THE AMERICAN APIOULTURIST. 



every one should keep slock, or that 

 every one should follow some of the 

 professions. As farming does not pay 

 unless the farmer intelligently does his 

 work ; no more does beekeeping pay un- 

 less intelligently handled. One or more 

 of the latest books on bees should be 

 bought and read, and several bee peri- 

 odicals should not only be taken but 

 read that we may keep up with the 

 times. 



Ro Seville, III. 



Mrs. L. C. Axtell. 



colony of bees will do much better than 

 stated by Prof. Wilson even after the 

 honey harvest is considered closed. 

 Professors are not always right. Thomas 

 G. Newman cannot think Prof. Wilson 

 was correct in all his statements. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



INTRODUCING QUEKNS. 



Itisagrent mistake to keepaliive queen- 

 less for more than a few hours for the pin- 

 pose of haviiiii- the queen successfully in- 

 troduced says clie Canadian Bee Journal- 

 Queens may be removed any lime during 

 liieday, and l)e rephiced by others at iiiglit 

 witliout loss, if properly done. 



No doubt D A. Jones can introduce 

 'queens successfully hy most any method ; 

 but as Mr. Jones cannot be present and 

 introduce queens for fifty thousand oth- 

 er beekeepers, a more simple and practi- 

 cal method must be devised. Probably 

 not one person in one hundred who have 

 queens to introduce could do it success- 

 fully by the Jones' method. 



Coming down to the real science of 

 introducing queens by the immediate 

 introduction method, there is no neces- 

 sity for having any colony queenless for 

 more than one minute. But as the plan 

 cannot be successfully practised by the 

 average beekeeper, it is useless to give 

 it here. 



A VERY AVROXG CONCLUSION. 



Prof. Alex. S. Wilson, of Glasgow, has 

 I'ecently iuvestiiiated the amounts of sui-ar 

 contained in the nectar of various flowers, 

 and laid llie result of his labors before tlie 

 British Associations. He shows that 2^ 

 pounds of iiouey are equivalent to the sup- 

 ply obtained from five uiilliotis of flowers, 

 or about two and a half millions of visits 

 for one pound of honey. 



The above tests must have been made 

 in a most unfavorable season. A good 



A NOVEL METHOD OF FINDING QUKENS. 



This was given by M. M. Baklridge- 

 Have a light shallow cover, say Iavo inches 

 deep, that can be put over tiie frames of 

 any liive; ami a little dramming while this 

 cover is on will get the queen with a few 

 bees upon the uniler side. By drumming 

 one hive, then tin- next, and so on, aiul then 

 going back to the one drummed first, you 

 may secure a dozen (pieens in a very sliort 

 time, without taking a coml) out of the hive. 

 This will work equally well wilh box hives 

 hiving a hole or iioies in the top. If you 

 drive up only a teacupful of hees, the queen 

 is pretty sure to be among them. — Glean- 

 ings. 



The al)0ve is correct. I have an out 

 apiary of seventeen hives of black bees 

 situated five miles trom home. Early in 

 November I had occasion to go there 

 and introduce some queens. The weath- 

 er was cold and cloudy, and, though the 

 bees were in movable comb hives, it was 

 too chilly to take the frames out to find 

 the queens. There was in the apiary 

 one canvas honey-board. This board 

 is merely a frame of I inch square pieces 

 nailed at the corners, and a piece of 

 heavy duck cloth nailed tiiereto. This 

 left a space when placed on the hive of 

 al)Out an inch between the frames and 

 cloth. I then gently smoked the bees 

 with rotten wood and in a few moments 

 there I found about a pint of bees and 

 queen on the canvas. In less than thirty 

 minutes I had driven out and found six 

 queens. Three days later six Punic 

 queens were introduced to the above 

 colonies. As I never lost a queen by 

 this method of introduction, I have no 

 doubt all were successfully introduced. 



Some of our customers do not have 

 good success introducing queens late in 

 the fall. I can assure all that the season 

 has nothing to do with their ill-luck and 

 poor success. When a colony has been 

 queenless three days, a good fumigating 



