THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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of my experience since I have been 

 keeping bees. 



In 1890 I had several stocks that 

 became queenless. I gave some of 

 them brood to rear queens from. They 

 hatched some of the queens. Others 

 I tried to introduce queens into, but 

 failed to get any queens fertilized 

 from them I gave brood, nor could I 

 get any of the stocks to accept a good 

 laying queen. In the fall the frames 

 were completely filled with honey, 

 with but few bees. In 1891 those 

 same queens that came from those 

 queenless colonies were about the 

 first to swarm, and I kept close watch 

 to see that they hatched them a queen, 

 and to my astonishment found them 

 the same as the year before, without a 

 queen. I thought I would try a 

 different method of introducing the 

 queen into those colonies. I took a 

 hive with empty comb, took the 

 frames from queenless hives, brushed 

 the bees into the hive of comb, caged 

 the laying queen on one of the combs 

 and set the empty hive with bees on 

 the old stand. 



This way of introducing queens to 

 the queenless colonies proved satis- 

 factory with me. I have twelve colo- 

 nies of Carniolans and twenty-one 

 colonies of Hybred Italian and Black, 

 making thirty-three in all, in compar- 

 atively good condition. Tbey were 

 all carrying in pollen quite freely last 

 week. Yours, etc., 



Andrew M. Thompson. 



Whitney's Crossing, N. Y., Apr. 15. 



Houey-water, from which to make 

 good, sharp vinegar, should, the 

 Bee-Kee-per s Review says, be strong 

 enough so that an egg floating on it 

 will just show at the top. 



SECT-RING COMB HONEY. 



To secure a good yield of comb 

 honey in good marketable shape, many 

 points have to be looked after. The 

 first essential is a good hive. The 

 second is a good strong colony at the 

 opening of the honey season. Free 

 communication betwen brood and 

 surplus departments, also from one 

 side of the surplus receptacle to the 

 other under every row of sections, and 

 when sections are tiered up free passage 

 from bottom to top rows. The sec- 

 tions should in all cases given a bee 

 space between outside sections and the 

 inside of case. The first sections put 

 on should, we think, have partly 

 drawn combs to induce an early start 

 in the surplus department. All sec- 

 tions later put ou should have full 

 sheets of foundation. By following the 

 above requirements we get our sections 

 very nicely and evenly filled so we have 

 no trouble in crating. If no bee space 

 is given on the outside sections at top 

 and bottom very many of such will be 

 poorly filled on the outside and unfit 

 to sell with otherwise nice sections 

 We use no honey board of any kind 

 and have no use for such. The queens 

 hardly ever enter the surplus depar- 

 ment— not to the extent of one per 

 cent. This is probably owinw to the 

 depth of the frame, which is one foot. 

 — A. Snell. 



AN EASY WAY TO FIND ANY QUEEN. 



I have had one year's experience at 

 bee-keeping, commenced in the.spring 



