July 27, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



477 



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camp-ground go iuto the two hives, and 

 there were eno'igh to make two good colo- 

 nies. I just left them in the hives, and at 

 dark 1 carried them over and let them re- 

 main in the hive, and in two or three days 

 I gave them queens; now they are filling 

 their supers with hcney, and are as good 

 colonies as I have. So, you see, one can 

 move bees and not lose any, but improve 

 them instead. 



The bees didn't go back to amount to any 

 thing on the third day, and I had no more 

 trouble with them, but all boxes and pieces 

 of boards, in fact everything, must be 

 cleaned off the old yard, so they will have 

 nothing to cluster on. I moved 37 colonies. 

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Buffalo Co., Nebr., July 16. 



Honey Crop Light. 



The honey crop here is light. When the 

 clover was on it was too cold; and when 

 the linden came it was too late. Thistle so 

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Ontario, Canada. July IS. 



But Little Swarming and Honey. 



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Will Co., 111., July 19. A. B. Mettleb. 



Double-Wall Hives. 



I notice Cogitator says, on page 421, that 

 my double-wall hives are like fencing a 

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 them up years ago, for reasons best known 

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