. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 374 Versailles, Ky., July 12, 1879. On the 30th of June I swarmed a colony of black bees by the exchange method, using a nucleus with a young Italian queen to make the exchange. Two days after the swarm- ing, I noticed a ball of bees on the ground in front of the hive of blacks, and on open- ing it found a black queen nearly smoth- ered, and she died finally in a short time. Thinking the bees had merely destroyed a queen cell in the hive and carried the queen out, I thought no more about it until yester- day, when looking through the hive I espied a l
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 374 Versailles, Ky., July 12, 1879. On the 30th of June I swarmed a colony of black bees by the exchange method, using a nucleus with a young Italian queen to make the exchange. Two days after the swarm- ing, I noticed a ball of bees on the ground in front of the hive of blacks, and on open- ing it found a black queen nearly smoth- ered, and she died finally in a short time. Thinking the bees had merely destroyed a queen cell in the hive and carried the queen out, I thought no more about it until yester- day, when looking through the hive I espied a large fine Italian queen. About that time I lost an Italian queen from a nucleus, about 8 feet from where the colony of blacks stood, and thought she was lost on her mar- riage flight. Can it be that she entered the wrong hive on her return, killed the black queen and took possession : R. W. Keene, M. D. [Yes, it is probable the young Italian queen you mention mistook the hive and en- tered it. We have heard of several instances of the kind. Virgin queens are frequently very hasty in "marking" the location of their homes, and seeing but few bees flying from the nuclei, are easily misled.—Ed.] Waveland, Ind., July 16, 1879. About half a crop of honey in this county (Montgomery); increase by natural swarm- ing about one-fifth. Peter James. Libertyville, Mo., July 14,1879. On page 355, October number, 1878, Amer- ican Bee Journal, I said that 1 had 64 colonies of bees, but as I sold 58 colonies in November, only had 6 left, which I brought through the disastrous winter, and when fall comes I may give you a report from those. There is but little honey being gath- ered now, as white clover has disappeared. I am greatly interested in your correspon- dence department, especially the letters from Messrs. Heddon and Doolittle. Suc- cess to the ever-improving American Bee Journal. J. B. Dines. Crown City, O., July 15,1879. 1 have 100 colonies of bees, Italians and blacks. Swar
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