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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



■comes in slow. Guess the crowds of 

 brood take extra food. Did you ever 

 know a colony to hunt out old hive 

 fl.nd go back after 55 days— I had one 

 this year. I changed them but tliey 

 found the old liive and went there to 

 my loss of one colony. I saved the 

 hive of comb and honey as 1 put tliem 

 ■on a hive that looked like swarming. 

 I like the Joukn.^l and like to read 

 the various opinions therein. Hed- 

 don's head 1 guess is level, but a lit- 

 tle, just a little crooked maybe. 

 Bless you, what do I care tor notions V 

 I have mine too. Now, Mrs. Dun- 

 ham's foundation suits me. If other 

 makes are better, it is very good in- 

 ■deed. I have used it and know it is 

 good. Maybe there are better makes, 

 but the Dunham is good enough for 

 me. It has never failed, never sagged, 

 and is worked out speedily, that's 

 good enough I tliink. 



J. R. Breed. 

 Embarrass, Wis., Aug. 31, 1882. 



A Second Queen.— I would like your 

 ■opinion in regard to the conduct of a 

 queen which has lately come to my 

 notice. A friend has a colony which 

 I divided in June, and which I have 

 been endeavoring to get a laying 

 ■queen into since without accomplish- 

 ing my purpose, till about two weeks 

 «go. Having failed in the endeavor 

 to introduce a laying queen, I allowed 

 them to rear one from brood given. I 

 looked at the colony, when, from the 

 appearance of the cells, I judged that 

 the queens would hatch the next day 

 and on the ninth day afterward I 

 found eggs and larvs ; so that the 

 queen must have begun to lay when 

 live days old. Five days after 1 looked 

 into the tlie hive, my friend says that 

 while sitting by the hive he saw the 

 queen emerge amid some confusion 

 of the bees, and take wing". He took 

 out his watch, and in just five min- 

 utes she returned and entered the 

 hive. She remained ten minutes, 

 when out she came a second time, 

 amid the same confusion of bees, ran 

 up the side of the hive, took wing and 

 was gone fifteen minutes, when she 

 again entered the hive, and the com- 

 motion among the bees ceased. Do 

 you think she was taking a second 

 wedding flight V 



James McNeill. 



Hudson, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1882. 



[The cells were not all destroyed by 

 the first queen hatched and a second 

 one was hatched, which either des- 

 troyed the first queen, or she was 

 driven from the hive.— Ed.J 



Never Knew a Better Year.— When 

 I put my bees on their summer stand 

 they were heavy with honey and 

 strong in numbers ; the weather was 

 favorable until the 10th of April, 

 when it set in wet and cold; then 

 there was the fruit bloom, box elder, 

 dandelion and the golden willows. 

 There was scarcely a day that the bees 

 could fly. On the 26th of May, while 

 walking through my bee yard I no- 

 ticed young bees crawling about the 

 hives and alighting on the grass. 

 Wondering what that meant I opened 



the hive and found all the honey gone. 

 I at once gave them 3 lbs. of honey 

 and 5 lbs. of sugar, as clover was just 

 coming into bloom. On the first of 

 July the lindens began to open their 

 buds to the busy bees, and continued 

 to bloom on the lowlands until the 

 last days of July. In myS15 years' of 

 bee-keeping I never knevy a better 

 year than this for surplus honey. I 

 do not know the exact number of 

 pounds I have taken, but I have a flue 

 lot of comb and extracted honey. At 

 this date the bees are carrying in 

 honey quite fast, and swarming most 

 every day, until I think I am safe to 

 say that I have returned 50 good 

 swarms to the parent colonies since 

 they commenced to swarm in May. 

 As I am a farmer and stock-raiser, I 

 do not follow bee-keeping as a busi- 

 ness. My 00 colonies liave paid me 

 better than any thing I have this year. 

 HiBERT Clark. 

 Palmyra, Iowa, Sept, 1, 18S2. 



Extraordinary Work.— Perhaps we 

 have the best day's work extracting 

 on record— four men and a boy ex- 

 tracted 1,700 pounds in 7 hours. This 

 work was done with a four-frame Ex- 

 celsior extractor, the boy running that, 

 while the four men manipulated the 

 hives and done the uncapping. Our 

 crop will exceed 25,000 pounds. 



Chas. Dadant & Son. 



Hamilton, 111., Sept. 7, 1882. 



Not so Bad. — Honey harvest in 

 Canada is not so bad on the whole. It 

 was very slack in July, but has been 

 fair in August, and even yet there is 

 a good deal coming in. I have 7 

 strong colonies from 2 in the spring- 

 part by dividing and part by natural 

 swarms. Will sweet clover yield 

 honey next year if planted now ? 



C. W. Young. 



Stratford, Out., Sept. 2,1882. 



[It will yield a little late in the sea- 

 son. — Ed.] 



Outlook is Good.— Bees have done 

 nothing in the way of surplus honey 

 till within the past two weeks, since 

 which time they have been working 

 in the sections very rapidly. The out- 

 look is good for a fair yield at this 

 time. II. S. See. 



Geneva, Pa., Aug. 31, 1882. 



Goldenrod in Bloom.— My bees are 

 doing very fairly now. Goldenrod has 

 just began to bloom. S. S. Kakn. 



North Manchester, Ind., Aug. 30. 



Nothing Like It.— Bees are booming. 

 I have never seen any thing to com- 

 pare with the present run of honey. 

 John A. Williamson. 



Lodge, 111., Sept. 7, 1882. • 



bees began to swarm early in June, 

 and are still swarming. One or two 

 others here are having trouble in the 

 same way. The market for comb 

 honey here is fair ; the demaiifl, I 

 think, will exceed the supply at 25c. 

 per lb. We are using Mr. J. S. Hill's 

 Langstroth double- walled hive, which 

 has been a success with us this far. 

 W. B. Spence. 

 Sidney, O., Aug. 31, 1882. 



Excessive Swarming.— We have had 

 a fair season for honey in this part of 

 Ohio, since the middle of June. My 

 colonies have increased from 17 to 48, 

 and will give at least 700 lbs. of comb 

 honey, and are in good condition. 

 Dr. H. S. Conklin's apiary has suf- 

 fered from excessive swarming. His 



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