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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Mar. 7, 



swindlers and IrU-ky men among them as in 

 any vocation, and that they will, and do, 

 misrepresent abojit the fine qualities of a 

 certain strain of bees, just as some farmers 

 will about their horses. Don't you know 

 there are hundreds of "tested" queens 

 sent out every year that were never tested! 



I am a novice in the business, but I am 

 very much interested in it. and I believe 

 we have a superior country here for bees. 

 1 have never heard of foul brood, bee- 

 paralysis or moths in this section yet, but I 

 have frequently heard of enormous yields 

 of honey. The honey -flow is just as certain 

 as the alfalfa blooms— to say nothing of the 

 honey that is gathered from the orchards, 

 sage and wild flowers. Alfalfa is our main 

 dependence, though, for honey, and it lasts 

 from about June 20 to late in September. 



When a swarm absconds, they generally 

 locate in some deserted coyote or badger 

 den in the ground, or in some rocky bluff. 

 There are no trees on the surrounding hills 

 here but juniper, and few of them are 

 hollow. ... 



The American Bee Journal is the best 

 periodical 1 have seen devoted to bees, but 

 I firmly believe I could live without it, and 

 at the same time have a super filled occa- 

 sionally with alfalfa honey. One item in a 

 recent number, telling how to have sections 

 filled after the honey-flow ceases, is worth 

 more to me than the year's subscription I 

 paid. Jno. Napton. 



Westfall, Oreg. 



Queenless Swarm— Hiving Bees. 



My father takes the American Bee Jour- 

 nal. "but I was not interested in it until I 

 found the editor would let the boys write. 

 So I will try and give a part of my experi- 

 ence with a queenless swarm. The queen- 

 less colony that I spoke of in my last, be- 

 came queenless while being hived. They 

 came out several times, but did not cluster 

 either time. One day they came out but 

 kept flying. When we found they were 

 going back, we moved the old hive away 

 and put a new one in its place. When the 

 bees came back they went in, having no 

 other place to go to. So not having a 

 queen to lay eggs, they soon died from my 

 carelessness in not having looked after 

 them. 



In hiving we use a bos made of slats, on 

 a pole .5 to I.t feet long. When the bees are 

 alighting in a tree, we put the hiver under 

 them and shake them off into it, and then 

 set it near where those that are flying can 

 find it. but if on the ground we set the hive 

 among them, and they run into it. 



It has been so warm here that all of our 

 bees have been flying in the middle of the 

 day, until the last few days when it began 

 to storm. Our bees are hardly ever shut 

 up more than a few days at a time. 



I would like to hear from more bee-boys. 

 I am 12 years old, and go to school every 

 day there is school. Rot Adams. 



Longmout, Colo., Feb. 9. 



More Youthful Experience. 



I will write you another letter and let 

 you know I am not froze up, if it is cold up 

 here. We are having a cold snap — it was 

 from 30 to 40 degrees below zero a few 

 mornings, but I think our bees are all right. 

 I am a little sick this week, and so I could 

 not go to school, but I am able to read and 

 be around. 



In answer to Roy Adams, I will say that 

 father and I have our bees together. 1 have 

 had bees of my own several times, but they 

 were sure to get mixed with the rest when 

 they were taken in and out of the cellar, 

 and I was generally at school and couldn't 

 keep track of them unless I had them 

 marked. I have all the honey I want any- 

 way, so I don't try to keep them separate, 

 as it bothers pa in extracting and at swarm- 

 ing-time 



Next season, if I am not at some school, I 

 think I will try taking care of the bees and 

 garden instead of cultivating corn. Father 

 almost always extracts all his honey, but 

 I'm going to try to get the premium next 



fall on comb honey at the County Fair, if I 

 take care of the bees. 



The boys that live down South had better 

 look out. as they are talking about getting 

 "basswood sprouts" to plant. We boys 

 up here know what they are, if we get into 

 mischief. They grow around stumps up 

 here, and are slim and tough, and my ! how 

 they hurt when applied in the right man- 

 ner! We bind corn-stalks with them. 



I would like to have some of the boys and 

 girls tell about ' how they hived their first 

 swarm of bees." or how they captured a 

 ■bee-tree," or some of their experience 

 with bees. Chas. W. Sanford. 



Ono. Wis., Feb. 12. 



Bees in 'Weak Condition. 



Bees are in weaker condition than I have 

 seen them in many years. They quit breed- 

 ing unusually early, on account of the dry 

 season of 1S94. leaving but few old bees to 

 survive the winter. Prom reports % of 

 the bees of this county are dead or starved. 

 M. H. Mendleson. 



Ventura, Calif., Feb. H. 



An Experience with Bees. 



I started in the spring of 1892. buying one 

 colony of black bees in a box-hive. I got 

 no increase and no honey the first season. 

 The spring of 1893 I sent for one full colony 

 of Italians, and got them June 3. in good 

 condition. Having their hive full by July 

 3. I divided the colony, giving each 4 

 frames, and the queenless part an untested 

 queen. Then I had two good colonies of 

 pure Italians in dovetail hives. The one 

 colony of blacks, in a box-hive, swarmed 

 the second year on June 18. I divided it 

 July 14, giving an Italian queen to the 

 queenless half, and have now 3 Italian and 

 2 black colonies, and 1.5 pounds of surplus 

 honey the spring of 1894. The first Italian 

 colony filled 76 pound sections, and did not 

 swarm. The black colonies were Italian- 

 ized, and all are in S-frame dovetail hives. 

 I had last fall 125 pounds of comb honey, 

 and 10 colonies of pure Italian bees heavy 

 with honey. 



To-day (Feb. 15) two colonies are dead, 

 with the hive nearly filled yet with honey. 

 The bees froze to death. 



Paul Whitehead. 



Hobble, Pa., Feb. 15. 



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C^oiiTentfoii Notices. 



Minnesota.— The regular semi-annual meet^ 

 Ingot the Southern Minnesota Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will be held on the first Monday 

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Winona. Minn. 



Ctah.— The Utah Bee-Keepers' Association 

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Provo. Utah. Geo. E. Dudley, Sec. 



Washington.— The next meeting of the 

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Texas.— The Texas State Bee-Keepers' As- 

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 at the apiarv of W. R. Graham, in Greenville. 

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Kansas— There will be a meeting of the 

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 tion on March 16. 1895, at Goodno's Hall, in 

 Bronson, Bourbon Co.. Kans. It isthe annual 

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 present, and all bee-keepers are cordially In- 

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