April 3, 191 2 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



221 



copy of the American lice Journal, and one 



ot ihc first tinngs i noticed was an editorial 

 in which hditur \ urk caiitiuticd tht btgin- 

 ner in rcgaiU tu takiiiK aUvicc ui men iliat uad 

 failed to niaUc hccs pay, hut advised them to 

 get a standard tcxt-oook and suhscriUe for 

 sonic good bcepapcr. That timely advice was 

 all that saved me going out ut the business. 

 1 had subscrihed lur a paper and concluded 

 that 1 could do without the text-book; that 

 \vas a big mistake, but 1 didii't see it then. 



1 was greatly pleased with the American 

 Bee Journal, out my J4 pounds ot honey 

 woulu hard.y stand two bee-papers. (Some 

 jjeoi»le keeiJ bees lor pleasure, sonic for the 

 dollars, but a combination suits nic best; i 

 hnd much pleasure with my bees, and a little 

 money is a right handy thing to have around 

 tnc house). 



1 would advise the beginner to take he 

 American lice Journal, and ttien if he gets 

 into trouble, all that is necessary is to make 

 his wants known and Dr. Miller will do the 

 xest. 



iiut, in December 1 bought 7 more colonies, 

 and moved them on a sled over as rough 

 a road as there is in southern Ohio; they 

 bumped around over the rocks, and I ex- 

 pecieo to luse them all, 4 Loiunics did die, 

 but the other 3 colonies pulled through in 

 very good shape. The colonies that died were 

 queeniess and had laying workers, at least so 

 1 supposed, as i luuud arone-uioud 111 wurker- 

 como and no queen present. They left at 

 least 40 pounds of honey in the hives which 

 I fed to the bees in ttte 6 colonies which re- 

 mained. 



As evidence of my ability as an up-to-date 

 apiarist, increase was the paramount issue with 

 me, when spring came. i here Leing no bees 

 within 3 miles, except about 5 colonies, I fed 

 my bees in the upen. I contracted the en- 

 trances to 2 inches, and found that proof 

 against robbing— only use the preventive be- 

 fore commencing to feed. I also succeeded by 

 following Doolittle's plan of stimulating and 

 spreading brood. 



I produced aiiple-bloom honey, of which I 

 received for my trouble some jo pounds per 

 colony, it being the first apple-bloom honey 

 produced in sections in this vicinity. So I 

 concluded it paid to read bee-papers even if I 

 am a 2x4 apiculturist. 



Ants bothered my bees badly in early spring, 

 and 1 tried to "lick them" in a hand-to-hand 

 contest but failed. 1 tried salt, hot water, 

 coal-oil, and even turpentine; still they came. 

 I then smeared the bottoms with pine tar 

 which did the work. My new hives I fixed by 

 driving four 8-penny nails, one in each corner, 

 like legs, and smeared the nails with tar 

 and let the nails rest on blocks which I also 

 gave a good coat of tar. Shallow cans filled 

 with water and the nails resting in the cans 

 would produce the same effect. If you are 

 troubled with ants just try my simple remedy 

 and note the results. 



By stimulating, my bees swarmed 3 weeks 

 sooner than any in the country, and by natural 

 swarming I increased to 15 colonies. Some of 

 the after-swarms were very small, so I con- 

 cluded I would double up some. I hived an 

 after-swarm on Tuesday, and on Friday I 

 ran another after-swarm into the same hive 

 and again another on Sunday, using a little 



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tubaccu ' Mi'.k'- each time. Each hUcccctJinK day 

 I would tiiKl a tlcad quccii near the entrance, 

 btit nu iit(liting among the been. (Davenport 

 !■. corrci I :if{ain>. 



.N'ow J tst-ni one step further, to huild Ihc 

 colonicH 111- very strong. In about a week, 

 after btiti'luwn one evening, when the beci 

 were haiiKiMK out on the aligtiting-boards, 

 I itiL-ked iliL- boards up very carefully and 

 held at tlic entrance of my experimental hive; 

 I shook a tew of the bees down. The bees 

 . aiiie om .if the hive and went for them, 

 .'ind some of them were foolish enough to 

 pop it at me. After they had settled down I 

 let the ciuster on the board down so the 

 liees would )ust touch the entrance, and they 

 went riKhl in and were not molested; on 

 tile same plan that if the bees are 

 hanging out and fanning and you jar 

 the hive they will quit fanning and 

 t,'o in the hive. I put all the bees from 5 

 alighting-boards in the same way and then 

 gave them a few puffs of smoke, and awaited 

 results. 'I'hey filled 10 frames with stores for 

 winter, and I got 24 sections of honey from 

 them. 



They appear to be wintering all right. Was 

 it locality.'' "Tut," I suppose some of you 

 wise sages will say, "It's a lie." I say I 

 can do it again, so can you if you knock some 

 of the scales off your stout-edged glasses, and 

 let u|) on Davenport long enough to try it. 



Pike Co.. Ohio, Feb. 21. J. M. WEST. 



Loss in Cellar-Wintering. 



While in the cellar a short lirne apo I 

 noticed a bee draggfinfr one of its dead com- 

 rades towards the edge of the Moor of the 

 hive, and when it got to ttie edge over went 

 the living bee with the dead one down to the 

 cellar tloor. Now I wish to express two opin- 

 ions right here: First, that was a strong, 

 health.v, vigorous bee. that (barring an acci- 

 dent) would be likely to come through the 

 winter all right and do elTective work in the 

 spring. The nest is. that bee would never 

 get back into the hive, but perish on the cel- 

 lar floor. I would like to ask the cellar-win- 

 tering fraternity if they have made observa- 

 tions along this line, and if it is shown con- 

 clusively that we suffer serious loss in that 

 way, the next move will be to devise a remedy. 



Since making the above observations. I 

 have enjoyed a very pleasant call from that 

 prince of bee-keepers, S. T. Pettit. and he 

 agrees with me that we suffer loss as above. 

 .J. M. C'ruickshaxk. 



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Queens Hurt in Mail Still Qood for 

 Stock. 



The editor of the Bee-keepers' Review says: 



Queens are often injured in shipment. Of 

 this there is no doubt. One proof is that a 

 very superior queen often turns out to be a 

 very poor <|ueen after a long journey; while 

 (/(i»y///fr.'i of this queen prove to be most ex- 

 cellent. I have often sent out a queen that I 

 knew to be the best that could be secured 

 only to have customers complain; and then, 

 the next year receive a letter of apology, say- 

 ing that a (/'(kj^/i^i- of this queen had proved 

 .■superior tu iiirijthiiiy in the iipiiirij. \ queen 

 should be bought, not so much for the work 

 that she may do herself, but for the blood that 

 she brings into the apiary. 



Time to Take Bees Out of Winter 

 Quarters. 



R. V. Holtermann, in Gleanings in Bee-Cul- 

 ture, advises to begin about March 15. To 

 this Editor Root replies : 



It may be well to bear in mind that locali- 

 ties vary greatly as to the proper time to set 

 bees out. Dr. Miller once gave the good rule 

 that applies equally to all places, to set out 

 when the soft maples come into bloom. This 



