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2. Can I get several colonies from one hive during the summer, without letting the bees ILLINOIS. ANSWERS.-I. You transfer in the usual way during fruit bloom, but perhaps the best is to wait until the colony has swarmed. Then hive the swarm in a proper hive, and 21 days later either transfer the bees from the old hive into a new one, or else break up the old hive and add the bees to the swarm.

2. Yes, if the bees are in a frame hive you can divide the colony into several. One way is to take from the colony two frames of brood with adhering bees and the queen, and put them into a new hive on a new stand. Ten days later you can divide into two or more parts what is left in the old hive, making sure to have a good queen-cell in each part.

Uniting Colonies and Introducing Queen at Same
Time

I, I have 2 colonies that are very weak, and want to unite them and introduce an Italian queen at the same time. How is the best way to do it?

2. How would it do when the prime swarm comes off, to kill the queen and put the bees in a swarm box for about 12 hours, and then introduce an Italian queen?

3. Which is the better extracting frame, the %-inch top-bar with two grooves or the 1⁄2 inch top bar with one groove for extracted and chunk honey?

4. Which would be the better hive for this country, the 8 or 10 frame?

5. What kind of bees would be the best for this part of the country, and what do you think of southern Oklahoma for honey OKLAHOMA. production?

ANSWERS.-I. Destroy the queen in each hive, and introduce the Italian queen into either hive, just the same as if there were to be no uniting; put a sheet of newspaper over the stronger, if there is any difference, and set the hive over it. All of this you will do at one time. The bees will gnaw through the paper and unite peaceably, and in four or five days you can move all brood from the upper hive into the lower, as also the bees, 2. It would probably work, only the swarm I would not be quite so contented with a strange queen.

3. One will probably work as well as the other.

4. Probably the 10-frame.

5. Likely Italians will do as well as any. From all I know, bees should do well there.

Using Swarm Box-Catching Stray SwarmsHow Late ?

I. How can I use a swarm box as mentioned in First Lessons in Beekeeping?"

2. Do you think it would help to get more bees if I would put up decoy hives to catch swarms, and how should I put them up and where?

3. Is a swarm worth hiving after the last of May, and how late are they worth saving? 4. Is there any special lumber which should not be in hives?

5. Which is the best way to wire foundation in frames; will the wire bother the bees?

6. Does it harm the bees to put them in newly-painted hives, and does it hurt to paint hives after the bees are in and working?

7. Is there any danger of losing swarms if the hives are in too hot a place? Is it necessary to keep bees in the shade all the time?

8. Is there any special width of foundation to use in a brood chamber? If I use thin brood foundation, how much can I put in each frame? INDIANA.

ANSWERS.-I. A swarm box being lighter than a hive, instead of carrying the hive to where a swarm is, the box may be taken there, and when the swarm is in the box it can be carried to the hive, laid upon its side

with the open part of the box toward the entrance of the hive, so the bees can run from the box into the hive. If they are too slow about it they can be dumped on the ground in front of the hive by jarring the box on the ground.

2. If stray swarms are plenty you would be very likely to catch some in decoy hives, Into an empty hive put one or more empty brood-combs (the blacker the better), and set the hive anywhere outdoors where the bees can have free access to it. That's all. 3. In my locality nearly all swarms issue after the last of May. A good swarm is worth saving no matter how late it comes.

4. Basswood is bad, owing to its tendency to twist and warp. White pine is generally used, and in some places redwood and cedar.

5. Wires are generally stretched horizontally, 4 wires to the frame. The bees are not likely to pay much attention to them.

6. The only harm likely to happen would be that bees might stick to the fresh, soft paint. If you paint a hive with bees in it, better do it in the evening after bees stop flying, and use drier in the paint.

7. There is great danger that a newly-hived swarm will desert if its hive is too hot. After it becomes settled and has started brood, the danger disappears, and a colony may do well without any shade. Yet in most places it is better that a hive shall be shaded in the heat of the day. A nice thing is to have a hive under a tree, which shades it in the middle of the day, but allows the sun to shine upon it in the morning and evening.

