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there you will find the tree, log or stump 

 that has the bees. 



These cross lines you can get much better 

 in the fall after the frost has killed the 

 bloom. Take an old comb, go to an open 

 place in the woods, make a small Are, place 

 some comb on it, which will send up fumes 

 in the air, and a bee crossing that way will 

 come down to the ground and come to the 

 honey that you may have on a stump close 

 by. The honey may be half water poured 

 on a comb. 



You will have to wait some time before 

 the bees get to going straight, if they are 

 half a mile away, but if close by, they will 

 swing around but very little before you get 

 the line, then mark the line with a hatchet. 

 or break some limbs off, or having some 

 paper in your pocket, put some sticks in the 

 ground and stick the paper on. After doing 

 this, change the bait on either side of the 

 line. The bees will soon find it, and then 

 you will soon have another cross line. 



Sometimes you can follow the bees to a 

 tree by the roar they make working on the 

 bait. Sometimes they will have the whole 

 colony there, except the queen and young 

 ones, but where they are so ravenously 

 hungry, they are no good for honey; for 

 when you cut the tree you find only what 

 honey you fed them from the stump, and 

 that will be a little " thin." 



Kenney, Ills. Geo. Foindexter. 



Results of the Season, Etc. 



We do not profess to be experts in bee- 

 keeping, but we keep about 75 to 100 colo- 

 nies of bees, and produce some very fine 

 comb honey, but we do not run our bees 

 for extracted honey. We have a river 

 trade which takes between two and three 

 thousand pounds of section honey per sea- 

 son. We have shipped one wagon-load of 

 comb honey north. We will have some- 

 thing less than 3,000 pounds of white honey 

 this season. 



Last winter cleaned out more than ?;- of 

 the bee-keepers near here, and a good 

 many of them have quit for good. We had 

 a pretty fair season for honey this year, 

 and all of our farm crops are good. Corn 

 would have been better with more rain, 

 but it is pretty good as it is. We put in 15 

 acres of Alsike clover, which will give our 

 bees something to work on next spring and 

 summer. We find Alsike yields more 

 honey than red or white clover. 



Our bees are bringing in some honey 

 from the islands. They have only to cross 

 the Mississippi river channel for their fall 

 stores. (j. G. Bkown. 



Bellevue, Iowa, Sept. 20, 1893. 



Winter Feeding of Bees, Etc. 



As the time of year is at hand to feed up 

 for winter, I will give my method, which I 

 prefer to any other I ever tried : Take off 

 the supers or honey-boxes, and make a 

 honey-board out of one-half or three-fourths 

 inch lumber, with a bee-space on the uuder 

 side of the board ; a 2-inch hole in the cen- 



ter, and one in each corner, if you wish to 

 feed rapidly. Take quart fruit-cans — half 

 gallons if your upper story will go on over 

 them ; fill them with sugar syrup, tie a 

 piece of cheese-cloth over them, and turn 

 them bottom side up over the holes. The 

 syrup will run through only as fast as the 

 bees keep it clean on the under side. If 

 you use glass cans you can see how fast 

 they take it in. 



To make a syrup, take 5 parts of sugar 

 and 2 of water, bring it to a boil, skim it, 

 and then it is ready for use. Each colony 

 should have 20 to 25 pounds on which to 

 start in the winter. 



In our section of country (Parke county) 

 we have had only a very moderate yield of 

 honey this season. It being wet in the 

 forepart of the season fruit-bloom was very 

 limited ; then the prospects were very 

 favorable for a good crop. Dry weather 

 set in sooner than usual, and cut supplies 

 short. There is very little fall honey. I 

 got 30 pounds of comb honey each from the 

 best colonies ; I had 24 old colonies and 12 

 swarms. Henry Durham. 



Sylvania, Ind., Sept. 6, 1893. 



How Not to Introduce Queens. 



In the first place, get your queens. Don't 

 do as a friend of mine did recently. He 

 wrote to a queen-breeder, beyond the 

 Lakes, ordering a lot of queens with which 

 to supersede those now presiding over his 

 colonies of the most pestiferous bees he 

 ever handled. So bad are they that the 

 whole neighborhood are up in arms against 

 him, and the poor man is at his wits' end. 

 He resolved to change the breed, and ac- 

 cordingly sent for a dozen Italian queens. 



Without waiting the arrival of the new 

 queens, our hasty friend killed the present 

 incumbents so as to be ready to introduce 

 the new ones immediately upon their ar- 

 rival. But, alas! the new queens have not 

 yet come, and four long weeks have elapsed 

 since they were to have been sent, which 

 means four weeks of dwindling. It is very 

 obvious to remark^Get your new queens 

 first, before you kill the old ones, else you 

 will be troubled with dwindling and laying 

 workers. 



We are somewhat surprised that a bee- 

 keeper of ten years' experience would make 

 such a blunder, and yet the confiding 

 clergyman thought all bee-keepers were 

 men of probity, especially queen-breeders, 

 and, nothing doubting, proceeded to ex- 

 terminate the mothers of such cross bees 

 with which there was no living in peace. 

 But doubtless the queen-rearer, when he 

 gets time, will explain why the queens 

 were not sent. J. W. Vance. 



Madison, Wis., Aug. 25, 1893. 



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