1901 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



Our Amateur Table. 



A CASE OF SUPERSEDUKE. 



Wellsville, N.Y., Feb. 11, 190 L. 

 Editor Bee-keeper : Oii page 2!) 1 

 note a query under the heading, " A 

 Nut with a Dollar in it." I do not want 

 the dollar, but should say the cause of 

 the swarm leaving was that the colony 

 was superseding its queen. I have had 

 the old queen tolerated for quite a long 

 time after a young one had hatched. 

 Probaoly more than one queen was 

 raised, hence, the swarm. 



Yours truly, H. J. Rogers. 



Eddy, N. Y., Feb. 11, 1901. 

 Editor Bee-keeper : I think the reason 

 the swarm ran away and left the old 

 queen in the hive was that another 

 swarm came out a few days before and 

 went in this hive ; and, as soon as 

 weather permitted, came out again and 

 started for the woods, leaving the ^ old 

 clipped queen in the hive. During the 

 time they were in the hive they had 

 found a tree and when they came out 

 they started for it. Yours, • 



T. H. Barber. 



; Wayland, N.Y., Feb. 7, 1901. 

 Editor Bee-keeper : The answer 

 that I should give to the question on 

 page 39, February issue would be that 

 the weather being unfavorable, the 

 swarna remained in hive until one of the 

 young queens hatched, then as she took 

 lier wedding flight she was followed by 

 the swarm, and not being mated she led 

 off instead of clustering. Yours, 



W. W. Shepard. 



(iETS the dollar. 



Baders. Schuyler Co., 111., Feb.9, 1901.. 

 Editor American Bee-keeper : In 

 answer to question on page 39 of The 

 Bee-keeper. The reason the gentle- 



man's bees absconded was because the 

 weather was unfavorable and swarming 

 was held back until the young queen 

 had hatched and, of course, swarmed 

 with the young queen. Both queens, 

 of course, went out with the swarm, but 

 the old one being unable to fly, crawled 

 back into the hive, and the young queen 

 went with the swarm. It seems these 

 bees left immediately for the woods 

 without clustering. Now, this young 

 queen was a virgin, and these vir- 

 gins are known to perform just such 

 caper's as this. Very respectfully, 



M. H. LiND. 



[Right you are, Mr. Lind ; and your 

 dollar was mailed to your address on 

 the 14th of February. — Editor.] 



A NEW contest. 



During the past few months the Edi- 

 tor has formed many new and pleasant 

 acquaintances among our rapidly in- 

 creasing circle of amateurs and begin- 

 ners in bee-keeping. He has not only 

 had the pleasure of offering suggestions 

 which have evidently been received 

 with gratitude and profit by those who 

 solicited advice; but has learned some 

 things himself as a result of this pleas- 

 ant correspondence. One thing of par- 

 ticular interest : . That very many of 

 these small bee-keepers, from whom we 

 seldom hear through the press, have 

 ideas and methods of their own, which 

 are as interesting as they are original. 

 From this great army of beginners must 

 develop the apicultural writers of the 

 Twentieth Century. The American 

 Bee-keeper is too impatient to wait 

 fifty or seventy-five years in order that 

 these developments shall be revealed in 

 the natural course of events. We want 

 as many as will, to write as once, giving 

 their views upon the following subject : 



getting ready for the honey crop. 



Each month, until further notice, we 

 shall pay for three letters, to be publish- 

 ed in this department! For the best dis- 

 cussion of the subject named in the previ- 



