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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



June 28, 



lick in the supers — has not even drawn 

 out several sheets of foundation given 

 them, but has reared drones and queens- 

 galore, and had almost swarmed itself 

 10 death till I got in and cut out about 

 15 queen-cells. The swarms cluster in 

 the hive for a week or more before 

 breaking and going to work. 



Geo. H. Stipp. 

 Santa Clara Co., Calif. 



Killed Off Drones — Italianizing. 



We have had too much rain for the 

 bees in this locality. Some had a few 

 swarms in May, but most of the colonies 

 have killed their droues, which we think 

 says " honey is scarce." But if we get 

 some fair weather soon, we may get some 

 surplus from white clover. If that 

 should get washt out as much as the 

 fruit-bloom did, the bees will have to 

 hustle to live. But what is our loss may 

 be somebody else's gain, by way of a 

 better price. 



1 am a beginner in the late style of 

 handling bees, but was reared with bees 

 in the old log and box-hive style, but by 

 the help I could gather from the Ameri- 

 can Bee .Tournal and its contributors, I 

 have learned to rear some queens, and 

 have been successful in introducing the 

 most of them. I had an imported Italian 

 queen and am rearing my own from her 

 for my little apiary. I think I can soon 

 raise up my stock to a better grade. 



A. A. HousER. 



McDonough Co., III., June 13. 



Bees Barely Making a Living. 



White clover has been in full bloom 

 for the two past weeks, and yet bees 

 were barely making a living. 



Wm. Russell. 



Hennepin Co., Minn., June 15. 



Working in th.e Supers. 



I am having some fun with the bees at 

 present— swarming, etc. They are work- 

 ing in the supers nicely now. We are 

 having lots of rain. A. J. Freeman. 



Neosho Co., Kan., June 13. 



Bisulplxide of Carbon — Paralysis. 



I have been conducting some experi- 

 ments in the use of bisulphide of carbon 

 in relation to bee-keeping. Even strong 

 colonies in this climate will harbor the 

 egg of the wax-moth, and this makes an 

 item worth studying — how to preserve 

 the frames of comb and honey other 

 than allowing the beps to care for them. 



I have found that 1 could tier the ex- 

 tra supers eight high with a close-fitting 

 bottom, and a 3-inch rim between the 

 top and the last super, place a saucer 

 with four ounces of the liquid on the 

 top of the frames of the top super, first 

 sprinkling two ounces of naptbaline 

 among the frames, and that pile of 80 

 frames was safe for two months, when 

 it is necessary to renew the bisulphide 

 of carbon. 



A word of caution is necessary in re- 

 gard to the return of the combs to the 

 bees. I found that altho only a slight 

 trace of the foul-smelling stuli hung to 

 the combs, it was enough to kill many of 

 the bees in a colony. I gave two frames 

 to them without first giving the frames 

 a thorough airing. 



A colony having developt paralysis so 

 as to cease to be of value, I shook onto 

 frames of foundation, introduced a new 



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