The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-08-05
A friend at Browns Mills, Lee
county. Texas. writes:

county, Texas, writes:
81 want to know how to keep the worms
from my bees. Ny bees are in old fash
toned box hives. How long will bees live
hived out of the woods? The bees l have
are wild bees. Please continue your arti
cies in THE PATRON. | love to read
them, and anything about bees"
BEE MOTH.
know of no certain method of keep
ing the moth, or worms, from your bees,
as the combs when once built in the hive
you use are immovable and you have no
chance to assist the bees when their hives
| are invaded. By turning each hive down
on its side once each week, or oftener, if
| possible, great many moths can be found
under the hive and among the tips of the
| combs. BY killing these before they make
| their way into the combs much damage
will often be avoided. Those who prefer
| to use the oPen-ended box hive should
stand their hives on board, with no
cracks or openings of any kind in it, and
| should have the hive fit 1t closely all
around, so that no crevice can be found
in which miller can deposit an egg, or
| the worms harbor and take refuge. If
combs in the hive bothered by the moth
have been in use for many years | would
turn the hive top end down, smoke the
bees out of the way and cut out all black,
/ tough comb, as it in time becomes useless
and the bees are forced to abandon it for
| comb higher up in the hive, thus giving
| the moth better chance to establish them
selves.
With the hive-described in THE Pa
IRON OF HUsBANDRY of April %, 1882,
well filled with Italian bees, or even
good strain of Blacks, the moth problem
amounts to almost nothing.
| WILD BEES.
The fact that your bees are taken from
the woods in their wild state is evidence
that they are not as good on an average as
any other of the same race, unless it be
| an occasional colony which has been i'm
! proved by careful breeding.
MORE ABOUT TRANSFERRING.
In hiving bees out of the woods l would
| transfer them at once from the tree into
the movable comb hive, being careful 10
save as much of the comb as possible by
fastening it in the frame as directed in
THE PATRON of June 10, 1882. In addi-
ton to the directions there given you can,
after having worked up all the large
pieces, save many of the scraps and odds
and ends by the following process: Place
your empty frame on thin plank about
the size of the outside of the frame and fill
the frame with the scraps, fitting them IN
closely. The board can then be placed on
the top of the frames in the lower story OF
another hive, and the empty upper story
set over it. The bees will come up over
the comb and fasten the scraps together
in a night or two.
When the comb is removed you will
find it fastened to the board in several
places and you must be careful not to
break the comb in hastily pulling the
board loose, but cut it.
In addition to the use of strings to hold
the combs, thin staples of different lengths
SO bent that they will slip over the frame
and catch on to each side of the comb,
can be used to great advantage.
You readily see that a careful worker
can take a swarm from the woods or from
box hive and leave them almost as
strong as they were before. If you fear
they have not sufficient stores to carry
them through the winter you can supply
the deficiency before cold weather by feed
ing syrup made by pouring cold water
over coffee A sugar and stirring until most
of the sugar has dissolved. Exercise care
in transferring and / think during the
. usually short winters in this climate you
! will have no feeding to do, even though
YOU transfer as late as September.
Silk manufacturers boast of pro
! duct worth s35, 900, and the EN-
ployment of 4,5oo hands last year
! The importation of foreign goods
! however, is increasing rapidly
t amounting now to $36,ooo,ooo. Th'
E duty paid amounted to Sal, 6oo,o 900
: so that the duty of 60 per cent. il
certainly not for the protection o
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