670 



AMEPICAN BEE lOLiRNAl. 



Oct. 16, 1902. 



progeny of an improperly reared and short- 

 lived queen will inherit that defect, and be 

 shorter-lived than bees from a properly-reared 

 qneen. I have never been able to notice any 

 difference in the strength of different colonies 

 from a like amount of brood. Where one had 

 a queen that was 4 years old, or afterwards 

 lived to that age, and the other had a queen 

 that gave out at one or two years old, I re- 

 member particularly one instance last year : 

 Colony No. 39 gave me the most surplus of 

 anvlhad, vet they superseded their queen 

 when she was only a month over two years 

 old If there was any truth in that theory— 

 the longer-lived the queen, the better and 

 stronger the colony ought to be in the spring, 

 other things being equal. But is this the 

 case i Not according to my experience. Let 

 us hear from more of the " jury^' 



E. S. MILES. 



Crawford Co., Iowa, Sept. 30. 



Worms Dragging Out Bees. 



On page 587, under the head of '■ Dragging 

 Out Young Bees,'" that had been crippled, 

 such as parts of wings missing, etc., I will 

 say that it is moth-worms, as I have proved 

 to my own satisfaction. And it will take 

 quick and close observation to catch them. 

 They (the worms) eat a channel through the 

 foundation, or partition, of the comb, and 

 feast on the young brood and pollen. When 

 frightened they go backward or forward, as 

 the case may be. By looking closely, at day- 

 break, if there are worms in the hive, young 

 bees and parts of bees can be found on the 

 ground in front of the hive. When I see 

 such work going on in my apiary I go for a 

 smoker and gouge, made of small, stiff wire, 

 and hunt the combs good; and I never fail to 

 find them. A. J. Allen. 



Johnson Co., Ark., Sept. 18. 



Filling Combs for Feeding. 



It is about 3 years since I got to thinking 

 quite strongly on the question of how to get 

 liquid honey, or dissolved sugar, or mi.xture 

 for food for bees into honey-comb in some 

 better way than pouring on the comb from a 

 teapot. I hit upon the plan of dipping the 

 comb into the liquid by holding the frame 

 square up and down, and settling it down 

 slowly so as to let the air pass out of the cells 

 at the upper side while the liquid enters the 

 cells at the lower side. When this plan was 

 thought of I took a comb to the water-tank 

 and tried it. I found the experiment quite 

 satisfactory as to the amount that would enter 

 the cells. So I had a tinsmith make a box 3 

 inches wide, and long and deep enough to 

 take in the largest frames that I have 

 (Quinby ) in use, so as not to have to prepare 

 a large "amount of food at one time. The feed 

 will not go in as readily as one might suppose, 

 on account of the dryness of the comb, but 

 with slow movement up and down it will go 

 in. The feed should be warm and limber, 

 and not too thick. It is necessary to have 

 some place to hang the combs to drip a little. 



A hive with a bottom-board nailed on, that 

 has had bees in it, will generally not leak, 

 and it is handy to carry the frames to where 

 they are to be used. By holding the comb 

 over the box a short time there will not be 

 much drip. 



1 ..ave thought that a piece of tin large 

 enough to go under about 10 frames, and 

 turned up a little at the ends and outside, 

 might be soldered on this box on one side so 

 that the drip would run back into it, but I 

 have not had it put on yet. It would need a 

 frame above to hold the combs, and legs below. 

 This would make the plant complete. 



It is a matter of history that a boy was play- 

 ing with some pieces of comb by dipping them 

 into water and giving them a whirling throw ; 

 hanging on to it he threw out the water. His 

 father seeing this, invented the extractor, but 

 the other part of the boy's play has been 

 overlooked. That was an unsophisticated boy. 

 He had never read a description of how to 

 pour water into a comb, nor had he seen some 

 of the Chicago daily papers with a picture of 

 a Jperson pouring from a teapot into a comb 

 uB it appeared not long ago, or as copied into 

 the American Bee Journal. He simply dii)ped 



Dittmer's Foundation ! 



Retail— Wholesale— Jobbing. 



