Mar. 7, 1907 



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tern to Bome extent ugaiDist insect or ivy 

 poison. (See page 16.) 



" A millionaire eRg-laying queen-bee in- 

 duced to deposit her 5 years' batch of eggs in 

 2 or ;i years." Although I live about 100 

 miles west of Missouri, I will have to asl( Mr. 

 Doolittle to show me. 1 have heard it said, 

 to malfe a hen lay, run her up bill; but one 

 of my neighbors says to feed her kallir corn 

 beats running her up hill; next an Oklahoma 

 man comes to the front and says if you want 

 your hen to lay 2 eggs per day, feed her cow- 

 peas; but how do you work the queen-bee? 

 (See page 6?.) I. M. Newman. 



Hewins, Kans. 



T-Super vs. Wide Frames 



There seems to be such a fuss between the 

 T and the wide-frame super. I use a cross 

 between both. I use plain sections and fen- 

 ces, and by driving a large flat-headed tack 

 (about 5'f^inch in diameter) into the bottom- 

 end of the 8 center deals on the fence so that 

 the heads are about in line with the bottom 

 end of the end-cleats, the sections can rest on 

 the tack heads, and the fences rest on the 

 strips of tin that are nailed on the under edge 

 of the super. By placing a row of sections in 

 the super, the fence can be pushed up and the 

 tack-heads catch under the sections; another 

 row, and another fence, and so on, until the 

 super is full. Springs are used for compres- 

 sion. I got 350 pounds of honey and 5 

 swarms from 5 colonies last year — 50 pounds 

 comb and 300 pounds of extracted. 



Sioux City, Iowa, Feb. 18. Peter Bohm. 



Something on Swarming 



" All the experiments that have come to me 

 in deflnitf form have been made with S-frame 

 hives, and colonies in such hives have been 

 regarded as more likely to swarm than larger- 

 sized. I wonder if a great many things are 

 not taken for granted."— T. F. Bingham, 

 page 96. 



Mr. Bingham, in the same paragraph, asks 

 if any one has made a success of non-swarm- 

 ing with the lOframe hive. Thinking that 

 some experiments I have made with a hive 

 much smaller than even the 8 frame dove- 

 tailed, may be of fnterest in connection with 

 the extract above, 1 give them, mentioning 

 only such details as could in any way have 

 in&uenced the results. 



Suspecting (1) that possibly there is a mini- 

 mum of number below which bees will not 

 voliDitarily sw&rm, or (3) that swarming might 

 be traced to the fatigue of the queen after 

 the great spring laying, I began in 1904 a 

 series of tests that would apply to either idea. 

 The hive used is sectional, each chamber S-'.j 

 inches deep. In that year I chose 3 rather 

 weak colonies, removed the lower brood- 

 chamber, and confined the queen to 8 frames, 

 or about 975 cubic inches of brood-room. 

 One stood out in the sun, and the other wis 

 protected till nearly noon by a peach-tree. 

 Hive-entrances were full width, and J^ inch 

 deep, just as in all my hives. They were run 

 for both extracted and comb honey. By June 

 10 each queen had everything filled, and kept 

 it so till Sept. 1, forcing all the honey, and no 

 ittle of it, either, into the supers. Nearly all 

 colonies in hives not contracted swarmed — 

 those in little hives did not. 



Not feeling so timid in 1905 I selected, in 

 the latter part of May, 30 of my l>est colonies, 

 taking such only as had queens reared in 

 1904. Nineteen of these were treated exactly 

 as the 2 had been in 1904, except that 6 of 

 them, after being contracted, were reduced to 

 3 double colonies, the queens in each double 

 being separated by a zinc board. These 

 doubles soon became powerful colonies, and 

 on June 15, 2 of them swarmed, all 4 young 

 queens coming out; that is, 4 contracted 

 colonies out of 6 that were doubled up by 3's, 

 swarmed. This result seemed to point toward 

 the " minimum of number " when compared 

 with results in the remaining 13, for of these 

 but one swarmed, and this swarm seemed to 

 follow the accidental death of the queen. 



The remaining 11 of the 30 were contracted 



to 10 frames, oj iiboiit 1211 cubic inches. Of 

 these one swarrnt.:<l. 



To recapituliiii- ; Four out of 6 reduced to 

 975 cubic inches iind doubled up by 2's. each 

 colony retaining lis i(ueen, swarmed. One of 

 13 contracted to '.IT.") cubic inches swarmed, 

 appearances imiicating the death of the 

 queen. The 13 were Biogles. One of lire 

 duced to 1211 eubir inches swarmed. Of those 

 colonies in uncnntrHCted hives in the same 

 yard, close to till pL-rcent swarmed. 



Inferring from these results that 975 cubic 

 inches was smalU-i than necessary, and 1211 a 

 little too large, 4ii colonies in liKXJ were re- 

 duced to 9 frames, or about lOSO cubic inches. 

 They were given I hi' same general treatment 

 as to shade, ventilation, and super-room that 

 all others in the same yard received. None 

 of the 40 swarmed, but it was not a swarming 

 season. 



It may be well to state that in these ex- 

 periments every queen used was in her sec- 

 ond year, and none was restricted to fewer 

 combs than she had in use when the contract- 

 ing was done. 



Though nothing is established, the results 

 seem to indicate that very low contracting in 

 early spring may tend to prevent swarming. 

 I have a strong suspicion that if the queen 

 can be kept from overwork, bees will not 

 swarm. This is contrary to much that has 

 " been taken for granted," but a great deal 

 might be said in ils favor. 



E. W. DiEFENDORF. 



Otlerville, Mo., Feb. 11. 



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