. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 318 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. April 190S. mistake. How was I to take oS those sec- tions without getting stung? They were across the hive, with glass front and back. My folks kept asking me when I was going to take the honey oft, expecting to see a fra- cas, and I expected the same. I got to work and removed one light of glass. No fight. I lifted one section with my knife, and with a turkey-wing feather I brushed the bees off en the front of the hive. I removed every sec- tion in this way, but in taking off the last a sections I struck the one 1 had i
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 318 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. April 190S. mistake. How was I to take oS those sec- tions without getting stung? They were across the hive, with glass front and back. My folks kept asking me when I was going to take the honey oft, expecting to see a fra- cas, and I expected the same. I got to work and removed one light of glass. No fight. I lifted one section with my knife, and with a turkey-wing feather I brushed the bees off en the front of the hive. I removed every sec- tion in this way, but in taking off the last a sections I struck the one 1 had in my hand against another, and was stung. From the other Carniolan colony I had been taking out brood for queen-rearing, so on its hive I put 6 sections crosswise of the hive, with two lights of glass. Inside of a week those 6 sections were plump full of bees working on the strips of foundation. So I made a super with 9 frames holding 3 sections each, had 2 frames to put those 6 sections in and removed the glass, picked up the 6 sec- tions and bees, placed them in the frames, and hung the frames in the super. Not a bee tried to sting—they were too much engaged in comb-building. Every time I took off sections from the black colony I got stung. We had white clover from-June 15 up to the 1st of September. I saw one lonely black bee gathering from it. The blossoms were plentiful on the roadsides, in the fields, and anywhere one might look for it. The bass- wood yield was good. In a big basswood tree near by bees could be seen going home after sundown. We could see the nectar in the blossoms, and I should judge that one flower's nectar would be all that a bee could take in one load. I have 5 Carniolan colonies, 1 Italian, and 3 blacks. I have not lost any yet this winter. E. Tucker. Genessee Co., N. Y., March 7. CONVENTION NOTICES. Connecticut.—The 14th annnal spring meet- ing of the Connecticut Bee-Keepers" Associa- tion will be held in Room 50 of the Capitol, in Hartford,
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