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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 4, 19C4. 



wide, and long enough to reach across the 

 hive front, bent in and tacked well. Be sure 

 on that point. Next I set the hives on the 

 two pieces of 2x4 and nailed them at three of 

 the corners with s-penny wire nails, leaving 

 the nails up about i,, inch, I could not get at 

 the fourth corner to nail that. Then I put 

 two other pieces of 3x4 across the hives, nail- 

 ing them at the end and toe-nailing them to 

 the caps. In that manner I placed 84 colonies 

 in one end of a box-car, putting L'x4's on the 

 top of the last and then piling empty supers, 

 etc., on top of the whole of them. I then 

 took some 2xi5 and put them across the car 

 against the ends of the whole lot, spiking 

 them solid, three of them straight and one 

 across, making the whole solid. I will say 

 right here, that they must be made so they 

 cannot move, or else all is lost. 



In the other end of the car I had household 

 goods, and nailed boards across to keep them 

 from moving. Well, those boards lasted just 

 until the train, or rather the engine, ran off 

 the track, then the engineer stopped the 

 train with the air-brakes, and those boards 

 broke like matches. 



Another thing : Put the bees in the front 

 end of the ear, if you don't have more than '., 

 carload, as the sudden stops throw the stutl 

 in the car towards the front end oftener than 

 the other way. 



I had all ready for 7 or ■'^ days, waiting for a 

 car, then it took 7 full days to come 1644 miles 

 by rail, and the next day to get them out of 

 the car, so it was 16 or 1" days from the time 

 the hives were nailed up until they were 

 opened, when I found just 2 of the combs 

 broken out of the frames, and two other hives 

 had the comb bruised so the honey leaked out 

 some, but not broken. One colony swarmed 

 out, but clustered on the side of their hive, 

 and I put them back and they stayed there. 



I live about 7 miles from where I have my 

 bees; I went down there yesterday, and they 

 were flying out a good deal, and seem all 

 right to-day. I went west from here, to Out- 

 look, to see a man that has about 1.50 colonies 

 of bees, and they were Hying a good deal. 

 There are quite a number of bees in this vicin- 

 ity, but most of them are farmer's bees, and 

 the owners don't know or care to take much 

 care of them. I found one bee-keeper who 

 does not claim to spend much time with his 

 bees, but he knows that he can make it pay 

 to handle them, as he reads bee papers and 

 books. 



I had to smile while reading Dr. Miller's ex- 

 perience in the days when he was trying to 

 keep bees at a distance, or at long range, as I 

 had tried something in that line myself. I 

 came out here (from central Minnesota) on 

 account of the cold winters. We have not 

 had any winter here yet ; the coldest was 

 Thanksgiving week, about 16 to 32 degrees 

 above zero, but the rest of the time it has 

 been mostly 38 to 35 degrees or warmer. We 

 have had a good deal of foggy, cloudy weather 

 during November and December and the first 

 week in January. There is a great deal of 

 alfalfa raised here, the only trouble being 

 that they cut it almost too soon for the honey 

 crop. 



ilees are left out on the summer stands all 

 the time here, and no complaint about winter 

 loss. Chas. W. Sager. 



Yakima Co., Wash., Jan. 13. 



Bee-Keepingr in North Dakota. 



The American Bee Journal comes along on 

 time and in good shape, and has been a great 

 help to me in the management of bees. I 

 have kept a few colonies for a number of 

 years. With the Journal I can without fail 

 make a success of them through all seasons 

 of the year, winter excepted ! 



I have put away for the past years, from 

 10 to 30 colonies, in a bee-house above ground, 

 built the best way I knew how to resist the 

 severe winter of North Dakota. My losses 

 were heavy, only saving about 2 out of every 

 10 or 12. Last winter I put 3 in the house- 

 cellar to try results ; 3 came out fairly good, 

 one poor. The 9 I put in the bee-house all 

 died. 



I had grand success in building up these 3, 

 thanks to the American Bee Journal for its 

 guiding staff of writers, giving practical ex- 

 perience. I took them out of the cellar about 



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