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Aug. 14, 1902. 



■wait for this, for if you give them no brood the swarm will 

 return to the mother colony if no queen is present. If the 

 queen is a laying queen, you will find eggs laid by her. 



3. If j-ou give them a frame containing eggs and young 

 brood, they may rear a young queen, or as soon as you find 

 they are starting queen-cells, you may give them a mature 

 cell or a laying queen. 



4. That would work all right. 



5. It would be all right except the danger of having the 

 bees daubed with the paint at the entrance. With plenty of 

 drier in the paint, at least in the paint used in the entrance, 

 there ought to be no trouble. 



6. Unless they should have an extra queen with them, 

 there is no need to pay any attention to them. What bees 

 do not join the swarm will return to the old hive. If they 

 have a queen, you must capture them the same as a separate 

 swarm, and then unite them with the rest of the swarm. 



The Buffalo Convention Report is issued in pamphlet 

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OBJECTS: 

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 To prevent the adulteration of honey. 

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W. Z Hutchinson, I G. M. Doolittle, 

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Bees Did Well, Considering'. 



Last spring I bought 19 colonies of 

 bees from a neigbor in box-hives, at 

 $4.00 per colony. One was robbed, but 

 the rest have done well, considering 

 the weather. They have increased to 

 40 colonies. I have taken off 263 pounds 

 of comb honey already. 



V. A. Hansen. 



Polk Co., Wis., July 21. 



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At Least One Good Colony. 



I took off 84 sections of white honey 

 from one hive the other day, and every 

 section was completed fancy comb ; but 

 in taking out I broke five sections by 

 their having burr-combs. Every sec- 

 tion on the hive was completed ; I do 

 not know how many they would have 

 stored if they had been properly taken 

 care of. 



. I have no other colony in the 20 that 

 is storing white honey, and no other 

 one storing half as much, and not one 

 doing sucli a nice, clean job. 



We had no basswood honey, and I 

 did not think they were crowded for 

 room. 



This is my fourth year, and I have 

 never failed to get some honey, thanks 

 to the American Bee Journal. 



Lewis Lamkin. 



Woodbury Co., Iowa, July 31. 



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 fourth of the top-bar ; that is to say. 

 cut two ways, one from the bottom and 

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 from the underside. Save this piece. 

 Now, when the frame is nailed to- 

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 the frame, and just one-half as thick 

 as the top-bar. Lay the foundation on 



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