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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



Julj 



once around another brad at starting 

 point and secured. He says nimble 

 lingers can wire sixty-five frames per 

 hour in this way and have them all 

 square and neat. 



More honey crops are lost from too 

 much fussing with the bees than from 

 all other causes together. 



Is orange blossom honey the popular 

 food during the honey-moon? If one 

 is dependent upon the other the scarc- 

 ity of the first may account for the 

 brevity of the last. 



When cutting combs from frames if 

 they are straight along the top bar 

 leave a row of cells as a guide, for 

 such guides are cheaper and better 

 than those of foundation. 



Hundreds of our readers have beei 

 kind enough to address a few posta 

 cards to bee-keepers for us, and a) 

 have received for their trouble fror 

 six months to a year credit on sul 

 scription account. The plan is provin 

 very successful. If the reader ha 

 not done so, we should be pleased t 

 have him write to the Falconer offlc 

 for cards. — 



In the department of the Bee-Keej 

 ing World, Mr. Frey is quoted as ha: 

 ing a colony of Syrian blood which } 

 no time of the year is without son 

 drones. It is not uncommon for S; 

 rians and Cyprians and their crossi 

 to have both laying workers and 

 good fertile queen in the same coloi 

 at the same time. Quite probab 

 many a good queen has been co 

 derailed for the acts of laying worker 



That ]ierson wTio so manages his 

 bees that they not only keep themsel- 

 ves but yield a surplus, season after 

 season, can justly be called a bee-mas- 

 ter; while that person who has to be 

 constantly feetling his bees is, at best, 

 but a clumsy bungler. To be the ifirst 

 requires close observation, fore- 

 thought, and sound judgment. Any 

 one can become an accomplished 

 bungler. 



"Rambler" and the writer were one 

 day discussing the profit and loss 

 phases of bee-keuping. and incidental- 

 ly reference was made to one of the 

 fraternity who never seemed able to 

 "make both ends meet." Said Ram- 

 bler, "when you can not have both 

 ends meet then have one meat and 

 t'other vegetables," which was Eis 

 droll way of advising living within 

 one's means. 



Gleanings, in its June 1st issue, h 

 an article from the pen of E. D. TO"W 

 send on the use of extracting com 

 and sections in the same super, usi 

 the combs instead of bait sectioi 

 two combs to a super, one next 

 each outside wall. The editor ha 

 it as something new and of mu 

 promise. The method is so old that ' 

 supposed it was universally knov 

 Mr. Samuel Cushman (then of Pa 

 tucket. R. I.,) and the writer beg 

 using it about 1885 and the writer 1 

 used it ever since, having hives s 

 supers specially made to facilit 

 such practice. It has been mention 

 by many writers, if memory servesn 

 correctly. 



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In the June issue Mr. W. J. Davis 

 says regarding the mating of queens 

 and drones, that it is claimed that it 

 has never been witnessed by man. The 

 ■first authentic report of the witness- 

 ing of the union was by Rev. Mr. Mil- 

 lette of Whitemarsh, Pa., in June, 1850, 

 and the next by Mr. W. W. Gary in 

 July. 1800. Since then many have re- 

 ported having seen it. If some of 

 the camera enthusiasts among our 

 bee-keepers will be alert they may in 

 time secure us photos of this and 

 many other interesting and valuable 

 things in bee life. 



The indiscriminate transposition 

 combs in the brood chamber is 

 wise. First, it breaks up the nori 

 arrangement of brood, which often 

 suits in the destruction of much of 

 Itarticularly so if the colony is 

 ^•ery populous. Also the insert 

 within the limits of the brood elm 

 of combs more or less -filled with ] 

 len. or even with honey, when 

 latter is coming in fairly well, will 

 ten cause a decided upset in the hoi 

 keeping arrangements of the bees 

 queen, too, is disturbed in her w< 

 and swarming is not infrequently 

 duced. One eminent beemaster alw 

 gives a quick scratch across the i 

 of the frames before removing tljiii t, 

 so as to be able to replace them 

 actly as they were before. 



