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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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and DOW have hundreds of them partly 

 filled, or justbeKun, and I am about dis- 

 gusted with that feature of the business. 



To prevent after-swarmins:, I cut out 

 the queen-cells S days after the swarm 

 issued, and now find the majority of 

 these colonies queenless. 



The demand for honey here is very 

 limited, and is difficult of sale at 8 cents 

 for extracted and 123.2 cents for comb. 



A. BOOMEB. 



Ontario, Canada, Aug. 1. 



Zieveling Unfinisht Sections, Etc. 



Will you allow me to help Dr. Miller 

 to answer "Iowa," on page 454? 

 " What should be done when the melter 

 forms a cap over the comb ?" I answer, 

 make it hotter, so it will melt the comb 

 on touching It, then lift It up quickly. 



Also " Arkansas," on page 422. To 

 his first question, it seems to me that Dr. 

 Miller doesn't "catch on." I was in the 

 same trouble, provided I am right. Cut 

 strips of sections ^b' of an Inch wide — 

 tack them on the side of the super where 

 the sections meet; tack them on to stay, 

 which will give more bee-space. 



.T. H. Stephens. 



Fremont Co., Iowa. 



Sasswood and Sweet Clover Tield. 



Our yield from basswood and sweet 

 clover has been quite heavy. In fact 

 somewhat beyond expectations. Sweet 

 clover Is still yielding, but the honey is 

 colored quite dark with wild verbena 

 (V. strlcta), so much so as to render It 

 unfit for sale. The sweet clover taste 

 has been killed in It, leaving only a 

 heavy, dead, sweet taste. 



Fall flowers are blooming quite plenti- 

 fully, even though it is early in the 

 season. 



I have had but twoswarms this season, 

 and feel confident the roason is because 

 I gave every colony plenty of room and 

 kept the hives well ventilated. 



I sold all of my honey to the Douglas 

 County and State Exhibits in connection 

 with the Trans-Mississippi and Inter- 

 national Exposition. 



Lewis R. Lighton. 



Florence Co., Neb., July 26. 



Beport for 1897. 



Last year I had 8 colonies, and got 

 something over 400 pounds of comb 

 honey. I had lUO pounds from my best 

 colony. This year I have 10 colonies, 

 and they are working In the supers. 



W, H. DUNLAP. 



Crawford Co., Ark., July 25. 



Sees Doing Little — Swarming'. 



1 have eight colonies of bees which 

 were wintered on the summer stands. 

 They came through the winter all right. 

 Bees are doing but very little here this 

 summer. During fruit-bloom It was too 

 wet and cold ; then after the white clover 

 came it turned so dry and hot that the 

 clover all burned out. There was not 

 very much basswood bloom. There was 

 a week or ten days during which the 

 bees did not do anything but loaf. The 

 last few days since the rains began to 

 come they have been bringing In some 

 pollen during the forepart of the day. 



On page 3, G. M. Doolittle says: "If 

 more swarms are allowed, they come 

 forth two days after, or from the 8th to 

 the 9th day after the first, and never 

 later than the 16th." Now, I do not 



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know whether I understand him or not, 

 but I will give my experience with one 

 colony last year. In the early part of 

 June, 1897, a colony sent out a swarm, 

 and on the 16th day afterwards they 

 sent out a second swarm, which returned 

 to the parent colony without clustering. 

 Then on the morning of the 17th they 

 came out again, clustered, were hived, 

 and went to work all right. And then 

 on the l^th day after the first swarm, 

 there came off a third swarm from the 

 same colony from which the first and 

 second swarms came. That is, the third 

 swarm came off on the 18th after the 

 first swarm. A. J. Johnson. 



Logan Co., Ohio, July 26. 



Poor Season — Brown Honey. 



There is no honey here this season — 

 the poorest season In my experience. I 

 have had only 34 one-pound sections of 

 honey from 24 colonies. I had no 

 trouble to get them In the supers. There 

 was no honey to be had, and what they 

 did gather was very poor quality — the 

 comb and honey being very brown. I 

 hope next season will be better Honey 

 like what I have this year will hurt one's 

 trade. C. C. Yost. 



Berks Co., Pa., July 25. 



Scheme for Ventilating Hives. 



We see a good deal now in the bee- 

 papers about ventilation. There are a 

 great many people who use blocks of 

 wood under each corner of the hive. 

 That Is all very well In a strong flow, but 

 If it slacks up suddenly, what about 

 robber-bees ? 



Now, we give permanent ventilation, 

 and have no fear of robbers. It is not 

 our Idea, but that of Mr. Digby Roberts, 

 of this State, and he told us we could 

 make use of it, and also give it to the 

 rest of the fraternity. 



We take two pieces of drest white 

 pine 14x1 Kxl, and at each end of the 2 

 pieces cut down on each side to }4 inch 

 by 1 by IM; also in one bore one-Inch 

 holes about IJ^ inches from each 

 shoulder, and cut out the part between. 



Now, take four pieces of drest white 

 pine, 20x 1 ,^axK> and nail on to the other 

 pieces at the shoulder so as to make an 

 oblong frame. Cover the open sides and 

 rear end with wire gauze, inside and out- 

 side, and if you have made it right you 

 will have lots of ventilation on two sides 

 and the rear of the hive, while the en- 

 trance is just exactly the same as it was 

 before. 



We found that gauze just on the out- 

 side was no protection against robbers, 

 as they would get Inside and then pass 

 the honey through the gauze to their 

 chums outside. 



Bees here have only been making 

 a living, up to within the last week, as 

 mesquite was an utter failure, but now 

 as cotton has started to open, they are 

 beginning to put white frills on top of 

 the brood-nest. Alder Bros. 



Callahan Co., Tex., July 15. 



[We took the foregoing letter to Dr. 

 Miller when we went to visit him, and 

 askt him what he thought of that plan 

 of ventilating hives ? He said he pre- 

 ferred a one-Inch block at each corner of 

 the hive, as he had, perhaps, 100 hives 

 so ventilated at the time we were there. 

 And there wasn't a bit of robbing going 



