do not 

 bel ieve, moreover, that it is a matter of much 

 importance whether they do or not. It is 

 a (question of personal opinion, and the 

 woman is the same whether in skirts or in 

 trousers. Of course we like to see women 

 attractive in appearance, but if they vnll 

 wear bloomers we must bow to their will. 

 It is really no concern of ours after all ; 

 women have a right, within the bonds of 

 reason, to dress as they please, and personal- 

 ly I don't care what they wear on the wheel. 

 — From "Shall Wheelwomen Wear Bloomers f 

 in Demorest's Magazine for October. 



