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I was just butchering away when sud- 

 denly I saw the queen trying to get in. I 

 at once caged her, and examined the colony, 

 and found no queen. Then I put the queen 

 back, and they took her. Now if it was a 

 strange queen they would not have taken 

 her. 



On another occasion I opened a hive to 

 find the queen, and the first thing I saw was 

 the queen right on the top of the frames. I 

 was just going to cage her when she flew 

 away. I watched the entrance, and in half 

 an hour she came back. Now, poor queen, 

 if she should venture to take a flight, and 

 be caught and couldn't go back nor out ! li 

 this is the case, then let the inventor make 

 a slight improvement, and fix it so the 

 queen can pass outside and die in the sun- 

 shine, rather than in the prison. 



The best of aU, Mr. Root tried the self- 

 hiver on 10 or 15 colonies, and succeeded, 

 and they seem to store lots of honey (150 

 pounds) . Let some of the celebrated writ- 

 ers, or others, prove that queens do not 

 take flights. I mean fertilized queens. If 

 you have a colony of bees this spring that 

 are cross, and you want to kill them, the 

 only remedy will be, " apply the self -hiver. " 



Milwaukee, Wis. Arthur Heiss. 



Did Well in 1892— Hiving Swarms. 



Bees in this section did extra well last 

 season, motwithstanding the very discour- 

 aging spring which we had. There was a 

 splendid flow of basswood honey which be- 

 gan the first week in July, and lasted until 

 nearly the close of the month, after which 

 followed a good flow from buckweat. 



I had in the spring 8 colonies, which I in- 

 creased to 15, and obtained 365 pounds of 

 comb honey. I use the 10-frame hive about 

 the same dimensions as the Langstroth. I 

 later bought 2 swarms more, which made 17 

 to go into winter quarters. I packed them 

 in chaff hives, with chaff cushions and 

 Hill's " device," etc. On March 8th every 

 colony had a good cleansing flight. 



It has been a hard winter on bees, and 

 especially those in the old style box and 

 single-walled hives. The majority of the 

 bees in this vicinity are, however, in the 

 movable-frame chaff-hives, and but very 

 few bees are wintered in cellars. 



Now, it is a question with me which will. 

 pay me best, to hive my swarms the coming 

 season on full sheets of foundation in brood- 

 frames, or only on starters. Last season I 

 hived on full sheets of foundation, because 

 the best authorities I had read at that time 

 advised it ; but now, after reading three 

 different bee-publications, I find that the 

 correspondents differ on this, and also in 

 regard to using full sheets of foundation or 

 starters in sections. This season, if my bees 

 winter all right, and I expect they will, I 

 wish to increase to 25 colonies, and work 

 for comb honey only, and would like to 

 know the best way to manage them es- 

 pecially about the foundation. My bees are 

 mostly hybrids. Lmtuku S. Ei,y. 



Brooklyn, Pa. March 14, 1893. 



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PENNSYLVANIA.— The Susquehanna Co. 

 Bee-Keepers' Association will hold their 12th 

 seml-annuai meeting at the Tarbell House in 

 Montrose, Pa., on Thursday, May 4, 1893. All 

 are invited. H. M. Seeley, Sec. 



Harford, Pa. 



NEW YORK. —The next meeting of the 

 Allegany County Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will be held at Belmont, N. Y., on May 4th. 

 1893, in the Hotel Belmont. AU bee-keepers 

 are invited to attend and make It what it 

 should be— an interesting meeting. 



H. C. FABNUM, Pres., Transit Bridge. N. Y. 



COLORADO— The adjourned meeting o 

 the Colorado State Bee-Keepers' Assoclatiii 

 will be held in the Charles Block, corner 15' ' 

 and Curtis Streets, Denver, Colo., on April 18, 

 1893. Business Important to all honey-pro- 

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