8. It is well to have the foundation come down to within 2-inch of the bottom-bar. It is not absolutely necessary to use full sheets; if you use narrow starters you can still handle the frames, only in that case you will probably have too much drone-comb.

When to Put on Summer Stands-Rearing Queens

1. How soon will it be safe to take out of their winter chaff lined boxes and put on summer stands bees that are in single-walled hives ?

2. I understand that the best queens are reared during the swarming season, and that the best time to requeen is after the honeyflow stops, in the fall. How do you keep those queens until fall, and how can those you do not use in the fall be kept over until next spring?

3 The cuts showing how to nail dovetailed hives, nail only every other dovetail. Do you think that is the best way, or should every one be nailed? IOWA.

ANSWERS.-1. It is much the same as taking bees out of cellar. Usually it is well to take bees out of cellar about as soon as soft, or red, maples are in bloom; although this year it turned so cold that my bees were not taken out of cellar until April 13, which was 18 days after the blooming of soft maple. If, however, the bees are not to have their stands changed, and can have a flight without removing any packing, it is better for the bees to have the warmth of the packing until it is fairly hot weather, say about the last of May in your region.

2. "Swarming season," and "fall" sound farther apart than they may be found in actual practice. Swarming season, for instance, in my locality, and perhaps in yours. does not generally begin until about the first week in June, and may continue until August. Good queens may be reared during this time, and indeed so long as a good flow continues, swarm or no swarm, Suppose a colony swarms July 1, and you utilize its queen-cells. From them you will have laying queens perhaps July 15. If the season closes as early as I have known, it will be just as well to requeen July 15 as later. At

any rate you will likely have swarms enough later to accommodate you, for it is well to requeen toward the close of harvest rather than to wait until all gathering has ceased. If, however, you have laying queens before you need them, keep them in nuclei until needed. Possibly you may be able to winter them in nuclei, by putting them in cellar.

3. At top and bottom nail at least two consecutive dovetails; it's not so important about the central ones. I have had pretty good success by driving a nail vertically at top, and one at bottom.

Southern Bred Queens

Will bees winter just as well when in a cold climate, reared from a queen bred from a southern strain? PENNSYLVANIA. ANSWER.-It is considered that there is no difference.

Rearing Queen-Cells-Requeening

Almost all of my bees are blacks, and I want to rear queens from some pure Italians to requeen all the others. There are no drones flying yet, but there is plenty of drone-brood sealed over. After trying the Alexander plan of increase I did not get any queen-cells started, so I set the queen with some brood on a new stand close by and left most of the brood on the old stand, and after five days I did not find any queen-cells started. The bees have plenty of old honey, and there is nectar available, so they do not care for artificial feed. Bees usually swarm here in April; sometimes beginning in March. May is slack of nectar, and the main flow begins late in June. I am prepared by Doolittle's plan to care for cells and hatch them. CALIFORNIA.

ANSWER.-As I understand it, your trouble is that the bees do not start cells at all, even when only a few bees are taken with the queen from a full colony. That is unusual, very. It is possible that the bees are not gathering nectar enough, although from what you say I should hardly think so. Another suggestion is that there is a difference in colonies, some being more inclined to start queen-cells than others, and that if you should try another colony you might have better success. A third thing that may make a difference is the character of the combs. Bees prefer to have holes or inequalities in the combs that give plenty of room for the cells. That which of all things seems to suit them best is a freshly-built comb that only partly fills the frame. Take from your best colony temporarily most or all of its combs, and let them fill a frame half full of comb, with its young brood and eggs, then give this new comb to a strong queenless colony, with or without other brood, and if the bees don't start cells on that virgin comb the case is hopeless.

