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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAUo 



April 7, 



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PHILADELPHIA, PENN. 



We keep here everything in the Supply line of latest improvement. 



Cleated Separators, Improved Smokers, Weed Foundatiou, 1898 Seeds of %\\ kinds. 



Business conducted same as at Medina. 



Dealers can order here, as well as consumers, at factory prices. 



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Italian Bees as ever gathered honey. 

 Full 8-frame colonies, $6.00 ; 3-frame nucleus, $2.75. 



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Tested Queens, $1.00 each; Uutested. 50c. 

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Address, Lgjj,,y Mannfactiiriiig Company, V^U'S^^Tiil^^t., ^l».y..,^.t,. 



direction. I have bad to clear the en- 

 trances many times this winter. Once 

 when there was a snowfall of two days I 

 cleared them two or three times ; and some- 

 times found the bees of strong colonies 

 crowded against the snow at the opening, 

 as if suffering for want of air. 

 Decatur Co., Iowa. Edwin Bevins. 



A Correction — Wintered Well. 



I want to malie a correction: On page 

 IGG. where it says six years it should have 

 been 36, when sweet clover was sown in 

 our town and spread out on the roads. 



I have taken the bees out the cellar. All 

 colonies are good and strong, and have, 

 worbt two days on the maple blossoms. 



Will Co., 111., March 19. C. Schrier. 



Honey-Dew. 



Bees have been working on willows for 

 over 40 days, and as the fruit-trees are 

 commencing to bloom now they ought to 

 be in good condition for a harvest it this 

 year is not too dry. 



If honey-dew comes from Heaven, it's a 

 pretty small one, for I have watcht it fall 

 and saw that it comes from the aphides. 

 Last summer, on some low willows where I 

 could see them easily, I saw the aphides in 

 small clusters on different limbs, and they 

 exuded (especially if disturbed) small drops 

 of a clear, sweet liquid. Where it fell on 

 the limbs it was turned dark and was 

 gummy. Bees and other insects were work- 

 ing on it at the time. I have seen bees 

 working on oak trees the same as on those 

 willows, but I didn't investigate closely. 



Sacramento Co., Calif., Feb. 24. 



Money in Doubling-Up Colonies. 



Five reasons why I double up. 

 1. To strengthen the colonies. 

 3. To get more honey. 



3. To do away with old queens. 



4. To do away with old combs. 



5. To prevent increase. 



It is better to double up iu a honey-flow. 

 Double up late in the evening when all the 

 bees are at home. 



To unite No. 2 and No. 4, take the cover 

 off of No. 4, smoke them well, then puff some 

 smoke in at the entrance of No. 3, then pull 

 No. 3 from the bottom-board and set it on 

 No. 4, and puff smoke in at the entrance of 

 No. 4. and they will not fight much. In 5 

 or 10 minutes give them a little more 

 smoke. You will find this works like a 

 charm. Smoke them well. 



I do not use any paper between the hives, 

 nor kill one queen. I let the bees manage 

 that, unless I want to save one. 



No. 2 weak old queen, and old combs; 

 and No. 4 good combs. Unite them, get rid 

 of one old queen, old combs strengthen No. 

 4, and get 30 pounds of extracted honey to 

 nothing. Good. Or, if No. 2 has good 

 combs, let it stay on until there is a swarm, 

 then smoke all the bees down out of the 

 top hive, take it off and put the swarm in 

 it. The swarm then has combs, brood 

 honey and pollen. B. A. Armor. 



Murray Co., Ga. 



Wedges vs. Blocks for Raising Hives. 



On page 123, answering South Africa, Dr. 

 Miller says; "The only objection I re- 

 member to have seen urged against this 

 [setting hives on four blocks, one under 

 each corner], is that the bees have only the 

 four corners to climb up." Well, here is 

 my objection, or rather my objections: 



First, I want my bees all to use for going 

 and coming one side or end of each hive 

 only. Then you know where to look for 

 the queen when they swarm; and more, 

 you have three sides of the hive for pleas- 

 ure and practical everyday operations, and 

 you are out of each other's way, and so 

 may live in peace and harmony together. 



Another reason, and a strong one it is in 

 my mind, why I prefer the wedges to 

 blocks, is because the wedges afford cHjiibers 

 that direct the beex In rjvjiist where they are minted 

 with their loads. Of course, the bees, tho the 



