PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE W T FALCONER MANFG CO 



VOL. IV. 



S&PTE.MB&R, 1894. 



NO. 9. 



A Few Facts Whittled Down 



BY CHAS. II. THIES. 



A weak colony of bees does uoi pay 

 at any season of the year, they can 

 produce no surplus, and arc hard to 

 winter. A queen after two or three 

 years old had better be suspended, If 

 will pay. try it and see. 



A colony of bees should he fed 

 when they have no honey, and none 

 is coming in. How many small bee- 

 keepers do this, not many I should 

 judge, from observation. Yet when 

 dry weather comes, and the pastures 

 are all dried, these parties know that 

 cows, horse.-, etc., must be fed, why 

 not the bees. Did you ever try keep- 

 ing bees and poultry ? I have found 

 keeping bees ami poultry work well 

 together, both pleasant and profitable. 

 I keep poultry in my bee yards, and 

 have experienced no inconvienience 

 or disadvantage therein. 



Foul-brood T think is not a? preva- 

 lent as we sometimes suppose, but 

 think it is a good deal like chicken 

 cholera in this respect. When a far- 

 mer or a poultry keeper that makes 

 poultry his side issue, gets sickness in 

 his yards, it is sure to be cholera, 

 being a dreaded disease it is always 

 the first thing thought of, so I think 



it is with foul brood. I am happy 

 however that I have 'tot had either to 

 contend with. 



The o banded variety of bees have 

 so far given excellent satisfaction, 

 both io myself and customers, they 

 are good homy gatherers and very 

 gentle, then why not have a nice look- 

 ing bee when they are asgoodasany. 

 It has often been asked if queens 

 reared in the south are as good as 

 queens that are reared in the north, 

 this I am unable to answer definitely 

 just now, but I am experimenting on 

 this line, and will give the re-ult< of 

 my experience later. This I do know 

 that 1 prefer northern to southren 

 grown seed. 



I notice that no more bees or ipieens 

 will be sent from the " home of the 

 honey bee " this year on account of 

 dead brood. This is the right way to 



proceed, it may be money out just 

 now, but in the long run it will surely 

 pay to do unto others as you wish to 

 be done by, this I have found by 

 actual experience. 



The bee-keepers of southern Illinois 

 have another honey harvest right be- 

 fore them. Some of the best of honey 

 is gathered here in the fall, but if dry 

 weather continues the crop will fall 

 short, as did our white clover. 



SteelevMe, III. 