Wiring Frames-Drone Rearing

I. Is it necessary to use wire in the frames when full sheets of foundation are used in the brood-chamber?

2. If so, how large a piece of foundation would be safe to use in the frames without wire ?

3. Doesn't the wire bother the bees in drawing out the comb? 4. At what time do bees begin to rear drones? MICHIGAN.

ANSWERS.-1. Unless you use wire or foundation splints you will be sure to have bulged combs, unless it be in very shallow frames with heavy foundation, and it is cheaper to use wire than very heavy foundation.

2. From 2 to 4 inches ought to work all right, depending upon the thickness of the foundation. But in the long run it is more expensive to use starters than full sheets, for you are sure to have too much drone

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comb with starters, and it's expensive business to support a lot of useless drones.

3. No, it doesn't seem to; at least they build out the comb the same as if no wire were present, and the cells where the wires are occupied with honey, pollen or brood just the same as if there were no wires,

4. Eggs are likely to be laid in drone-cells as soon as there is a considerable flow, and drones will appear 24 days later.

Lazy Bees-Producing Chunk Honey-Rearing Queens and Drones from Same Colony

1. Last season I had lazy colonies that did not do anything but rear bees. They were running over with bees, but did not swarm nor store any surplus honey. Would it be best to give them another queen?

2 How would it work for chunk honey to put on an extra body of Hoffman broodframes with brood foundation or would it be better to use section foundation ?

3. Would you advise rearing drones and queens from the same mother?

4- Do bees store more honey and quicker in 2 story hives than they would in supers, and do you advise 2-story hives for honey to be sold as chunk honey?

WEST VIRGINIA. ANSWERS.-I. It is possible that there may

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A Good Outlook in California While the old saying is always possible, "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," nevertheless it has been nearly 20 years since southern California, in almost all sections, has had such bountiful rains up to this time. Perhaps the rainfall has never been so unevenly distributed, varying all the way from 71⁄2 inches to 35 inches over the sage and wild buckwheat ranges. Almost all beekeepers are very sanguine, and consider the prospects very favorable for at least an average crop of honey. This is for the unirrigated sections.

Corona, Calif., March 12.

L. L. ANDREWS.

Location is Almost Everything in Beekeeping

We had our bees rented last year down in Wyoming, and by all accounts they gathered

have been some excuse for the bees doing nothing, but if other colonies were doing well at the same time the likelihood is that the bees were at fault, in which case it would be well to give a queen of better stock.

2. The thinner foundation would be better for table honey, and yet some have reported that the heavier foundation was thinned down by the bees. It would not be a bad plan to try each, and then you would know better what to do in future.

3. It will be better to rear queens from your very best colony and drones from a few of the next best. Yet if you should try to rear queens and drones both from the same colony it is not certain that much harm would come from it, for the young queens would be likely to meet drones from other colonies, perhaps from a colony a mile or more away.

4. They will probably store as much in one as in the other. Like enough they will start a bit sooner in a super, provided it be shallow. For chunk honey you will probably like something shallower than the brood-combs.

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the usual amount of honey that they have in the 10 previous years. In regard to Mr. Wilder's article about locations, my experience has taught me that locations are everything in beekeeping. The man who hap pens to start in the right location is bound to win out. While clover regions are not always reliable. White clover does not furnish honey every year, neither does white sage. If any of the readers of the American Bee Journal are thinking of changing locations. I can, if they write me, tell them where to locate for a sure crop every year without cellaring the bees, and no enemy to annoy them in the least. Katispell, Mont.

J. D. KAUFMAN.

Optimistic Outlook

Our 97 colonies are in the finest shape we ever had bees at this time of year; plenty brood, pollen, stores and bees, and the honey-flow is due in this locality June 20. So we expect to have 97 colonies in extra good shape by that time.

The past winter was very favorable to the bees. We had no long continued cold, so all our colonies came through finely. They were wintered outdoors in chaff hives. We rear all our queens, and never had but one case of foulbrood. It was given treatment promptly, and I have not had a trace of it since, and that was 4 years ago.

