are on the warm side of the hive. In 

 arranging the frames in this way, 

 should it take more than 4 or 5 minutes 

 I make two operations of it. The bees 

 are now ready to be fed. I use a very 

 small feeder, preferring one holding 

 not more than a gill, as the feeding 

 must not be overdone. I place this 

 feeder exactly over the center of the 

 middle frame of the three, and feed 

 regularly every night or morning, and 

 on that middle frame the queen will 

 commence laying and can easily be 

 found, especially after the eggs begin 

 to hatch. I have fed in this way in the 

 evening and found the queen laying 

 prolifically the next day. 

 Oakford, Pa., Oct. 15, 1879. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Items from North Carolina. 



R. C. TAYLOR. 



Many of my friends, who keep bees 

 are adopting the Langstroth hive. 

 Many also have bought Italian queens, 

 and think the bees are so far ahead of 

 blacks, that there will not be a black 

 bee in 40 miles of us, in a year or two. 



BEES CARRYING CANDY OUT OF HIVES. 



About one month ago, a gentleman of 

 our town, Mr. Davis, told me that he 

 intended to destroy several colonies of 

 black bees he had, in order to start in 

 the spring with none but pure Italians. 

 I begged for the little fellows to be 

 spared, and he told me that if I would 

 drive them out of the box-hives, I could 

 have them. I did it at once, and as I 

 had any number of queens, several of 

 which was tested, I at once mixed two 

 of his colonies, destroyed the black 

 queens, and sprinkled all, even the new 

 tested Italian queen with peppermint 

 syrup, shook them lively in the box 

 and emptied in front of hive. 



The queens were received in good 

 order, and fearing they needed help, I 

 gave each colony one frame of nice 

 pure coffee A sugar candy. Honey was 

 not coming in to amount to anything, 

 yet the bees commenced picking that 

 candy out, and are at it even yet. 



I took out one frame, and gave it to 

 a colony of pure Italians, and they 

 seemed to understand that it meant 

 business and cost 10 cents per pound, 

 and was too good to waste ; they car- 

 ried it into their cells lively, not taking 

 one particle outside of the hive ! 



EXPERIMENTING. 



One colony of bees was devoted to 

 the above heading. I swarmed them 



547 



artificially through the year, making 

 nine good colonies (all have plenty of 

 stores for winter) and taking 25 lbs. 

 of honey from the parent colony. I 

 used foundation of course, and got the 

 surplus in 1-lb. boxes. The season 

 here upon the whole, has been very 

 poor and but little surplus was stored. . 

 During the early fall, honey came in for 

 a few days tolerably fast — even causing 

 many to swarm. Very little swarming 

 in the early spring, the usual time in 

 this latitude. 



HONEY MARKET. 



Our home market has been very dull, 

 honey in many instances selling in comb 

 for 15c. per pound. Mr. Bloom, I see 

 by last month's issue of Journal, sold, 

 so he says, 150 4-lb. boxes at $1.00 each. 

 My friend G. H. Lamb, of Wilmington, 

 sold his in 1-lb. boxes, at 25 and 30 cents 

 per pound, and thought he was doing 

 poorly ! 



I think extracted honey would pay 

 here better than comb. I think per- 

 haps I shall purchase an extractor 

 next season, and see how it will " pan 

 out." 



WINTERING BEES— FOUL-BROOD. 



Have never heard of a colony dying 

 through the winter here, but have seen 

 them "pretty low" from starvation 

 during the spring. 



Our bee-keepers never have seen a 

 case of foul-brood— many never heard 

 of it. 



Wilmington, N.C., Nov. 1, 1879. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Comb vs. Extracted Honey. 



LOUISIANIAN. 



I have been a subscriber to your 

 Journal for two years and have found 

 everything I could wish for in it, except 

 a comparison of the profits of comb 

 and extracted honey. Down here we 

 raise extracted honey almost entirely ; 

 in fact I don't know of an apiary that 

 is devoted to comb honey. What I 

 would like to have compared, is : How 

 many more pounds of extracted honey 

 can be gotten from a hive than comb 

 honey, and whether the higher price 

 paid for comb honey will make up for 

 the greater amount produced by ex- 

 tracting. 



Then when one has no home market 

 cannot the extracted honey be shipped 

 for much less cost than the comb V I 

 ship mine in 40 gal. barrels^ or 480 lbs. 

 and get it to the merchant in New Or- 

 leans for about $1.00; the barrels cost 

 $1.60 each, and can be bought within a 



