Mar. 3, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Bees in Good Condition. 



I am wlDterinjj .50 colonies of bees on the 

 summer stands. They bad a fine flijjht to-day. 

 and are all in eooii condition. 



I use the S-frame Quinhy hive. I made 

 kindling of my Langstroth hives 20 years ago; 

 they are too sballow for outdoor wintering. 



Henry Co., Iowa, Feb. G. J. A. Thomas. 



Oyster Paclcages for Holding Honey 



Having read a number of articles about 

 packages for extracted and bulk comb honey, 

 I wish to make a suggestion in this line, to 

 those who sell this grade to home trade, about 

 a package that I think would do nicely for 

 the delivery of liulk comb and extracted to 

 the producer's home market. My idea is to 

 use the paper packages that dealers in oysters 

 give to customers to carry home their oysters 

 in. They are made of heavy stiff paper that 

 seems to have sizing in its composition. At 

 any rate, the oysters, which have a fair 

 percentage of juice not so thick as honey, cer- 

 tainly do not leak out of the packages. 



They can be bought cheap, and of suitable 

 size for small sales in the home market. They 

 also may be carried a little farther, by the sup- 

 ply dealer having them made of waxed paper; 

 but I consider they would stand quite a while 

 before they would absorb enough honey so as 

 to leak at all, even to be placed, perhaps, on 

 sale in a grocery store for a short time. At 

 any rate, they would serve to deliver the 

 honey in, as the oysters are delivered to the 

 purchaser. I have never known this oyster 

 package to leak in taking oysters home from 

 the dealer. 



There was no honey to speak of stored in 

 this locality the past season, but the bees had 

 plenty of stores to winter on. 



Chas. E. Clapp. 



Cumberland Co., Maine, Jan. 22. 



Foup-Copnep Water-Tanlis fop Bee- 

 House. 



I want to ask how Geo. Honess makes the 

 four-corner water-tanks he speaks of in his 

 letter on page 100. W. D. Hurt. 



Cass Co., Mo. 



Some Bee-Keeping Experience. 



Replying to inquiries on page TO, I will say 

 that I did not intend to run my 220 colonies 

 of bees in one yard, but would put out 100 or 

 more 4 or 5 miles from the home-yard, and 

 run for extracted honey. I would use the 

 home yard for comb honey. 



My beesare in Wood Co., near the centerof 

 the State. Four years ago I moved 100 colonies 

 from my home here to Wood Co. on account 

 of there being nothing here to gather honey 

 from, clover of all kinds having been killed 

 by the previous hard winter. I arrived at 

 the above-named place with my car-load of 

 bees on June 17, after being three days on the 

 road. The bees were much reduced in num- 

 bers on account of the starving condition be- 

 fore leaving home and the journey of 225 

 miles. 



I located with a farmer who kept a few 

 colonies of bees in box-hives. There is a good 

 cellar under his large farm-house, which I 

 secured the use of as a repository for my bees. 



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