Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1879-10-09
Bee Keeping.

saws: Il am nov the owner of a family
of bees that has been on the farm that
now own and was born on nearly sixty.
four years.
Here Mr.. Kennedy is much mistaken.
a family of bees, excepting the queen,
dout live In anv case to exceed 2
months, aud the queens hardly ever to
/ exceed four year-. OF all the bees there
are in YOUR hive to-day. not one OF
them will be alive this time next year.
save the queen, and probably not one
in ten will ever sec the first OF Deem.
Der. This fact can be demonstrated
by any one, by simply introducing an
Italian queen ia black colony. or
black queen in an Italian COLONY.
Ii may be that Mr.. Kennedy only
meant to say, that bees have been kept
on his farm tor 20 wears. which would
be nothing very wonderful.
Why parts of a hive are black aud
part hybrids. Black queens that have
met Italian drOncs, show progeny that
are mostly black aud some hybrids.
and the more black blood YOU intro
duce in the italian queen the more h,-
bid they become. or fewer will he
marked with the tree yellow bands.
which | presume j. what Mr.. Cary
meant in using the word rs brid sim
My referring to the marking of the bees.
The correct distance apart Tor combs
in hive is one and scven-sixteenihs of
an inch, that is LID less than ll2
inches. This IS the cxsc, distance that
bees naturally build their combs. IL put
10 hive with plain board tops and no
comb guides. But bees take readily TO
IL inches between frame oeniers a.
we think all beekecpers have adopted
that distance. For surplus honey some
uses a. much as two inches. and bees
can be made TO build comb even thick.
er than that. We ohoe got lhcm TO
build comb inches thick, by placing
frames in shallow surplus chamber on
the top Of hive. In the first place We
put the frames about two inches from
centres, After the bees got them prct-
" well filed, SO that thew were nearly
a. close IS they usually build. we took
out frame and moved the balance far
Their apart, aud kept on doing So a. long
s. they could be induced 10 lengihcn
ont the cells. Care must be taken not
10 give too much space between tie
combs, or they will start a new comb.
The best thing to Kin the pain OF
bee sting j. to Immediately extract the
sting before the poison has time to enter
The wound This can be done in an in
slant with the finger nail. bv a vigor-
oBs scratch where the sting has entered.
a. well where ysu cannot see il a.
where YOU can. IL The poison i. allow
cd 10 enter the blood. We doub, fiheir
j. any outward application tina: will DO
much good.
We have stated that not only strong
swarm OF bees bat a week one also was
proof against moth in proper hive. 4
strong swarm will generally Vro,co: IL
sell IN any hive. bat we can .ec that
moth mas be produced in such prodig
ous numbers, that II strong colony Of
bees are in an old rickciy hive all full Of
cracks aud breeding places they might
u such = case be bothered with the
moth THIS season have been TO DIFF
eseui apiarics IN th., county. aud
'ouud hives a. fun Of moth ~ Other.
were iu,l Of bees. Now, " hen person
breeds moth az that rate IL would be no I
wonder II he would bc bothered with /
them. In one place | found - empty
hives where the bccs had died lat win
ter. Those hives will breed ~ mouth-
Tor every bee that be la. got tia. season.
and /: wonld he a wonder il ihcy did
not bother him. have e1pcIiEeulcd
some with moth since ! wrote INV last
article TO the Journal about the moth. :
| put swarm in u hive OF comb with 1
lots Of young moth larva before they
were large enough to damage the comb
aud the bees would clean every one out
| hsye never found moth larva 10 my
hives unless it was in some crack ~ber.
the bees could not enter or in liter on
the bottom Of the hive Occasionally
there will be one in capped brood work.
ing just over the heads OF the Young
bees in the cells eating away the caps
aud tie top part Of the cell, and at the
same time making 4 strong wet over it,
patti. just even with the face OF the
comb. Thee seem to be tolerated by
the bees for time, probably on account
of their aversion to destroying the brood
TO get them out.
\ good plan is not to breed moth and
then you will not be troubled with
them.-IJournal Of Agriculture.