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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Mar. 9, 1899. 



95 ^ HATCHES 



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ordioary small funnel, till they reacht the 

 outlet, which was 2^.2 inches long by 2^-2 

 inches in diameter. After it was made 1 

 bent the sides in at two opposite points till 

 the top was of an oval shape about 1? 

 inches across the long way by one foot the 

 short way. And this is the only funnel I 

 have ever had or ever seen, and it works 

 completely with either the Gallup or the 

 Langstroth frame, the Langstroth frame 

 being held endwise in the funnel when 

 shaking the bees off the comb. I use this 

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Wintered Well So Far. 



I have been a regular subscriber to the 

 American Bee Journal now for IT years, 

 besides several copies in the earlier days. 

 My bees have wintered well so far. 



Emil j. Baxter. 



Hancock Co., 111.. Feb. 4. 



Fears Loss by the Cold. 



Thermometers in this section are ihdicat- 

 ing from 2."S to 30 degrees below zero today. 

 I fear my entire apiary will be swept away 

 by the extreme cold, as they were poorly 

 fixt for winter. An early snow and freeze 

 caught me napping. My bees haven't had 

 a good flight for some time. J. M. Young. 



Cass Co., Neb.. Feb. 11. 



A Rather Poor Year for Bees. 



We have had a rather poor year for bees 

 in this section of country. 1 have 4.5 colo- 

 nies of bees and only had about 500 pounds 

 of comb honey. My apiary is located on 

 Green River, in McLean Co.. Ky., on a bluff 

 about 2U0 feet above low water mark. 



J. W. COLTHARr. 



A Queen Experience. 



About Nov. 1 I found a colony that had a 

 drone-laying queen — a young queen. She 

 had a deformed wing; in tact, one wing 

 was all twisted up in something like a web. 

 and fully half of the colony were drones, 

 and the comb was full of drone brood. I 

 killed the queen, and I had a good queen to 

 give them, which I introduced thus: 



I take a small piece of screen-wire about 

 4 inches square, turn down about ', of an 

 inch all around the edge and insert it in a 

 frame of the drone-brood and honey, and 

 put the queen and a few bees between the 

 comb and the screen. I let her stay there 

 10 days, at which time I liberated her. 

 When I took the cloth off I found an empty 

 cell had a larvB" in it. For the first time 

 with me in introducing a queen in that 

 way, the bees immediately killed the queen. 

 The reason 1 know it was she, her wing 

 was dipt. 



Well, I thought them worthless, as there 

 were no drones flying, and no honey or pol- 

 len for the bees to get, so. as I thought the 

 colony was no good, I decided to put a new 

 colony in the old hive. So yesterday I cut 

 a fine bee-tree and thought I would burn up 

 this drone colony, take the bees gut of the 

 tree and put in it. I hived my bees in a 

 sack, brought them home, and built a fire 

 to burn the drones, as I thought. 1 began 

 to take out the frames and burn the bees. 

 I burnt those from the first three combs, 

 and to my surprise the fourth comb was 

 well filled with brood and had a nice laying 

 queen on it, and no drones in the hive. 

 Now, how do you account for this queen ? 

 Of course she must have been reared from 

 those eggs that were laid by the i)ueen I 

 tried to introduce, and she must have been 

 mated to one of those drones that were laid 

 by the unfertile queen, as there are no 

 drones at this season of the year, only in 

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