Xovember, 1909. 



in this locality does not decide wliat would 

 be best for me elsewhere. Also in this 

 locality some other bee-keeper mielit find 

 more protit in extracted honey. What is 

 most profitable for you can perhaps only be 

 determined by yourself. 



2. If they have nothing but that 10 acres to 

 gather from, perhaps 10 colonies, perhaps 

 more. Depends upon the amount of buck- 

 wheat and alsike. Fruit-bloom comes early 

 and is valuable for building up. but worth 

 little for a crop, because colonies at that 

 time are too weak to store surplus, 



,^ I don't know. At least 1J2 miles, likely 2 

 miles, and possibly 5, under stress. 



4. Very valuable west of the Mississippi; 

 probably worth little or nothing in your re- 

 gion. 



5. That varies greatly. I once got 300 sec- 

 tions from one colony, but the season and 

 the colony were exceptional. If you average 

 50 in a good season you're not doingso poorly. 



6. I suppose you refer to the bulk comb 

 honey produced in Texas. Get honey filled 

 in frames, cut out the comb, pack it in jars 

 or cans, and fill up the interstices with ex- 

 tracted honey. 



7. Nothing so good as a strong colony, al- 

 though Italians will keep moths at bay even 

 when quite weak. 



8. In the South they are better left out- 

 doors, in the North put in the cellar, al- 

 though some prefer to leave them out in tlie 

 North, 



Q. There is not much difference in results; 

 use whatever is handiest, only don't use 

 tobacco. 



10. Hard to tell. New York. Wisconsin, 

 Michigan, Illinois. California, Texas are all 

 good, and perhaps some others just as good. 



11. Depends upon circumstances. Good 

 late in the year; might be bad policy in 

 spring. 



12. Some good men believe in it, but I have 

 my doubts. 



13. Perhaps there is no better remedy than 

 mud. promptly applied. Bee-keepers as a 

 rule take little stock in any remedy. Get 

 the sting out as quickly as possible by scrap- 

 ing it out with the finger-nail, and get busy 

 at something else so as not to think about it. 

 If you try to pull out the sting with thumb 

 and finger, you squeeze more poison into the 

 wound, for the poison-sac is generally left 

 with the sting. I don't know why the effect 

 is different on different people. Some may 

 be more sensitive in general than others. 

 .After you have been stung more, the effect 

 will grow less. ' 



Italianizing Blacl( Bees 



1. I have been keeping bees only about 2 

 years, and as I am not very well experienced 

 along this line of business. I will have to call 

 upon you for a little more information. I 

 have 2 colonies of full-bloodeil Italians, and 

 21 colonies of black bees_and. with my short 

 acquaintance with Italians. I find that they 

 are far ahead of black bees. I received the 

 2 yellow queens the first of June, iwq, and 

 introduced them in 2of the weakest colonies 

 that [ had, because I could find the black 

 queens more easily where there were fewer 

 bees. They began to build up at once and 

 stored more surplus than any of the black 

 bees, and up to Oct. 10 they were clustering 

 out. while not a black bee was clustering 

 out. My black bees arc also hard to keep 

 strong. A lot of the black queens were lost 

 in mating this fall. They were slow about 

 laying, and. in fact, they are hard bees to 

 get up to where they should be to gather 

 surplus honey. There has never been a bee- 

 keeper in this part of the State that has ever 

 been able to make it pay. but I think this is 

 due to their not knowing how to handle bees 

 in an up-to-date way, and also due to having 

 the wrong kind of bees. We hayc plenty of 

 white clover here blooming 2 months, and 

 also plenty of asters and goldenrod, and I 

 think the failure of bee-keeping here lies in 

 the fault of tlie management and the kind of 

 bees, don't you? Now, I want to get rid of 

 my black bees by introducing Italian queens 

 just as early next spring as possible. How 

 early can I introduce them with safety? 



2. How soon in the spring are queen-breed- 

 ers ready for mailing tested queens? 



.3. lam going to try rearing a few queens 

 next season to supersede all that are not 

 good, and as there are plenty of black bees 

 all around me, how can I get my queens 

 mated with my yellow drones? 



4. If I can get the nuclei containing the 

 queens I want mated, together with 2 or 3 

 colonies of yellow drones, say for instance 

 » mile from where there is an apiary of 

 black bees, would all my queens mate with 

 my yellow drones as they left the nuclei, or 



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