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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Jnne 12, 1902. 



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I uimM Honeu For Sale i 



^ ALL IN 60-POUND TIN CANS. ^; 



I Alfalfa " ^^^^B^fcfe^ Basswood I 

 I Honey JTc: g^^^^^^m Honey JTc | 



• ^ This is the famous I •^^HRI ^tm.- .i. ,i ^■ 



rS White Extracted ^^H This is the well- ^. 



.^ Honey gathered in ■ A ^■H known lifht-colored ^^ 



■^ th- ■rreat Alfalfa i -■»> ^^Hl honey gathered from »- 



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Alfalfa ^^ 

 Honey JTc^ 



This is the famous 

 White Extracted 

 Honey g-athered in 

 the great Alfalfa 

 regions of the Cent- 

 ral West. It is a 

 splendid honey, and 

 nearly everybody 

 who cares to eat 

 honey at all can't 

 g-et enough of the 

 Alfalfa extracted. 



Basswood 

 Honey J^c 



This is the well- 

 known light-colored 

 honey gathered from 

 the rich, nectar- 

 laden basswood blos- 

 soms. It has a 

 stronger flavor than 

 Alfalfa, and is pre- 

 ferred by those who 

 like a distinct flavor 

 in their honey. 



Prices of Alfalfa or Basswood Honey: 



A 

 age. By 



sample of either, by mail, 10 cents, to pay for package and post- 

 By freight — two 60-pound cans of Alfalfa, 7yi cents per pound ; 

 4 cans or more, 7 cents a pound. Basswood Honey, yi cent more per 

 pound than Alfalfa prices. Cash must accompany each order. You 

 can order half of each kind of honey, if you so desire. The cans are 

 two in a box, and freight is not prepaid. Absolutely PUfC BCCS' HonCy. 



Order the Above Honey and then Sell It. 



We would suggest that those bee-keepers who did not produce 

 enough honey for their home demand this year, just order some of the 

 above, and sell it. And others, who want to earn some money, can get 

 this honey and work up a demand for it almost anywhere. 



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 Wisconsin BASSWOOD is the right kind for them. We have a full line of BEE- 

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trouble arises, and tbere will not be the suc- 

 cess that attends the same plan if the queen 

 be changed to a fresh cage, thus removing 

 much of the odor. 



Bees will often destroy their own queen if 

 given back after having been caged an hour 

 or two with some of her own bees in a cage 

 that has an odor that is transmitted to the 

 queen. 



Inasmuch as Dr. Miller was impressed by 

 the fact that bees caged with a queen from a 

 different colony were kind to her, I wish to 

 say that, when robl^ers are bad, I often pre- 

 pare a number of cages with escorts, by select- 

 ing the returning young bees that are talking 

 their playspells, and tiud that it works well, 

 as they always treat the queens kindly, are 

 exactly the right age, and I have only to keep 

 the nuclei open long enough to find the 

 i|ueen. 



Upon this Editor Root comments as fol- 

 lows: 



When Dr. Miller first spoke of his plan in 

 his Straw (page 6S0, 19U1) I did not take 

 much stock in it; but I am tree to confess 

 that there must be something in it after all. 

 Caging the bees, and keeping them so until 

 they have a real sense of their confinement or 

 loneliness, no doubt puts them in a condition 

 where they are ready to take up with anfj 

 ([ueen. When they are given back to the 

 whole colony having the same scent, the new 

 queen with them, all goes on lovely. But, as 

 Mr. Pridgen points out, it is doubtful it the 

 Ijeginner would be able to recage or change 

 the escort. But the advanced bee-keeper 

 may well give it a trial. I should be pleased 

 to hear from others. 



Queenless Colonies in Spring. 



The following is taken from the report of 

 the (infario convention in the Canadian Bee- 

 .Journal : 



Question — What is best to be done with 

 the queenless colony early in the spring i 



Mr. Hall— If it has lots of honey I would 

 simply pick it up and put it on top of one 

 that had a queen and not much honey. If I 

 hadn't one in the condition I would simply 

 shake off the queenless bees and preserve the 

 comb, honey and hive for future use. Begin- 

 ners always fancy they must introduce a 

 queen as soon as they find that a colony is 

 without a mother. They are just wasting 

 their time and money, as a rule. I used to be 

 bothering about that €ort of thing, but I 

 haven't done so these 12 or 14 years. 



Mr. Dickenson — I quite agree with Mr. 

 Hall ; that is my experience exactly. It does 

 not pay to introduce a queen to a colony that 

 you discover is queenless in the spring. 



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Early or Late Setting Out of Bees. 



I mentioned in our last issue that we set 

 out all the bees from both cellars along from 

 the 20th to the last of March, and gave them 

 one or two days of llight. The location of 

 each hive was marked so that, when the bees 

 were set out again, each colony would go 

 back to its own stand. This may not have 

 lieen a necessary precaution, but we felt that 

 it was wise to err on the safe side. All the 

 bees were kept in the cellar till along the first 

 week in April. About 100 colonies or nuclei 

 were set out of the hume cellar, and left out. 

 The rest were confined till about April 30, 

 when they, were put out. But in this case 

 Mr. Warded thinks the first lot of bees are in 

 better condition than the second lot. The 

 former have brood in all stages, while the 

 latter have nothing but eggs, and it looks 

 now as if the first bees had about two weeks' 

 start over the others in brood. This seems to 

 contradict my footnote on page ISC of this 

 year, wherein I said I lielieved it was the best 

 policy to keep the bt-cs in until the first of 

 May. A year ago, atmiit this time, we set out 

 some bees early, and siune not till May. We 

 thought the last lot of Ijees had the advan- 

 tage over the others, because there was a 

 storm on April 20, and the snow lasted for 

 several days, with a good deal of cold weather. 



It is hard to tell just when to set bees out; 

 but obviously it would have been belter this 

 year if all the bees had been set out about 



