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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



March 20. 1902. 



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in latitude 27 dejj. to 2,S60 millimetres in lati- 

 tude 40 deg. ; further south, to latitude b'i 

 deg. 10 min. I Punta Arenas) the rainfall de- 

 creases .550, of which one-fifth is snow. Mj- 

 own experiences extend to regions from lati- 

 tude 33 deg. to 39 deg.. and I flatter myself in 

 thinking m}' own situation about the happy 

 medium as to extremes of temperature, mois- 

 ture, etc. After twelveyears' experience here 

 I am prepared to say that the swarming fever 

 referred to in the " Revue" is by this time so 

 much eliminated with me, that I can worlv 

 under quite as high pressure as at home. 

 When I first commenced the bees would 

 swarm in spite of extractor or unlimited work- 

 ing room, and. of course, to work for sections 

 was out of the question. Now I get -'-lb. sec- 

 tions worked with greater certainty than the 

 1-lb. are at home. Of course, I use the 

 "B.B.K.A." standard frame. All the bees I 

 meet with in apiaries here are the Italian race. 



With me, swarming begins about the latter 

 part of November. Honey begins to come in 

 as surplus in December, the heaviest months 

 being .January and February. 



The statement that the produce of 500 col- 

 onies amounted to 36,400 pound of honey goes 

 to confirm what I have been trying to drive 

 into the heads of some of the bee-keepers here 

 — to-wit, the mistake made in laying down 

 apiaries of over 100 colonies; the vogue here 

 is 500 or 1,000 and upwards. Notice what fol- 

 lows in the article referred to, '-ninety-five 

 colonies gathered 18,000 pounds." I have 

 taken 250 pounds to 300 pounds in my own 

 apiary from one hive when no swarm has 

 issued, and over 150 pounds from a swarm 

 hived in December. The statement that the 

 native Chilian does not eat honey is not my 

 experience. — J. R. W. HoIjE, in the British 

 Bee Journal. 



Young Larvae for Queen=Cells. 



In Gleanings for July 1, 1900, in a foot- 

 note on an article of mine, you say, Mr. Edi- 

 tor, " We have heretofore assumed thatlarv;p 

 just hatched, or larv;e not more than three 

 days old, was the preferred age; but there is a 

 case where the bees evidently had a prefer- 

 ence for the five-day limit." The fact that 

 this continues to be quoted in foreign jour- 

 nals, and that it is likely to be misunderstood, 

 makes me now refer to it. While you may 

 have meant all right, there is danger that you 

 may be understood as meaning: " In this case 

 the bees preferred larvic five days old to any- 

 thing younger." This is not true. The only- 

 possible preferencf at all in that line would be 

 expressed thus: "The bees preferred to wait 

 till some of the larvie were to old for good 

 queens, rather than to start all cells earlier." 

 Now let me give the truth deduced from my 

 investigations — tlte trutli that I tlthik miy one 

 wilt deduce frtmt any fair bweiitlyntiona — it is 

 this: Bees will not start queen-cells with 

 larva? as old as three days when yonnr/er tamp 

 are present -^ but they will continue to start 

 queen-cells after all the larva^ present have be- 

 come too old for that purpose. Will my good 

 friend of the Review say whether he believes 

 this to be the truth? — [I accept your amended 

 correction. — Ed.] — Stray Straw in Cleanings 

 in Bee-Culture. 



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"Buckwheat Cakes 



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"THE HUM OF THE BEES 

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