I use a PROCESS that produces 'EVERY 

 ESSENTIAL necessary to make it the BEST 

 and MOST desirable in all respects. My PRO- 

 CESS and AUTOMATIC MACHINES are my 

 own inventions, which enable me to SELL 

 FOUNDATION and 



fort fax Into Fonnflation For Cash 



at prices that are the lowest. Catalog giving 



Full Line of Supplies, 



with prices and samples, tree on application 

 BEESWAX WANTED. 



GUS, DITTMER. Augusta, Wis, 



^S FENCE! i&"S^^- 



KKS.S.SZS.! Tipht. S,,lcltotlieKarmeratni,„le„i, 



SlsHSL'SL'SSSIi I "ILED SPlilMl FKME CO. 



' * *—""—" Box S) WlicLe 



40Etf 



Ddlauu, I'. 



Please mention the Bee Journal 



FOR SALE. 



7000 lbs. Extracted Basswood Honey, stored in 

 basswood barrels and kits. Large barrels each 

 holding 330 lbs. net; J^ barrels, 180 lbs.; kits, 

 33'3 Us. Prices— T^c per pound in barrels, and 

 8c io kits, f.o.b. cars at Viola. Cash must ac- 

 company order. Sample bv mail, 10c. Address, 

 41A4t N. L. HENTHORN, box .S3, Viola, Wis. 



UAIHTMtN ARE OEUGHTt&i 



to nie«t I bosf w fio work tor us. Cow keepe re ^1 -^ a < >> 

 have miHf J W« start you in buBlnesx. You id.hIo' 

 larij-e profit*. Eaay work. We furnish capKal. t>rnil 

 10 centf for full line of Bamplenand r>«itii'ulats. 

 .n.orn nKniKHINO CA r^i^.,,.,. ii 



so MANY 



farmers have finally mlopted the PAGE FENCE, 

 we wonder whv you haven't. It's a K"od one. 

 rA(;i<: WOVKM WIKK FKNCI':C<>.,AIHtUN,.MICH. 

 ^ease '-»«ntion. Bee Journal ■when ■wriUug. 



1902— Bee-Keepers' SuopliesI 



We can furniah you with The A. I. Root Co'b 

 goods at wholesale or retail at their prices. We can 

 save you freight, and ship promptly. Market price 

 paid for beeswax. Bend for our 1902 oatalog. 

 M. H. HUNT & 8()N. Bell Branch. Wayne Co.. Micb 



Wagon World Awheel. 



Halt a million of these steel 

 wheels have been sent out on 

 our own wagons and to fit other 

 wagons. It is the wheel that 

 determines the life of any 

 waK^on, and this is the longest 

 lived wheel made. Do vou want 

 a low down Handy Wagon {o 

 use about the place? We will fit 

 out your old wagon with Elec- 

 tric Wheels of any size and 



iniy Klmpe tire, strai^rht or staK- 

 trcred spokes. N'o cracked hubs, n.j 



loose Fpokes, no rotten lellnes, noreaettiiig. Write lur 



the biK newcai.ilo^'uc. Itie free. 



Electric Wheel Co., Box l6tQulncy, Ills. 



GomD and Ex- 

 tracted fioneu! 



State price, kind and quantity. 



R. A. BURNETT & CO.. 199 S. Water St.» Chicago 



33Alf Please mention the Bee Journal. 



BUSHELS OF EGGS 



follow (h.-- l-.-.-Hiricofc-u^ 

 ln'ne. 'I'lie 



I DAI 

 ,. Iho .imi. 

 ma.l^ iTi, 

 BatJnfdctloE 

 nod .Vpeina 



I, (nrtti- 



,n.|i- l-i 

 Batjnfdctlo 



id ■'Special I'rfpunii 

 •^trnltnn Blfir. to,. FnT 'J I. Frip, Pn. 



:.I l.r |„l 



Please mention Bee Journal 

 when writing advertisers. 



the comb into the water to get it in, and threw 

 it out asain. 



The question might be asked, what of it ? 

 While I have not experimented very exten- 

 sively with this |ilan, it is, in my opinion, an 

 easy way by which any colony of bees may be 

 fed, in almost any place, out-of-doors, or in 

 the cellar, at any time or place where they can 

 be fed comb honey or candy. 



C.iLEE L. Sweet. 



Cook Co., 111., Sept. 32. 



Dot Qveen-Rais Peesness. 



