. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1898. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 255 paper come close together, and in practice you never know the difference. Our fac- tories put the paper on in this way. I always do, and it is perfectly satisfactory, much better than to use glue. You see, two or more thicknesses of sandpaper glued together will make a hard surface, and de- feat the object of the felt. A. W. Hart. Stephenson Co., 111. Introducing Queens, Etc, I commenced the spring of 1897 with 15 colonies, iucreast to 31 by natural swarm- ing, reared several fine Italian queens, and introduced them
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1898. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 255 paper come close together, and in practice you never know the difference. Our fac- tories put the paper on in this way. I always do, and it is perfectly satisfactory, much better than to use glue. You see, two or more thicknesses of sandpaper glued together will make a hard surface, and de- feat the object of the felt. A. W. Hart. Stephenson Co., 111. Introducing Queens, Etc, I commenced the spring of 1897 with 15 colonies, iucreast to 31 by natural swarm- ing, reared several fine Italian queens, and introduced them in the place of hybrids. Right here I want to give my plan of in- troducing queens, as I have lost J4 of the queens that I have introduced in cages. When I rear a queen in a nucleus and she stands the test, I go to the hive that I want to introduce in, hunt out the queen and kill her, and the next day I take the three frames out of the nucleus and put them in a new hive with my young queen, worker bees and all. I then take two frames out of the hive that has no queen, and put one on each side of the three frames that has the queen, and leave them till the next morn- ing. I then add two more frames, and the evening of the same day I finish filling the hive. I then have three frames of brood, honey and old bees left to go back to the nucleus to rear another queen. I have introduced several queens with the above plan, and have not lost a single one while following it, and I think if one would take two or three frames out of a queenless hive and-put into a new hive, and then in- troduce the queen in the cage to a small amount, there wouldn't be so much danger of getting her killed. Then after a few bees get used to her, follow the plan as given above. I think my bees are all in fine condition. We have had several warm days, and I noticed to-day they were bringing in the bee-bread by the wholesale. W. W. Beer. Calloway Co., Feb. 10. FREE FOR A MONTH. It you are interested In s
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