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and I tied a string to the cork, then I 

 put the cork, just lightly, into the hole 

 it came out of ; I set it in front of the 

 hive, and in five minutes there wras a ball 

 of bees on it as large as my two fists ; 

 th«n I raised it up carefully and put 

 bees and all into the brood-chamber on 

 top of the frames, and I pulled the cork 

 with the string, and put the cover 

 on the hive. It wasn't two hours 

 before all 3 colonies were working well, 

 and in two days I took the empty cages 

 out, and in 30 days I noticed tJhe yellow 

 bees on the fronts of the hive. Now I 

 have 2 colonies of very nice Italians. 

 The other one was not a pure queen — I 

 think she was mixed. She is very good, 

 though, and had lots of bees. I am not 

 yet prepared to say which I would rather 

 have, the Italians or black bees, but 

 next summer I will report. 



I don't care how far my virgin queens 

 go to mate with drones, just so they 

 mate with good ones. 



Hope, Ark, 



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Prediction for th.e Honey-Flow of '93. 



As promised, I will give the readers of 

 Americax Bee Joukxal my predictions 

 for the honey-flow for this year. To be 

 as brief as possible, I will say the crop 

 of white honey will be short. You need 

 have no fears of the markets being 

 flooded from southern California, nor 

 from the West, but there ought to be a 

 good flow in western Nevada, around 

 about Reno. 



The big bee-men of New York will not 

 have the big yields to hide from the pub- 

 lic this year ; their crop will be short. 

 There ought to be a fair yield in Massa- 

 chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, 

 southern New York, New Jersey, and 

 eastern Pennsylvania. In Ohio, the 

 eastern central part will have close on 

 to, if not a total, failure. 



The western part of Michigan, along 

 the lake into northern Indiana, ought 

 to have a fair yield, or better than other 

 parts close by. Also southern Illinois, 

 western and southern Kentucky. 



Minnesota will have a failure, and the 

 northwestern part of Iowa, but eastern 

 Iowa ought to have a fair yield, and es- 

 pecially the southeastern part, close to 

 the Mississippi river. We will also have 

 a better yield here in eastern Tennessee 

 than we have been having. 



Let all the bee-keepers watch the 

 honey-flow. I don't know anything in 

 regard to the weather, but only as to 

 the honey-flow. Whether flowers con- 

 tain nectar or not, let all watch, and 

 then report. The above has reference 

 to linden and white clover. 



Sam Welsox. 



Cosby, Tenn., March 10, 1893. 



Report for Two Years. 



In 1891 I had 600 pounds of comb 

 honey in pound sections, and about the 

 same amount in frames. Last year I 

 sold only S3. 00 worth of honey from 57 

 colonies of bees. J. Shaffer. 



South Park, Ky. 



Bees All Right — Re-Glueening. 



Bees are all right so far. We have 

 had a very cold winter. I winter bees 

 in chaff hives on the summer stands. 

 Last year was a poor season for honey — 

 I had only 300 pounds from 25 colo- 

 nies. I would say to S. A. Smith's first 

 question, on page 266, the best time to 

 re-queen is in the early season. 2. I 

 find queens reared in the fall just as 

 good as in May. 3. Just as good, for I 

 have tried them. A. A. Slmpsox. 



Swarts, Pa., March 6, 1893. 



"Wintering Bees Out-Doors, Etc. 



I have been keeping bees, in a small 

 way, for more than eight years. I have 

 been a careful observer, have read Lang- 

 stroth's, Root's, Newman's, and other 

 works on the honey-bee, and have been 

 successful as far as I have gone ; but 

 having a large farm to manage, I paid 

 more attention to the farm than to bees. 

 I usually keep from 10 to 20 colonies, 

 and sold them when I had more. I am 

 now getting old, and can no longer fol- 

 low the plow, so I shall pay more atten- 

 tion to bees. 



Last spring I had 11 good, strong 

 colonies, which increased by swarming 

 during the season to 18, and produced 



