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frames with starters. If the bees get ahead 

 of the queen, then they will begin to build 

 drone-comb. Use an excluder, or the queen 

 may lay in the sections. 



In introducing queens and uniting I use 

 tobacco smoke, and I find it very successful. 

 I powder up some tobacco and put it into 

 the smoker; give the bees a few puffs, and 

 let the queen run in at the entrance. This 

 should be done near dark, or you are liable 

 to start robbing. 



Bees shoulil never be molested when 

 honey is not coming in during the day; 

 always wait till sundown, or after. Now 

 if you are a beginner heed this. I had read 

 warning after warning on this very subject, 

 but I had workt during honey-flows, and 

 everything moved along smoothly, but the 

 honey ceast, and one day I went out to 

 look for a queen that I had decided to 

 supersede. I opened the hive, took out the 

 frames, and workt leisurely. The conse- 

 sequence was I lost that colony in spite of 

 all I could do. I used hay wet down, closed 

 the entrance, and finally tackt wire-cloth 

 so that no bees could get in or out. Oh, 

 my ! I never saw bees so wild in my life. 

 J. T. Hairston. 



Cherokee Nation, Ind. Ter. 



Bees Did Pretty Well. 



My bees did pretty well the past summer. 

 From 10 colonies, spring count. I had 6S.5 

 pounds of comb honey, in well-filled sec- 

 tions, and had no swarms. I bad 100 

 pounds of extracted honey. I packt 14 col- 

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 shavings. I want to buy 16 colonies more 

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T like the American Bee Journal very 

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Cook Co., III., Dec. 3. 



A Beginner's Report. 



With much interest I read the reports of 

 the bee-keepers throughout the land. As I 

 am a beginner in bee-keeping I will have a 

 short report. 



Our summer flow from white clover was 

 excellent, but our fall flow was short on 

 account of dry weather. I .started with 3 

 colonies last spring, and increast to .5, in- 

 cluding 1 nucleus, and secured about 130 

 pounds of comb honey. I bought 3 more 

 colonies. A few days ago I built a shed for 

 them, and packt them in. side by side, with 

 clover chaff on the back, underneath and 

 in between, and some on top, with the front 

 clear, but boarded it entirely shut, and put 

 galvanized iron shields at the entrance of 

 each hive to guard against mice. 



I have learned a great deal about bees 

 the past summer, and know but little yet. 

 H. W. Hechler. 



Keokuk Co., Iowa, Nov. 25. 



Report for 1897, Etc. 



I began this year with 30 colonies, lost 

 one early from the effects of a laying 

 worker; another colony was weak, but 

 built up during the summer to give me a 

 few pounds of surplus; virtually leaving 

 but IS colonies for business, and from them 

 I obtained ,S prime swarms, 3 second 

 swarms, and 1 third swarm, all doing quite 

 well : the last-named swarm were supplied 

 with two full frames of honey in Septem- 

 ber: these all came off in June. 



The white clover flow was good in June 

 and until July 7. then very little more until 

 the fall flowers came, and that was light. I 

 took off 1.000 pounds of honey, about three- 

 fourths of it being extracted. Not nearly 

 all is sold yet. Comb honey sells for 13', 

 cents, extracted for 10 cents; receptacles 

 reserved in all cases. Several persons sent 

 in their vessels and had them filled. 



I have now 20 colonies in winter quar 

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 others with outside boxes packt with straw 

 between the hive and box. 



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