March 2(i, 1902 



AMERICAN BEE JOURiNAL 



185 



yoii suppose she died, or they killed her ? There were sev- 

 eral yoiiiij,' ones sealed up when I looked in the hive, atul 

 they hatched out about the same time as the one jireviously 

 mentioned. I united both with one, and I thought it had a 

 jrood hybrid i|uecn. I looked in the hive yesterday ( I'"cb. 

 24) and found vvliat dronc-couib they had was full of younj,^ 

 drones, and some able to crawl about. They looked like 

 full-blooded Italian drones. Do you suppose they have one 

 of those younfj Italian queens ? If .so, do you think she can 

 ever be of aiiy account ? If not, what would I best do ? 

 There are a good many bees now. 



4. I have a colony of rather short bees, and they don't 

 look like Italians, hybrids, or blacks They almost try to 

 sting a shadow, and store more honey than most of my 

 other bees do. I don't know where they came from. Can 

 you guess what race they belong to ? 



5. Sometimes I see blacks, and 2 or 3 banded bees in the 

 same hive. Have they the same mother ? Alabama. 



Answers. — 1. No, there will be no trouble whatever. 



2. Laying workers. 



3. I don't know the cause of the queen's death. You 

 can hardly expect any good from the colony, and the best 

 thing is to unite it with another. 



4. No, I don't know. 



5. Yes, the same mother may produce bees that look 

 very unlike. When an Italian queen mates with a black 

 drone, the worker progeny may vary all the way from pure 

 Italians in color to pure blacks. 



Bee-Houses and House-Aplarles. 



I live in the city, and can not keep bees unless I keep 

 them in a bee-house ; nor can I devote much of any time to 

 them during working hours ; so I wish to keep them as 

 nearly non-swarming as possible. I have a fine little grove 

 of young trees in my yard — a nice place to keep bees. 

 There is plenty of white clover here, and but very few bees 

 around. I have the " A B C of Bee-Culture " and "Bee- 

 Keepers' Guide." I can not make a cellar that will be 

 suitable to winter bees in, on account of it being somewhat 

 low and springy. I see in the books that a good bee-house 

 will be all right if made right, and I have decided to make 

 one next summer, so as to have it ready for the bees when 

 I put them into winter quarters. I have also decided to use 

 the deep or Jumbo hive, and to run for extracted honey. 



1. Will the Jumbo in the bee-house make them practic- 

 ally non-swarming? 



2. I have thought of keeping the house warm with hot 

 water when it got too cold. Will that do any harm to the 

 bees if the temperature is kept between 40 and 46 degrees 

 with hot water ? 



3. Will it need to be so warm if I put a casing around 

 the hive, and a good cushion on top ? 



4. If I divide each colony into two colonies, will there 



be any danger of swarming the same season, providing I 

 divide just before they get ready to swarm ? 



5. Would you advise using the shallow extracting super 

 on the Jumbo hive, or a division-board in the brood-cham- 

 ber, and extracting often enough to keep the bees working? 



(). Will it be advisable to feed in spring with a division- 

 board feeder so as to stimulate brood-rearing ? 



7. Will a bee-house 10x12 fuet, inside measure, by 8 feet 

 to the rafter-plate, be large enough for 24 colonies ? 



8. How much more extracted honey will a colony pro- 

 duce than comb honey ? 



9. Where can I get insurance on the bees and supplies I 

 have on hand ? 



10. Have the plans for a good bee-house changed since 

 the " A B C of Bee-Culture " gave its plan for building ? If 

 so, please give plans. 



11. Would you advise Italianizing my bees ? 



I hope you will excuse me forasking so many questions, 

 and taking up so much of your time. Minnesota. 



Answkks. — 1. It is hard to tell just what will be the 

 case with you. Some report almost entire freedom from 

 swarming with the Jumbo ; but with me it .seems but little 

 better as to swarming than smaller hives. Yet your work- 

 ing for extracted honey makes an important difTerence. 



2. It depends on how you use the water. If you carry 

 vessels of hot water into the house, letting them stand open, 

 it will not do at all. It will be all right if you use hot water 

 pipes, or if you use jugs of hot water tightly corked, or if 

 you use the hot water closed in any way so there is n» 

 chance for any vapor to escape in the house. 



