1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



387 



Italian Queens 



Warranted Purely Mated. 50 cts. each. 

 Tested. 75 cts.. or 2 for $1.00; \1 for*...00 

 Good Breeders, $2.00 each. 



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I have got 50 Fine, Choice, Select Breeding 

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In the multitude of counsellors there is 

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Feeding Bees in tlie Spring. 



Query 975.— Is it profitable to feed in the 

 spring when bees have enough to keep them 

 alive till the main honey-flow ?— Ohio. 



W. R. Graham— 1 think not. 



G. M. Doolittle— I think not. 



J. M. Hambaugh— I think not. 



Eugene Secor— I do not practice it. 



P. H. Elwood— Not in this locality 

 (New York). 



Chas. Dadant & Son— Yes, if you want 

 strong colonies. 



Wm. M. Barn urn— No. When the 

 above condition is present — abstain. 



W. G. Larrabee— If they have enough 

 without being obliged to be saving, no. 



Jas. A. Stone— I have never done it, 

 for the reason that I did not think it 

 paid. 



B. Taylor— If they have enough for 

 brood-rearing it is doubtful if it pays to 

 feed. 



Prof. A. J. Cook — Not in commercial 

 bee-keeping, if the bees have a generous 

 supply. 



E. France— If to keep them just alive, 

 yes, feed. If they have a great plenty, 

 then no. 



H. D. Cutting— If they have plenty of 

 honey, it will not pay if you have many 

 colonies. 



C. H. Dibbern— If there is a certainty 

 of a good flow later on, I think it pays 

 to feed moderately. 



E. T. Abbott — No ; generally speak- 

 ing, the more you fuss with bees in the 

 spring the less bees you will have. 



Mrs. J. N. Heater— Not if they have 

 enough to rear young bees with, in ad- 

 dition to keeping the old bees alive. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown — I want my bees 

 to have a little more stores than suffi- 

 cient "to keep them alive until the main 

 honey-f?ow." 



R. L. Taylor— Enough to keep them 

 alive is not sufficiency. Give them an 

 abundance, but it Is just as well to give 

 it all at once. 



Dr. C. C. Miller— I don't know. If they 

 have just enough it may pay, and pos- 

 sibly it may pay at any time when bees 

 would otherwise be "black idle." 



Allen Pringle— They ought to have 

 more than enough merely "to keep them 

 alive till the main honey-flow." They 

 want quite a bit just for encouraQement. 

 If they have not got that, give it them. 



J. E. Pond— Most certainly not. It 

 might be well in some cases to scratch 

 the capped cells and set the honey run- 

 ning, but feeding with ample stores in 

 the hive is like " carrying coal to New 

 Castle." 



Mrs. L. Harrison— It is better to feed 

 in the fall. When there is a dearth of 

 honey, following fruit-bloom, it pays to 

 feed in the interim between it and white 

 clover. Honey given to bees to-day 

 (April 2i) is not noticed by them ; they 

 prefer to go to the fields. 



G. W. Demaree — Your question is too 

 indefinite to warrant a definite answer. 



Stores to " keep bees alive " is not suf- 

 ficient to keep them rearing brood &s 

 they ought to, to make them profitable. 

 There is no need to feed, if bees have 

 plenty of stores to use freely till the 

 flowers begin to yield. 



Rev. M. Mahin — Bees should have 

 enough not only to keep them alive, but 

 to make them feel that there is no fam- 

 ine impending. I do not believe in feed- 

 ing early in the spring before there is 

 anything to be gathered. During a 

 honey-dearth it will pay to feed. 



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Italian BEES & QUEENS 



Ready in May. Queens, $1.00. Bees by the 

 Pound, $1.00. Two-frame Nuclei, with Queen 

 $2 50. One-frame, $2.00. Also. Barred P. 

 R. Eggs, tor setting, $1.00 per 15. 



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WoodclifF Queens. 



I win send a Guaranteed 5-Banded Yellow 

 Queen, bred from a Breeder selected from 

 1000 Queens {some producing over 400 lbs. of 

 honey to the colony); or a 3-Banded Italian 

 Leather-Colored Queen direct from a Breeder 

 Imported from Italy. Oct. '94— at 75c., and 

 a special low price for a quantity. 



My secret is to sell an extra-large amount. 

 which enables me to sell at low prices. Will 

 run this spring 3.50 Nuclei— have 1 home and 

 4 out apiaries. Bookins Orders Now— 

 will begin shipping about May Ist. No Queens 

 superior to my Strain. 



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Extra-Thin Sur. 55 52 51 50 



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