. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. July 31, 1902. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 495 and iinflnlKlicd scTlions, nnd 8o I have been alilr III Imiiillr llic itiiji so far. Sliii'intc is interrupted now on account of Ihr. lieavy rains. Thin wiil prolmljly insure a fall How of more lluin usual inu^rnituile. I lost i| a numher of colonies, liut the most of Itiose left hives Willi a nooil deal of sealed honey in them. I thiulf only one col- ony starved. Two were lost because the hive- entrances were not kept clear of dead bees. I had directed that all entrances shoidd be cleared by means of a be
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. July 31, 1902. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 495 and iinflnlKlicd scTlions, nnd 8o I have been alilr III Imiiillr llic itiiji so far. Sliii'intc is interrupted now on account of Ihr. lieavy rains. Thin wiil prolmljly insure a fall How of more lluin usual inu^rnituile. I lost i| a numher of colonies, liut the most of Itiose left hives Willi a nooil deal of sealed honey in them. I thiulf only one col- ony starved. Two were lost because the hive- entrances were not kept clear of dead bees. I had directed that all entrances shoidd be cleared by means of a bent wire, but it was not faithfully attended to. The most of the losses were (iue to the loss of (lueens. I had been taui;ht by many writers that it is best to let the bees attend to the matter of supersedintr the c|Ueen. I am tolerably cer- tain that followintr this advice has resulted in trreat loss to me. Mad I iiiiide use of (|ucens reared in my own yard in stroni; colonies un- der the swarniint; impulse, and theu allowed no c|ueen to live more than three years, 1 think I would Ije better oil. I have some »^ood purchased ((ueens, ami have had a cood many purchased queens that were sood for nothinj;. I have one (|ueen iiitroduced Au^. :!, ISSir, which has done as ^ood work this season as ever before, and she has always done well. This is a York State queen. While one can get a good many good queens by pur- chase, he has the trouble of experimenting a great while in order to find out which are the good ones; hence, I believe it safest for the ordinary bee-keeper to rear his own queens from the best queens in his own yard in the swarming season. It is stated in some of the papers that many colonies in Iowa and Illinois have been allowed to perish in the past month from starvation, owing to the lack of bloom, or the weather being so bad that the bees could iiOt worit. A few dimes expended for sugar at a critical time may be returned in a good many dollars later on. To let bees
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