Aup. 14, 1)02. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



525 



BEES AND QUEENS I 



We have a strain of 

 bees bred specially for 

 honey - fiatherin^- and 

 loM^jevity. We feel con- 

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cially dirt. Why, dirt drifted off the 

 fall plowing like snow, and piled in 

 drifts 2 or 3 feet deep. Then it began 

 to rain the latter part of May, which 

 was what we wanted, of course, bad 

 enough at that time, but it gradually 

 got welter and wetter until now it rains 

 about half the time, and such rains! 

 almost floods ; it simply pours. The 

 bees, of course, starved through clover 

 bloom, that is, they all but starved, 

 though a few of the best colonies 

 made a good living, but mostly from 

 mustard, I think. Since basswood be- 

 gan to bloom- about 10 days ago— they 

 have stored a little surplus between 

 rains; the most of them have one 

 super nearly full, but whether they 

 will finish any section honey looks ex- 

 tremely doubtful just now. There 

 have been a good many swarms here 

 this season. The bees would swarm 

 when the hive was so bare of honey 

 that the parent colony, when put on a 

 new stand, not only ran off the drones 

 before the young queen hatched, but 

 actually pulled and carried out the 

 drone-brood — something I never saw 

 before, and did not suppose they ever 

 did. 



I find, as I work with bees, that there 

 is only one sure rule in regard to them, 

 and that is, there is no telling what 

 bees won't do. 



With fair weather in the fall there 

 might be some fall honey ; but will it 

 stop raining ? 



Farm crops are at a critical stage, 

 and unless it "fairs off" very soon 

 small grain is doomed. 



F. S. Miles. 



Crawford Co., Iowa, July 8. 



Introducing Queens. 



I had a colony of bees this summer 

 which mocked all treatment that I 

 knew or ever read or heard of. It would 

 positively accept no queen or queen- 

 cell, under no conditions, until it finally 

 became drone-broody. I had given up 

 all hope, and intended to unite it as 

 soon as I had time, when one more 

 chance, and, to me, a seemingly good 

 one, occurred. A large swarm issued 

 from the hive standing next to the 

 queenless colony, and having, besides 

 its old queen, a virgin with it. So 1 

 left the old queen with the swarm, but 

 the virgin I introduced in the queen- 

 less drone-breeder as follows : 



First, I took about a pint of bees from 

 the swarm and started them to run into 

 the queenless hive ; then I let the 

 queen run in with them, when I took 

 two or three handfuls more and threw 

 in after Ihem. The bees were very 

 cross on that day, for robbers bothered 

 lots. I did not useone whiff of smoke, 

 and did the job in the most reckless 

 manner, because I was very busy and 

 felt vexed because a swarm issued so 

 late in the season, and then having a 

 virgin queen with them, so I had to go 

 after them and get them. To-day she 

 is in nice shape. 



I introduce a laying queen by simply 

 taking the old queen from the comb 

 she is on and putting the new one in 

 her place, by letting her run out of a 

 round wire-cage, holding the cage over 

 the comb, and watching when she be- 

 comes perfectly quiet, then carefully 

 remove the cage, and very, very care- 

 fully lower the comb down into the 

 hive ; and just as carefully, without 



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