. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 4T1. 0T* Do not write anything for publication on the same sheet of paper with business matters, unless it can be torn apart without Interfering with either part of the letter. iMjm^m^jmu Uniting Nuclei by Feeding. As it is time to unite colonies for win- ter, I want to tell how I unite my nuclei. I place a super on the nucleus which I want to build up, fill a feeder with honey, and if I have not a feeder I take any shallow dish ; put in the food some pieces of wood for floats, and set on the frames in the super. I shake the bees
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 4T1. 0T* Do not write anything for publication on the same sheet of paper with business matters, unless it can be torn apart without Interfering with either part of the letter. iMjm^m^jmu Uniting Nuclei by Feeding. As it is time to unite colonies for win- ter, I want to tell how I unite my nuclei. I place a super on the nucleus which I want to build up, fill a feeder with honey, and if I have not a feeder I take any shallow dish ; put in the food some pieces of wood for floats, and set on the frames in the super. I shake the bees, that I want to unite, in front of this hive, smoking them as they run in. I also smoke the ones in the hive. Their fighting propensities become so absorbed in the sweetness of what is in the feeder, that all are in peace and tranquility. I never have lost any bees when I united by feeding. Wm. H. Bright. Mazeppa, Minn., Sept. 27, 1892. Experience with Blacks and Italians. I started in bee-keeping the spring of 1891, having bought my bees, which were all blacks. One of my neighbors concluded that he would transfer one of the colonies, and in the transfer he killed the queen ; he then told me that if I would introduce a queen we would be "; So I bought an Italian queen and put her in all right. They were very weak in the fall, and on April 1st, 1892, there was about one pint of workers, and the mother-bee in the hive. They went to breeding, and I began feeding, and that Italian queen, this, year, has laid the eggs for three good colonies of bees, while my blacks have only kept in good working order. My Italians got rich off the sour-wood in July, and cast a swarm, while the blacks did nothing to compare with them. We all know the good qualities of the Italians, how they will defend their stores, keep out moths, etc., and concerning robbing. I have just been out among the bees, and robbers are numerous, but not an Italian can I see —they are mostly blacks, so
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