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AMERICAN BEE JOUENAL. 



Jan. 23, 1902 



ufactured. I have had ,a great desire 

 ever since to preach that minister a 

 sermon on bees and honey, but never 

 had a favorable opportunity; perhaps 

 I may some time. 



We have had a very severe winter so 

 far. Bees have had only one partial 

 flight since the last days of October. 



I fear what few bees are left in this 

 section will succumb before warm 

 weather again makes its appearance. 



I enjoy reading the American Bee 

 Journal and hope it will continue to 

 prosoer, and gain in circulation as it 

 deserves. I wish I could send a whole 

 lot of new subscribers. 



A. D. W.MSON. 



Tioga Co.. Pa., Dec. 27. 



Adding Supers Above. 



I may say that this year all my 

 supers of sections were added at first 

 above the others, ancl rather in advance 

 of the bees' requirerients. Only when 

 these last wer= taken to voluntarily by 

 the bees were they removed below the 

 partly- filled ones. It is more than a 

 theory with me that this is a great aid 

 to success, and I have generally prac- 

 ticed it in very hot seasons, as I find 

 that it prevents loafing, acts as a cooler, 

 assists ventilation, and thus acts as a 

 preventive, or, at least, a deterrent of 

 swarming.— D. M. M., in the British 

 Bee Journal. 



A Plan of Uniting Colonies. 



About the middle of September I 

 examine all hives and mark those which 

 are not in a populous condition. These 

 I strengthen by reducing the number by 

 doubling un. All other things being 

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 onies which have sent forth swarms, 

 and consequently have young queens. 

 I take two. colonies, and if the colonv 

 to be united has a greater supply of 

 good winter stores than the colony to 

 which it is to be added, I exchange the 

 combs one by one. and give the col- 

 ony whose queen is to live the better 



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combs. I then kill the queen of the col- 

 oriy to be united with the one having 

 the good queen, and after giving each 

 hive a thorough smoking, place an 

 empty super-body above the colony to 

 be spared, and upon this place the 

 queenless colony. The smoking seems 

 to destroy the distinctive odor of each 

 colony, and the bees from the upper 

 hive readily unite with those having 

 the queen, and all settle in the lower 

 hive. 



After two or three days I uncap the 

 hnney in the upner hive, and the bees 

 of the united colonies carry all the 

 honey into the lower hive. The bees 

 live in perfect harmony, and with their 

 increased numbers and greater store of 

 honey, winter far b-tter and gather 

 more honey the next season than would 

 the two colonies wintered separately. 

 In this manner I have united more than 

 50 colonies, and in only one instance 

 did I have disastrous results. These 

 were caused by the fact that there were 

 two queens in the unper hive, a con- 

 dition of which I was not aware until 

 about half the bees were killed. It 

 sometimes happens that when the queen 

 is old the bees will rear another, and 

 allow both to remain in the hive until 

 spring. — Fred H.\xton, in the Progres- 

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Do Bees Hear? 



A. H. Homersham (in the British 

 Bee Journal), quotes Mr. Loveday and 

 Mr. Sladen as saying that no evidence 

 can be found that bees hear, and says : 



My own experience goes to prove 

 that bees cannot hear, or else they take 

 no notice whatever of sounds. 1 have 

 whistled and shouted and screamed as 

 loud as I could within six inches of the 

 flight-board, but all my efforts to attract 

 attention were in vain. I made a special 

 effort in shouting loudly one evening in 

 midsummer, after all the bees had re- 

 turned from the fields, but the peace- 

 ful hum of a full colony undisturbed 

 went on. I then gently touched the 

 alighting-board — an almost imperceptible 

 touch — and instantly the humming stop- 

 ped and a dozen or more bees wer^ 

 scouting about the entrances to find the 

 cause of disturbance. Thus, while noise 

 was unnoticed, the slightest jar was at 

 once detected. I have watched several 

 times to see the effect railway trains 

 had on bees when shunting, or the 

 whistling and rush of an express pass- 

 ing bv. but all passed unheeded. I have 

 also tried various experiments on bum- 

 ble-bees, but without effect, so that I 

 have quite convinced myself, and proved 

 to mv own satisfaction, that bees can- 

 not hear. 



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