1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



593 



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settled together, making nearly a bushel of 

 bees. Before I could take care of them, a 

 strong nucleus came out. and I knew if 

 they got together I would have hard work 

 to find the young queens, so I threw a can- 

 vas over 'the two swarms just before the 

 the nucleus settled, and easily found the 

 queen on the top of the canvas. 



We extracted only 10 pounds per colony. 

 In our section we dare not extract any 

 after the forepart of June. 



Last year was the great honey year of 

 Florida. We took over 30 barrels of honey. 

 We use a one-story hive, two feet long, and 

 holding 15 frames about 10xl2U inches, in- 

 side. We use them only for extracting, 

 and do not care to exchange them for any 

 other. I think bees will increase faster in 

 a hive deeper than the Langstrotb. We 

 generally extract first one end. and then in 

 a few days the other, so that half of the 

 hive will always have honey. 



We had two or three cases of what we 

 called "bee-paralysis," but it all disap- 

 appeared of itself, and I have seen no signs 

 of any this year. 



There were several cases of what I feared 

 might be foul brood several years ago in 

 our Iowa apiary. There would be a good 

 deal of dead brood in the cells. I noticed 

 that it was confined to colonies of very 

 dark hybrids, and on introducing young 

 Italian queens it all disappeared. An ac- 

 count of it was published in the American 

 Bee Journal 10 or 12 years ago. I saw in 

 the Bee Journal an account of the similar 

 case a few weeks ago. 



It will probably be several years before 

 Florida will have much surplus honey to 

 put on the market. Geo. W. Webster. 



Lake Helen, Fla.. Aug. 19. 



swarmed, and the old colony has already 

 stored 48 pounds of surplus— not so bad, 

 after all. F. M. Little. 



Junction City. Wash., Aug. 15. 



Bee-Keeping in Washington. 



Perhaps some of the bee-keepers would 

 like to hear from this section of the coun- 

 try. I have been keeping bees now for five 

 years, but this is the first year of practical 

 work. I have been keeping my bees at 

 Port Townsend, which is on a peninsula, 

 but the pasturage was too limited, and we 

 had many windy days, so I moved my api- 

 ary, consisting of SO colonies, to my present 

 location. In the spring, during the latter 

 part of April, and through May. bee-forage 

 consists principally of willow, maple, fruit- 

 bloom, and the various wild vines and 

 bushes, some of which are the salmon 

 berry, wild raspberry, wild huckleberry 

 (which is red here), blackerries, and the 

 Oregon grape, which is a little bushy plant 

 growing about six to eight inches high, and 

 has needle-pointed leaves. 



Our main crop of honey is obtained from 

 the white clover, with which every road- 

 side and pasture and orchard is covered, 

 and which grows everywhere where it can 

 get a hold; in fact, this whole country 

 seems to be especially adapted to its vig- 

 orous growth. The clover begins to yield 

 from about July 1. and until about the 

 middle of September, although this year it 

 did not yield quite as well as usual, as the 

 season has been very dry ; and since Aug. 

 1 the forest fires have been raging so that 

 some days the bees could not work very 

 well; still I have some colonies that have 



itiieens and Queen-Rearing. — 



If you want to know how to have queens 

 fertilized in upper stories while the old 

 queen is still laying below; how you may 

 saftly ititroilace any queen, at any time of 

 the year when bees can fly ; all about the 

 different races of bees ; all about shipping 

 queens, queen-cages, candy for queen- 

 cages, etc. ; all about forming nuclei, mul- 

 tiplying or uniting bees, or weak colonies, 

 etc. ; or. in fact, everything about the 

 queen-business which you may want to 

 know — send for Doolittle's " Scientific 

 Queen-Rearning " — a book of over 170 

 pages, which is as interesting as a story. 

 Here are some good offers of this book: 



Bound in cloth, postpaid, $1.00 ; or clubbed 

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 have a few of the old size (6x9) Binders 

 left, that we will mail for only 40 cents 

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LangstrotlUEHoiiey-Bee 



-REVISED BY THE DADANTS- 



This m igniflcent classic in bee-literature has 

 been entirely re-written, and is fully illustra- 

 ted. It treats of everything relating to bees 

 and bee-keej>ing. No apiarian library is com- 

 plete without this standard work by Rev. L. 

 L. Langstroth— the Father of American Bee- 

 Culture. It has 520 pages, and is substan- 

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