. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Dec. 7, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 779 Bee-Keeping- in Colorado. It is generally concoded that Colo- rado is one of the leading honey-pro- ducing States, and the opinions of its bee-keepers should have weight alike ?with bee-editors and supply-dealers. Realizing this, Editor E. R. Root is now attending the annual Colorado Bee-Keepers' Convention, at Denver, to become better acquainted with the Western bee-keepers and their methods. The readers of Gleanings in Bee-Culture will get the benefit of this in forthcoming issues. He has with him, of course, h
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Dec. 7, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 779 Bee-Keeping- in Colorado. It is generally concoded that Colo- rado is one of the leading honey-pro- ducing States, and the opinions of its bee-keepers should have weight alike ?with bee-editors and supply-dealers. Realizing this, Editor E. R. Root is now attending the annual Colorado Bee-Keepers' Convention, at Denver, to become better acquainted with the Western bee-keepers and their methods. The readers of Gleanings in Bee-Culture will get the benefit of this in forthcoming issues. He has with him, of course, his camera, so as to present to our subscribers views of the West as he saw them. The first in- stallment of these writings may be ex- pected in our Dec. 15th issue. Other Leading- Bee-Keepers. Gleanings in Bee-Culture Oct. 15th e<^ I li e i^iieen - Wet Water"." seeing she never leaves the hive when mating or swarming, is askt in the Australian Bee-Bulleiin. The answers are not of the most direct kind, but say. " Bees supply the queen's ; or something to that effect, the one who most nearly meets the question squarely, saying, "The work- ers supply her with food and ; If this Boiler might be allowed a guess at the answer, he would say that the queen is a total abstainer, never drinking even water, there being always enough water in the food given by the bees to avoid the neces- sity ot taking water clear. Heaxling' OH S«ariiiliiig'.—O. J. Hetherington gives his plan in the Bee- Keepers' Review. When the swarming season arrives, he drives the bees from the hive, and hives them in a new hive on the old stand, putting on supers. The old hive is put on a new stand and given a queen- cell, or, preferably, a laying ijueen. Five such driven swarms last season gave him fiO pounds of honey each, while the old col- onies gave 00, 00, and less. When the har- vest is over, he puts a queen-excluder over the old hive, sets the driven swarm over
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