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gan to swarm when working on it. The 

 last swarm that issued in this locality was 

 on Aug. 21. There were more " buckwheat 

 swarms" this season than all the May, 

 June and July swarms put together. 

 Although I had one colony that cast a 

 swarm May 2(5, it swarmed again May 29, 

 and again May 31, making three swarms in 

 May from one colony — all good swarms. 



By dividing and natural swarming I in- 

 creased from 13 to 35 colonies, all in good 

 condition. Sotue of the last swarms I had 

 to feed, for the buckwheat was over before 

 they had gathered enough to winter on. 



I have the 3 and h banded bees, also one 

 colony having a gray Carniolan queen. I 

 have a few mismated Italian queens which 

 1 want to try by the side of the others, and 

 run all for comb honey, if they and I live 

 until next season ; then I will report 

 through the "Old Reliable" as to each race 

 or kind. I could not see much difference 

 this season between the 3 and 5 banded 

 bees; both are very gentle, and are good 

 workers. How the ."i-banders winter as 

 compared with the 3-banders, I have not 

 yet tested. I winter all on the summer 

 stands, in single- walled hives. 



Paul Whitebread. 



Hobbie, Pa., Oct. 31. 



Results of the Fast Season. 



Last spring I had four colonies. One of 

 them was very strong, and prepared for 

 swarming in May, but the weather changed 

 cold and stopped that. I then put on the 

 supers with extracting-frames (I use the 

 Langstroth Sframe hive). The colony has 

 not swarmed at all, but has given me about 

 150 pounds of extracted honey. The other 

 three were not so strong, but made up well 

 after a time. One of them swarmed the 

 latter part of June — a good, large swarm, 

 which has done well. Another one cast a 

 large swarm in July. About 13 o'clock 1 

 hived them, then went to dinner. 1 came 

 to look at them again about 1 o'clock, and 

 they had all come out again, and were Just 

 going away. 1 followed them nearly half 

 a mile, but lost them in a swamp. I have 

 five colonies now, which have averaged 

 nearly 100 pounds each of extracted honey. 



Now, why did that swarm come out of 

 the hive and go away ? The hive was a 

 good, clean 8-frame Langstroth. 



Utica, Ont., Oct. 33. R. W. Walreb. 



An Experience with Bees, Etc. 



I had intended to write of a (to me) re- 

 markable experience with bees. But 1 have 

 not had time to attend to it until now. 



On Oct. 3 I found a large cluster of 3- 

 banded Italian bees hanging on the under- 

 side of hive No. 0, which had a pure 5- 

 banded queen and colony. 1 thought they 

 were a lot of bees from hive No. 8, that is 

 only 14 inches from No. 9, and 1 pushed 

 part of them off to see where they would 

 go; to my surprise, 1 found they had a fer- 

 tile queen — practically a prime swarm in 

 October. As I have been in the habit of 

 telling my friends "the queen in No. 9 lays 

 as many eggs as a good hen " (she never all 

 summer had three full frames of brood at 

 any one time), I determined to pinch her 



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