Aug. 7, 1902 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



509 



BEES AND QUEENS! 



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 bees bred specially for 

 honey - fjuthering and 

 longevity. We feel con- 

 fident of giving satis- 

 faction. 



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1 Tested Queen Wi 



1 Select Tested Queen ... I.IK) 



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l-Comb Nucleus, no queen 1.00 



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Up-to-Date Farming and Gardening, 



30A4t Bo.x 84, Indian.^polis, Ind. 



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fun to see the Ixmib Hwarm all over the crimhed 

 Ixirries, iinil e.virnet every pttrticlc of hulj- 

 KtiiiK-o, luavitig titr hare sevds an clean as if 

 n(!tmilly wtisiieil. 



The weiijht of the hive Is a eertaiii evl- 

 ilenee of what llicy illd with the juico. 



Tile riKJi'e 1 rclicct and ohservo, the more 

 iiii|iress('il I am with the usefulneKs of the 

 white niiilh(;i*ry us a hee-pr(»vender. also as a 

 lieautiful shadiMrce— a tree so hardy uh 

 alriioKt to leave the conviction that it would 

 thrive on an ieebei't^ ! 



Hut apparent trouble comes with all pood 

 thin^^s. Before I lie^^au to feeil the Ijees on 

 mulberries no oneilesired more than to taste 

 tlieni. "Ai-h! too sweet!" -Now that I wish 

 them for tlie specirtc purpose, boys come 

 around daily to nibble at them; hut they 

 tlon't stop at iiilibliiif^. 1, too, have aequired 

 a decid(Hl taste fctr them, and my " Ijetler 

 half '' remarlieil naively enou(j^h the other 

 (-iay, that "one fell lil\0 havinj^ just one 

 more." Indeed, after eating a Ijowlful ! And, 

 loo, the robins, and even a few eat-ljirds, 

 have ijeen lured l)y the fruit, until what 1 hiul 

 set apart for tlie bees has become a coveted 

 morsel for two-lej,'t'ed animals, with and with- 

 out win|j:s. 



Only one way out of the difBculty — plant 

 more of the trees. This I am prepared to do 

 by rooting cuttings, and sowing the seed. I 

 now have plants growing from Ijoth pro- 

 cesses, and hope soon to be well stocked and 

 able to make some of the most interested 

 readers of the American Bee Journal a pres- 

 ent of a plant to each (none for sale). Ex- 

 ception was taken to a previous article on the 

 value of white mulberries for bee-feeding, 

 that the bees coukl not extract the juice fnim 

 the fruit. But Ijear in mind that I specitically 

 stated that the lorries must first be crushed 

 before the pulp is fed to them. 



Dr. I'eiro. 



78 State St., Chicago, 111., .July lu. 



Bees Not Doing Well. 



My bees are not doing very well this season. 

 I started in the spring with 21 colonies, and 

 now have :iS by natural swarming. I had one 

 swarm issue at 5:1.5 in the morning of .July 8, 

 and at 7 o'clock there were 7 swarms flying. 

 Four swarms clustered on one bunch, and 3 

 on another. I hived the 3 in another hive. 1 

 use the Langstroth hives. I got 17}.^' pounds 

 of honey iu i^^ sections from one swarm in 20 

 days after being in the hive. I have one col- 

 ony I put in a hive on .July'; they cast a 

 large swarm, and I examined the old hive 

 when the Iwes were flying, and found it filled 

 with brood and al)out a dozen fiueen-eells. I 

 returned them to the old hive again, and they 

 are doing very well now. 



Chas. Heitchler. 



Henry Co., Ohio, .July 21. 



One Way to Improve Stock. 



A good thing is the plan Doolittle offers, to 

 graft cells in a colony with a queen that the 

 bees are trying to supersede. As beginners 

 are not likely to have many such queens, but 

 are likely to have plenty of colonies preparing 

 for swarming, why not graft swarmiug-cells i 

 They could be cut out two or three days be- 

 fore time for the queens to euierge, and quite 

 a batch might be secured — [The best time in 

 the world for the honey-producer to rear 

 queens, and a very choice lot of them, too. is 

 during the swarming season. He can well 

 afford to take the time to graft some of his 

 swarming cells with larvie or eggs from a 

 choice breeder; then when those cells are 

 capped cut them out and put them in nuclei. 

 This is a very simple and easy way to rear 

 queens, and is, in fact, it I mistake not, the 

 one practiced by some of our most successful 

 honey-producers who have become convmced 

 that such queens are remarkably strong and 

 vigorous. The next best colony, according to 



Tested Add llneens. 



Rearcil by a New Method. Oueeim very lartfc, 

 prolific and handnome. One 'Jueen, $1."0; ibrec 

 QueenH, $1.1'; ^ix f»ueenn, $'.(■»; twelve Oueenfi, 

 f*^ 'X). Kverytliititf jfiiaranlecd. 



HENRY ALLEY, 



26Atf WENHAIVI, MASS. 



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