Sept. 14, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



589 



simply swarm out when they pleased, and 

 are gettiog worse every year. I suspect 

 that I have been breeding up this strain of 

 bees! 



I have made all my increase from colo- 

 nies that would swarm out by saving all 

 the queen-cells. 1 am goiug to stop this 

 way of keeping bees, right now. I want to 

 rear all my queens from some queen that 

 does not wane to swarm out — if 1 can breed 

 it iu. I surely can breed it out. 



Here is my way of getting rid of a cross 

 colony with crooked comb-^. or combs that 

 cannot be lifted out of the hive: Set an 

 empty hive on topofihe colony, then go 

 to some hive and get frames of brood and 

 put into the empty hive. In '-i or -i days the 

 queen will be in the top part. Set the top 

 one off on a bottom board, and carry it off 

 to another stand, then kill her, or clip, as 

 you like. This will answer the question on 

 page 5li.^). concerning cross colonies. Then 

 if you want to. let a young queen run into 

 the old hive after 5 days. C. Ckank. 



Osceola Co., Mich., Aug. 28. 



No Honey Because of Drouth. 



We have had a hard time with the bees 

 this year — no honey on account of the 

 drouth in the spring; however, I think I 

 will come out whole. 1 had 14 colonies to 

 begin with, and now have 30. and a little 

 over half have some surplus — about GUU sec- 

 tions, and about 34 brood frames, with an 

 increase of 10 colonies. So much for a hard 

 year. I think all will have a living, as tbey 

 are gathering a little from cotton bloom. 



Ellis Co., Tex . Aug. 29. R H. Hakkey. 



Bees Preparing for Winter. 



Here in southern Kentucky the honey- 

 flow did not 'Commence until Aug. 10, and 

 to day bees are storing honey nicely, but it 

 is of very poor quality, both in taste and 

 color. If the honey-flow lasts 10 or \~) days 

 longer, good colcnies will store enough to 

 winter on. and give some surplus. But the 

 bees seem very much inclined to store 

 honey in the center brood comb as fast as 

 the young bees leave their cells. The field- 

 bees go right about filling the cells with 

 honey and pollen, which seems as if they 

 were preparing for winter 



H B. Lambekt. 



Simpson Co.. Ky., Aug. 2(i. 



Queen Fertilized Seven Weelts Old. 



I have never seen it report^-d in the 

 American Bee Journal that a virgin queen 

 was caged for about seven weeks, and after 

 her liberation was impregnated. Such 

 happened in our apiary this summer. 1 

 will tell how it happened. 



The first week iu June a swarm issued 

 from hive No. T; it was hived, and out of 

 the parent colony all queen cells were care- 

 fully removed. This was repeated until all 

 chances of rearing their own queen were lost, 

 as I did not want any of that stock. Then 

 I put a virgin queen in a cage, and jjlaced 

 her between the frames (this queen emerged 

 from a cell which I had previously taken 

 from some other colony) to beset at liberty 

 in a day or two. but that day or two was 

 past about seven weeks, as it had slipt my 

 mind, that a queen was caged in that hive. 



Ou July HU 1 said to my brotijer, ■• I must 

 look in that hive, for the colony seems to 

 begetting weaker everyday." When the 

 cover was removed I beheld the seven 

 weeks forgotten queen still alive; and be- 

 fore setting her free the hive was again 

 overhauled, and no other queen could be 

 found, neither brood nor eggs. Then I 

 pulled the stopper out of the cage, and she 

 walkt in just as limber and elastic as the 

 best of queens. 



Then the question was. Will she be all 

 right yet to leave the hive and meet a 

 drone ? The hive was elo-ed. awaiting re- 

 sults. 



Ou Aug. I, my brother and I went to the 

 hive to investigate. It was about 5 o'clock 

 in the afternoon, and a queen was soon 

 found, and with unmistakable signs that cop- 



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