April 14, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



285 



there ought to be. The climate is very much 

 in our favor. The bees are wintered on the 

 summer stands, and work on pollen in Jan- 

 uary. 



The climate must be fine, or a circus would 

 not winter here. We also have an ostrich 

 farm here. San Jose, a city of 25,000 inhab- 

 itants, is only 4 miles from here. No snow 

 has fallen in this valley for over 20 years. Ice 

 gets to be only f^ of an inch thick, and not 

 very cold at that. We call it "Paradise" 

 here — The land of the prunes and home of 

 the honey-bee. M. 8. Phillips. 



Santa Clara Co., Calif., March 8. 



Making Hives, Supers, Etc. 



I will try to tellhow I make hives and cov- 

 ers. 1 buy the best white pine for hives. 1 

 get 1x10 surfaced on both sides, supers to hold 

 3;'sx5i4 sections. For bottoms I use the best 

 8-inch flooring, with 1x2 inch cleats nailed 

 edgewise underneath. For covers I use the 

 same as for bottoms, and paint with two coats 

 of paint, and then nail a strip of tin over the 

 joint. This makes a good cover at a cost of 

 about T cents each. 1 paint hives two coats. 

 In this way the hives cost me, without frames, 

 sections and separators, about 45 cents each, 

 and I think they are good enough. 



Last season was good for honey and lots of 

 swarms. This has been a hard winter on bees 

 on the stands. It got as cold as 26 degrees 

 below zero. C. H. Zdkpann. 



Lewis Co., Mo., March 3. 



A Long Conflnement. 



To-day, for the first time since Nov. 19, 

 1903, my bees had a flight. On examination! 

 found 2 colonies dead out of n ; the 2 died of 

 starvation. There is no sign of dysentery in 

 the 2 dead or the 7 still alive. The colonies 

 were all in single-walled S-frame dovetailed 

 hives, with an outside box packed with leaves 

 between it and the hive. There was one super 

 on each hive, and a Hill's device over the 

 frames, then a piece of burlap, and the super 

 filled with leaves. W. D. Ball. 



St. Joseph Co., Ind., Feb. 28. 



Some Experience with Bees. 



In the fall of lltOl I l>ought 3 colonies of 

 black liees. May 10, 1902, I had a prime 

 swarm of bees. One week afterward the 

 wind tipped the hive off of the stand and 

 broke down all the combs that were built. I 

 took away all the broken combs, which filled 

 all but one frame. One evening, as I was 

 passing the hive, I noticed that tliey had lost 

 their queen, and one week afterwards I 

 opened the hive and found 15 queen-cells — as 

 fine a lot of cells as I ever saw. There were 

 3 queens that were good, and others were not 

 larger than workers, so 1 sent for a select- 

 tested Italian queen. In due time her work- 

 ers and drones made there first flight. The 

 workers were not marked well. They varied 

 from 1 to 3 bands, but the drones were well 

 marked, 2 and 3 bands, and I did not see 

 a dark drone in 1902-03. I have 2 Carniolan 

 queens that breed all-lianded drones. I had a 

 young Carniolan queen mated with an Italian 

 drone. The workers had two broad bands, 

 but of the same shade of orange-yellow. The 

 Carniolans have the bands of lemon-yellow, 

 and I did not have any Carniolan droi.es fly- 

 ing at that time. Two young Italian queens 

 were mated by those Italians drones, and 

 their workers are as dark as black bees, but 

 have one and two bands. Now, there are 3 

 queens mated with Italian drones from the 

 one hive, as my other black bees had drone- 

 cages set at each hive. Why were those work- 

 ers from the two young Italian queens darker 

 than the workers from the Carniolan queen? 

 The yield of honey was very poor here— too 

 cold in the fore part of the season and my bees 

 did not gather any after August. Smartweed 

 and goldenrod were alive with bees in 1902. 

 The same plants did not have a bee on them 

 in 1903. There were two acres of buckwheat 

 across the road from my bee-yard. There 

 were plenty of the black bees on it. I looked 

 many times but saw only a very few Car- 

 niolans and Italians, but I could see all 3 

 races gathering from a piece of alfalfa about 



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