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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 19, 



a laying queen, and as near as I could 

 tell she was not. 



I then went to the old hive to get a 

 frame of brood, or one with a queen-cell 

 on, to put into the new hive. I moved 

 the old one away, put the new one in its 

 place, and let them come back, but when 

 I took the frames out of the old hive, 

 there was not a particle of eggs, larvic, 

 brood or queen-cells to be found ; in all my 

 e.xperience I never had anything like it. 



Last summer I had 1 colonies; nearly 

 all the honey they stored soured in the 

 combs in a short time after it was put 

 there. They were all strong colonies 

 and filled the boxes several times, and 

 every time it would be sour and foam in 

 the combs. Sometimes they would cap 

 some of It over and it would burst the 

 caps and run down through the hive. 

 When the combs were full of this stuff 

 I would throw it out with ths extractor, 

 and make vinegar of it. Now, why was 

 this? Can any one tell ? If so, I would 

 be much obliged. 



In the last 10 years I have averaged 

 about 10,000 pounds a year of extracted 

 honey from 100 colonies, spring count, 

 and it has sold for about STO a thousand 

 pounds, making about .S"00 a year. 

 F. B. Fabkington. 



Clayton Co., Iowa. 



Keeping Ants Out of Hives. 



In a recent issue of the Bee Journal I 

 notice complaints of ants in bee-hives. 

 In this warm climate we have more ants 

 and vermin to the square acre than in 

 any place in the United States. Try 

 this : Drive four stakes of old gas-pipe 

 (wood will do) into the ground the 

 height you wish the hives to stand. 

 Put the bottom-boards on them, clean 

 out all grass or weeds, and tak<) some 

 candle-wickiug and saturate with coal- 

 oil and bind around each post so that 

 the ants cannot ascend without crawling 

 over it; and I guarantee none will get 

 into the hive. When the wick gets too 

 dry saturate again. 



.1. H. Hekmance. 



Garland Co., Ark. 



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Backward Spring. 



I put into winter quarters 104 colo- 

 nies, and took out 104 — all alive. This 

 was March 25, and they had a good 

 flight March 26. In the afternoon it 

 rained, and on Sunday morning four or 

 five inches of snow fell. I took sick, and 

 for six weeks the bees had to take care 

 of themselves. When I was so I could 

 look after them I found five of them all 

 cleaned out. I think this has been the 

 poorest spring I ever saw — we have a 

 fine day, then three or four rainy and 

 cold. Yesterday was a fine day, and 

 pollen seemed to be very plentiful, by 

 the way they brought It in. 



John Tuenbull. 



Houston Co., Minn., April 20. 



Do Bees Move Eggs? 



My experieLCe teaches me that bees 

 do move eggs, providing they need them 

 badly enough to be moved, and If they 

 are not put where they want them. Let 

 us say a colony lost its queen, and has 

 neither eggs nor honey to rear a queen 

 from. Will not such a colony do almost 

 anything in their bereavement, to re- 

 store them to their former condition ? 

 Most assuredly they will. 



Suppose, now, we take two frames of 



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Bee-SiTiDkers and Houeij- Knives I 



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