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AMEPICAN BEE lOURNAL 



Sept. 11. 1902. 



their efforts to get it back, will keep on draw- 

 ing out the cell, until sometimes it is tvviee 

 the natural size: such a cell will never hatch. 

 Whenever I handle cells, and if by accident I 

 should jar them so that 1 think any of ihe 

 larv:i' have dropped in the caps of the cells, I 

 simply reverse the stick of cells and gently 

 shake the larv* down into the jelly again. 

 At one time I thought it quite necessary to 

 shake all cells to get the bees off, and when 

 doing so I always reversed the slick and 

 shook back what larviP might have dropped 

 out of the jelly : and I never had any trouble 

 in the cells hatching. 



It is now quite evident to me that there are 

 many poor queens due solely to the fact that 

 they do not get all the benefit of the jelly 

 placed in the cells for them. 



The above is simply one inkling of the 

 many, showing why tonietimes poor queens 

 result from what appears to be a nice batch 

 of cells. 



The subject is altogether to inexhaustible to 

 be thoroughly discussed in one or two issues 

 of a bee-paper, H. G. Qvirin. 



Erie Co.. Ohio. 



Bees Have to Loaf. 



It has Vieen a backward season here. I had 

 tofeedmybees in June to keep them from 

 starving. We have not had a pound of sur- 

 plus honey this season. It looks as if we 

 might get a little surplus from the heartsease, 

 as the bees have just commenced to work on 

 it. It rains every other day. to they have to 

 loaf, like the farmers. Ada.m Wixrow. 



Scott Co., Iowa, Aug. 27. 



Late White Clover— Moving Efees. 



White clover has bloomed later this year 

 than ever was known in this locality ; how- 

 ever, but little honey was oljtained from it. 

 The prospects are, that there will be a heavy 

 bloom next year. 



Bees have done moderately well here all 

 the season through, but have swarmed en- 

 tirely too much— just enough honey to keep 

 brood-rearing under good headway, and to 

 keep the bees swarming. The hives are full 

 below, and but little surplus has been ob- 

 tained, owing to so much swarming. 



Next week is our State Fair— Aug. 2fi to 

 Sept. .5— to be held at Lincoln, Superintend- 

 ent Whitcomb is expecting a big show this 

 year in the Apiary Department. Some very 

 handsome premiums are offered by the mana- 

 gers. 



Last spring we moved our entire apiary two 

 miles nearer town. Moving in March, the 

 weather was rather cool, but the roads were 

 smooth. The hives were all still packed with 

 their winter packing. The entrances were 

 closed, and then the hives were s^t iu a 

 wagon, one on top of the other, and all were 

 moved in safety to their new location without 

 the breaking of a single comb, or losing a 

 colony. They were moved so carefully that 

 the bees did not seem a bit restless, or hardly 

 notice their removal. -J. M. Young. 



Cass Co.. Nebr., Aug. 27. 



Results of the White Honey Season. 



The story is told, the tale is ended, for the 

 season, so far as the white honey crop is con- 

 cerned. The season has been a most peculiar 

 and unnatural one. The bees broke all known 

 rules in regard to swarming, and almost 

 everything else, for that matter. The season 

 was a cold one. but it kept me warm the most 

 of the lime to handle them; in fact, they got 

 the upper band and were boss for awhile, but 

 by putting in from It! to 24 hours a day I 

 soon got on top. and kept there. 



The crop was light, but I got enough to 

 buy food and clothes for another year, and will 

 also be able to lay up a few hundred dollars 

 for the long, rainy days that may come some 

 lime. So things might have been worse than 

 they were. 



Fall (lowers have been in bloom for some 

 time, and the bees appear to be doing a good 

 business, but I have examined a number of 

 hives and lind they are barely making a liv- 

 ing. 



I have just finished delivering 7000 pounds of 



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honey in a city 20 miles distant ; it was hauled 

 Ijy team over rough roads, but not a comb 

 was broken. 



What, has been said about queen-rearing 

 lately is interesting, to say the least. I have 

 .iust read, and bad a hearty laugh over. Editor 

 York's comments on the Wisconsin ex-bache- 

 lor who imported a " queen " of superior 

 stock ! 



But now, when some of the highest living- 

 authorities disagree point-blank on the best 

 methods of rearing queens, what are we com- 

 mon bee-keepers to do '. We have to rear our 

 own, for, according to Dr. Gallup, what we 

 can buy are worthless. I hope Mr. Alley will 

 give us his latest method. What he has said 

 so far has kind of iarred me. Editor E. R. 

 Root takes the matter cooly and calmly, and 

 points out that somewhat different methods 

 maybe best according to conditions, but he 

 does not devote much space to this matter, 

 for he seems to have his hands full defending 

 Mr. Gaudy's recent assertions. 



Well, I must quit and goto cutting grass 

 and weeds around the hives again. I kept 

 the entrances clear during the flow, but lately 

 the bees in many of the hives have to crawl 

 up the front and climb on the cover before 

 they can Hy away. It has been a great year 

 for grass and weeds to grow. 



C. Davenport. 



Southern Minn., Aug. 25. 



Short Crop Expected. 



After the heat and drouth of last summer I 

 prepared 30 colonies of bees for winter on the 

 summer stands. Twenty-nine of them win- 

 tered nicely, but 8 of them dwindled away, 

 the spring being so cold and backward, as has 

 been described in so many of the reports. 



I fed the bees until fruit-bloom, and from 

 that time on they were able to make a living. 

 We had considerable rain and very cool 

 weather, but they began swarming the last of 

 May: it kept raining, and they kept swarm- 

 ing; sometimes two or three swarms would go 

 toget-er, and I would hive them, and they 

 would go to work as though there was only 

 one. 



There was basswood and white clover in 

 aliundance, but it rained so much that the 

 white honey crop hei-e is rather short. My 

 honey crop is still an unknown quantity ; the 

 late honey is just coming; the bees are work- 

 ing nicely, but it rains very often. The honey 

 season is short here, and very late this year. 

 We are afraid of being overtaken by the 

 frost. Mrs. Paul Barrette. 



Crawford Co.. Wis., Aug. 20. 



Long-Lived Queens. 



I have succeeded in getting more honey and 

 of better quality than any of my neighbors, 

 and it is the reading of bee-books and bee- 

 papers that has enabled me to do so. 



Since reading Dr. (iallup's articles on "How 

 to Rear Long-Lived Queens," I had a chance 

 to examine 2.5 queen-cells the bees built after 

 the queen was removed, and I found little 

 threads running from the abdomen of every 

 queen and fastened to the side and base of 

 the cells. 



I have some queens going on their fourth 

 year, and, so far as I can tell, they do not 

 show any signs of failing yet. They were 

 reared by the Doolittle plan. A queen that is 

 poor ani way is not allowed to live in my 

 apiarv, l:)ecause poor queens make poor colo- 

 nies, which are unprofitable. 



Cheslet Pkesswood. 



Bradley Co., Tenn., Aug. 2,5. 



Getting a Bee Tree. 



I will give you a description of an adven- 

 tui'e I had out of town the other evening, 

 when we went to get a bee-tree, which 

 we brought all right. We cut the tree 

 down, plugged the hole where the bees went 

 in and out, sawed oil the lower end as well as 

 the top, and brought home the chunk witli 

 the bees. It was about 4 feet long, with a 

 cavity about 12 inches in diameter, and H feet 

 () inches long. We sawed the lower end as 

 close to the comb as we could without harm- 

 ing the comb. The bees were very well 