3. It will make some difference, but not such a great 

 deal. 



4. It will help, but will not be a sure preventive. 



5. Use shallow extracting frames, and leave the brood- 

 chamber undisturbed. 



6. Until you are an experienced bee-keeper you will do- 

 well to let stimulative feeding alone. 



7. Yes. 



8. I don't know. The estimates of different persons run 

 all the way from saying there is no difference, up to more 

 than twice as much. 



9. In other countries there are special insurance com- 

 panies connected with bee-keepers' societies, but I know of 

 no such companies in this country. The best way for you 

 to do is to inquire of insurance agents in your neighborhood. 



10. I think there is no material change. 



11. Yes, by all means. 



I am almost sorry you did not make out the even dozen 

 by asking me another question, that is, whether I would 

 advise you to build a bee-house. If you had asked that 

 question I should have told you that while some have been 

 successful with house-apiaries others have not, and that the 

 last I knew about it the one in "ABC of Bee-Culture." 

 shown with eight sides, had no bees in it. The only reason 

 I don't tell you this now is because you have not asked the 

 question. 



DEEPOM BOILED 



Bee and Honey Statistics. 



In reply to inquiries. Editor Root gives the 

 following interesting figures in Gleanings in 

 Bee-Culture: 



There are no data as to the number of 

 pounds of honey and beeswax exported from 

 the United States, and I can, therefore, give 

 you no information. In a good year Califor- 

 nia might produce 200 cars of honey, Colorado 

 somewhere about 40 cars, and Arizona 20 or 

 30. New York is another godd State, but 

 probably does not produce, all told, to exceed 

 100 cars. But the honey is not exported from 

 New York, it being consumed largely in the 

 country where it is raised. 



There are something like a thousand mem- 

 bers of the National Bee-Keepers' Association. 



Ttie estimate of the number of pounds of 

 honey produced in the United States is some- 

 where about as follows: For comb honey, 50 

 million pounds; for extracted, about 125 



BETTER THAN SPRAYING. 



Don't lug barrels of water around when spraying. Use tlie 

 poison direct. Our 



Common SenseDusf Sprayer 



nrni Insect FTdrminatur is a most in^'enious de\-ice that 

 israpi<liy 5iiiip!:intinL.' ttienld methods. It Mows the tineiy 

 powdered dustinto every nook and crevice. Readies the bot- 

 toms u well na the tops of leaves. Destroy Hiascot life on pttuitB. rloefl, 

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flease luenuon tsee journal when "WTiting. 



Gomb and Ex- 

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State price, kind and quantity. 



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33Atf Please mention the Bee Jonrnal. 



The Sure Hatch 



i.s the incubator for the poultry 



raistT, whether fanner or fancier. 



H)ne can run them, because tliey 



themselves. Anyone can own 



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mailed free. When writing address nearest office. 



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Please mention Bee Journal "when writing. 



million, or a total money value of from eight 

 to ten miilions of dollar.?. 



Capt. J. E. Hetherington of New Yorlc. and 

 W. L. Coggshall, are the two most extensire 

 bee-keepers in the United States. The former 

 is credited with owing 3,000 colonies, and the 

 latter about 2,.=i00. ' 



Shaking Bees from the Combs. 



There is a good deal in doing it just right 

 Probably no way is better than that given a. 

 number of times by G. M. Doolictle. with 

 whom it is probably original. He gives very 

 minute instructions in the Progressive Bee- 

 Keeper as follows : 



With me it is very easy to rid the combs of 

 bees by shaking, especiallj' if each frame is 

 filled with comb as that the same is attached 

 to the bottom-bar the whole length. Where 

 combs are not so attached, there will always 

 he a few bees Vietween the bottom-bar and the 

 comb which will stay there no matter how 

 the frame is shaken, and these will have to be 

 brushed off. Desiring to take a comb away 

 from the liees. I place the projecting ends to 

 the frame on the ends to the middle fingers 

 of each hand and then, with a quick upward 

 stroke, throw the ends of the frame against 



