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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 17 



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Honey - Clovers ! 



We have made arrangements so that we can 

 furnish seed of several of the Clovers by 

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 cash with order: 



51b lOIb 25fti 50ft 



AlsikeClover 70 $1.25 83.00 $5.75 



Sweet Clover (white). .60 1.00 2.25 4.00 



White Clover 90 1.60 3.75 7.00 



Alfalfa Clover 60 1.00 2.25 4.00 



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Add 25 cents to your order, for cartage. If 

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If you contemplate buying either three or 

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 well as the best methods known for securing 

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That will keep Hen's Kgi:fi perfectly llirough 

 warm weather, .lust as good .18 fresh ones lor 

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Dr. A. B. ITIASON, 



3512 Monroe Street, - Toledo, Ohio. 



being two swarms together, lookt no 

 farther, but placed my new hive there 

 as before, but when they broke cluster 

 they came back to No. 1 and commenced 

 bunching in the grass in front. I let 

 the queen go into hive No. 7, and placed 

 a trap in front, and stirred them up at 

 No. 1 in the grass, and caged that 

 queen, and hung her cage upon a limb, 

 and they clustered around her. I placed 

 the two hives close together, with foun- 

 dation and a brood-frame in each. I then 

 shook the bees in front of both, let the 

 No. 1 queen out, and I saw her go in, 

 and the bees followed with a rush. 



1 noticed that many bees crost over 

 from in front of No. 1 to No. 7, and vice 

 versa, and now I am wondering if each 

 swarm found their own queen. We are 

 having very cold, rainy, backward 

 weather of late, and bees are not doing 

 much, neither is corn, and corn is king 

 here. But we are living in hopes of bet- 

 ter days. H. W. Congdon. 



Cass Co., Nebr., May 31. 



Backward Season. 



The season is very backward. Bees 

 are beginning to swarm some. There is 

 plenty of clover, and a few days of 

 warm sunshine will improve things 

 greatly. J. M. Young. 



Cass Co., Nebr., June 5. 



A Swarming Record. 



My bees are having lots of fun with 

 me this year. I aimed to be ready for 

 swarming about this time, and was con- 

 gratulating myself that they would not 

 get a chance to push me this year, but 

 11 swarms is the record up to date, and 

 not half of the 10 colonies (spring count) 

 have swarmed yet; they commenced 

 April 30. White clover is now in bloom ; 

 fruit-bloom was destroyed by rains. 



B. F. Onderdonk. 



Passaic Co., N. J., May 29. 



Swarming — Bee-Spaces. 



A great deal has been said in the Bee 

 Journal about the swarming fever, how 

 to prevent swarming, non-swarming 

 bees, breeding out the swarming habit, 

 etc. Now I don't want to beenlightened 

 on the subject of breeding out the 

 swarming habit, for I am afraid that 

 would reduce the number of bees to a 0. 

 But what I would like to learn Is, how 

 to prevent that big young colony they 

 have built up by depleting the old, or 

 mother colony, from swarming. It is 

 all very plain, that if the old colony is 

 so depleted and weakened that she can't, 

 she won't cast a second swarm. So if 

 you bleed your horse until he is very 

 weak, there is no danger of his jumping 

 the fence. 



Our early swarms, without any build- 

 ing up from the mother colony except 

 what they get in natural swarming, are 

 almost sure to swarm about 40 days 

 after hiving them, and generally a sec- 

 ond swarm comes oH a week or 10 days 

 later. Now I would like very much to 

 know how to prevent this big first 

 swarm from swarming. I want each 

 strong colony to swarm once, but I 

 would like to have them stop swarming 

 right there. 



A word about bee-spaces, as that has 

 just been a subject of discussion. One 

 thing that I have not noticed in the 

 "Old Reliable" is, the fact that boos 



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