Oct. 23, 1902. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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niot think of cntliiit^a qneeirs wine: ^vitll a 

 knifu. as I have seen recotiHiieiided, by liuld- 

 inp the wint; on the corner of the hive, and 

 sawinyritolt hy drawing the kniTe across it. 

 I would as soon think of taking a hatchet and 

 •chopping-hlock. 



I notice another item on the same page, 

 respecting moving bees a short distance and 

 none going back. Here is a little experience 

 of my own : 



Last spring (March 25) I moved my whole 

 apiary about 130 rods, finishing up about 

 noon. After dinner I opened up the whole 

 47 hives; the air was full of bees, as though 

 they were swarming; there was no robbing, 

 no fighting, but not a bee went back to the 

 old location. They had been flying for the 

 last two days before moving, so it was not as 

 if they had been confined to their hive and 

 had forgotten their old location. There was 

 not a single device adopted to cause them to 

 mark their new location, unless it be that 

 they were put on the stands without the least 

 regard to their former relative position. 



Wm. M. Whitney. 



Walworth Co., Wis., Sept. 1.5. 



An Aster. 



Find enclo.sed a sample fiower from which 

 the bees gather honey and pollen. It begins 

 to bloom about the first of September, and 

 continues until frost. Please tell me the name 

 of the plant. George Osha, Jr. 



Daviess Co., Ind., Sept. 26. 



[The plant is an aster— Aster puniceus, and 

 is a good honey-plant, as are nearly all the 

 asters, and the whole composite family, to 

 which the aster belongs. — C. L. Walton,] 



But Little Surplus Honey. 



There was very little surplus honey in this 

 locality, and some are losing colonies from 

 starvation. I understand that some bee- 

 keepers have not taken off an ounce of honey, 

 Mrs, C. a. Ball. 



Oneida Co., N. Y., Oct. 15. 



Wet Summep— Report for 1902. 



The season for honey is over, and I have 

 cleaned up and have the bees ready for win- 

 ter. This has been the wettest summer. We 

 got no fall honey to speak of. I started in 

 the spring with 45 colonies, and I did my best 

 to hold them back from swarming, and partly 

 succeeded, bnt I got several late swarms, in- 

 creasing to 75 colonies, I got 1440 sections 

 of basswood honey completed, and about 700 

 partly filled and partly sealed. I extracted 

 them and saved the sections for next year. I 

 think it pays better than to try to finish them 

 out by feeding, and I will not feed sugar, as I 

 have a reputation tor having pure honey, and 

 sell it all in my own town. I sell those that 

 weigh 11 to V.i ounces at two lor 25 cents. I 

 peddle them out all over town, and have built 

 up a taste and demand for honey. I sell the 

 others to the groceries for Vi cents cash, 

 and 15 cents in trade, so I have disposed of all 

 my honey except about WO pounds of ex- 

 tracted. I " took up " all the light colonies I 

 had and extracted the honey out of them. I 

 have now 40 colonies in good shape for winter. 



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\\'<: liuvi' ■(iiiio a lot of (iwecl clover aro'inil 

 town and ^'imio oalnlp. 



I believe in mroni; colonics. The lust of 

 ■June I hail vi'veral fiwarmH iitsue at the Kaiiie 

 time, and two or three of tliein went to;rellier. 

 I blved thiMii. uml wcl>rhe<l one thai weiflied 

 '.I' < poiindh. I had to put on three supers 1)6- 

 fore they 'riuld all kkI in, and lhe.v tilled tbein 

 in two weeks. When I have a swarm, in a 

 day or two I lake aljont four frames of brood 

 from the ol<l colony and put it in the new 

 bivB. and that Insures keeplnif up tbe strent^tb 

 of thefolony until tbey can have younir liees 

 of their own rearing. I aim to keep tbe urones 

 down to tbe minimum. 



I use the simplest hive I ever saw. It ig 

 14x19 outside; 93^ deep inside; top-bar 18 

 inches; super, Uxli) outside, \7'4x\i% inside; 

 4'j deep, with tins across. It holds 28 sec- 

 lions, 7 to the foot. So you see I do not have 

 a lot of trappinifs to look after. It Is the 

 outcome of JO years' experience, and it suits 

 me. It is simple and practical. I prefer bass- 

 wood frames to pine, some critics notwith- 

 standing. W.M. Ci.EARV. 

 Kossuth Co.. Iowa, Oct. 6. 



IprBEEPOM BOILEC 



Cleaning Unfinished Sections. 



At this time of year it will be convenient to 

 try a plan that has been given heretofore, and 

 is thus given in American Bee-Keeper: 



Take a hive-body and fill full of such sec- 

 tions or combs as you wish to have cleaned 

 out. Carry one section to a colony that needs 

 feeding and place it inside of the hive for a 

 few moments. When well covered with bees 

 take it Ij.iek to the hive prepared before, 

 which should be a short distance from the 

 apiary. You will thus start a case of roljbing. 

 Adjust cover bee-tight and contract the en- 

 trance so that but one or two bees can go in 

 at a time. It is said that the robbing bees will 

 protect the robbed hive against other tjees as 

 they would their own. One colony might, in 

 this manner, be utilized to clean out a good 

 many sections, or a number of colonies might 

 be set at work at one time, each one having 

 their own feeding ground. The thing looks 

 almost incredulous; we will try it next year. 



Strong Colonies for Winter. 



I cannot get a colony too strong in numl^ers 

 for winter, for. given plenty of bees, there is 

 plenty of warmth, and plenty of warmth means 

 less consumption of honey. If tbe bees are 

 much reduced in numbers they become con- 

 sumers of honey to generate heat. I think it 

 is less expensive in stores to winter and spring 

 a strong colony than a weak one. There is 

 certainly much less risk in wintering a strong 

 colony than a weak one. — Editorial in the 

 Australasian Bee-Keeper. 



Foundation Versus Drawn Combs. 



G. M. Doolittle has little sympathy with the 

 idea that foundation is preferable to drawn 

 combs. He says in the Progressive Bee- 

 Keeper : 



And this poor season has shown that some 

 surplus honey can be obtained where we have 

 combs to give the bees, when little or none 

 could be obtained where the surplus arrange- 

 ment was filled with foundation instead of 

 comb. Colonies having combs gave from 10 

 to 20 pounds of honey, while those having 

 frames of foundation did not even draw out 

 the same, say nothing of giving out surplus. 

 And where sections were used, those having 

 '■ baits '' in were filled and finished so as to be 

 in marketable shape, while those having only 

 full sheets of foundation remained untouched. 

 And yet there are those among our number 

 who would have us believe that it is to the 

 bee-keeper's advantage to cut the combs out of 



