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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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QUESTIONS ABOUT BEES. 
Header (A'o Address )—I have a swarm 
of bees iu the side of my barn, between 
the weatherboarding and wainscoting. I 
want to take them out and hive them. 
When should I do it? 
R, If. R-, New Berlin, N. Y. —I have 
three swarms of bees, and they appear 
weak. I wish to feed them so they will 
be iu shape to do business when the sea¬ 
son opens. Would it be all right to place 
some syrup outside of the hives where 
the three swarms could get at it, or would 
that cause them to rob each other? There 
are no bees very near here. 
Axs. — 1. If y<ju intend to take the col¬ 
ony out of the barn and transfer the 
combs to frames in a hive, the sooner 
you can do it the better. If there arc 
no other bees near, it can be done any 
time when it is warm enough so that 
the brood will not get chilled. If there 
are many bees near, it would be better 
to wait until fruit bloom, to prevent 
trouble from robbers. Be sure you 
get the queen in the hive, and set the 
hiye in the cellar for three days, after 
you get them transferred, keeping them 
in absolute darkness. This will insure 
their staying in a new location wher¬ 
ever you may want to set the hive; 
otherwise they would leave the hive 
and go back to the barn, and by the 
way, this will allow one to move a 
hive at any time, from one place to 
another without loss. If you are not 
used to handling bees you will find it 
a disagreeable job, but it can be, and 
often is done successfully. 
2. You should open the hives and ex¬ 
amine the combs; then you can be sure 
whether the bees need feeding or not. 
'Many colonies are weak at this season, 
and yet have abundance of stores. In 
this case take a knife and rub over the 
surface of the sealed combs hard 
enough to bruise the cappings and 
cause the honey to leak a little; this 
is the best way I know of to feed bees 
and start them up for business. If 
you find them short of honey, you can 
feed a syrup of sugar and water, equal 
phrts of each, by measure, outside the 
hives, but it should be placed at least 
10 rods from the hives. This will work j 
all right if you have no other bees 
within three miles of you. but if you 
have, then you feed them as much as 
you do your own. Unless you have 
special feeders. I would say take an 
empty super and set on the hive di¬ 
rectly on the frames, take a small tin 
pan and put your syrup in it. and set 
it inside the super: lay a thin piece of 
cloth over the pan so that the middle 
lies on the syrup and the corners hang 
down to the frames. Daub a little 
syrup on the outside of the cloth, and 
put the cover on the super tight, so 
that not a bee can get in from the out¬ 
side, and the joh will be done right, 
and no chance for trouble. You can 
refill the pan as many times as the 
bees need it, and then take it away 
and cover the frames again as before. 
1 like to have the feed quite warm, as 
the bees take it away quicker than if 
cold. It is also well to close the en¬ 
trance nearly up when feeding, as the 
bees are apt to rush out and make 
quite a fuss, and this will sometimes 
start robbing. Whichever way you feed 
give them plenty now, and they should 
pay you 500 per cent on all the feed 
they need until honey begins to come 
in. Let me tell you just a little more 
than you asked. When you examine 
the hives for stores, take all the frames 
out and clean the bottom of the hive 
of all dead bees, dirt, wax and every¬ 
thing else; it will pay well. If the 
weather is warm it is best to feed 
about sundown, if there is any chance 
for robbers to be around, as the bees 
will take the feed during the night, 
but if it is cold the brood will chill 
and be lost. I also have often used 
a lot of green grass as floats in the 
pan of syrup, instead of the cloth; 
we have to have something of the kind 
to keep the bees from crowding into 
the syrup and getting drowned. The 
bruising of the cappings of sealed 
honey is one of the “secrets’’ of bee 
keepers, and if one comb be “treated” 
once a week from April 15 to May' 30 
is one of the surest means of having a 
booming colony for the White clover 
harvest. Don’t make a mistake and 
bruise the capping of a comb of sealed 
brood: that would be a different story. 
Wayne Co.. N. Y. j. a. crane. 
SPINELESS CACTUS. 
Iu Jacksonville, Fla., 25 years ago I 
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less cactus of the Opuntia genus. The 
plant was about five feet high, dark 
green, smooth and entirely spineless 
and about 10 years old. I obtained a 
piece of it. carried it in my pocket to 
my room, thence in my trunk to ray 
home in eastern New York, where I 
grew the plant for several years. It 
being a tender plant it was never pur¬ 
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It is of too slow growth to be consid¬ 
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Kentucky. 
R. N.-Y.—In’ one way this “spine¬ 
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apple. When the boomers got well 
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seeds. They were mostly found grow¬ 
ing in fence corners and some of them 
were decidedly superior to the “Spen¬ 
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five different specimens of “spineless 
cactus"—some of which we believe are 
practically the same as the one sold 
by Mr. Burbank for the alleged sum 
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