1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



481 



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I am now practically isolated from other bees 

 and am mating all Queens to very large yel- 

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 yield of comb honey last season. Queens not 

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think one used a wooden paddle and the 

 other a paddle made of wire. I am not 

 sure which came out ahead — I am too busy 

 taking off honey to look it up — but I believe 

 Dr. Miller was on the fence! I send here- 

 with a picture of a paddle I have been us- 

 ing this season, and will tell the readers of 

 the "Old Reliable" how it is made. It 

 combines the lightness and rigidity of the 

 Miller paddle with the swiftness and de- 

 structiveness of the Doolittle, and is better 

 than either of them. 



Take a shingle about three inches wide — 

 as it is the fashion to use old things for 

 tools for the apiary. I would say, take an 

 old shingle— and shave the heavy end down 

 to a convenient handle. With a sharp knife 

 cut a few holes in the other end to let the 

 air pass through when striking at a bee. If 

 the holes are made too large the bee will 

 also pass through and come around and 

 sting the apiarist on the back of the neck. 

 If the paddle is made just right, the yard 

 can be cleared of scolders in a very few 

 minutes. In the hands of an expert it never 

 tails to draw a scolding bee into the vortex. 



The handle may be studded with dia- 

 monds, if the bee-keeper has an eye for the 

 beautiful! Geo. W. Stephens. 



Denison, Iowa. 



Cold and Drouth— Kingbirds. 



I have 13 colonies of bees. One colony 

 died last winter, and one this spring. I 

 have had four swarms. Frost, freeze, and 

 drouth almost destroyed the fruit-blos- 

 soms, and white clover honey in this section. 



I differ from Mrs. Mate Williams about 

 the •■ kingbird." She says: "Itdoesnot 

 eat them (the bees), but pinches the honey 

 out of them." I have shot numbers of 

 them, and always dissected them, imvn-'uihbj 

 finding from 10 to 24 bees in their crops. 

 W. R. Whitney. 



Phillipsburg, Pa., June 37. 



New Use for a Telephone, Etc. 



I have 17 colonies of bees which I run in 

 connection with a small farm, and I have 

 to leave the bees for my wife to watch in 

 the time of swarming. I have a telephone 

 line running over my apiary to one of my 

 neighbors, and when the bees swarm they 

 keep up such a racket by bumping against 

 the wire that they can be heard anywhere 

 in our three rooms, and also at our neigh- 

 bor's at the other end of the line — GO rods 

 away. If any of your readers doubt this 

 statement, please try it. 



It is a very poor season so far here for 

 honey. I have only 4 or 5 colonies that are 

 storing any surplus. Basswood is in bloom, 

 but I do not think the bees gather any 

 honey from it. Motherwort, catnip and 

 mustard are the only honey-plants they 

 work on now. We hare having the worst 

 spring drouth that was ever known in 

 southern Michigan. S. A. Raymond. 



Bonney, Mich., July 3. 



The Season — Spring Feeding-. 



As basswood has just bloomed its last for 

 this year in this locality, I thought I would 

 give my experience. Last year the season 

 was extremely dry. and we got no surplus 

 honey to speak of. but last fall the white 

 clover got such a start that I felt sure of a 

 good honey year in 18U5. and so it proved, 

 for of all the springs I ever saw. the past 

 was the most beautiful, but only for a 

 season, for in the midst of its glory came 

 the ten days of frost and cold winds, that 

 put everything back, and destroyed the 

 fruit so that instead of swarming as the 

 bees intended, they had to stay in their 

 hives and use up what they had gathered in 

 the sunshine. But next to the frost came 

 dry weather, which dried up the clovers, 

 withering the blooms and preventing more 

 from appearing, so in May, when we should 

 have heard the happy hum that proves that 

 honey is coming in. our bees were disheart- 

 ened and staid in the hives. 



To go back a little ; On April 11 there 



appeared Mr. C. Davenport's valuable arti- 

 cle on spring feeding, which impressed me 

 as of great value. I read it carefully, but 

 feared to follow its teachings, lest I should 

 not only lose a crop of honey, but lose 

 money and time in feeding sugar; but day 

 by day. as the dry weather continued, I felt 

 something must be doije, so I got 100 

 pounds of sugar, and commenced to feed 

 in jelly-glass feeders in the supers, all the 

 colonies that were not strong, and a tew 

 that were, so that brood-rearing was not 

 interfered with. (I can assure you I got no 

 encouragement in the house to throw away 

 my good sugar on the lazy bees.) 



About June 30. basswood began to bloom 

 (we have not as much as in the past, for the 

 timber is fast disappearing), and the bees, 

 to get. a move on them, after they had 

 worked a day or two. I took away a weak 

 colony that was beside a strong one, caus- 

 ing the working bees to put their honey in 

 the strong one; it seemed to work so well 

 that I did the same with others, getting a 

 few very strong colonies, and obliging 

 them to store honey for me in the supers. 

 It also gave me a lot of weak colonies that 

 are doing nothing. At the end of 10 days 

 the basswood honey-flow was over, and 

 I have a nice lot of partly-filled sections, 

 but none completed. Now comes the les- 

 son : It instead of feeding 100 pounds of 

 sugar, at 5 cents per pound, to the weak 

 colonies, I had ted 3 or 4 hundred pounds, 

 and caused the bees to almost fill the brood- 

 nest with sugar syrup, they would, at the 

 beginning of the basswood honey-flow, 

 have gone above and stored three times the 

 value of the sugar in nice honey. J feel 

 sure Mr. Davenport has the right idea, for 

 a locality and a season like this. Now. so 

 far as we can see. there will be nothing for 

 the bees to gather this year but what they 

 have got at the side of the roads and fence 

 corners. E. B. Ellis. 



Cooksville, 111., July 4. 



Old & Scarce Bee-Books 



Huber. $3 ; Keaumur, $6 ; Wildman, $6; But- 

 ler, 1634, (Phonetic, rare), $20; Pictorlus, Lat- 

 in, 1563, fine copy. $.'>; Hill, 1608. $5; War- 

 der, 1749, $3; Maxwell, ilne and Tare. 1747, 

 $7i Bonner, good, $0 ; Mills. 1766, $3; Thorley 

 1774. $4; Keys, an able work, $4; Eowatson, 

 excellent and rare, 1827. $3; Bevan, valuable 

 to all bee-keepers, 1827. $4; Munn and Hun- 

 ter, very rare, one book. £3: Mackloskie, Co- 

 villand, Briant. one, $2 ; DeGelieu, $l..o(); 

 Shuckard, British Bees, .SI; Cotton, $3; Jar- 

 dine, Sir \Vm.. $3: Nutt, $3; Huish. 1842, $3. 



French Works — Delia Rocca. 3 vols., $6; 

 Frariere, has Prokopovitch's hive, $2. 



German Works — Shirach, 1789, a great 

 work, $.5 ; Riem. extremely rare and valuable, 

 Dresden, 1708, $5. 



These book are of great interest to all stu- 

 dents of apiculture everywhere. Write for 

 any work on Bees you want. CT. S. money and 

 stamps taken. \V. K. IVIORRISON, 



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