AUGUST 15. 1916 



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J. L. Leath"s iipiarj' located in the outskirts of Corinth, Mississippi. 



of bees I liave deoided on the three-banded 

 Italians. My experience is that the three- 

 banded have more good and fewer bad qual- 

 ities than any others I have tried. I keep 

 bees for pleasure and profit. I have work- 

 ed bees for about 25 years, and I enjoy the 

 work very much. 



In the accompanying illustration can be 

 seen small hives that hold four regular 

 Langstroth frames. These I use in mating 

 young queens. This is not a fir.st-elass 

 lioney location, but a good place to rear 

 queens. Our honey-flow is a long-drawn-out 

 one. beginning early in spring, and continu- 



ing more or less until autumn. Bees seldom 

 store a large surplus here. The largest from 

 any one source is probably from bitterweed. 

 I have seen tliem fill their supers and brood- 

 cliambers full of this bitter honey, and they 

 mix it wi^li the new honey the next spring, 

 not consuming it all during the winter. 



Our main sources of honey are fruit 

 bloom, white clover (yielding for a short 

 time) ; sweet clover, bitterweed,- and aster. 

 We have plentj' of natural pollen-producing 

 flowers almost all the season. My best yield 

 this season from one colony was 120 pounds 

 of fine extracted honey. 



Corinth, Miss. 



MY METHOD OF QUEEN-CELL PRODUCTION 



Preparing the Cell-builders 



EY TV. H. CRAWFORD 



Select a strong colony of bees in an eight- 

 frame two-story hive, in a perfectly normal 

 condition, and at a time when the weather 

 is good and the flowers are yielding nectar, 

 so as to encourage and stimulate the bees to 

 sucli a degree as to produce perfect condi- 

 tions as nearly as possible. See that the 

 lower story contains eight full combs of 



brood with a normal amount of honey and 

 ]iollen. After making sure that the queen 

 is in the lower story, put a queen-excluder 

 between it and the upper story, and at the 

 same time remove all combs from the upper 

 story. 



Three hours before starting cells, take 

 seven combs of brood in all stages of de- 



