Vol. X 



Published Monthly by The W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. 

 SEPTEMBER, 1900 



No. 9 



THE AUGUST BEE-KEEPER. 



Emphasizing the Good Things in the 

 Last Number. 



BY G. -M. DOOLITTLE. 



TWO bright faces greet us on open- 

 ing the August number of The 

 American Bee-keeper. That 

 frontispiece is a marvel of perfection. 

 What would our fathers (who talked 

 about wood-cuts and later of steel engrav- 

 ings) have thought aboui the perfection 

 of engravings from photographs of the 

 present? Surely, ''the world do move!" 

 (rive us more such bright faces, Mr. 

 Editor. 



preparing for winter and spring in 

 midsummer. 

 S. M. Keeler is the writer of the first 

 article, and talks about something 

 worthy of the attention of every apiar- 

 ist. The art of preparing our bees in 

 July, August and the forepart of Sep- 

 tember, so that they mav winter well, 

 is one of the good things not often 

 touched upon in our bee-papers. This 

 used to be one of the good things Elisha 

 (iallup used to write about in the early 

 seventies; but of late little has been said 

 of the matter. Where brood-rearing is 

 carried forward into September, little 

 fear need be had, as far as the age of 

 bees is concerned, as to thei»' safe win- 

 tering; and plenty of September-reared 

 bees will almost insure safe wintering, 

 other things being proportionately right. 

 And those words. "P"'eed enough in July 



and August, if necessary to keep up 

 brood-rearing," would be a good sen- 

 tence to have printed in big letters on a 

 sign-board and put up in the apiary for 

 the one who is prone to give no heed to 

 this wintering problem till November, 

 as many of us are apt to do. Thank 

 you, Mr. Keeler, for calling our atten- 

 tion to the matter at this time. 



see that each has a queen-cell. 



Brother Greiner is again on hand with 

 a very instructive and practical article 

 ragarding re-queening.- He tells us 

 all how it is done, so that us older ones 

 can catch on to the fullest extent; but 

 for the benefit of the novice I will call 

 attention to a little item that Brother 

 Greiner takes for granted all will under- 

 stand. Those who have been "through 

 the mill" of bee-keeping often think 

 that all the minutiCB need not be told; 

 but my experience when starting, thirty- 

 one years ago, often tells me that it is 

 just this minutkc that beginners wish to 

 know about most of all. 



In the first quarter of the first col- 

 umn, page 142, Greiner tells us how to 

 make three little colonies out of what 

 is left of the parent colony seven 

 days after it has cast a swarm. After 

 these little colonies are formed, he tells 

 us to "leave them undisturbed till the 

 young queen has become fertile." Bro. 

 Greiner and myself know that there 

 is something more to be done than 

 to simply set off those three parts of his 



