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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 13, 1902. 



order from people far from home. I work up 

 the home trade as much as possible. 



I have taken the American Bee Journal for 

 several years, and do not see how I could get 

 along wfthout it. Vou can count on my re- 

 newal, for I find it pays to keep informed, 

 and the Bee Journal does that. 



G. H. Adkins. 



Essex Co., N. Y., Oct. 30. 



Wintering Under Snow. 



Last winter my bee-hives were covered 

 with snow for a long time; it was two feet 

 above the hives, and the bees came out healthy 

 and strong. After my bees are prepared for 

 winter thev receive no more attention until 

 spring. D. M. Ketcham. 



WayneCo..N. y.,Oct. 22. 



When Bees Build Queen-Cells Best. 



On page 6S2, I see Mr. Hasty says 1 have 

 Uken a film or hide off his eyes. Oh. now 

 Mr Hasty, don't be so hasty, for we have all 

 the hides down here we want ; belter keep 

 yours to distribute where they are needed 



™l'^am 6till making the statement credited to 

 me at the convention, and, what is more, 1 

 thoroughly proved it the last year or so. 1 

 couldn't afford to be caught making an un- 

 orthodox statement. Yes, Mr. Hasty, it is 

 true, as I have found in my experience, that a 

 colony is in the best shape to build cells in 

 from one to four hours (at most) after being 

 made queenless and broodless. Just as soon 

 as they begin to show that peculiar restless- 

 ness indicating their queenlessuess, we are 

 ready to give them the batch or batches of 



*^*In transferring I use little or no royal jelly, 

 and transfer very young larvn". They are 

 then "iven in batches to the colonies as fast as 

 they show they are Queenless, and are at once 

 received and well fed. True, the bees have 

 not had time to secrete royal jelly, but has it 

 not been proved that both workers and queens 

 are fed on identically the same food for the 

 first two or three days of their life? Therefore 

 the bees will have ample lime to secrete the 

 more concentrated food by the time the larv* 

 are old enough to take the richer food. 



Bv giving the cells to the colonies early 1 

 get a much larger percent of accepted cells; 

 and what is more, a much better lot of cells. 

 The quicker you can give bees the prepared 

 cells after they show queenlessness the better 

 it is all around. There are several hours 

 saved, a better grade of queens, and no ab- 

 sconding of the bees. Sometimes, if bees are 

 left queenless and broodless over night, they 

 will abscond early the next morning, or unite 

 with some other colony. I have found that 

 blacksare worse at absconding than the pure 

 Italians or their crosses. No, sir, Mr. Hasty, 

 this is not a case of '• sometimes," it is a case 

 of " all times." that the bees give the best re- 

 sults if bees are given the prepared cups im- 

 mediately after they show they realize their 

 queenlessness. ■ ,, a » 



Now if any of the other so-called profes- 

 sionals want to have their say, or you want 

 to remove some more " hide, ' pitch in. 



Homer H. Hide. 



Wilson Co., Texas, Oct. 2». 



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Bisulpliide of Carbon— A Caution. 



Some writers have told how they have haiJ 

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 ing. They'll repeat that thing just once too 

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Honey -Glands. 



These are organs found in many flowers, 

 and their office is to secrete the sweet sac- 

 charine juice and generate it in the necla- 

 reous sacs, where it is stored up until it is 

 rifled by the bees on their foraging excursions. 

 They differ in numijer in various kinds ot 

 flowers, from one to five or more, generally 

 according to the arrangement of the flower- 

 petals. Thus, in the Ranunculus family, 

 with their live flower-leaves, there are five 

 nectaries, corresponding with the five petals. 

 In regular flowers, however, the base is dif- 

 ferent, and frequently but one exists. It is 

 placed in different positions on different 

 flowers, but always situated just where the 

 bee can most easily approach and sip from it. 

 It these glands differ in number and position, 

 their shape and size are even more diverse. 

 The raspberry flower has a regular circular 

 houey-trough, and the bee sips all round it, 

 taking some time to exhaust the supply. 

 That Ijountiful bee-flower, the lime, has a 

 boat-shaped structure, which, in certain sea- 

 sons, is ever full to overflowing, and, perhaps, 

 on no other plant does the insect load up so 

 quickly, and with so little trouble and, exer- 

 tion. Hellebores, and many others, have lit- 

 tle tubular honey-pots yielding their stores 

 willingly. The buttercups have five small, 

 circular glands, one on each petal. Though 

 the flower is generally the seat ot these re- 

 ceptacles for the nectareous secretion, other 

 parts may be found at limes to yield a flow, 

 as in the case of beans and vetches, which 

 secrete it liy their stipules.— D. M. M., in the 

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Alfalfa Yielding Honey in the South. 



By the way, speaking about alfalfa, I 

 planted about one-fourth acre year before last 

 for the bees. Last year it grew nicely and 

 bloomed well, but the bees paid no attention 

 to it. I decided to let it remain a year longer 

 to test it thoroughly. This spring the bees 

 worked on it well— so much so that the man 

 who cut it (it was cut while in bloom), along 

 toward the last, threatened to give up the 

 job, as he said it was hard to tell which were 

 in possession— he or the bees. So it is safe to 

 say alfalfa has produced honey as far east as 

 North Carolina.— "Tar Heel," in Gleanings 

 in Bee- Culture. 



Worker-Comb Without Foundation. 



G. M. Doolittle says in Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture that his favorite plan is to have 

 comljs built in a weak colony or nucleus. 



He says: "It such a colony is deprived of 

 all of its combs save one of honey and one of 

 brood, and a frame having a starter in it is in- 

 serted between the two combs left in the hive, 

 the bees will, ninety-nine times in a hundred, 

 fill that frame with worker-comb, and said 

 comb will be as perfect as one built from 

 foundation under the most favorable circum- 

 stances. Taking advantage of this fact, I 

 take frames of brood from the weaker colonies 

 1 have at the beginning of the honey-flow, 

 those too weak to work in sections to advan- 

 tage and give this brood to the weaker of the 

 stroriger colonies, and set the weak colonies 

 to building comb, as I have explained. \ou 

 will note here that I really make a gain in 

 this way as to surplus honey, for this brood, 

 where placed, gives tjetter results in section 

 honey than it would have done had it been 



