. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ?5 TO START YOU IN BUSINESS vill pit-sent yoQ witti the flrjjt *.3 you takt.' in I" start you in a K, and there were only two of IhoHe that I coiihldcred of any value. But 1 fed tlieni tip and they did won- dorp, iniri'iii-inK to Hi colonies, and divine me hOTiiethini; over 4(11) pounds of honey in sec- tiouK. I sold it to the home trade at 12 and l.')Cent» |>er pouud. .Mits. C. A. ,. (Oneida Co., N. Y., April '.i. Does Noise Disturb Bees? Thc;r(^ Ims beiju some disctis-sion lately in regard to Ijees hearint;. " Uoes noise disturb be
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. ?5 TO START YOU IN BUSINESS vill pit-sent yoQ witti the flrjjt *.3 you takt.' in I" start you in a K, and there were only two of IhoHe that I coiihldcred of any value. But 1 fed tlieni tip and they did won- dorp, iniri'iii-inK to Hi colonies, and divine me hOTiiethini; over 4(11) pounds of honey in sec- tiouK. I sold it to the home trade at 12 and l.')Cent» |>er pouud. .Mits. C. A. ,. (Oneida Co., N. Y., April '.i. Does Noise Disturb Bees? Thc;r(^ Ims beiju some disctis-sion lately in regard to Ijees hearint;. " Uoes noise disturb bees. etc. " I tried H colonies the past winter in a new cellar, which I built last summer. This cellar is directly under the kitchen floor. .Now, I have a family of boys and (rirls that lil<e to roijip and play as well as the averatre family of cliildren does: furthermore, some of those were directly under the kitchen wood-box. I have been in the bee-roorn when the boys would briii;,' in their wood and drop il into the wood-box. and it actually seemed as if the wood-box and all were comintj down throui^h the lloor into the cellar, yet it did not seem to disturb the bees in the least. This occurred every day. and yet after a contine- inent of live months and three days they were placed on the summer stands stronjr and in line conilition. (iEci. W. StiiNKM.\n. Dnor Co., An Advantage of Clipped Queens. What is probably new to many is thus given by <i. M. Doolittle, in Gleanings in Bee-Cul- ture: I do not believe in not having hives all in readiness for swarms when the3' come: but in case of emergency, if the queen is clipped, you can hold a swarm out on a limb while you make a dozen hives, or all summer if you wish. If you ever wish to do this, as soon as you have the queen in the cage attach a short piece of wire to the cage: and as soon as the bees begin to alight, bend this piece of wire over the limb, so the caged queen will hang where the cluster wi
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