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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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irones are as yellow as at first, and good "Corneil" was kept a-puffing. By- 

 plenty of them. There are dark bees moving with open entrances there is 



iree-quarters of a mile ofif, none near 



Now, I would like to know if a queen 



;; reduces a hive of nice yellow work- 



rs and drones, why don't she always 



it? It looks to me that she follows 

 lie ordinary order of nature that for 

 irery new crop there is a new mating 

 tid that after laying drone eggs she 



done laying until mated again. It 

 ikes drone's eggs longer to mature 

 lan workers, therefore laid last. 

 )ueens with clipped wings can not 

 y, and who knows but they may mate 



1 the hive? So far as my observation 

 oes bees never swarm naturally un- 

 I they have drones enough to go with 

 lem. 



We have had two very severe win- 

 ;rs on bees; the last two I lost of 

 line but three colonies and as good 

 ick would have it, they were three I 

 ad Italianized in August of 1903, the 

 ther 31 colonies perished from cold, 

 ad plenty of stores, were unable to 

 et to it on account of the intense 

 Did. 



I have had the care of bees since 

 bout twelve years old wthout a break. 



was 90 the loth of this month, but 

 lis came the nearest to being entire- 

 r wiped out. I might have saved 

 lem by moving the side combs to 



no loss in vitality to the bees, and 

 they are at work as hard as ever, soon 

 after setting ofif the wagons. A wa- 

 p-on sheet covers the top of .the load, 

 with sides and bottom open for venti- 

 lation. The bees are subdued before 

 loading, and, if you are "afraid for 

 scare" better cover the horses' headis 

 with cheesecloth for a few miles as 

 a bee near a horse's head causes the 

 horse to shake his ears and these 

 "stimuli" stimulate the bee. 

 Meridian, Idaho, Aug. 26, 1905. 



POPULARIZING HONEY. 



By M. F. Reeve. 



A FTER reading the article on 

 •* *■ "Profitable Marketing," by J. Mil- 

 ton Weir in the August Bee-Keeper, 

 it seems to me that those who are 

 talking high prices for comb and ex- 

 tracted honey are "barking up the 

 wrong tree." What people want now- 

 adays is a cheap article. That is why 

 glucose syrup put up in tin cans, sell- 

 ing at 10 or 12 cents quart size is so 

 popular. 



Honey at 50 cents a quart bottle 



consequently gets the go-by. A Mar- 

 ket street storekeeper in Philadelphia 

 luster But we don't know how long who sells several tons of comb honey 

 ero weather is going to last. The from New York state every year at 



ueer part of it was, I was intending 

 ) Italianize the whole, and to find tiiat 

 11 were dead excepting those already 

 talianized. 



West Chester, Pa., Aug. 22, 

 Loute No. 7. 



1905, 



FAILURE IN IDAHO. 



By E. F. Atwater. 



H RIEND HILL: Over 300 colonies 

 in our three comb-honey yards 

 ave produced just four supers of 

 oney. Over 350 colonies in four ex- 

 ■acting yards have produced only 3,- 

 30 pounds. The first failure in ten 

 ears' work with the bees, in South 

 >akota and Idaho. 



About three weeks ago I moved 

 DO colonies to a location about 36 

 liles from here, where a fair flow 

 as in progress and may get 10 to 

 D pounds per colony there. They 

 'ere moved with entrances wide open; 

 le loads on spring wagons gave no 

 "ouble but one load on a "dead ex" 

 agon was a little "frisky" and the 



18 to 22 cents a comb, in glazed sec- 

 tion, told me he could sell twice as 

 much and perhaps more if he could put 

 it out at 2 for 25 cents. He said peo- 

 ple didn't feel like paying for glass- 

 ware in buying honey. Those who sell 

 extracted honey could do a better bus- 

 iness it seems to me if they accepted 

 Mr. Weir's suggestion and taking a 

 lesson from the syrup men, put up 

 their goods in tin with gaady labels, 

 that would catch the eye of the buyer. 

 Everything nowadays depends on the 

 attractiveness of the label. How many 

 honey producers are there who put 

 any name or mark on their sections 

 by which it might be known? Not 

 one that I have seen. Tin cans, it 

 would seem, would be the very thing — 

 pints and quarts, and gradually dis- 

 place glass. 



Rutledge, Pa., Aug. 10, 1905. 



The purest treasure mortal times af- 

 ford 

 Is spotless reputation; that away, 

 Men are but gilded loam or painted 

 clay. — King Richard II. 



