. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Feb. 14, 1901. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 111 some nectar. Some colonies had plenty for winter, but others did not, and I beffan in August to feed them about 8(10 pounds of good honey, in order to keep them from starving and get them in good condition for winter. The)' are wintering splendidly so far, and I hope the coming season will be a good one. To-day is the worst day we have had so far this winter. It is snowing and blowing, and cold. I hope it will not last long. A. J. McBkide. Watauga Co., N. C, Jan. 24. Good Honey-Cpop—Introducing Queens. My honey
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Feb. 14, 1901. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 111 some nectar. Some colonies had plenty for winter, but others did not, and I beffan in August to feed them about 8(10 pounds of good honey, in order to keep them from starving and get them in good condition for winter. The)' are wintering splendidly so far, and I hope the coming season will be a good one. To-day is the worst day we have had so far this winter. It is snowing and blowing, and cold. I hope it will not last long. A. J. McBkide. Watauga Co., N. C, Jan. 24. Good Honey-Cpop—Introducing Queens. My honey crop for the year 1900 was 4,500 pounds from 45 colonies, spring count, a little over one-third of which was comb honey. M)' average yield for 11 years has been 60 pounds per colony, about one-half of it being comb. The best yield was in 1893, when I got 114 pounds per colony, and the poorest yield was in 1899—16 pounds per colony. Perhaps the method I use for intro- ducing queens will be helpful to some. When I receive a queen thru the mails I put her in a Miller iutroducing-cage without any of the escort bees, put in some candy, and plug the hole so the workers can not get at the candy. Remove the queen that is to be super- seded, and place the cage containing the queen between two of the central combs. The next day open the hive quietly, and if the bees seem friendly to the queen remove the plug, fill the hole with candy, replace the cage, and do not open the hive again for nearly a week. I have had but one failure in five years, in using this method. I formerly lost 25 percent of my queens by following the directions that came with the queens. I believe many of the failures in in- troducing are caused by the escort bees being left with the queen. If the bees appear angry do not remove the plug the next day, but wait until they are friendly toward the queen. The American Bee Journal is all right. D. I. Wag.\r. Wayne Co., Mich., Jan. 23. Convention Xotioe. California.—T
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