Mr. Eeitor New York: — Ay bean tak 

 .\iiiericau Bee-Pajjcr and ay see on Page five- 

 tirty-tredat henry alley him don't like Mr. 

 (Tallup to ride him on de gallup bout his 

 neuclus Quvens. Crourse, Alley him bean 

 rite. I yust bean dar summer rais me tre 

 Bees Quvens in Neuclus, an dom bean yust 

 som liig, and som yellow, som any svorni 

 Quvens. now if I.iitle hives rais little Quvens. 

 and big svarms rais big i|uveiis. Den Mr Gallup 

 better rais all his Quvens in de barn an dem 

 bean big youst like horses, so he can ride dem 

 to town. Den he can go on a Gallub down 

 de Alley yust a hooping. By ying, ay tank 

 dat bean tine ! 



Now ay got von Great big chat hive vat got 

 von owful yellow .5-banded Gold-bug Sus-ens 

 in it. ay don't lak dom o storrys Quvens. 

 Dom bees bean de lasiest bees vot never vos. 

 Dom don't vill make any honies a tol in de 

 up stairs, but dom yust sit around In front 

 and tell storries. Dom dont even got sens 

 nut to svarm. Veil, ay Tank me self for lung 

 time vat ay shal do ma dem. Shal ay tine 

 dem tre dollars and cost '. It don't bean no 

 use, and if ay send dem to vork-hous ; dom 

 von't vill vork. So by an by ay git plent 

 spunk an ay take out two frams mit bees and 

 broods, and some broods vot got little eggs, 

 and put in new hive, ay don put new hive on 

 ole place an maw she help me cary big hive 

 vay off. Den next day ven dom sasy fellersi 

 go out to fly aroun little to fine some new 

 storries to tell, an dom gel hungry and tank 

 dinner bean ready, and comes home, an by 

 ying ! dom bean fooled. Dom have only two 

 combs and no quvens. Den dom bean sorry 

 plenty bad, and dom be gin to saw vood for 

 supper, and dom vork hard all day, and dom 

 rais von plenty good suvens, and dom bean al 

 times good now, and dom big chaff hives dom 

 mack new combs an dar quvens he pack him 

 full of eggs for caster, and dom bees dom go 

 up stairs an lay down dom plenty big pile of 

 honey, and dom quvens he hund allround 

 down stairs for some more holes to pack avay 

 more eggs for caster, and now ay ben git long 

 tine; ay bin sen for some clover Queens mit 

 long tongs, but ay dont know vat kind of 

 clover hay to feed dis vinter. Say, Mister New- 

 York, do you tank dom clover bees vill eat 

 corn-fodder das vinter '! 



But ay vont to say to mr. Alley ay tank you 

 mak some Plenty big mistake ven you say on 

 Page .510 of american Bee- Paper, you say itO 

 per sent of tjuvens no better as flies, now ay 

 have bean ete some of das pudden, an ay can 

 Profe you bean vay off. ay bean had severl 

 Quvens vot come by post-office, an dome all 

 bean some putty gud ; but ay can rais yust 

 some gud Quvens in nuclus, som no body els, 

 if ay bean got gud stok. Ay bean had beeas 

 bout Iti yrs, and ay git some times 150 punds 

 come honey in de up stairs from von hive. 

 Ay tank svarming or nuclus bote bean na- 

 ture; ven you git better as nature dan you 

 bean most to gut for das vorld. Ay tank 

 sometimes you have to sleep, but nature he 

 never sleep; nature he do every ting, you 

 only help nature, he bean boss— ve bean de 

 hired hand. Ay can ho corn but ay can't 

 make hiui to grow. Now ay tank you bote 

 bpan rong. an you bote bean rite, but ay tank 

 you bote Gallup to fast. Ay tank you bote 

 better clime back in das botes an den trade 

 botes. You make plenty big mistake and git 

 in de long bote. Ven you bean got in de rite 

 boat den if nature is villing you can have big 

 race, an yust go hooping, an, by ging, de von 

 vot bete can have von of my best Quvens, an 

 ay vill ete all der pudden. 



Now a tank you bote bean yust so gud som 

 no body. An you bot rais good Quvens, an 

 you bote is honest yust like me. But das 

 trouble is you bote got each others boats, an 



