AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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they come to it, and put it in a can or a 

 bucket, and send it to market just as 

 they come to it — white, black, pollen, 

 young brood, and all together. If these 

 people were " up in the business," they 

 could make money out the business, as 

 the quality of the honey coming from 

 this locality is very fine in color and 

 flavor. 



I want to ask what I must do with 

 the sections that are on the hives partly 

 filled with comb. If I stack them in a 

 dry cellar, will the combs keep, and be 

 all right to put on again next spring ? 

 Some of the sections are full of comb, 

 but most of them are just about half 

 full. JF. B. Efird. 



Winston, N. C, Sept. 12, 1892. 



Friend E., you can leave the unfinished 

 sections on the hives until it is too cool 

 for the moth to attack them, then store 

 them in a dry place until needed next 

 season. Then put them on the hives 

 and see how nicely the bees will finish 

 them up when they get honey sufficient. 

 They will look just about as well as 

 those built on new starters, only the 

 wood may be a little more time-stained, 

 or weather-stained. 



The Season, Wintering and Shading- 

 Nuclei, Etc. 



Miss P. M. McKnight, of Eustabuchie, 

 Miss., says that it has rained so much 

 that the honey crop is almost a total 

 failure in her locality, and that the 

 prospect for a fall crop was by no 

 means favorable. 



Our chances for a fall crop here are 

 very poor. We were expecting a flow 

 from cotton bloom, but the worms came 

 too soon for us ; however, the broom- 

 weed is yielding enough to make queen- 

 rearing run smoothly. 



1. How do you winter nuclei ? I win- 

 tered a few of them in little Alley hives 

 last winter, on the summer stands, with- 

 out protection. I lost about half that I 

 tried to winter. 



2. Do you shade nuclei ? If so, what 

 kind of shades do you use ? I think that 

 shades are necessary in this hot country. 



3. How many cells do you allow one 

 large colony to build in practicing the 

 Doolittle method of rearing queens ? 



4. Does your nuclei ever swarm out ? 

 If so, have you found a remedy for it ? 



C. B. Bankston. 

 Thorndale, Texas. 



1. In the first place, I do not use the 

 little Alley nuclei, for it is hard to keep 



bees in them in summer. Yes, I often 

 winter nuclei, but they are four frames 

 of the Langstroth pattern, and they 

 winter as well for me as a larger hive. 



2. I hardly ever shade the hives at 

 all, but I keep them painted well, with 

 white lead and oil, and I usually cloud 

 them in the manner described sometime 

 ago in the American Bee Journal. 

 But, in a very warm spell in July and 

 August, it may be better to shade them. 

 I use odds and ends of boards for shade, 

 when I use any shade, as I do not wish 

 to have any vines or shrubs around to 

 be in the way. 



3. I usually have about 10 to 12 cells 

 built out by one strong colony. I find 

 that some bees will complete twice as 

 many good cells as others ; but when I 

 get ten good, large and long cells built 

 out by one colony, I call it good. 



4. My nuclei seldom swarm out now. 

 If they do, my remedy is plenty of bees 

 and honey, for if they become short of 

 stores, and get weak in bees, they will 

 usually swarm out, and do no good. 



Getting Rid of Laying Workers. 



There has of late been a good deal 

 said about laying workers. It may be 

 of interest to some to know my plan of 

 getting rid of them. I have two plans, 

 which are very simple and easy. 



1st. When you find you have laying 

 workers, let them alone until they have 

 brood nearly ready to cap, then take a 

 queen-cell ready to cut out, wrap some 

 tissue paper around it (except over the 

 cap) to protect it, then lay it under the 

 quilt on top of the frames. Be careful 

 to disturb the bees as little as possible. 



2nd. When the brood is ready to cap, 

 place a lively nucleus close by the side 

 of the hive containing the laying worker, 

 having them face the same way. Let 

 them remain a day or two, then remove 

 the combs from the hive, extract the 

 honey, if any, and place the empty 

 combs in the nucleus. 



Now move the hive back a little, place 

 the nucleus in its stead, after which 

 carry the hive some 15 or 20 steps to 

 the rear of the old stand, take the cover 

 off, shake the bees on a paper or sheet, 

 smoke them, and in a few minutes they 

 will all return to the old stand, and 

 unite with the nucleus, and in a few 

 hours will be working as briskly as a 

 new swarm. 



Unless it be a good colony, it will not 

 pay to waste time with them. 



Deport, Tex. Wm. H. White. 