GRANT LUZADER. Pennsboro, W. Va., April 16.

The Market for Honey in France Trade reports based on statistics, and written without a special knowledge of the article in question, are apt to lead to wrong conclusions. The American trade would experience a disillusion if it based its calculations on the prices given in the report under this heading, on page 80.

The price of 150 francs ($28.85) I do not think has ever been reached. After 2 years of failure, the highest price reached last year was 135 francs per 100 kilos, 12 cents per pound. In average years the price ranges between 90 and 110 francs, 8 and to cents per pound.

Now, if it came to furnishing an indifferent kind of honey at these prices, even with a duty of $1.75 per 100 pounds, America might make attractive offers to the French trade, but competition is absolutely barred for the simple reason-and this was omitted in your consular report-that these quotations are for a special kind of honey, which the United States do not furnish, and required by the

trade and the French public, that will only take that particular honey for table use. It is just as in England, where more than double the price paid for your most appreciated honey is paid for the domestic Scotch product, although there is no duty on honey. The honey is known in trade as surfin extra," and is gathered on Sainfoin, a smaller part on crimson clover-both plants not cultivated in the United States to an extent worth mentioning.

This honey is nearly water white, very rich, and of a most exquisite taste. Other honey in France does not fetch anything near the price paid for the "surfin extra.' In biscuit factories, bakeries, etc., dark honey from Ille-et-Vilaine, Eure-et-Loire, and Morbihan is greatly used. Its quotation at present is 78 francs per 100 kilos, a little less than 7 cents per pound, which can be considered an average price for this honey.

Owing to its strong flavor and its quality of coloring cakes a beautiful dark brown, this honey can be replaced by no other kind, according to the statement of a large German factory that yearly takes 130,000 to 150,000 pounds of it against 960,000 pounds of western honey which is imported directly from Cuba, Domingo, Chili, etc., for the manufacture of cheaper kinds of cake.

Perhaps the greatest honey districts are the Landes." It is a part of France of which the Editor gave a description in this magazine. The honey there produced is used a great deal in the manufacture of adulterated honey, and for that reason also exported to Germany. It is paid to the beekeeper 5 cents per pound,

As the duty of honey is 14 cents, American dealers would have to furnish honey for 3 cents free, in France, if they would compete in selling honey to the factories of "miel de fantaisie!" (adulterated honey.)

I will wind up by quoting from a letter of one of the largest dealers in France:

Foreign honey competes but little with French honey. There is a duty of 20 francs per 100 kilos, which is fully sufficient to protect local production.' C. KNEPPELHOUT. Driebergen, France, March 24.

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CHICAGO, May 18.-The volume of trade is very narrow and consists in dealers buying just a little to have it on hand when inquired for. No longer is there a show made of it on the counters, etc., as in winter months. all of which is a seasonable condition. The fancy grades are not plentiful, and continue to bring from 14@15c per pound, according to the flavor, style and everything else that goes to make a fancy article, Anything off from this grade sells at from i@3c per pound less with amber grades bringing from 10@12C per pound. Extracted is meeting with prac tically no demand, and prices are inclined to be easy, especially is this so aside from fancy clover and linden, which, like the comb, is in better demand and more firmly held. Beeswax continues to sell upon arrival at from 33@35c per pound according to color and cleanliness. R. A. BURNETT & Co.

CINCINNATI, May 17.-It is an effort to make honey sales, and the stock of all grades are heavy for this time of the year. Prices are easier than they were. We note many dealers slashing prices to unload. We are selling fancy comb honey at $3.65 to $3.75 per case wholesale. Extracted amber honey from 52@6%2c a pound. White extracted from 72@10c a pound, according to quantity and quality purchased. We want beeswax at 32c a pound delivered here.

