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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEIER. 



on it she must be hunted up and put 

 upon this comb. The brood chamber 

 is now filled out with empty combs 

 and a queen excluder is placed on its 

 top. The combs containing brood are 

 adjusted in a super or hive body, and 

 if they do not fill it, it is filled out 

 With empty combs. It now goes on 

 top of the brood chamber with the 

 queen excluder between. We now 

 have all the brood above the excluder, 

 except what is in the comb with the 

 queen on it below the excluder. 

 You now have nothing to do but to 

 "turn up" to suit the season. Treating 

 all colonies in this way the season will 

 have to be more than usually extend- 

 ed if there is a single swarm. Colon- 

 ies treated in this way are the strong- 

 est colonies I ever handled, and I 

 never seen a season so barren of nec- 

 tar that they fail to fill the combs 

 above the excluder by the time all the 

 brood they contain are hatched out, 

 and if the season is a good one they 

 will surprise the natives and make 

 you uneasy about the safety of your 

 honey floor, like mine did me the past 

 season, though the season was but an 

 average one." 



Next month I will give my experi- 

 ments with two colonies the past sea- 

 son managed on a plan similar to 

 to Brother Demaree's, as given above. 

 Remember, beginner, that if you dont 

 manage your bees inteligently you 

 had better never go into the business 

 for you will have no "luck" and the 

 business will be a failure with you ; 

 and you might as well try to raise 

 corn without seed as to try to raise 

 honey without a scientific work on 

 bee culture and one or. more of the 

 many excellent bee journals. 



Concord Church, W. Va. 



< 'onoludt il next month.) 



Er>. Am. Bee-Keeper, Dear Sir: 

 I inclose herewith 50 cents for renew- 

 al to the Bee-Keeper, and in a 

 month or so you will receive a little 

 order for supplies from me, but I wish 

 to find out first what I need. There 

 is a lot of reading in the American 

 Bee-Keeper for beginners, but there 

 are so many different ideas given that 

 the beginner must have a big head 

 indeed to remember them. I will 

 take the liberty to tell you how I be- 

 gan. It was a year ago about Christ- 

 . mas when I resolved to keep bees. I 

 wrote to the New York Volksseitung , 

 a German newspaper, for the address 

 of a good bee paper, and I received 

 your address. The same day I sent 

 50 cents and received in time the 

 American Bee-Keepkr, in which I 

 found the address of Mr- Knicker- 

 bocker of Pine Plains, N. Y., to whom 

 I wrote for a catalogue and price list 

 for bees and queens. The price of a 

 good colony of Italians was $8.00, 

 and I sent him $16.00 and got two 

 colonies of bees about the 20th of 

 May, which was after all fruit trees 

 had blossomed. The bees com- 

 menced to work, and the 15th of July 

 I took out of each hive the surplus 

 case of 28 sections well filled with 

 white honey. I replaced them with 

 new surplus cases, and about the 12th 

 of October both the hives were as full 

 of honey as they could be again. I 

 left the hives in this condition for 

 winter so the bees can consume as 



