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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Mar. 24, IW 4. 



I have never before failed to winter them 

 nicely. 



But this 20 degrees below was too much for 

 them ! 



I imagine others have met with equally de- 

 pressing experiences, and that soon they'll 

 begin to " holler." 



]f so, it will mean a short honey crop, inci- 

 dent to lacli of bees. 



But it's no use — the only way is to start 

 fresh and build up quickly, ready for white 

 clover season, at least. 



Certain it is that complaining and "cuss- 

 ing" one's luck does no good. Pitch in and 

 win 1 Dr. Peibo. 



Cook Co., 111., Feb. 24. 



Some Experiences with Bees. 



In 1902 I brought my .52 coloniesof bees out 

 of the cellar on March 24. They were :dl 

 alive, liut 4 were queenless, and I sold one, 

 leaving me 47 colonies. I fed about 2.5. It 

 was a cold spring which prevented swarming 

 until .lune IS. when I had the first swarm. In 

 the fall I had 100 colonies, but decreased them 

 to 60, then the cold November days slopped 

 me from this work. 



In 1903 I brought out some of my bees on 

 March 13, and the balance March LS. They 

 were all healthy, and I sold one colony. It 

 was another cold and wet spring. The only 

 colony that ever died from starvation for me 

 was my first one — a second swarm — I bought 

 on June 5, 1.SS9. But I nearly lost one last 

 spring. One morning I saw dead bees in the 

 entrance, and on opening the hive I noticed 

 bees between the brood-frames. They soon 

 began to move slowly, so I hastily made sugar 

 syrup and sprinkled some over them; in a 

 short time Iriees were seen in the entrance, but 

 this caused robbing, so I put them back into 

 the cellar for b days. After all, I took about 



00 pounds of comb honey from them. 



M3' first 2 swarms appeared on June 21. 

 Then about 10 came that could be hived sepa- 

 rately, but the hottest day they clustered to- 

 gether — how many? Say from 15 to 1" 

 swarms. I hived them in T hives and gave to 

 some 1 super, and to others 2. The next day 



1 heard, " Bees are swarming ! " My answer 



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was : ^' O, that is one of those I hived yester- 

 terday ! " They went about 25 rods south 

 into a neighbor's lot. I gave up hiving them, 

 as it was a very hot day, and, being a weak 

 person, I considered my life worth more than 

 the bees. 



That afternoon the lady came to tell me the 

 bees left there, and settled in a small oak-tree 

 in my lot. I took a hive and one super to the 

 place and shook the bees from the limb to the 

 ground. They all went into the hive. I then 

 increased the supers to 3, each containing 32 

 l"s inch sections, and they filled them all. 



To make a long story short, I will say about 

 2^2 prime swarms clustered on a cherry-tree. 

 They didn't wait until I came with a hive, but 

 said, " Good-bye." I was glad of it. because 

 the honey makes too much work. All after- 

 swarms must go back where they come from. 



Let me tell you an incident relating to a 

 swarm that came out one sultry day. I went 

 out into the yard with a pad of water to keep 

 them from clustering on the grape-arbor. I 

 didn't wear a veil, and this was the first time 

 that bees ever made me retreat to the house. 

 After putting on various articles to keep out 

 bees, I heard a cry from the hen that was im- 

 prisoned ip the yard so her young chickens 

 might eat the millers and other insects from 

 the grass and around the beehives. She was 

 trying to escape through the laths on the box, 

 so I overturned it and found her almost com- 

 pletely covered with bees. She ran this way 

 and that way. Finally we got her into an 

 empty hay-barn, where we caught her, and 

 my daughter took 8 stingers out of her head. 

 The young chickens got stung more or less 

 also, but since I have them in the garden the 

 bees and I are troubled less with millers. And 

 the chickens don't eat the queen or bees as 

 some fear, and have asked Dr. Miller about it. 



I decrea.sed my colonies from 103 to 53, and 

 brought them into the cellar on December 4. 

 I have packed 5495 pounds of No. 1 white' 

 clover honey in shipping-cases holding 24 sec- 

 tions. I had an ofler of 9 cents per pound, 

 prompt acceptance, in December. 



In 1901 I sold my honey for 13 cents per 

 pound, and in 1903 I sold 3020 pounds of 

 white clover honey at 13'. i cents per pound, 

 and 200 pounds of fall honey at 12 cents per 

 pound. They came from Green Bay, a dis- 

 tance of 16 miles, with a team, and took all 

 on one load. I also sold 100 pounds at 14 

 ceuts'per pound. This company called for 

 my honey before I had started packing. Af- 

 ter some corresponding I came down from 13 

 cents to 11 cents per pound, and asked if that 

 suited them; but no answer. Now, a bee-keeper 

 in Illinois was angry that some sold their 

 honey for 10 cents per pound. After selling 

 it at 9 cents, and ra>ii]y: it, how much money 



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