1871.] 



THE AMEEICAN BEE JOURNAL'. 



119 



linden season ended very abruptly, as the result of a 

 great hail-storm and sudden chaiij^e of temperature, 

 occurring three or four days sooner than I expected 

 the season to close. I had to break up one stock, and 

 feed 120 pounds of honey to thirty-seven others. 

 This result suggests that some experience and pru- 

 dence are requisite in this business, as well as in bee 

 management in general. — J. W. Murray. 



Ked Oak Jcnction, Iowa, Sept. 27. — You may 

 count on me as a regular subscriber, as long as bees 

 continue to gather honey and I live. 1 bought two 

 stocks of Italians last May. Witliin a week one stock 

 disappeared, leaving the hive empty. I commenced 

 feeding the remaining stock, and when they improved 

 I divided them. I now have six strong stocks in 

 Champion hives. They are full of honey and I have 

 taken enough to last my family all winter. I bought 

 five acres of ground adjoining the corporation limits 

 of Red Oak. I intend to set it out in fruit trees, and 

 stock it with a hundred or more stocks of bees, to 

 give me employment outside of the confinement of 

 the store. How many can one man take care of? — 

 E. D. Gregory. 



Auburn, N. T., Oct. 3. — This season is my first at 

 bee-keeping. Commencing with two Italian and 

 nine native colonies, the latter in box hives, which I 

 transferred to Langstroth hives. May 18th, they filled 

 four frames in the Langstroth hives. Five swarms wei-e 

 obtained artificially, and six by natural swarming. 

 My old stocks had six frames to fill before surplus was 

 stored. Now for the results, which are minutely 

 correct, except that no time is charged to their ac- 

 count, for personal services. 



385 lbs. box honey at 30 cts. per lb. $115 .50 



100 Uis. unfinished boxes, at 25 cts 85 00 



36 lbs. saved when transferring, 20 cts 7 20 



14 lbs. wax, 38 cts 3 92 



11 now swarms, 4 Italians and 7 natives. ... 100 00 



$351 62 



CONTRA. 



2 Italian colonies bought $30 00 



9 native colonies bought 45 00 



20 Lang>troth hives, 83 60 00 



Kight to use the same 1 00 



$135 00 



Credit for net profit $116 63 



This may not be as good a showing as many veter- 

 ans in the business are able to give, but it is emi- 

 nently satisfactory to a tyro in bee-culture, and fires 

 my ambition to make greater eflforts in the future as the 

 study of the little beauties is a constant source of 

 pleasure to me. — Chas. D. Hibbard. 



Home, Minn., Oct. 9. — Set me down as a subscri- 

 ber for — I was going to say ever — as long as I live. I 

 am but a beginner, having started, a year ago, with 

 thirteen stocks ; increased them last year to thirty- 

 five, and obtained nine hundred (900) pounds of 

 surplus honey, without the extractor. This season I 

 increased them to seventy-five stocks, and got thirty- 

 eight hundred (3800) pounds of surplus honey, with 

 the extractor. I owe a large part of my success to 

 the Journal. — F. H. Harkins. 



Franklinton, N. Y., Oct. 9. — This has not been a 

 very good season for bees in this section. Only 

 about two weeks of buckwheat bloom is all that my 

 bees worked on, in boxes, to amount to anything. I 

 shall get some 1800 pounds of honey. I am building 

 a bee cellar, house, and shop all together. I shall 

 winter eighty or ninety colonies, and shall always 

 take the Journal while I keep bees. — B. Franklin. 



Gnadenruetten, Ohio, Oct. 9.— We have had a 

 good season for honey in this ueighborliood, but 

 from some cause the bees did not swarm. We made 

 an attempt to extract honey with a honey extractor, 

 and got along very well Mith it ; but did not find 

 ready sale among the people for the honey. They all 

 prefer the box honey, even at a higher price. — S. 



LUETHI. 



Galesburg, Mich., Oct. 9.— Bees did well here in 

 in the fore part of the season. The latter part was 

 rather dry, but I managed to have all my stocks 

 strong. I have now thirty colonies in movable 

 comb hives, and they average fortv pounds to the 

 hive. I have taktn six hundred (600) pounds of 

 surjilus honey this season. — H. B. Clark. 



Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 9.— The honey season has 

 long since closed, with very poor results ; so far as 

 surplus honey is concerned, in this section of coun- 

 try. Had the beekeepers used the melextractor 

 earlier in the season, the result would have been 

 quite diflerent. But wc waited for box honey, and 

 got none. The hives are brim full of honey, too 

 much for the safe wiatering of stocks. My stocks at 

 my home apiary, are full to the bottom ; I shall 

 empty out some of the centre combs. — A. Gray. 



[For the American Bee Journal.] 



If on-Hatching Eggs. 



Mr. Editor : — In the last number of the 

 Journal I find a commnnication from G. W. P. 

 Jerrard, of Levant, Me., in regai'd to non- 

 hatching eggs of the queen bee. I have had a 

 similar case. As ]\Ir. Jerrard wishes to know if 

 this is common, I can answer for myself only. 

 In August last t gave a young Italian queen to a 

 stock of black bees. She commenced to lay 

 shortly after, but rather sparingly ; and I soon 

 discovered that, from some cause, her eggs were 

 not hatching. Supposing that the workers had 

 objections to her (as I had a queen just destroyed 

 by the same stock), I commenced to stimulate 

 them, by feeding, until the queen was laying 

 profusely ; without, however, producing any 

 better result. She even dei^osited four and five 

 eggs in the same cell at last, for want of room. 



The queen was nice, large, and lively ; and of 

 course I was disappointed in her. I further took 

 some of her eggs and introduced them in another 

 colony ; but they would not hatch there. Eggs 

 from another colony, which I introduced in her 

 hive, readily hatched — the workers starting 

 queen cells immediately from them, seeming to 

 have a true knowledge of the situation. 



Dr. Hamlin's queen refused to lay — other- 

 wise perhaps her eggs would have hatched. 



Any information or suggestions throwing light 

 on this subject, will be gladly received. 



Edgar McNitt. 



Centre Village, Oldo, Oct. 7, 1871. 



I don kno ov enny bissiness on the breast of 

 the earth that will make a man so lazy and use- 

 less, without actual killing him, az hunting wild 

 bees in the wilderness.— J. Billings. 



