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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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eries and mistakes in beedom, and what he 

 had learned and read since his visit the 

 week before, and answer any question you 

 askt about bees— and just as be arose to go 

 tell you where to get the best supplies 

 cheapest, buy the best queens, and the 

 price of honey in the several markets; then 

 along in January, when there was little to 

 do, come for a week's chat, board himself, 

 and tell where you had made several mis- 

 takes, so you would be posted next time 

 and avoid them ; answer all the questions 

 you askt him about bees you could think 

 of, and many you would never think of? 



I think the old man would be as popular 

 as Santa Claus, and go away loaded about 

 as heavily as some of our bees are loaded 

 during white clover bloom. 



Well, here's the ■' Old Reliable," ready to 

 do all this, and more, for just one day's 

 surplus from one good colony of bees. Let 

 him in, cranks, and give him the 10 pounds 

 of honey, and then write to him once in 

 awhile, between his weekly visits, and tell 

 him that you appreciate him and learned 

 very much from bis last visit. It will en- 

 courage him to greater effort to instruct 

 you. And, above all, don't forget the 10 

 pounds of honey; pay him his just due in 

 advance -he needs it to limber up bis 

 tongue and smooth his voice. 



So opines an old soldier of '61. 



Ctrene E. Morkis. 



Carroll Co., Iowa, Nov. 38, 1897. 



Bee-Keeping in "Virginia. 



I have now 18 colonies of bees, and most 

 of them will winter all right, but I have 

 eight that I have given about 40 pounds of 

 white sugar sy^up. I mean 40 pounds of 

 sugar dissolved in boiling syrup. I think 

 they will stand it all right if the winter is 

 not too hard. I had eight old colonies in 

 the spring, and I saved 15 swarms, 13 in 

 May and two the first of June. Some few 

 went away. I thought I was going to get 

 a fine lot of honey, but about the time they 

 stopt swarming the dry spell set in, which 

 lasted about 10 weeks, and the pastures all 

 dried up; then when it rained it was a cold 

 rain, and the weather continued cool some 

 days, so the fall flowers were a complete 

 failure, and I lost three of my last swarms 

 by starvation before I knew anything of it. 

 I thought, of course, that as long as the 

 weather kept open they could get a living, 

 but I found it not so. I also lost two colo- 

 nies by what we call the " web worm." I 

 have had bees for the last IS years, and I 

 have been bothered more this year with 

 the worms than all the rest of the time. I 

 use the Langstroth 10-frame hives, and al- 

 ways change my bees from one hive to an- 

 other in early spring, so as to clean the 

 hives of all filth. This part of the world is 

 very flat; I have the James river on the 

 southwest of me, and there is but little 

 open land, and no such thing as pasture 

 fields. Some few little truck farms are 

 northeast of me. and the woods that are 

 real near me on the east are almost all 

 native pine and oak trees. 



Geo. C. Ellis. 

 Warwick Co., Va., Nov. 15. 



Bees Killing Each Other. 



There appears a strange article on page 

 6B3, which I wrote to a queen-breeder, yet 

 it is true. In about 40 days after Italianiz- 

 ing one colony, they commenced war be- 

 tween the reds and blacks. It took the red 

 bees two days to kill them ofl^ to the last 

 bee. There were plenty of each race for a 

 strong colony, but the blacks didn't show 

 any fight at all, but seemed willing to be 

 superseded. After that they got to killing 

 their own bees, and as I said before, it was 

 not a case of robbing, as some would think, 

 as there were no yellow bees in this settle- 

 ment except mine. I had Italianized other 

 colonies, but their yellow bees were too 

 young to work. 



I might be mistaken about the super con- 

 trolling the fighting, and I might have been 

 mistaken in there being too many bees. I 

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frame hives, and the red bees would sneak 

 into the black colonies and get some honey. 

 If there is such a thing as bees scenting 

 each other, it is just possible they lost their 

 scent by being in the black colonies too 

 long, or got the scent of tbe black bees on 

 them. The red bees seemed to be heavily 

 loaded when they returned home, but when 

 they alighted their red sisters would begin 

 to nibble on them, and in a very short time 

 they would sting them. 



Some one says I was mistaken; that they 

 were red bees from somewhere robbing 

 mine. No, indeed. Some one says they 

 were diseased. I think not. I never knew 

 but one bee-disease in these cold moun- 

 tains; it is a bad one, too — starvation. 

 Very likely some of the old beekeepers are 

 acquainted with it. It is very bad on late 

 swarms and old colonies that have swarmed 

 too often, if not in the right man's hands, 

 for we have no fall honey in this locality. 



Tbe fighting bees are in good condition, 

 and very strong, and as healthy as I ever 

 had. When I finisht transferring, I thought 

 I had advanced a little in bee-culture. 



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Several Notes and Comments. 



I brought my 16 colonies out of the cellar 

 on March 28. They were in good condition 

 except two. I had the first two swarms on 

 June 11, and the last one on July 24, a sec- 

 ond swarm from a prime swarm. I doubled 

 up some and some did it themselves, so 1 

 had 43 colonies, but one that bad swarmed 

 three times and one twice, were queenless. 

 I took off over 500 pounds of comb honey, 

 and have sold 350 pounds for 10 and 11 cents. 

 The bees had a good play Nov. 20, and on 

 the 23rd I opened the cellar window, and 

 they went through into the cellar. I hived 

 three swarms without any covering, not 

 one bee stinging me, and I don't care if I 

 have half a dozen, it is just as if a mos- 

 quito bit me; it swells but little on the 

 fleshy places. Not any of my swarms es- 

 caped, even if I don't use propolis. 



When my hives are ready I put them in- 

 to the cellar, so they are cool when the bees 

 swarm. Then I wet old carpet and put it 

 over the cover. There was something new 

 to me this summer. When I hived my first 

 second-swarm, about six bees with a queen 

 came out of the bive; after this there came 

 bees out of the entrance, which were stung. 

 Does selling comb honey by the section 

 mean for one pound, even if it doesn't 

 weigh it? If so, that isn't right. 



In Appleton, 13 miles from here, a farm- 

 er's wife sold eight full sections of comb 

 honey for 50 cents to a consumer. It is 

 good that not all farmers are fit for bee- 

 keeping. 



When I took honey from one hive last 

 summer, in wide frames, holding eight sec- 

 tions, I renewed them with starters, but 

 took three frames out and put three in 

 where it was already workt in the sections. 

 It commenced to get dark, so I held the 

 frames before the entrance, some bees 

 crawled off and "called" at the entrance, 

 but the rest came to the other end, which I 

 held in my hand. I put a stick under that 

 end, and left them over night; early in the 

 morning they were there yet. That 

 brought me to the conclusion that bees 

 can't hear. 



The American Bee Journal is what it 

 claims to be on the first page; " Devoted," 

 etc. That is why I like it. 



Wm. Dueschbb. 

 Brown Co., Wis., Dec. 14, 1897. 



Bees and Horticulttire, Etc. 



Some of the late numbers of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal are worth the whole sub- 

 scription price. I was especially pleased 

 with Mr. Taylor's paper on "The Relation 

 of Bees to Horticulture," on page 757. I 

 have handed it to the editor of the Farm 

 and Orchard, at Las Cruces, and it will 

 appear in that paper soon. There has been 

 considerable complaint around here that 

 bees injure or damage the grapes, some 

 even thinking that the bees injure fruit by 



