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the Bame plants and llowers might be consitl- 

 iTed to be similar in both localities. 



White wild aster honey is water-white in 

 color ; it is a different shade from that from 

 any of the clovers or from hasswood. When 

 the honey is sealed over, the cappings have 

 the slightest shade of lilac or light blue in 

 color. The honey is gathered from the small 

 light-blue wild asters. There is another vari- 

 ety of wild asters, the Howers of which are 

 much larger and of a decided purple color. I 

 have never seen the bees work on this large 

 yariety. 



(ioldenrod honey is distinctly different from 

 aster honey. It is of a beautiful amber color, 

 and very sweet and agreeable. I consider it 

 superior to buckwheat honey in Havor. Buck- 

 wheat honey is very much darker than golden- 

 rod honey. 



Some seasons we have much more golden- 

 rod honey ; but this fall we had none except- 

 ing what was gathered during the buckwheat 

 season. 



Sumac honey is also of au amber color; but 

 the Havor is not as inviting as that of golden- 

 rod. We sometimes have considerable sumac 

 honey. Stephen Davenport. 



Albany Co., N. Y., Feb. 1. 



Wintering Bees. 



I have been keeping bees two summers, and 

 this makes the second winter I have had to 

 battle. The fall of 1903 I faced the winter with 

 7 colonies, in what I supposed was wintering 

 condition, but I learned in the spring of last 

 year, when I tountl that I had only 3 colonies 

 alive, that I did not understand wintering 

 bees very well that time. I bought more bees 

 and read the American Bee Journal, and stud- 

 ied the habits of bees more, and last fall had 

 14 colonies to winter. During the summer I 

 tried to get the colonies as strong as possible, 

 for I believed then, and J i/o «o«', that success- 

 ful wintering depends more on the conditions 

 inside of ?/((■ /(/<'f than it does on the outside. 



I have all 8-frame dovetailed hives except 

 one, which has 16-frames. Some double-walled, 

 and some singled-walled. At the close of the 

 honey-flow I wanted my hives full of honey, 

 and those whose frames were not full I fed 

 with sugar syrup until they werefnU. 



The double-walled hives I just put the cover 

 00 with no packing over the bees at all ; two 

 single-walled hives I jmt winter-cases on, and 

 two I did not, all being on the summer stands 

 exposed to the weather, and although this has 

 been the coldest winter here for 35 years, my 

 bees were in excellent condition yesterday, 

 tor, as it was a warm day, I just looked into 

 the hives to see them. 



1 believe if bees have plenty of stores they 

 will winter just as well on the summer stands 

 as in a cellar, although it is an indisputable 

 fact that the more bees are protected from the 

 cold the less food they will consume. 



W. W. Jacobs. 



Middlesex Co., Mass., Jan 25. 



Management of Swarming. 



March 18 my bees were taken from the cel- 

 lar strong in bees and with plenty of honey in 

 the hives. From April 12 to 15, I lost 9 

 queens, the most of them being 10 monthsold; 

 7 of these queenless colonies reared young 

 queens, and 3 colonies I united with other 

 colonies. On May 3 I hived the first swarm, 

 which was the first of the swarming season. 

 During May I had 22 swarms, and by this 

 time the white clover was in full bloom, and I 

 was anxious to keep the colonies strong with 

 bees. I commenced cutting out queen-cells, 

 but besides its l>eing useless (tor as fast as I 

 would cut them out they would build them 

 again), it also made a great deal of trouble 

 taking off one or more supers that I already 

 had on the hives, so 1 concluded to let them 

 swarm, hiving the swarms in a box made tor 

 that purpose, having a 2-lnch hole at the top, 

 and both ends covered with wire screen tor 

 ventilation. As soon as a swarm was hived 

 in this swarming-box 1 would carry them to a 

 cool place, keeping them confined until even- 

 ing, when I would take a colony that had cast 

 a swarm not more than ti days before, cut out 

 all queen-cells, and put an empty super on top. 

 I would get the bo.x with the swarm, dump 

 them on the frames in the empty super, put 