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INDIANAPOLIS, May 17.-Fancy white comb honey is being offered here at 16@17C per pound; amber comb at 14@15c. White clover extracted @Ioc in 5-gallon cans. Much comb is being held here, but at this writing there is very little demand. Extracted is in fair demand. Producers are being paid 32c cash for beeswax or 34C in trade. WALTER S. POUDER.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 15.-Our market is about cleaned up on comb honey-not a case left in the wholesalers' hands, and very little left in the retailers'. Plenty of extracted honey, and the demand is very light.

New comb honey in 24 sections should sell for $3.25 to $3.50 per case for No. I quality. We quote extracted, white, at 72@8c a pound. On beeswax we quote 30c for No. 1, and 25c for No. 2 quality.

C. C. CLEMONS PRODUCE COMPANY. DENVER, May 16.-We have no more comb honey to offer. Are selling extracted honey in a jobbing way at following prices: White extracted, 8c; light amber, 7c. We pay 32C per pound cash and 34c in trade for clean yellow beeswax delivered here.

THE COLO. HONEY-PRODUCERS' ASS'N.
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LOS ANGELES, May 20.-I beg to advise you that that quotations on honey at present are as follows: Light amber alfalfa, 5%c; light amber sage, 6c; fancy white sage and white orange, 7@8c. Beeswax is in very light supply, and is quoted at 32c.

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NEW YORK, May 19.-As to comb honey, we have nothing new to report. There are quite some off grades of amber still on the market unsold, as there is no demand to speak of for those grades, and it is almost impossible to find buyers.

In regard to extracted, the demand is only fair while arrivals are large, especially from West Indies, and the new crop is beginning to arrive from the southern States. We quote nominally from 58@75c per gallon, ac. cording to quality. Beeswax firm at 34@35C HILDRETH & SEGELKEN.

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FOR SALE,- My longtongued Goldens are proving themselves to be the bee to clean Foul Brood. This is why I have such a large trade in Canada. Mr. E. L. Cox, of Jesup, Iowa, introduced 50 of my 3-band queens in Foul-Broody colonies in 1912; and he said the disease was cleaned up where each of those queens was put. They gathered such a large crop of honey in

1912 that he bought 50 more in 1913.

One Untested, 75c; 6, $4.00; 12, $7.50; 25, $13.50; 50, $25.00 Double the above for tested queens. Bees by the pound: One lb., $2.00; 2 lbs., $4.00. One-frame nucleus, $2.00; 2 frame, $3.00; 3frame, $4.00. To all the above packages add the price of queen. I will begin to send out queens in April.

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BEE BOOK

For Beginners or Old-timers

Lots of good tips on raising those wonderful little money makers in this book-describes our complete line of bee supplies. Bees Help Pay

the Grocery Bill Little expense, fascinating pastime. Act on good impulse, start right now.

Blanke Mfg. & Supply Co., St. Louis, Missouri Dept. 1,

Q-U-E-E-N-S

The Old Reliable 3-Band Stock

My queens are reared from imported stock which makes a beauti

ful bee. They are fine honey gatherers, and very gentle. Try my queens. Send me your order, and if not satisfied will return your money. Safe arrival guaranteed. Untested Italian, 1, 75c; 6 $4.25; 12, $8.00.

N. FOREHAND, R. F. D. 2, Brewton, Ala.

Buy Carniolans in Carniola
Pure Carniolan Alpine Bees
Write in English for Book-
let and pricelist. Awarded 60
Honors
Johann Strgar, Wittnach

P. O. Wocheiner-Feistritz

Upper - Carniola (Krain), Austria

QUINN'S QUEENS OF QUALITY

Not coming, but are here to stay. Best bee for any climate. Purest of the pure

GREY CAUCASIANS

Bred strictly in the light of Mendel's Laws of Heredity; no guess, but positive results. The pioneer scientific queen-rearing establishment of America. We lead, others may follow. Every queen guaranteed as to purity of mating.

Special isolated mating station on bald open prairie, not a tree within miles-no chance for gypsy drones.

CHAS. W. QUINN

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Beaumont, Texas

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