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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Oct. 26, 1899. 



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Revised by Dadant — 1899 Edition. 



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can Bee Journal— Chas. Dadant & Son. 

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the hive so the wind will not blow the bees 

 about too much. At the other end of the 

 pole is hung a box which is filled with stones 

 to balance the hive so as to swing as high 

 as possible. Then the lOcent balance is ad- 

 justed to the weight-box, and every pound 

 of weight shown by the balance means so 

 much weight of gain in the hive. If loss is 

 to be shown, then enough stones must be 

 taken out of the box so the hive shall show 

 a weight of six or eight pounds. 



Getting H nlinisli t ii«ctioii»> 

 Cleanetl Out. — A Stray Straw in Glean- 

 ings in Bee-Culture is as follows: 



"I put 46 supers of unflnisht sections in 

 the shop cellar, piling them crosswise, and 

 then opened the door about Oct. 1. The 

 weather was fine, and it took the bees about 

 two days to clean them. Combs gnawed a 

 little, but not seriously." 



Editor Root adds this comment: "This 

 or a similar method is the only practical 

 way of emptying out unfinisbt sections. 

 They may be piled in stackt-up-hives with 

 a small entrance, or in a dark cellar, where 

 it takes the bees a little time to find their 

 way to the honey. If I am not mistatien. 

 nearly all the largest comb-honey producers 

 use either one or the other method; but 

 you will remember that it was opposed 

 pretty vigorously by some of the leading 

 lights at Philadelphia, on the ground that 

 it has a tendency to incite robbers, and 

 that bees once robbers are always robbers. 

 We have tried the plan here a good many 

 times, and I do not see that bees are any 

 the worse off when it is over with than 

 when they begin." 



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Report for the Past Season. 



Last fall I put into winter quarters 70 col- 

 onies, and lost 23 in wintering, two being 

 queenless. I commenced with 54 colonies 

 last spring, and increast them by natural 

 swarming to G7, which are in fine condition 

 for wintering. I got 3,30(1 pounds of ex- 

 tracted honey, 112 pounds of flnisht sec- 

 tions, and 300 pounds of comb honey not 

 flnisht, but salable at 10 cents a section. 

 Honey sells like hot cakes at S cents for 

 light, and 7 cents for amber extracted; 

 comb honey, \h cents. Wm. Seitz. 



Dodge Co., Wis., Oct. 14. 



A Good Deal of Swarming. 



Bees did very poorly the past summer. 

 There was no surplus honey. I had five 

 colonies last spring, and now have IT). One 

 colony did not swarm at all, and three 

 swarms I put into the hives with the others. 

 It seems to me that is a good deal of swarm- 

 ing for four colonies. J. Camp. 



Harlan Co., Nebr., Oct. 14. 



Bee-Keeplng in Chili. 



Permit me to say in reply to the article 

 by Mr. Juan Uupont Lafltte, that while I 

 find a general idea of Chilian bee-culture 

 quite clearly conveyed therein, I feel it a 

 duty to ofl:"er some comments on certain 

 statements there given. 



Owing to the limited time that Mr. D.-L. 

 has been among us (as it is only some three 

 years since his arrival in Chili) it is not im- 

 probable it is difficult for him to obtain re- 

 liable information in regard to all branches 

 of bee-culture in this country. 



He says Italian bees were introduced into 

 this country in the year 1805, when, in fact, 

 it was in 1S34, some 25 years before their 

 introduction into the United States. 



So far as my information goes, in the 

 year ISGo, Mr. Vincente Chuecas owned an 

 apiary of 040 colonies, 310 being in box- 

 hives, and 1.50 in frame hives of the German 



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