1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



449 



queen, purchased two years since, and now 

 I hare in that hive a yellow queen, and a 

 splendid layer at that, and appears to be 

 just as prolific afe the mother. I have one 

 colouy of hybrids; they are the poorest 

 workers. I also have leather-colored Ital- 

 ians, but the yellow Italians "take the 

 cake " for beauty, gentleness, and splendid 

 honey-gatherers, and they are not nearly 

 so apt to swarm as the others. In fact, 

 when a colony has to be built up we almost 

 invariably have to resort to the yellow 

 queen for brood and honey. 



I think the ideas presented by Adrian 

 Getaz, on page 311, are just to the point. 

 In one of my hives, whose colony swarmed, 

 I found 10 queen-cells, also a queen, I cut 

 the cells out, and laid them by the side of 

 the hive. After re-flxing the hive, to my 

 surprise I found 2 queens crawling around 

 the bunch, that extricated themselves from 

 the cups. I placed them in queen-cages, 

 with 8 workers as company. The cages 

 had an abundance of candy in them, but 

 by the next morning both queens were 

 dead. Query : What caused the queens to 

 die ? My idea is, that they were strangers 

 to the worker-bees, and they probably 

 stung them to death. 



' I some time since noticed a great deal of 

 theorizing relative to kind and color of 

 Italians. I will risk the conclusion that 

 the yellow bees are all right in each and 

 every respect, although Dr, Miller and 

 others are of the opposite belief. 



I think I would like to live in a country 

 South, where I could devote my entire time 

 to bees and honey. There has been no 

 bloom here yet to support new swarms, ex- 

 cept alfalfa, as we are now in the midst of 

 a terrible drouth. We will soon be obliged 

 to feed granulated sugar in order to carry 

 them over to the fall flow of honey from 

 hearfs-ease. B. F. Harpokd. 



Randall, Kans., May 38, 



Starting with Bees. 



I like the Bee Journal very much ; it gives 

 me all the information I need in the bee- 

 line. I started my little apiary the past 

 spring with 4 colonies, and I am very much 

 interested in it. I expect to have 30 colo- 

 nies next season. This is a good place for 

 bees. Mine at this time have stored quite a 

 surplus. They have such bloom as white 

 and red clover, linden, poplar, wireweed, 

 and sour-gum bloom, and ciuite a number 

 of other blooms to work on. I have one 

 colony of Carniolan bees. 



J. ARTUfR PlERSOX. 



Twistville, W. Va., June 14. 



Treatment of Laying-Workers. 



Seeing the item on page 3'29, in relation 

 to a laying worker, I am tempted to give 

 my experience with this bothersome kind 

 of a bee. 



When I looked over my bees for the first 

 time this spring, I found one colony with 

 only a small amount of brood — a place as 

 large as my two hands, perhaps— and this 

 was very irregular, many cells skipped, 

 some with two or more larvsp in them, and 

 all that were capped showed the bullet- 

 shape of the drone-cell when capped. A 

 laying-worker here, sure! How to get rid 



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of it and save the colony was the next 

 question, and remembering a suggestion 

 found in the "ABC of Bee-Culture," I got 

 a new hive and placed a frame of honey 

 and two frames of foundation in it, and 

 placed it on the stand vphere the one con- 

 taining the laying worker was, and taking 

 that about 10 or 15 rods away, I then 

 shook all of the bees off the frames into the 

 air. As soon as I had the frames cleared of 

 bees, I placed them in the new hive except 

 the one containing the brood and eggs from 

 the laying-worker, taking out the founda- 

 tion placed there. I then gave them a 

 queen caged, which was liberated iu the 

 usual time, and was soon laying, and now 

 the colony is doing as well as any colony 

 could do. 



Of course this might not always work, 

 but it did not occupy much time, and saved 

 the colony. I think if the colony is moved, 

 and they mark their location after the 

 worker assumes the duties of a queen, she 

 will not know of the change in location and 

 stands but a very slim chance to reach the 

 hive after being shaken off the combs. 



Auburn, Wash. A. S. Barbek. 



Carniolans and Pure Italians. 



I sent to Frank Benton, while he was in 

 Austria (Upper Carniola), for two queens, 

 to which he paid prompt attention, and 

 they came through in 31 days, both in fine 

 condition. I introduced them to strong 

 colonies, and reared four young queens. 

 They were as gentle as so many flies. The 

 colonies were full of bees in the fall, but I 

 got no surplus honey from them, while I 

 got from 40 to 132 pounds from my Italians, 

 When spring came they had all starved, so 

 I want no more Carniolans. They were of 

 a silver color, with small tints of yellow 

 bands. Many people would take them for 

 the native black bees. 



There have been many queens sold for 

 pure Italians that were nothing more than 

 hybrids, for I have bought them for pure 

 Italians, and found them so. I buy queens 

 each year. I paid -Jli for a so-called 5-banded 

 queen from a Texas breeder, and her bees 

 were all colors, from 5-bands to clear 

 blacks. I am a farmer, and have been 

 keeping bees for 45 years. I have 44 colo- 

 nies now. Geo. I. Wolf. 



Young America, .Tnd., June 11, 



On the Bicycle in North Carolina. 



Some may take an interest in the inci- 

 dents, accidents, and happenings of a 

 "bike "trip through a rough country to 

 the Blue Ridge Mountains— some times 

 called " The land of the skye." On June 2 

 I took leave of loved ones and friends, and 

 afterward found myself taken charge of by 

 that large-hearted bee-keeper, David Walk- 

 er, of Pleasant Ridge, Gaston county, N. C. 

 He was up to his eyes hiving those pesky 

 bees that seem to know no let-up in swarm- 

 ing. Friend W. has T2 colonies, and despite 

 the excessive swarming and wet, cool sea- 

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 reader, but seems right well up on many of 

 the "issues" of the craft. His smoker, 

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