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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 9, 1902. 



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Please Mention the I5ee Jonrnal I'i^^^SiSf.... 



likely the cause, but thej- were not much io 

 evidence. Tiifin this caused the said man to 

 call to mind what had been told, by another 

 parly (who had tried to keep bees ia this 

 same locality), that fti^ bees ahvays tiled uj[f 

 etjHsiderahhii durutt/ buckeye bluuniing time. 



It is a great peach-growing center, and as 

 far as growing radishes and lettuce is con- 

 cerned I don't think tliere is any to speak of ^ 

 these crops have a large acreage in Mr. Bow- 

 ers' locality. There is a great amount of 

 spraying of fruit-bloom, but whether there is 

 any poisonous substance used in the spray I 

 cannot say; so, according to my story, buck- 

 eye would be to blame. But 1 will further say 

 that I had moved about 30 colonies from my 

 Placer County apiary, a little after the first of 

 June, to a new location in Sutter County; 

 this was before mortality commenced, and 'J or 

 3 colonies were depopulated in the same way 

 in the new location. The new location has no 

 buckeye bloom, and the bees may have been 

 atfected by one of the forms of paralysis. 



I have just been told that arsenic is used in 

 the spray used in the orchards, but no mortal- 

 ity during spraying. C. D. Brows. 



iSutter Co., Calif. 



Poorest Season Known. 



We have had the poorest season here I have 

 ever known. No honey has been taken this 

 year. I have 33 colonies, and they have no 

 honev. I have been feeding them for the past 

 month. I hope to have a fall How, which will 

 supply them for winter. S. F. Sampson. 



Greenbrier Co., W. Va., Sept. 111. 



ThOFOUghwoFt OP Boneset. 



1 enclose a specimen of a large weed wliich 

 is now in bloom here (Sept. 15). It grows in 

 neglected fields, and seems to be a great fav- 

 orite with honey-bees. What is it * 



East Tennessee. 



[The specimen is a Thoroughwort or Bone- 

 set, although not the common boneset of our 

 Northern States. It belongs to the great 

 Composite family and will no doubt sustain 

 the reputation already established by this 

 family in sweet beedom. — C. I.. Walton.] 



How to Treat Quiet Robbing. 



In answer to "Minnesota." page CIS, I will 

 say that I had the same experience the past 

 season. My bees swarmed, and the swarm 

 commenced quietly to rob the old colony. My 

 remedy is this : Sprinkle a little flour on the 

 bees that are doing the robbing, in front of 

 the stand robbed, so that you can locate the 

 robbers. Then with any fine spray, spray the 

 robber-bees by opening the hive and spraying 

 the bees; also spray them at the entrance 

 with diluted peppermint essence. The change 

 in scent in the robbers will cause the colony 

 to protect themselves. Also make the en- 

 trance c|uite small, and your trouble is done. 

 Leonidas Carson. 



Trumbull Co., Ohio., Sept. 2«. 



A PFoposition on Queens. 



I wish to reply to_Mr. Henry Alley's article 

 on page 533, in re'gard to the queens that he 

 can rear in those little boxes. I have read all 

 of Dr. (iallup's articles on queen-rearing, and 

 all of Mr. Alley's and others, but this one 

 capsthe climax. Dr. Gallup has got it down 

 as nearly right as any one, according to my 

 notion. 



I rear all my queens in swarming-time: all 

 the queens that ilo not come up to what I 

 think they should. I kill and replace with 

 good cells from my best colonies. 



1 work principally for honey, and gel it. 

 There was a queen-breeder that kept sending 

 me his catalog, and 1 was a little "sore" on 

 buying queens, so I wrote to him that I would 

 give him .S5.0O if he would send me a ciueen 

 whose bees would store more surplus honey 

 than any one of my ciueens. He did not take 

 me up. 



I have bought queens from 6 different 

 queen-breeders — the leading ones — and I have 



