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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jul}' 3, 1902. 



twice, and I now have 15 colonies. I have since transferred 

 them to new hives. Only one of the parent colonies gave 

 any surplus, and the other 4 seem to be dwindling away, 

 though they have a little hatching brood. 



Now for the swarms : The first were large prime 

 swarms, and the second about a quart of bees each. Their 

 history is about the same, so I will describe but one. I 

 hived it about March IS on inch starters ; April 1 I gave it 

 a super, which was promptly filled. April 15 I gave another 

 with ditto results ; April 25 I gave a third, and some filled 

 this, but when I gave the fourth all work in the entire api- 

 ary suddenly ceased, and only a few burr-combs were made 

 in the sections. The old colonies also did nothing at all. I 

 might mention that the weather has been very dry. 



1. Now. is the honey-How over ? 



2. Will any more honey 'be gathered in the fall? The 

 natives assured me that bees never build comb here after 

 May 15. Mississippi. 



Answers. — l. I don't know. I never can tell for sure 

 when the honey-flow is over for my own bees. Sometimes 

 the flow will stop for two or three days, and then start up 

 again from the same flowers. 



2. That depends upon the flora in your neighborhood, 

 and upon the season. On general principles I should make 

 a guess that there vpill not be an entire dearth of pasturage 

 from May till winter. However, some dependence should 

 be placed upon the word of the natives, especially if the 

 natives are experienced and observing, and it is just possi- 



ble that generally there is little pasturage for the bees ex- 

 cept very early. Make observations for yourself, however. 

 You may rely upon it that bees will build comb at any time 

 they need it. 



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Requeening at Swarmlng-Time. 



Suppose you have inferior queens in a few colonies, 

 and you want to replace them at the time of swarming by 

 using the swarms of your best colonies ; that is, without 

 going to the expense of buying queens, neither increasing 

 the number of your colonies. How would you proceed ? 



C.^-NADA. 



Answer. — Here's one way : When one of your best 

 colonies swarms, hive the swarm on the old stand, and 

 brush into the swarm all the bees from the brood-combs. 

 Set this hiveful of combs on or under a hive containing a 

 poor queen, destroying the poor queen. A young queen 

 will be reared from one of the queen-cells of good stock. 

 Look out for a swarm when the first queen emerges from 

 her cell, returning the swarm in the evening of the same 

 day on which it issues. Or, seven or eight days after the 

 issuing of the prime swarm, listen in the evening for the 

 piping of the )'oung queen, and if you hear her, destroy all 

 remaining queen-cells in the morning. Or, cut out all but 

 one queen-cell before it is time for the first young queen to 

 emerge. Of course, you can divide up the brood and cells, 

 and treat more than one of the colonies having poor queens, 

 if you so desire. 



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Bees Doing Nothing. 



Bees have done nothing since May 30. 

 White clover was never more abundant. 

 It is cold and cloudj-, but no rain. 



Henry Alley. 



Essex Co., Mass., June 17. 



Vervain or Verbena. 



I enclose a flowering weed which 

 seems to be a favorite with our bees in 

 this section of coutitry. What is it ? 

 Is it valuable as bee-pasturage ? 



East Tennessee. 



[The specimen is a member of the 

 Vervain or Verbena family — Verbena 

 angustifolia — and along with its more 

 conspicuous relative — the white and 

 blue vervains — it is a good honey-pro- 

 ducing plant. Prof. Cook, in his" Bee- 

 Keepers' Guide," pages 374-S, mentions 

 the vervains as good honey plants. — C. 

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I want to ask how it is that trees that 

 have never blossomed are all at once 

 attacked and die outright in a short 

 time? I once had a seedling, near 

 bearing age, turn black and stop grow- 

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I had a large Bartlett orchard, and 

 most of it turned black. It had had 

 high culture. I seeded it to grass, and 

 the next season the blight struck half 

 of the upper portion. I have had 

 Dwarfs blight the same, and not a 

 blossom on them. 



Why, it is nonsense and all bosh to 

 talk about bees doing the spreading of 

 blight. How much more reasonable to 

 say the many insect-catching birds 

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