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about eighteen days later. I have Italianized 

 some hives by giving them a scaled queen cell 

 this season. J. Winfield. 



East Sagixaw, (Mich.,) July 15. 

 I hope bee-keepers will take interest enough 

 in the Journal to keep it going. There may be 

 some who are too old to learn, but old men pass 

 away and the young must learn. So, smccess 

 to the Bee Journal. 



L. C. WniTiNO. 



INTERESTINO CORRESPONDENCE. 



Branpywtne IIundrbd, (Del.,) June 15. 

 Please continue my bee ]iapcrs, the subscrip- 

 tion to which ended with the June number. I 

 like the Bee Journal very much. I have a 

 few hives of bees, and the paper makes them 

 more interesting. I have received the papers 

 regularly. George W. Harriet. 



Lewisburg, (W. Va..) June 25. 

 Being so well pleased with the second volume 

 of your Bee Journal, I cannot do without it; so 

 enclosed find two dollars subscription to the 

 third volume, withmanj'' wishes for the success 

 of your enterprise. 



T. L. Sydenstricker. 



Parma, (N. Y.,) June 23. 

 Please send me the American Bee Journal 

 another year. I cannot get along without your 

 valuable paper. Nelson Tenny. 



Pleasant Hill, (Ky.,) July 4. 

 I very much hope the American Bee Jour- 

 nal may receive patronage enough to sustain 

 it in full vigor and health, as I look upon it as a 

 very valuable publication. 



R. B. DUNLAVY. 



New Paris, (Onio,) July 5. 

 I have been reading the American Bee 

 Journal for some time with a great deal of in- 

 terest, and I think with some profit. I am very 

 anxious to have the publication of it continued. 



D. L. KiRKPATRICK. 



West Middleburg, (Ohio,) .July 8. 

 I have received the American Bee Journal, 

 and found it to be the paper that every man 

 ■who keeps a colony of bees ought to have. 



Stokes Helling. 



HoosiCK Corners, (N. Y.,) July 10. 

 I am much pleased with your Bee Journal, 

 and intend to preserve it bound. 



Doty Brimmer. 



Canfield, (Ohio,) July 12. 

 I hope you will be able to continue to publish 

 the Bee Journal for many years. I find in it 

 many things interesting, and valuable instruc- 

 tions to bee-keepers. I have tried one hint in 

 the cottage management of bees that succeeds 

 very well— namely, placing the swarm on the 

 old stand, and setting the old hive in a new 

 place. I have tried it in about ten cases, and 

 have not been troubled with a second swarm, 

 though two of the new swarms have each 

 swarmed— one in twenty-one days and the other 

 in eighteen days. They are Italians, and I put 

 them in hives containing combs saved from 

 stocks that died in the winter. Both of them 

 stored honey in boxes before swarming ; and 

 the old hives that were moved are working in 

 boxes now. My first Italian swarm came June 

 5. The first common swarm I heard of was 



RiPON, (Wis.,) July 10. 



I wish I could see the Bee Journal well 

 supported by bee-keepers. It is devoted to our 

 work, and the support must come from us. If 

 it go to the wall, see that it is not our fault. 



My bees are very much behind in their 

 swarming — out of eighty stocks only four have 

 cast swarms. In the boxes they are doing well. 

 Clover is in full bloom, and has been for over 

 a month, Bass wood will not be in bloom for 

 a week yet. I am testing the work of the Ital- 

 ians this summer, and will compare it with that 

 of the black stocks in the same condition, and 

 give you the result at the close of the season. 



R. Dart. 



Malvern, (Ohio,) July 18. 

 Bees have been doing well with us this sea- 

 season, but there will be more swarms, I fear, 

 than honey to feed them, among those who 

 have let their colonies swarm at will. 



George Hardestt. 



For tlie American Bee Joarnal. 



Transferring. 



My first efifort in this line was ludicrous 

 enough. I had Quinby's and Kidder's books, 

 andthe collection of ropes,and sheets,and boxes, 

 hives, «fcc., w^as enough to frighten the bees 

 into good behavior if nothing more. My plan 

 now is to smoke the swarm to be transferred 

 pretty thoroughly. Then turn the hive over, 

 pry off one side, and, with a long knife, cut 

 out the first comb ; carefully brush the bees off 

 into the hive from which you are taking the 

 combs. They will continue to move back 

 among the combs as these are removed. Lay 

 your brood combs on a folded cloth, and cut them 

 to fit your frames. Fasten them therein, as di- 

 rected by Quinby, with sticks, and put the frames 

 intotlie new hive. You can now brush the bees 

 into the new hive as you remove tlic combs, 

 and when the combs are all removed, your beea 

 are removed also, and j-ou have no further 

 trouble. It is very rarely the case that you 

 have good straight combs from the old hive to 

 fill all the frames in the new one ; so I always 

 use a division board, by which I confine the 

 bees to the space which they really occupy. As 

 they increase in numbers the division board 

 can be moved along, and new frames inserted. 

 By the way, I think too much importance can- 

 not be placed upon the use of the division 

 board. It is invaluable for the use of stocks. 

 Spring is the best time to transfer. If carefully 

 done you need no protection for hands or face. 



