April 14, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Expects a Good Season. 



The past winter was yery cold, and very 

 bard on the Ijees. X winter my bees on the 

 summer stands. The coming season ought to 

 be a hummer, tor the season was wet, and the 

 past season as a honey-year was fine, as some 

 gathered large crops. I had 2 colonies, spring 

 count, and got between 500 and 600 pounds. 

 Ezra HuiirnRET. 



Faribault Co., Minn., March 21. 



Wintered Well— Fine Prospects. 



My bees are wintering fine so far. Eyery 

 colony was alive Feb. 23. So tar as I could 

 find, all have plenty of honey and are not 

 moldy. They have enough honey to last them 

 until they can make a living, but from now 

 until they are let out-of-doors will be the 

 pinch. It will be harder on them than the 

 previous part of the winter. At least, that 

 has been my experience here. 



The prospect for honey is yery good here. 



There was plenty of white clover last fall, 

 which went into the winter all right, but we 

 have not had much snow until now, and the 

 ground is frozen very deep (about four or five 

 feet) , but I do not think It will hurt the white 

 clover, as the roots are right on top of the 

 ground. There was not much honey in the 

 basswood last year, as only about half of it 

 blossomed out, so there is a prospect of bass- 

 wood honey this year. Well, we are hoping 

 tor the best, anyway. 



A great many bees around here are wintered 

 out-of-doors, in 4-colony hives, suchasN. E. 

 France uses. I do not know how they are 

 wintering, but I think the winter will be 

 hard on them, for there has been but one day 

 this winter when they had a good flight. The 

 temperature has been as low as 30 degrees be- 

 low zero, and it has been very cold all the 

 time. But we hope that they will winter well, 

 anyway. U. S. Botd. 



Grant Co., Wis., Feb. 23. 



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There has been much discussion in the bee- 

 papers recently, regarding the high price of 

 hives, in which I have been much interested. 

 It is a question with which every bee-keeper 

 should familiarize himself, whether he keeps 

 5 colonies or .500. 



I wish to add a word to what the others are 

 saying and give my experience in regard to 

 the cost of hives. I have now 33 hives, all 

 except two of which I made myself. Further- 

 more, I consider those I made just as good as, if 

 not better than, those I bought. 



I have just completed 12 single-walled hives 

 of the dovetailed pattern, except that I 

 halved the corners and nailed them both ways 

 — a method I prefer to dovetailing, as when a 

 dovetailed hive spreads the least bit at the 

 corners, it makes a crack right into the brood- 

 chamber, whereas the halved corner does not. 

 Ten of these hives are tor 8 frames, and two 

 hold 10 frames. 



These hives complete, with cover of one 

 piece, beveled, as the different manuficturers 

 used to make them, nailed, and with a false 

 entrance for winter, cost me as follows: 



127 feet pine lumber at 2} ,c per foot. ?3. IS 



5 lbs. of Sd wire nails at 4c per lb 20 



24 tin rabbets, madeat the tinner's... .35 



1 gallon best outside paint 1.70 



24 hours labor at 3134 c P^r hour 7.50 



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The cost of hives, bought of dealers, nailed 

 and painted, is $16.36. These figures show 

 that I saved $3.53, besides the freight bill 

 that I would have had to pay had I bought 

 the hive.': d a dealer. I have allowed 10 per- 

 cent waste on the lumber, but the greater part 

 of the waste I took to the mill and had sawed 

 into ends, tops, bottom-bars, and wedges for 

 Hoffman pattern frames, which I made at a 



