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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Feb. 13. 1902. 



if a crop of buckwheat can be made to fill 

 the shortage I am satisfied it is a paying in- 

 vestment. 



Compare with the "A B C of Bee Culture," 

 page 50, Doolittle's note 44 ; also note page 

 197, in regard to locust. 



In this locality there are three varieties, 

 common, honey, and one that I do not know 

 by what name it is designated. I have ob- 

 served closely for three years, and following is 

 the result: Two years strong colooies gave 

 some surplus, and the other year it sounded 

 like a swarm in every tree, but no surplus 

 honey. 



The jouncer solves one of my most diffi- 

 cult problems, and on plain sections it gives 

 me as good results as Mr. Davenport gets 

 on extracting supers. Many thanks to him and 

 the American Bee Journal. L. C. Salsbury. 



Bradford Co., Pa. 



Finally Made the Bees Pay. 



During the past season I was able^ through 

 the advice and instruction received through 

 the columns of the American Bee Journal, 

 to make the bees pay for the first time in my 

 experience. 



I started with 3 colonies last spring and 

 have 5 that are very heavy now, and 1 that 

 is pretty light. 



I placed them in an unused bedroom over 

 a cold room in the south-east corner of the 

 house. They seemed all right when I looked 

 in the first of the week, so I did not disturb 

 them any more than I was obliged to,' in order 

 to get some books needed. Howard H. House. 



Oneida Co., X. Y,, Jan 20. 



Good Yield-Honey-Dew for Stores. 



I saw an item recently that spoke of hca 

 supporting a hired man in the hayfield at 

 $1.75 per day. I had a prime swarm of 

 black bees which came out June 7, 1901, and 

 on June 8 I put on sections enough to hold 

 64 pounds of honey, and in just 9 days from 

 the day I put them on I looked at them and 

 1(111 na I h tt e^ »*rv <■ .e "■ ihera was ledfiy lo tau** 

 off, and so I took them away completed and 

 in good shape. I think they did fairly "well. 



I have kept bees for a number of years 

 and have had success with them, for this reason. 

 I never lost a colony in winter, indoors or out- 

 doors, so I think I have been successful. This 

 winter I expect to lose them all, on account 

 of the honey-dew that they have to winter on. 

 A. H. Chesley. 



Carroll Co., X. H., Tan. :;o. 



Report of 2 Acres of Buckwheat. 



It was planted May 24, 1900, and bloomed 

 July 10. Xectar first showed in the hives to 

 any extent July 23. 



Brood-rearing was certainly stimulated up to 

 July 28. They at no time worked on'blossoms 

 after i r a. m. ; on that date they worked 

 until 1 p. m. 



The buckwheat on July 28 was loaded 

 quite well. 



August 6 the bees worked on it every day, 

 but at no time after 11 a. m., and it is now 

 about through blooming. No honey s'howed in 

 the supers but considerable in the hives. 



On August 6, there were 10 acres of buck- 

 wheat in full bloom about one-half mile from 

 here and bees were putting honey from there 

 into the supers. This seems to me to prove 

 that it pays to plant buckwheat for bees. 

 Fortunately, I was able to harvest quite a 

 nice crop of the grain, but this is not the case 

 usually, as rain fell several times very op- 

 portunely, and a few days more of the hot, 

 dry weather would have entirely spoiled it. 

 L. C. Salsbury. 



Bradford Co., Pa. 



"The Bee in Law." 



On pages 11 and 12. I noticed the finding of 

 R. p. Fisher, i. e., "The Bee in Law." That 

 finding appears strange, indeed. It would seem 

 to me that if a person obtained a license to cut 

 down a tree and take either tree or bees 

 from the owner of the land, that should be 

 sufficient, as against a third party. Why, a 

 farmer might as well sell a fat steer out at 

 pasture to a third party, as the owner of 

 the land to sell a bee-tree to a third party. You 

 do not give just what the statute in New York 

 State provides, but I gather from what you have 

 boiled down in the matter that Mr. Fisher, or 

 anybody in authority there, can rule just as they 

 think fit, according to their own personal ideas. 



The law in the Province of Ontario is 

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Bees Wintering Nicely. 



My 240 colonies are wintering nicely, and 

 are very rich in stores. We extracted 7 

 barrels — about 4,000 pounds — last year to 

 1 12 barrels the previous year. Last year 

 was exceedingly dry, probably the dry est I 

 have ever seen in my 40 years' residence 

 here. Emil Baxter. 



Hancock Co., III., Jan. 20. 



Wintering Well. 



The bees appear to be doing very, well in 

 the cellar, where they were put Dec. 10. 



It was so very dry last fall that I don't 

 expect much white clover the coming summer, 

 as last year's clover burned out. 



L, HiGHBARGER. 



Ogle Co., 111., Jan. 20. 



Treating Foul and Black Brood. 



I will tell how we treated foul and black 

 brood the past season with the best results. 

 W'e had about 50 colonies which had the dis- 

 ease in all stages, and, after thinking the mat- 

 ter over, decided to try a way of our own. 



The first thing was to get them strong by 

 uniting and otherwise before the honey-flow 

 was on; then when the honey was coming in 

 fast we took an old hive where the bees had 

 died of foul brood and cut out all of the 

 combs, scraped the frames as well as we could, 

 then put in 2-inch starters for the brood-nest. 



Next, going to the hive we wished to treat, 

 we first smoked, then lightly jarred the bees 

 so as to get them to load, as we think it best 

 that all bees carry as much honey to the new 

 hive as possible. We then moved the old hive 

 away a few feet, front or back, set the new 

 hive with the starters and a super of drawn 

 sections in its place, then shake the bees out 

 before it and let them run in, bein^ careful 

 that none of the young bees go into another 

 hive, and the work is done. 



Tlie reason for it being, a success, is, the 

 loaded bees at once store above all foul haney 

 in drawn combs, and commence to clean house, 

 and, as there is no comb below, if there is 

 any honey on the hive or frames it also goes 

 above. I ommitted to say there should be an 

 excluder between sections and brood-nest. 



Now if the flow should stop before the 

 super is filled and capped, it should come 

 off, otherwise we have a good super of honey 

 and the bees never stop work. Out of 50 

 colonies so treated the disease did not appear 

 again. 



This year (1901) has not been a j:ood one 

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Utah Co., Utah. 



A Swarming Experience. 



During the season of 1900 I secured 1400 

 pounds of honey from 14 colonies, spring count, 

 and 19 swarms, several of which I sold during 

 the season. Then I expected great things 

 for the honey season of 1901, but early in 

 the spring wet weather set in and continued 

 until about July i, at which time, instead of 

 having my honey crop taken and sold as usual, 

 my bees were just about ready to go to work 

 in the supers, and in this country it was said 

 of old that bees could not build cqmb after 

 July 10, and as I have always found it neces- 

 sary to leave plenty of honey in the hive 

 after this time, on which the bees might winter, 

 my feelings may be imagined when after 

 two to three fair days my bees began to swarm, 

 which was a large one, and put it in place of 

 the i)arent colony. (It was hived on starters 

 of foundation only). I then went to the parent 

 hive, lifted off the extracting super, placed it 

 with bees and empty combs on the newly-hived 

 swarm with a queen-excluder between.. Well, 

 it soon looked as if every bee in the apiary 

 had become deranged, for there would be two 

 or three swarms in the air at one time. I 

 hived some, dumped some on tlie ground in 

 front of the hives from wliich they came, 



