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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 2, 



qviestioiis, your bits of experience, your way of conducting 

 your manipulations, your reports of successes and of failures. 

 The hitter reports arc really the most valuable to a beginner ; 

 for when we report our failure, and the probable way it was 

 brought about, some brother who is just about launching his 

 apiarian bark may avoid the Charybdis we encountered. 



I am aware that it is much more agreeable to speak 

 of our successes than of our mistakes. In fact, this desire 

 seems to be so strongly planted in some persoms that, to hear 

 them talk, they never make mistakes — never have any fail- 

 ures in anything they undertake. They may state facts as 

 George Washington did once after trying the edge of his little 

 hatchet on his father's cherry-tree and when he looked his 

 "fJttfl " straight in the eye. 



Failures and losses are liable to occur in any business. 

 Bee-keeping is no exception. We must bring pluck and en- 

 ergy in bee-keeping as are required in any other business. 

 Rightly conducted, bee-keeping will pay you now, in these 

 stringent times, better in proportion to the capital invested 

 than anything you can raise on your farm. But no one can 

 expect success without knowledge, and right here the " South- 

 ern Department " of the American Bee Journal will come to 

 your aid. It is my aim to make this department of interest 

 and benefit to you. Dot down your questions and thoughts, 

 and send them along. Do not let national questions, politics, 

 the wily tricks of public pap-sucking demagogues, financial 

 depression, the low price of produce, lead you away from the 

 task of throwing around your home love, unity, industry, en- 



ergy, fruits, bees, flowers. With the fact that revolutions 

 don't go backward, you may sing with the poet: — 



" The night Is mother of the day. 



The winter of the spring. 

 And ever upon old decay 



The greenest mosses cling. 

 Behind the cloud the starlight lurks ; 



Through showers the sunbeums fall ; 

 For God. who loveth all his works. 



Has left His hope with all." 



Augusta, Ga. 



J. P. H. Brown. 



BasswootI in the f^oiilh. 



Basswood seems to prefer a cool, moist atmosphere, and 

 for this reason it is only found to a limited extent in the South. 

 In fact, it is rarely found south of the latitude of Augusta, 

 Ga., aud then only on low land. In 1870 I planted quite a 

 number of basswood trees on upland, soil sandy, and to-day 

 they are still there, but have made no progress as to growth. 

 The European variety has been planted in a few places, and it 

 thrives and does much better than the common American 

 basswood. The bloom is the same, and bees swarm on it. 



Basswood here is liable to be attacked by a beetle that, 

 after depositing its eggs in an incision which it makes in a 

 young branch, proceeds to saw around the limb and cuts it off 

 as smoothly as if done with a knife. This is done by the cun- 

 ning instinct of the insect, so that the larvfe, when hatched, 

 may easily crawl down into the ground. 



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TO HEAR THE NEWS. 



Last fall a wealthy New Yorker gave one 

 of our salesmen an order for several miles of 

 park fence for his game preserve in the Adi- 

 rotidaeks. When asked how liecame to do this 

 without having seen the fence, he replied: "I 

 met my friend Kutherford Stuyvesant in 

 Europe and asked what fence he used on 

 'Tranquility Stock Farms' in New Jersey. 

 He answered I'age Woven Wire exclusively' 

 and assured me it was all the Co. claimed for 

 it. The Adirondack fence stretched on trees, 

 proved so satisfactory that the owner wants 

 18 miles more. 

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 all. August Weiss, Hortonville, Wis. 

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GEO. E.HILTON, FREMONT, MICH. 



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Self-Spacing Tacks for Frames. 



While making a business trip through the 

 county in the spring of 1803, I run across a 

 bee-keeper who had adopted the simplest 

 and at the same time the most effective 

 method of self-spacing that I have yet seen, 

 either in print or out of it. He had simply 

 driven an upholstering brass-headed tack 

 in each side of the frame just outside the 

 end-bar, so that when the frames are hung 

 in the hive, the heads of the tacks meet, 

 leaving the frames V inch apart, making 

 the building of straight combs a certainty, 

 with absolutely no brace or burr combs — 

 at least so it appeared to be in Mr. Smith's 

 apiary, and so it has been with me the two 

 seasons in which I have used the spacing 

 tacks. The hives in which I put new frames 

 in 1893- the tops of the frames are almost 

 as clean as when put into the hives, while 

 the dovetailed hive with V-edge Hoffman 

 frames had all considerable brace and more 

 or less burr combs. Furthermore, I can 

 manipulate the brood-nest in two hives 

 with spacing tacks, in the same time and 

 without exciting the bees nearly as much 

 as in one with the V-edge frame. Perhaps 

 this device is already generally known, but 

 it so I am surprised "that we have not seen 

 it mentioned in all the controversies about 

 frames, as it combines the advantage of 

 fixed spacing and loose frames with entire 

 absence of burr and brace combs. 



AuSable, Mich. J. M. Moorb. 



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Late-Beared Queens — Size of Hives. 



I read in a late number of the Bee Jour- 

 nal, with much interest, the article on late- 

 bred queens, or queens reared in the spring 

 of the year. My experience with queens 

 reared late in the fall is that they are better 

 for the next spring, as when they begin to 

 lay they never slack up, as long as there is 

 room in the hive. They will be stronger 

 colonies when the honey harvest comes, 

 gather more honey, and are not nearly so 

 apt to swarm. Of course it is considerably 

 more trouble to rear good queens late in 

 the fall, but if the colony is fixed as it 

 should be, 1 think one can get fully as good 

 queens as those reared in the forepart of 

 the summer. I think if I have as good suc- 

 cess with late fall reared queens as 1 have 

 had thus far, I will rear all my queens as 

 late as possible. 



1 had two colonies last year that had 

 queens reared the last of October, and they 



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