. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 829 bees to movable-frame hives, which are very cross blacks, but by giving them a tremendous dose of smoke I can handle them. I wrote to the Southern queen dealer about my ups and downs, and that the queen's journey had been too great. The dealer had seen what was described in the Bee Journal of March 10th, and answered as follows: " I want you to stick a pin at some place, that I will send to you a three- banded Italian queen-bee free, which I will handle roughly before I mail her, and I want you to throw her around before
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 829 bees to movable-frame hives, which are very cross blacks, but by giving them a tremendous dose of smoke I can handle them. I wrote to the Southern queen dealer about my ups and downs, and that the queen's journey had been too great. The dealer had seen what was described in the Bee Journal of March 10th, and answered as follows: " I want you to stick a pin at some place, that I will send to you a three- banded Italian queen-bee free, which I will handle roughly before I mail her, and I want you to throw her around before you introduce her. She will be mine until youh&ve her safe in the hive, then she is ; Well, that made me restless. I then sent to New York State for queen-bees, and received and introduced them O. K. I then again ordered more five-banded Italian queens from the South, and I introduced those O. K., and sometime in September I received the rough-handled queen. It was one Saturday, and I was not at home when the mail was brought. The cage waa laid aside until Monday morning. I found her all right. I hope the dealer will see right here what I did with her. I took the cage with queen and threw her into a tree, and she fell through the limbs to the ground. This I did three times, and found her all right. I then removed a queen from some hive, and introduced her with suc- cess. The dealer also told me this in a letter: "I (or one of the boys did) threw her clear over the house, and the cage struck the lightning-rod as it went, but I found her O. K., and mailed ; I have 10 colonies on the summer stands, with all good young queens, but I am glad to say the five-banded ones are the very best in breeding up this fall. I am very sure that I can have those hives boiling over with bees by the right time next spring. I am thankful for what the Southern dealer has explained to me and others. I will also say that last week, when I placed the rims between the bottom
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