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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



June 7, 1906 



tend to give to some queenless colonies or 

 nuclei. 



I have been in the bee-business the last 

 10 years. After lots of small setbacks, for 

 various reasons, I had 63 colonies in first-class 

 shape the spring of 1904. I bought a lot of 

 24 and an estate of 113 colonies that 6pring, 

 and prepared them for transportation on an 

 island some 30 or 40 miles from their location. 

 Then came the high water of the spring, 

 flooding the locations of part of the bees, and 

 cut off the road to the others. I could not 

 get them together (as I wanted to put them 

 on board ship) for some time, and when I 

 finally got to it I could not get competent 

 help, so that I had to do it single-handed. 



After getting them moved I had to hire help 

 to clean the boxes from the dead bees id order 

 to save the hives from becoming worthless, 

 as the bees of the estate had foul brood, 

 which I could not very well detect before, for 

 the reason that the frames could not be 

 removed without breaking and smashing the 

 combs, what I wanted to prevent before mov- 

 ing. After a sorrowful season of untold 

 labor, and trouble and expense, I had left 32 

 colonies. 



With a purchase of 19 colonies since, and 3 

 or 4 which I had kept at home, the increase of 

 1905, and so far in 1906, I count to-day 152 

 colonies in fine trim, located in 2 different 

 places about 14 miles apart, both yards prom- 

 ising good returns, as the season so far has 

 been the best I ever experienced. 



Sebastian Iselin. 



San Joaquin Co., Calif., May 22. 



Lost from Lack of Stores 



My bees have wintered well, and are in fine 

 shape to-day. About 75 percent of the bees 

 in this county are dead. The honey-flow 

 stopped short in June of last year, and the 

 bee-keepers failed to feed, and so the bees 

 suffered. J. E. Young. 



Webster City, Iowa, May 29. 



Wiring to Prevent Sagging of Comb 

 Foundation 



There seem to be many complaints of foun- 

 dation sagging when fastened in brood- 

 frames. While the following will not prevent 

 sagging, it prevents warping and buckling 

 after the wires are embedded : 



The wires are not drawn tight. I use a 95- 

 cell battery and a home-made arrangement to 

 conduct the electricity to the wires. My 

 frames are solid on the under side, and fast- 

 ened there with wax and rosin. When ready 

 to fasten the wire6 the frame is placed on a 

 board a little smaller than the inside of the 

 frame. A match is placed in the center of the 

 upper wire, and the wire is forced toward the 

 top-bar as the current is applied. Founda- 

 tion fastened in this manner may sag, but it 

 will not warp. It i6 safer to use foundation 

 that will not nag. E. H. Dewey. 



Berkshire Co., Ma66. 



That Method of Swarm Control 



I beg space to give a more complete de- 

 scription of the modus operandi of my method 

 of swarm control, as described on page 383, in 

 hopes it will put a quietus on letters of in- 

 quiry, as I am a very busy man, and yet I do 

 not like to let some go unanswered. 



First, take away the super and set it in front, 

 or nearly in front, of the stand. Leave the 

 cover on the super and use no smoke. Sep- 

 arate above the queen-excluder, and now 



smoke the brood-chamber some to quiet them. 

 Take a comb of as young brood as possible 

 from the old brood-chamber, and place it in 

 the center of the box of combs or foundation 

 designed to be the new brood-chamber, fill in 

 the space in the old brood-chamber with 

 combs or foundation frame, then place the 

 new brood-chamber above the old one and 

 close the hive. Smoke vigorously at the old 

 entrance, and but little time is required for 

 most of the bees and queens to get upstairs. 



Now place the new brood-chamber on the 

 bottom-board, and carefully place the honey- 

 board above it; then shake the remaining 

 few bees that are in the old brood-chamber in 

 front to make sure the queen is out, and put 

 it on above the honey-board. Tear down any 

 queen-cells that may be formed, and in 8 or 

 10 days tear the cells out again. Of course, 

 the super goes on again, makiDg it a 3-story 

 hive in place of a 2-story. 



This generally settles swarming for that 

 colony for the season. 1 never allow any 

 drone-comb where the queen can get at it, 

 but, if it is allowed, one can remove the larvse 

 with my sulphur treatment, being very care- 

 ful not to use sulphur above the worker- 

 brood, as in cleaning it out some will sprinkle 

 down on the worker-brood, and it also will be 

 removed and combs rendered unfit for the 

 queen's use for some time. 



To those asking a description of my queen- 

 trap, I would say that I am not altogether 

 satisfied with the way it has acted since men- 

 tioning it before. But I think I can perfect 

 it in time, and will freely give a description 

 as soon as I do. At first it worked perfectly, 

 and then came a failure or two which I think 

 I can overcome ; but it can only be used with 

 satisfaction in connection with my method of 

 swarm control. H, S. Philbrook. 



Oxnard, Calif., May 22. 



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