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torn-bars of the upper story. If your 

 question is not correctly understood, 

 please ask again. 



2. Perhaps most honey-producers ex- 

 tract from time to time during the 

 honey-flow. Others, and among them 

 those noted producers, the Dadants 

 eave all the honey on the hives, adding 

 as many stories as necessary until the 

 close of the season, then taking off all, 

 and extracting, if desired. 



Moving Bees About 200 Yards. 



I have about TO colonies of bees to 

 move 200 yards, between Aug. 1st and 

 ?5th. What is the proper time of the 

 dav to move them ? What length of 

 Se m"st they be kept dosed after 

 being moved? Is it policy to take ott 



tSperS? P.LATTNEK. 



Worthington, Iowa. 



Answer.— Probably it makes no dif- 

 ference at what time of day they are 

 moved! providing all the bees are in the 

 hive You might commence moving as 

 soon as they stop flying in ^he evening 

 and stoD up any that are left to oe 

 moved in the'^morning, although it would 

 be better to finish the job in the evening. 

 The longer they are kept shut up the 

 mo?eliklly they are to mark their new 

 location when they come out ; but then 

 you must remember that it is no great 

 benefit to bees to be shut up very long 

 in the month of August, nor ^deed at 

 anv time. Be sure that they have 

 pSity of fresh air, then if they are 

 moved in the evening no great harm w 

 come from leaving the hives closed till 

 the middle of the next day. Have boaids 

 in front of the hives so as to impede as 

 much as possible their free exit and 

 make everything on their old location 

 look as different as possible. 



Colonies Killing tlieir Drones, Etc. 



I have a colony of bees that I hived 

 June 1 2th. I put them into a 10-frame 

 hive on comb foundation ; they filled the 

 lower frames, and I put on two o2 one- 

 pound surplus section supers, one super 

 at a time, and when that was full 1 

 placed the second one under it, which 

 will be filled in about three more days. 

 For the last three days they have been 

 killing and carrying out dead drones and 

 young worker bees. Some of the young 

 bees have their insides all taken out, 

 leaving nothing but the shell. They are 

 also killing the full-grown drone-bees. 



What is the trouble ? They are work- 



^ira^eTcolonies, and they are all 

 doing well ; three of them have their 

 se ond set of 32 one-pound sections and 

 the other four have their first set almost 



^^There are acres of clover here, but the 



bees don't seem to be^^^^^^f.^^jTh- 

 white clover much. My bees are gath 

 ering honey very fast from sweet clover, 

 '"l am a beginner, but with the assis- 

 tance of the AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL I 

 will soon catch up. I receive it every 

 week, and am very m^chp^eased^wi^^^^^^ 



Rockford, Ills., July 20, 1893. 



Answer.— Your bees are all right 

 The white clover harvest is over, and 

 they are looking out for your interests 



too closely to have yo\«"PP«f ,\',°,\er 

 nspless drones. Or, perhaps it is better 

 to say that linden and wbite clover bo h 

 stopped with you about July 20th Even 

 if you see bees working very busily on 

 sweet clover, there is not enough ot it 

 J^rthe bees to store much surplus, in 



^Vo^'slyTourbees don't seem to be 

 working on white clover, but you must 

 remember that there are a great many 

 blos^ms for each bee, and your bees are 

 spread over a great many acres You 

 will see plenty of clover bloom yet but 

 somehow the bees don't seem to get any 

 good from the last of it. 



Convention Notices. 



A.rlf iJ^tii 1893 A srood meeting is aniici 

 ^Hf^WPrvbodv is invited. Come and see 



annual convention on Oct^ ie every bee-keeper 

 is ?mS vbetEa Smbiro/ the society 

 m- n^t nvlted to be present, but a special in^ 



Washington, D- C. 



capons and Caponizing, by 

 Edward Warren Sawyer, M. D., 1 anny 

 FfeTd, and others. It sbows m dear 

 language and illustrations all about 

 caponizing fowls; and thus how to 

 m^ke the most money in PonHry-raising 

 Every poultry-keeper should bave it. 

 Price! postpaid, 30 cents; or clubbed 

 with Bke Jouknai. one year, for ^i.iu. 



