THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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overflowed lands of the Illinois river 

 abounds in honey producing plants in 

 the fall, and bees are able to lay in a 

 supply to last them until flowers 

 bloom, and L don't think it pays to 

 extract fall honey ami feed back. If 

 I feed Wees at all it will be in the fall, 

 with the exception of the odds and 

 ends of homy. Every colony that is 

 to be wintered over should have an 

 abundance of stores to hist until flow- 

 ers bloom. 



In removing surplus in the fall I 

 have noticed a great difference in the 

 providence" of bees. Italian bees will 

 remove honey from above and store 

 their broodnest full, while blacks, do 

 not. I was surprised that I took bet- 

 ter filled Itoxes from the blacks and 

 on looking below saw that they had 

 but little stores, while Italians were 

 fall. 



As tin 1 honey season draws to a 

 close and there are small afterswarms 

 or nuclei with young queens,it is bet- 

 ter to remove an old queen from a 

 good colony and introduce the young 

 one. There may be queens that we do 

 not want and these young ones are 

 just what a. re needed, and their bees 

 can be united into one fall colony. 

 If a person is desirous of increase he 

 could feed the smaller colonies in 

 early fall and give them brood from 

 strong colonies, otherwise it is better 

 not to attempt to winter them. I 

 would like to be doing such work as 

 this in the apiary now (Aug. 4th) and 

 would do so if I had not such near 

 neighbors, and people are constantly 

 passing on the side-walk, and I do 

 not want to risk making the bees 

 cross. 



HONEY DEW. 



This brand of honey is now coming 

 into the city quite freely, and dealers 

 seeing the white comb purchase it. 

 but it will be a detriment to the 

 trade. There may be persons who 

 enjoy this honey but they are few 

 and far between. One groceryman 

 reports that he gets a blowing up 

 from all his customers that he has 

 sold to, for selling them such stuff. 

 1 knew that there was much honey 

 dew and 'little prospect for honey 

 from any other source and delayed 

 [Hitting on sections, preferring to en- 

 courage' swarming and the raising of 

 bees Upon it. 



Peoria, III. 



If it is necessary to feed some weak 

 colony of bees in the spring ami other 

 bees begin to rob them, remember the 

 old and simple remedy : Place straw 

 loosely against the entrance and wet 

 it. The robbers in crawling through 

 get wet and lose their grit, stopping 

 the robbing at once. 



James Hondon, of Cass co., Mich., 

 has in his honey house a convenient 

 and inexpensive apparatus for liqui- 

 fying candied honey. A large galva- 

 nized iron tank stands on the floor and 

 is connected by two pipes with a coil 

 of pipe in a stove in the cellar below. 

 A very little fire will keep the water 

 in the tank hot. Fourteen 5>S-lb. cans 

 of honey may lie put into the water 

 of this tank, a fire built in the stove, 

 which, after receiving a large chunk 

 of wood, is closed tight and left until 

 the next day, when the honey is liquid 

 and its color has in no wise suffered. 

 This arrangement cost less than $30. 



