July 6, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



429 



the supers, while all around the outside 

 they are well along in one and two supers, 

 and swarming. The hives are S feet apart 

 in all directions. Is it possible that the 

 young bees get lost when playing out from 

 the center hives, and go to the outside ones ? 

 I would like Dr. Miller's opinion on this. 



I am trying a (to me) new plan to keep 

 down increase, and get a big yield of honey. 

 I keep all queens dipt, and when a swarm 

 issues I cage the queen, take two supers of 

 sections, place them on a loose bottom- 

 board, remove the old hive, set the prepared 

 supers in its place, take the partly-filled 

 super off of the old hive, put it on the other 

 supers on the old stand, take one section 

 out of it, set the caged queen in its place, 

 put a cover on, let the swarm return and 

 go into the sections, let them remain that 

 way 24 hours or longer, then go thru the 

 old hive, cut out all queen cells and cups, 

 take the caged queen out, replace the sec- 

 tion, remove the swarm and super, put the 

 old hive back on the old stand, set the 3 

 supers with the swarm in them on top, let 

 the queen run into the old hive, and the 

 work is done. It is working finely so far. 

 I will report results later on. 



RcFus Williams. 



Lawrence Co., Ind., June 7. 



All Lovely in Kansas. 



We are having a good honey-flow from 

 alfalfa. Bees have doubled, and are now in 

 supers. All is lovely in Kansas. 



S. Harter. 



McPherson Co., Kan., June 23. 



Love the Fapm and Farm Home. 



^'The only drawback to any intelligent 

 country community enjoying educational 

 and refining privileges is lack of co-opera- 

 tion between the farmers themselves." 

 writes Mrs. John B. Sims, of " Entertaining 

 'in the Country," in the July Ladies' Home 

 Journal. " Whenever a farming commu- 

 nity realize that in themselves lie the means 

 of educating their sons and daughters to 

 love the farm and the farru home, and that 

 because one does not have the privileges of 

 the town or large city there is no reason 

 why he should stagnate either mentally or 

 socially, tbey will have solved the problem 

 of how to live happily and contentedly on 

 a farm." 



No Neetap in Basswood Bloom. 



Basswood bloom, and almost no honey 

 in it. Fine days last week, and the apiary 

 was quiet — allee same like gravevard. 



Lucas Co.. O.. June 26. E. E. Hastt. 



Very Discouraging Spring. 



I think my bees are a little stronger than 

 last year at this time, altho I don't remem- 

 ber such a discouraging spring since I came 

 to Iowa, which was in ISTl. It Has been 

 cold and rainy or so windy that the minute 

 a bee got outside the hive to fly she was 

 dasbt to the ground. 



The last winter and spring have been 

 hard on fruitgrowers in this section of 

 country. I had one acre of strawberries 

 winter-kill; I never had as strong, healthy 

 plants, and I put tour tons of wild hay on 

 them for covering. Also. 1 had -tO cherry- 

 trees winter-kill, some of them quite large, 

 having been set out seven years. They 

 were all of one kind except two. which were 

 early Richmond grafted trees; the others 

 were a black cherry, and were not a grafted 

 tree. My English Morello. Montmorency. 

 and others, came thru all right and bloomed 

 full, but on account of rain, wind and hail, 

 there is not much fruit set. We had hail 

 four nights in succession. 



I have a half acre of raspberries, and the 

 bees work on them a good deal, but I have 

 never seen a bee on my strawberry patch, 

 altho I see such statements sometimes made 

 in difl'erent papers. I have observed closely 

 to see what the bees like, for I love to watch 

 them and fuss with them, altho I can't eat 

 honey at all. I find they work on plums. 



Page b Lyon Mfg. Co. 



NEW LONDON, WIS., 



operates two Sawmills that cut, annually, eight million feet of lumber, thus se- 

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They have also one of the LARGEST FACTORIES and the latest and most 

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January 27, 1897. Truly, W. H. EAGERTT. Cuba, Kansas. 



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