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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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sides the 1 5 that did not swarm. I am 

 now talking ofl their honey. Some of 

 them stored 50 pounds, but the most of 

 them only 27 pounds. Some of the col- 

 onies that swarmed had sections partly 

 filled, and when that was the case the 

 sections were given to the new swarm. 

 This has been a great year for swarm- 

 ing ; a great many of the farmers have 

 bees, and they report to me that their 

 bees do nothing but swarm. Some re- 

 port as high as four swarms per colony. 



In conclusion, let me say a few words 

 on the color and strain of bees : In my 

 younger days I was a contractor, brick 

 layer, and plasterer, and I never had a 

 man to work for me that I did not learn 

 something from, and that Is the way with 

 sending ofT for queens; if they do not 

 prove to be as good honey-gatherers as 

 those I have at home, it always makes an 

 improvement on them ; I have as fine yel- 

 low bees as I ever saw and they were 

 reared on my place, but if It was not for 

 sending off for new bees they would be 

 just like they were when I first started 

 with them. 



I am now 54 years old and do not care 

 to take up all new-fangled theories, but 

 if a bee-keeper wants to keep up with the 

 times I would advise him to send away 

 for a new strain of bees. If I had the 

 time I could furnish as good queens as 

 the country aflords. I have queens from 

 different parts of the United States, and 

 am acquainted with all strains of bees, 

 and wish to say that It is not the color 

 that makes the good quality. I have the 

 5-banded bees that are as good at storing 

 honey as the darker ones, and I have 

 come to the conclusion that it is the way 

 the queen is brought into this world that 

 makes the worker-bees get a hustle on 

 themselves. A queen that is reared in 

 time of natural swarming Is worth half a 

 dozen that are brought forth by making 

 the bees rear their queen. I will tell my 

 reason : I have had colonies become 

 queenless, and I gave them some brood, 

 and they reared themselves a queen, 

 and if that is early, or after swarming- 

 time, the queen is short-lived and her 

 bees are not hustlers; they will just live, 

 but store no surplus honey ; but if in 

 swarming-time you find a colony queen- 

 less, and give them a brood-frame v.ith a 

 good queen-cell, you will have bees that 

 are good hustlers. 



It Is very warm now, and we mav ex- 

 pect the honey-flow to cease, but \ am 

 expecting honey-dew as It Is now turning 

 dry weather, and has been too wet for 

 honey-dew before. D. R. Rosebrough. 



Clark Co., III., July 8. 



Oregon as a Bee-Country. 



On page 327, " Bands " wants to know 

 if Washington, Oregon and Idaho are 

 favorable bee-countries, and of what the 

 pasturage consists. 



I can only speak of the most western 

 part of Oregon. I am six miles from the 

 Pacific ocean, and one of the most fertile 

 creek bottoms of the Coast Range moun- 

 tains. I would call this a good bee-coun- 

 try, if it was not for the rain or high fog 

 most of the time, July and August ex- 

 cepted. 



Bees did not show their noses till the 

 first of April, then they went out and 

 found the Oregon cherry blooming, which 

 is the first pollen-producing plant. In 

 quick succession commenced skunk-cab- 

 bage, alder, huckleberry, salmonberry, 

 vinemaple, and maple, to bloom. The 



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I want the name and address 

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 KiVER Falls. Pierce Co.. Wis. 



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Mention xAe^iaencan Bee JcnumaL. 



last three are our most important spring 

 honey-plants. 



June 7 I found new honey In the brood- 

 nest In such an amount that I putsupars 

 on most of my colonies. The (low was 

 heavy and lasted a few days more than 

 six weeks. Altho coming so early, I had 

 two colonies finishing 4() sections and 

 filling 10 half-depth extraciing-frames 

 each. The weakest colony, which had 

 been flying more or less all winter, owing 

 to a faulty hive-cover, fllled a set of 10 

 brood-frames, with the exception of a 

 little brood In the middle ones. Then 

 for 14 days we had lots of bloom — black- 

 berries and other flowers — but no nectar. 

 Now bees are making a living on white 

 clover, but the yield will not be much 

 before July 1 ; besides It rains almost 

 every day. As soon as white clover is al- 

 most over, willow-weed commences, and 

 lasts till the fall rains set in — about the 

 middle of September. 



April and May we have salmonberry, 

 vine maple and maple; in June, black- 

 berry, thimbleberry and barberry ; in 

 July, white clover ; July and August, wil- 

 low-weed, second growth white clover, 

 and white immortelle. The first in the 

 list and the last produce yellow honey, 

 and the others a honey as clear as our 

 mountain streams. 



This is my fifth year in bee-keeping, 

 and I twice found a gap between spring 

 blossoms and white clover, and once be- 

 tween white clover and willow-weed. 

 One year, the only spring honey 1 secured 

 was from salmonberry blossoms, as hard 

 rains washt out the nectar from the 

 maples. 



I have had no swarms yet, altho 

 swarming has gone on in apiaries where 

 box-hives are used, owing, I suppose, to 

 crampt quarters. Her.man Ahlers. 



Clatsop Co., Greg., June 19. 



A Last Season's experience. 



Smart bees — those Germans ! I had 

 put on the netted-hood, tuckt Its folds 

 gently down my manly bosom, and felt 

 armored for a close interview with the 

 colored colony. I approacht with that 

 degree of courage which is supposed to 

 awe bees into docile submission, besides 

 I wielded the smoker with great dignity 

 and dexterity. So far, so good. 



I took off the cover, then lifted the 

 board, and there 1 decorously and retir- 

 ingly was the mass of living, humming 

 and buzzing honey-gatherers. It was 

 my purpose to introduce a wide-frame of 

 sections in the space left too long vacant 

 — and in which space they had built 

 comb and placed some honey. In tear- 

 ing this formation away the bees entered 

 a protest, which, however, diligence and 

 the smoker subdued. I had gotten this 

 new comb out nicely and placed the 

 frame In Its place, and was about to close 

 the hive when I bethought me to see if 

 other sections were not filled. Lo, and 

 behold, right there, to the right, were 

 eight squares filled with luscious honey ! 



Forthwith I pried up the frame and 

 took It out, set it on a board, and was 

 about to remove others equally well- 

 capt, when down went the removed 

 frame and all the bees that clung to it, 

 causing consternation among them. Im- 

 mediately they swarmed around me, in- 

 stinctively guessing I was the robber In 

 quest of their well-earned supplies, and 

 came a thousand strong! As bad luck 

 would have It just at this time, thesmok- 

 er had burned out and failed to attend 

 to business. True, I had on the veil, but 



