. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 244 On March 25tli, I noticed, wliile insipecting a hive, some tioo or three bees evidently hostile to the queen. I i)icked tlieni out and killed them and hoped all the rest were loyal, seeing nothing else to the contrary; but the next morning, lo! there at the door was the queen dead. I cannot tell you how it distressed me. It was only about midday, and I could not think what either myself or the poor queen had done to anger the bees. The colony that was trying to swarm the middle of the month made it out, I think, though 1 did not see them, but on t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 244 On March 25tli, I noticed, wliile insipecting a hive, some tioo or three bees evidently hostile to the queen. I i)icked tlieni out and killed them and hoped all the rest were loyal, seeing nothing else to the contrary; but the next morning, lo! there at the door was the queen dead. I cannot tell you how it distressed me. It was only about midday, and I could not think what either myself or the poor queen had done to anger the bees. The colony that was trying to swarm the middle of the month made it out, I think, though 1 did not see them, but on the 35th I saw a young queen in that hive which had just emerged from lier cell. I suppose I must have overlooked that cell when 1 cut out the rest. I forgot to notice when I saw the first drones, but there are lots now in some of the hives. The honey coming in now is delicious. Anna Saundeks. Clyde, Iowa, June 13,1878. " In answer to many questions—' What killed the bees ?' I will say : Improper stores. During the winters of 1877-8, I lost 75 per cent.—cause, poor honey. A large proportion of those lost were blacks, while a large ])er cent, of those left was Italians. Does tliis not prove that the latter are more hardy, and that they procure better stores ? They are more gentle, and for this reason alone I prefer them to the ; R. ECKLESS. Elizabethtown, Ind., June 15,1878. Fbiend Newman:—"I see by last month's Journal that you report 'univer- sal cold and wet.' "With us, it has been so ; even now, June 15, we are having very cool nights, for this time of the year; and to make matters worse, it rains almost every day. White clover has been in bloom for several weeks, and lias furnished but little honey. Bees are in nice condition, how- ever, to work in boxes, if it only turns warm and dry. As the queens have had things all their own way, filling the combs full of brood from top to bottom, and bees are strong in numbers, they will have to store in
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