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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 6, 1902. 



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A New Bee-Keeper's Song* — 



"Buckwheat Cakes 

 and Honey 



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Words by EUGENE SECOR. 



Music by QEORQE W. YORK. 



This song was written specially for 

 the Buffalo convention, and was sung 

 there. It is written for organ or piano, 

 as have been all the songs written for 

 bee-keepers. Every home should have 

 a copy of it, as well as a copy of 



"THE HUM OF THE BEES 

 in the APPLE-TREE BLOOM" 



Written by 

 EuoENB Secor and Dr. C. C. Miller. 



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OEORQE W. YORK & CO. 

 144 & 146 Erie St., ■ CHICAGO, ILI,. 



apiary was large, and much swarming ex- 

 pected, I have usually noted those most likely 

 to swarm. 



Then in the afternoon, when the yard was 

 i|Uiet, and little or no swarming expecteiJ, I 

 ha%'e anticipated their plans a little by arti- 

 ficially swarming them, and in this way 

 avoided much annoyance, confusion, and 

 demoralization ot all the bees in the yard that 

 a swarming-panic might create. 



It is important that the bees should be gath- 

 ering honey and secreting wax in order that 

 their work of comb-building may be begun at 

 once in the new hive, unless feeding is to be 

 resorted to, in which case it is better to give 

 the colony at least one liberal feed 24 hours 

 before they are swarmed. The colony to be 

 swarmed should be strong in bees and brood, 

 and have a laying queen. — H. R. Boarhman. 



Blacks are much more apt to swarm out 

 than Italians. Carniolans build comb faster 

 than the others, and buiki up quicker; or, at 

 least, those in one of Coggshall's apiaries here 

 do. The brood is to be put into a new hive 

 and set facing away from the swarm. I stop 

 the entrance with green grass; and by the 

 time the grass wilts the colony is able to care 

 for itself. In filling the hive with brood I 

 put in ten full frames, the combs of honey or 

 those with but little brood being put either on 

 other colonies or extracted. This makes less 

 increase and stronger colonies. Sometimes 

 there will be brood from three different hives 

 to make one. — Harht Howe. 



M. A, Gill has practiced the plan for years, 

 and among other things says: 



This plan I consider the most sensible one 

 for transferring from box-hives or crooked 

 combs, only we are compelled to drive instead 

 ot shake, and the only plan by which we can 

 successfully cope with foul brood. 



It this plan is diligently followed through 

 the honey season with all colonies that show 

 even one cell ot foul brood, we do not come 

 up to winter with a lot of colonies that must 

 be burned to prevent the spread ot the dis- 

 ease. A colony that develops the disease in 

 the fall after the honey season is past will live 

 until the beginning of the next honey season 

 in fair condition, when it can be shaken ; 

 hence, the great loss from foul brood is found 

 only among careless bee-keepers. 



In practicing this plan in out-apiaries I ex- 

 amine every six days, and shake every colony 

 that has eggs in the cell-cups. Of course, 

 this makes some swarms a little premature, 

 say from four to six days before the swarm 

 would emerge by the natural plan ; and un- 

 favorable weather conditions sometimes make 

 you wish you hadn't; but it also makes the 

 natural swarm wish they hadn't. 



E. E. Atwater gives these points to be ob- 

 served : 



1. Shook swarms must be very strong. 



2. A comb of brood will usually obviate 

 danger of pollen in sections. 



3. Supers must contain bait-combs, or, bet- 

 ter, be taken from colonies well at work in the 

 sections. 



4. In the arid region, with its cool nights, 

 brood from shook swarms must always be un- 

 der the care of a large force of bees, to pre- 

 vent loss by chilling. 



.5. Last, and ot great importance, the shook 

 swarm must be strengthened several limes 

 during the flow. 



Walter S. I'ouder disposes of the brood as 

 follows: 



I have always disposed of the remaining 

 brood in two ways — by strengthening weak 

 colonies and by tiering up over an excluder 

 for extracting. I have tiered as high as five 

 stories, and it seemed to me that such colo- 

 nies contained a barrel of bees. In such cases 

 I allowed only three or four combs of brood 

 in the lower chamber, filling the remainder 

 ot the hive with empty combs or foundation 

 in order that the queen might have plenty ot 

 room. As fast as the brood hatched in upper 

 stories they filled the empty cells with honey, 

 making the way possible for a large yield, and 

 greatly improving the results from the hives 

 from which the brood was taken. 



Editor Root gives four Important claims in 

 favor of the plan, all of which look reason- 



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