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abundance of white clover. 1. How do 

 you get bees out of the supers ? 2. How 

 do you fix the bee-house for the bees to 

 escape ? I have wire in the windows 

 running above the top, but the bees do 

 not leave. A. M. Creel. 



Grand Pass, Mo., July 15, 1892. 



[1. Use a bee-escape, several of which 

 have been described and advertised in 

 the Bee Journal. 



2. Make the windows to swing mid- 

 way between the top and bottom, and 

 when the bees are on the window inside, 

 gently turn the window, and the bees 

 will then be on the outside. — Eds.] 



White Clover and Knot- Weed. 



My crop of extracted clover honey per 

 colony is 67 pounds, spring count. We 

 await a good crop from knot-weed. 



O. H. Johnson. 



Essex, Iowa, July 28, 1892. 



No Honey, and Bees Taxed. 



The bee season, this year, has been an 

 entire failure in this locality. At pres- 

 ent I have 14 colonies, and they have 

 not gathered a pound of surplus honey 

 up to date. One obstacle against them 

 is no white clover in existence here this 

 year. The bee-keepers around here 

 have the same complaint, and they 

 claim it to be the severest season for 

 bees in the past number of years; and 

 if the incoming fall does not give them 

 a better showing, they will not be able 

 to survive the winter without feeding. 

 As the taxes in this locality are quite 

 heavy, the keeping of bees does not 

 seem at all to be a paying business. My 

 assessment is $1.00 for 14 colonies. 

 H. Van Doren. 



South Branch, N. J., July 30, 1892. 



Hints on Transferring Bees, Etc. 



When you transfer bees at times when 

 combs are heavy with honey, try giving 

 the dripping, transferred combs to other 

 colonies, the transferred bees clean combs 

 of honey and brood, and see how much 

 nicer it will work, as bees often become 

 discouraged, and fail to clean up their 

 combs, and swarm out and leave them 

 in disgust. But the above plan is a sure 

 remedy, for I have tried it thoroughly 

 in the last ten days. 



Remember that a queen never tears 

 down a queen-cell built over a drone- 



cell, so you may get "fooled" in some 

 way, at times. You can usually detect 

 these cells from others by the place 

 they occupy on the combs, or by their 

 smooth appearance. What I mean by 

 the " place they occupy" is, they are 

 usually built over drone-combs. 



Dip the bee-quilts in melted beeswax, 

 and bees will not cut them nearly so 

 badly. Soaking all the combs, or sealed 

 sections, in clear water when moths 

 have attacked them, is a good remedy. 

 Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



Floyd, Tex., July 29, 1892. 



Abundance of White Clover. 



Bees are doing but little good here, 

 owing to the rainy season ; however, 

 there is an abundance of clover, and no 

 doubt the honey season is in the near 

 future, as the rainy season seems to be 

 over. Bees winter out-doors in this part 

 of the country. Thos. Wickersham. 



Wickersham, Wash., July 24, 1892. 



Italianizing' Bees. 



I have at present only 4 colonies of 

 common black bees — in two box and two 

 Langstroth hives. All neighbors around 

 here having bees have black bees, there 

 being no Italians here at all. 1. Is it 

 desirable, under the circumstances, to 

 Italianize my bees ? If so, what is the 

 best time ? I have been told that in 

 such a case the Italians cause more 

 trouble than they are worth. Is this 

 true ? C. E. Chipman. 



Wolfville, N. S., July 28, 1892. 



[1. No, as it would be about impossible 

 to keep them pure, and you would have 

 only cross hybrids, after a time. — Eds.] 



Fine Quality White Clover Honey. 



The bees have done fairly well in this 

 (southwest) part of Iowa, taking the 

 backward spring into account. It was 

 hard work for me to keep my bees alive, 

 as the spring was so cold and wet. June 

 10 found me with about 100 colonies 

 with about a quart in each one ; then 

 the weather cleared up, and white clover 

 covered the valleys with a white carpet, 

 and what few bees there were gathered 

 honey very fast for two or three weeks. 

 I got about 6,000 pounds of white clover 

 honey, of a very line quality, both comb 

 and extracted. The prospect is fair for 

 a fall flow from heart's-ease. 



J. R. Eskkw. 



Shenandoah, Iowa, July 28, 1892. 



