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AMERICAN BEE lOURNAL. 



JnneS, 1902. 



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I am also trying: the cultivation of ginseng 

 as a side-issue. I have about l.")00 plants 

 growing nicely under lattice or paling. 



I wish to give my opinion and experience 

 about bees selecting their future home belore 

 swarming, as I have read a good deal in the 

 bee-papers in the past on this subject. 



I think once in a great while they do select 

 their home before they swarm, but probably 

 not more than one time in a thousand, as 

 only three cases of seel;ing their future home 

 have come under my inunediate notice in 50 

 years. So I will give you one as a sample : 



Some years ago an uncle of mine had a few 

 colonies of bees; late in June they showed 

 signs of going to swarm, by lying outside of 

 the hive. One Friday he was out in the 

 woods above the house and found bees work- 

 ing nicely in a small white-oak tree, going in 

 a knot-hole up about 40 feet. He bragged a 

 good deal about his " find." On the follow- 

 ing Sunday several of the neighbors and I 

 were there for dinner. .Just after dinner one 

 colony swarmed; everybody present got a 

 bell, tin pan or something that would rattle, 

 and joined the band, but all to no purpose, 

 they wouldn't or didn't settle at all. So after 

 circling in the air awhile they struck tor the 

 woods, all the men and boys after them. 

 They went up where uncle had found his bee- 

 tree, and plugged right in. Great excitement, 

 now prevailed, all thinking there would be a 

 big bee-fight, so ax and hatchets were haslliy 

 got to cut the bee-tree and try to divide the 

 bees and save them. When the tree fell and 

 was cut open where the bees were, all were 

 surprised again, as there was not a speck of 

 comb built or anything done in the line of 

 worli, except the hollow seemed to have been 

 cleaned out nicely. We got the bees in an 

 old box, took them liack home that evening, 

 and all seemed satistied and contented. 



I know of two other cases like this one; it 

 liroves to me that once in a great while they 

 do look out for their future home. 



Do bees gather honey or pollen from white- 

 oak bloom at this time, May is i Bees seem 

 to be bringing in lots of pollen and some 

 honey. The white-oak is in full bloom. 



Iba SnOCKET. 



Randolph Co., W. Va., May IS. 



Hard Country for Wintering. 



This is a hard country in which to winter 

 bees, for the mild temperature of the Willa- 

 mette Valley causes them to eat a good deal 

 in winter. 



Many bees died since last fall, partly owing 

 to disease, I think. Clakk S. Fuge. 



Clackamas Co., Oreg., May 13. 



A " Greenhorn's" Experience. 



I can't remember Hiien I was not fond of 

 honey and bees. A friend gave me a colony 

 of hybrids, .June 1, I'.ioO, in a home-made hive. 

 I took from them in the fall IS pounds of 

 honey. They wintered well out-doors, and 

 casta swarm June H, and another June 13, 

 I'.lOl. These I hived in eight-frame hives. 

 1 gave the first new swarm, which had the 

 old queen, a super, and later I tiered them up, 

 that is, I gave them another hive-body. 



I kept watch of the tjecs this spring and 

 found the combs in No. 1 crossed .so I could 

 not take out the frames, and there were 

 plenty of wax-moths. The queen was laying 

 in No. 2, and the cluster well covered the 

 bottom-board. May 1 I set No. 1 on a new 

 stand, after turning the hive bottom side up 

 and taking out the frames and cutting out the 

 comb and fastening it in new Hoffman 

 frames. In transferring I got rid of some of 

 the moths, and also got straight combs. 



On May 13 1 received a premium queen, and 

 placed the cage in the hive. In 48 hours I put 

 the queen under a screen-cloth cage on un- 

 sealed honey, and cut out five queen-cells. 

 After 24 hours I liljcrated her, and to-day I 

 found a nice lot of eggs and busy, contented 

 bees. 



To-day, May 18, No. 3 gave a large swarm. 

 My other colonies are working in supers, and 



