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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



JVov. 11, 



and would hive them, and by the time 

 they were again ready for boxes the clo- 

 vers were past, consequently we got no 

 clover honey. 



Last spring I dipt all my queens, and 

 in swarming I would cage the queen, 

 return the swarm, in 6 or 7 days cut out 

 all cells but one, if the bees were good, 

 and if not I would destroy all and give 

 them one of my breeder cells; in that 

 way I requeened, kept down swarming, 

 or rather increase of colonies, and se- 

 cured a good crop of white honey, and 

 increast my apiary between clover and 

 buckwheat. However, I sell buckwheat 

 honey faster than clover honey, and 

 could pet a cent or two more a pound for 

 it, but I sell all alike, and in the home 

 market people come for it, some 16 

 miles — no trouble to sell all I can pro- 

 duce. 



In queen rearing I had no trouble to 

 get good cells. In one instance I had 

 a colony whose queen was a Carniolan 

 mated to an Italian drone, and not wish- 

 ing to rear any of those black drones, 

 and have them mate with my Italian 

 virgin, I removed the queen, gave them 

 a cell, which they destroyed, and began 

 to rear theirs by the dozen. I let them 

 go till !S days after I removed their 

 queen, then I went for them, took frame 

 after frame, shook ofi all the bees, and 

 destroyed every cell ; gave them a frame 

 built about half way down, and contain- 

 ing eggs just hatching into larvae, from 

 my breeder. The result was, in due 

 time I had 45 fully developt capt cells — 

 more than I could make use of. I 

 reared queens on a small scale for 3 

 years, and have kept bees for 5 years, 

 but this year I lookt up my old American 

 Bee Journals, and found Dr. Gallup's 

 method of introducing queens with to- 

 bacco smoke : I can introduce when rob- 

 bers are bad and no honey coming in, by 

 removing the queen in the evening, or 

 caging at any time of the day, and lay 

 the cage with the queen on top of frames 

 to keep the colony quiet, for if the queen 

 is removed the bees will run all over the 

 hive and hunt for their queen, and then 

 is the time robbers will attack them. In 

 the evening, after bees havestopt flying, 

 open the hive, remove the queen, blow 

 in on top of the frames a few whiffs of 

 good, strong tobacco smoke, so it gets 

 between each comb, then let your new 

 queen run in on top of the frames ; cover 

 up and close the hive, and give a few 

 good pufTs in at the entrance. Hybrids 

 need a double dose and till morning all 

 will be well and the now queen is intro- 

 duced. To cage the queen in the day- 

 time, when robbers are bad, carry tha 

 colony into a building. I have intro- 

 duced the first of October with success 

 with this method. Many thanks to Dr. 

 (lallup for the method. 



Paul Whitebread. 

 Luzerne Co., Pa. Oct. 22. 



Been Through About All. 



I am glad of one thing, that is, that 

 Mr. Bevins has broken his 20-year sil- 

 ence. With Father Laugstroth dead, 

 Ur. Gallup growing old, Bevins dumb for 

 20 years, and a pupil hunting the col- 

 umns of the "Old Kellable" for some 

 thing readable, and finding such con- 

 temptible rot about bee-spaces, what arj 

 we to look for next? 



I have boon through about every dis- 

 aster In bee-keeping that there Is for me 

 except foul brood. I got my boos here 

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