AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Hiving Bees. 



On page 807 Mr. Shaffer says to hive 

 bees with smoke, but I think he is 

 wrong, for when you smoke the bees the 

 smoke goes into the hive and drives the 

 bees out. I have tried this method, and 

 the bees went off every time. I get my 

 bees in a swarming-box, and put a sheet 

 in front of the hive, shake them on it, 

 and let them run in, and I have no 

 trouble in this way. 



Venice, Ills. James T. Fennell. 



Wish to Obtain Information Free. 



I cannot understand why every person 

 who keeps bees does not provide them- 

 selves with a good bee-periodical. There 

 are numbers of persons keeping bees 

 who desire to obtain their information 

 from those who subscribe to and pay for 

 a good bee-periodical, and they wish to 

 obtain it/?'ee. Bees are doing splendidly 

 In this county. White clover, which is 

 our source of honey supply, is quite 

 plentiful in this locality. 



Matthew Rebholz. 



Kane, Ky., June 17, 1891. 



Poor Prospect for White Honey. 



Bees are in good condition in this 

 locality, and are storing what appears 

 to be honey-dew. I have taken about 

 40 pounds of very dark honey. I have 

 10 colonies, and expect some of them 

 to cast swarms. I do not think we will 

 get much white honey this year. 



Beet Viagek. 



Moline, Ills., June 23, 1891. 



Hiving" Swarms at Leisure. 



I have kept bees fof three years, 

 commencing with 2 colonies. My first 

 swa'rm " took to the woods," and then I 

 purchased half a dozen of Alley's drone 

 and queen traps, and have not lost a 

 swarm since. Last year, if I was very 

 busy when a swarm issued, I did not 

 drop everything to hive them, but would 

 allow them to go back into the hive they 

 came from, and when it was convenient, 

 would remove the old hive, and place the 

 hive I wished the swarm to occupy in 

 the place the parent colony had occupied, 

 and put in one or two frames of brood, 

 bees and honey from the old hive, trans- 

 fer the super to the new hive, fasten the 

 trap (with the queen in) at the entrance, 

 draw the nail from the queen-escape, and 

 thfe work was done. As fast as the bees 



returned from the field they would enter 

 the new hive, and everything, as far as 



I know, was just as well as if I had left 

 my washing, or delayed dinner, or let 

 baby cry, to attend them at once. I have 



II colonies. Spring count, and 7 of them 

 are working like little nailers in the 

 sections. I am trying (and successfully 

 so far) to keep them from swarming 

 during the white honey flow. There is 

 plenty of white clover in this vicinity, 

 and very good weather, just now, at 

 least, for the bees to gather the nectar. 



Mrs. Parker Erway. 

 Hastings, Mich., June 16, 1891. 



After-Swarms. 



After-swarms that issue in April and 

 May give fine results here. About May 

 21, last year, a small swarm containing 

 about a quart of bees, issued from' an 

 Italian colony in an 8-frame Langstroth 

 hive, it being the fourth swarm cast by 

 that colony. I gave them an 8-frame 

 dovetailed hive, with one Langstroth 

 brood-comb, containing about 2 pounds 

 of honey, but no brood nor eggs. Horse- 

 mint was beginning to yield nectar, and 

 they built up rapidly, and by the time 

 the horsemint yield was over, this small 

 colony had filled the brood-chamber with 

 brood. About July 14 I put on the 

 upper story, containing five wide frames 

 — 8 sections to the frame — making 40 

 sections, with small starters in each one. 

 Sourwood and cotton had begun to yield, 

 and by the time that source of supply 

 was exhaused, every section was filled 

 with as plump sealed honey as you ever 

 saw. 



Willie Douglass. 



Lexington, Tex. 



You ]Veed an Apiary Register, 

 and should keep it posted up, so as to be 

 able to know all about any colony of 

 bees in your yard at a moment's notice. 

 It devotes two pages to every colony. 

 You can get one large enough for 50 

 colonies for a dollar, bound in full 

 leather and postage paid. Send for one 

 before you forget it, and put it to a good 

 use. Let it contain all that you will 

 want to know about your bees — includ- 

 ing a cash account. We will send you 

 one large enough for 100 colonies for 

 $1.25; or for 200 colonies for $1.50. 

 Order one now. 



