April 17, 1902. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



251 



a inernber, ilml wllh the forgery accordliii; In 

 law. 



Let tlio busiiifKs of this orijunizalidii hi- 

 known to all dealers and consniinM> as far as 

 possllilc, and thai they will mil let any hut 

 jmre hiiney pass under their name withcmt 

 IiuriiKhiuent if the guilty can he eaiiK'ht. If 

 need he, a reward could he olTered for any 

 adiilleration paKsiiij; under their name, if 

 evidence could he had to convict tlic i^uilty. 



I Ihillk llnd this would ^ruaralilec a pure 

 article to dealer and consumer, and would in- 

 crease both demand and price, and hriiin' 

 money to the pockets of the producers. 



Washington Co., I'a. \V\i. K. M.\KTIN. 



A Skunk in a Bee-Cellar. 



I will tell how I '^oia skurili out of my hec- 

 cellar, and 1 wish to know whether I did 

 i'i(;ht. My cellar is under the dininjr-room, is 

 XxlO feet, with one window and a door on the 

 outside on the south. I have (>:i colonies;— 40 

 colonies on one side (8 hives lon^ and n hifrh), 

 and the olliei- 'SA colonies across one enti. 



Well. Sunilay niornin;:^ I went down to 

 sweep tile dead bees from the cellar-bottom ; 

 it has a cement tioor, and I noticed the bees 

 were all stirred up. I thought mice had (jot- 

 ten in. I commenced to sweep the bees up. 

 There was a l:>arrel in one corner; I tool; hold 

 of it and moved it, and there was Mr. Skunk. 

 I started for the door, but he caught me. 

 My, what a smell ! My wife smelled it as 

 soon as I did. I said, " Martha, there is a 

 sl<unk in the cellar;" and she said, " Yes, 

 and you got it I" 



The next thing was to get him out. I could 

 open the door and let hiiii go out, but he 

 would come in again. I could poison him, 

 but he would likely go behind the hives, and 

 I could not get him out without overhauling 

 them. He had made the cellar smell, and I 

 did not want to let him go. I set a steel-trap 

 at the foot of the stairs, and put on some 

 honey for bait, but he was too smart. About 

 4 o'clock I opened the cellar-door and he 

 came out from behind the hives, but before I 

 could shoot him he went behind the hives 

 again. At G o'clock I tried it again, and got 

 him. Do bees hear * I do not know. It did 

 not seem to disturb them. I open the door 

 at night to cool the cellar, and that is how he 

 got in. Now I put on a screen-door also. Did 

 I do right ; L. C. tiKEES. 



St. Francis Co., Ark,, March 15. 



[Yes, sir, you did just right. The proof of 

 the pudding was in the eating — or the smell- 

 ing. You got Mr. Skunk, and deserve to be 

 congratulated upon your success. Perhaps 

 the noise of the gun was so much less a dis- 

 turbance to them than the " loud" perfume 

 of Mr. Skunk, that the bees didn't notice the 

 sound of the shot. Not every bee-keeper can 

 go a-hunting in his cellar. — EpiTOIi;] 



A Home Partnership Bee-Keeping. 



My wife and 1 have kept a few colonies of 

 bees for the last six years with different re- 

 sults — some years we would get little honey, 

 other years a little more, and sometimes we 

 had to feed; but last year being a very hot, 

 dry season here, we were surprised by the 

 <iuality and quantity of the honey gathered 

 by the bees. 



We keep only 5 colonies, and are trying to 

 keep the number down to that, so we go 

 through the hives once a week during the 

 spring-time and cut out t|ueen-cells, besides 

 giving the i|ueen plenty of room to deposit 

 her eggs, by putting a second brood-chamber 

 on top, and' by transferring full hrood-combs 

 from the lower to the upper chamber, and 

 tilling in again with empty combs; we keep 

 this up until the main honey-llow (sweet 

 «!over) starts in, then condense again by 

 shaking all bees from upper chamber in front 

 of hive, and put on two supers. Of course 

 we get a good many brood-combs in the upper 

 chamber tilled with honey, but it makes tine 

 winter stores. By thus handling them in the 

 spring we get large colonies ready for the 

 aiain honey-flow, and have very little swarm- 

 ing. 



Last year the different flower-blooms and 



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GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 Erie St., Chicago, 111. 



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CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



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