April 21, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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antl I have ubimdoned their use. I sell my 

 honey in tin imils, filling them lirsl with comb 

 honey and thin pouring on extracted until 

 the pails an- iiL-arly full. This arrangement 

 seems best, antl meets with ready sale. I believe 

 the above is railed "chunk hout-y." I get 

 al)Oul .*60U from my bees annually. I get 15 

 lents for extracted or chunli honey, all sold 

 here in the city. I live 3Jo miles from the 

 city and raise my own supplies, so my honey 

 comes in nicely. 



Dysentery, siiring dwindling, and winter 

 starvation arc our drawbacks. 



W. H. Morrow. 



Fulton Co., (ia., March 30. 



European Linden— Catalpa Honey. 



On page 15;i there is a question aljout linden 

 or basswood. The European linden is some 

 better than our basswood for ''Michigan's " 

 purpose. I advise him to purchase the Euro- 

 pean linden, but to set out none larger than 

 ;■.! of an inch in diameter. I have both. 



Regarding t-atalpa honey, I would sa.\' that 

 I have many thousand fine, large catalpa trees, 

 which, when in bloom, are headquarters tor 

 the bees. Catalpa honey is colorless, and of 

 extra-good quality. Chas. Winkler. 



Adams Co., Nebr. 



Small Loss in Wintering. 



Last fall I bail 9 colonies, and now I have 8. 

 When I prepared them for winter I put the 

 one that died on the doubtful list. I prepared 

 them for winter thus: First I made a shed 3 

 feet wide, 16 feet long, 3 feet at the back, 4 

 feet iii front, and a floor for a protection in 

 front. I took rubber-cloth, such as we use to 

 make side-curtains for buggies, and made a 

 drop-curtain so it could be raised to let the 

 bees fly when the weather was warm enough. 

 Next when I put the bees in the shed I packed 

 straw around the hives except in front, which 

 was protected by the curtain. The shed faces 

 the south un the brow of a hill. 



My bees did not have a flight from Oct. 17 

 until .Jan. 0, and again Feb. 6. At this date 

 I fed li colonies candy made of granulated 

 sugar, and they are doing well so far. The 

 soft staple is in bloom, and the bees are gath- 

 ering pollen from it when the weather is tit. 



The white clover is coming up fine; the 

 prospect for white clover is better at this time 

 than last year, which I hope will continue, as 

 it is about the only bloom we have here for 

 honey. John Sharp. 



Montgomery Co., Ind., March 31. 



Expepience with Bees. 



I am 65 years old, and can not do any hard 

 work, and I like to work among the bees. I 

 started in the year 1903 with 60 colonies, and 

 got 4300 pounds of extracted honey. I have 

 n colonies, packed with chaff in long boxes 

 holding from 3 to 6 colonies each, shingled all 

 around the sides, ends and cover. They are 

 completely covered with snow, but I think 

 they will come through all right, as I had 

 some covered for four months, a few years 

 ago, and the> were all right. 



I do not want to lose a single copy of the 

 .\merican Bee Journal. Edward Knoll. 



Ontario, Canada, Feb. 34. 



Hive-Covers— Paper Seetlons. 



1 wish to say to Mr. Hasty, page 89, that 

 lard on his canvas covers will keep out the 

 wax-moth and they will get water-proof if you 

 let them lie in the sun 3 or 4 days after put- 

 ling on the lurd. The smell does not seem to 

 bother the bci's. I notice that some think 

 that putting sheet-lead on hive-covers, like 

 the English do, would be too expensive. I 

 have a price-li^t from a Chicago firm which 

 sells sheet-lemi for 8'., cents a pounds, and it 

 runs from -' , to Iii square feet to the 

 pound. Thai would make it as cheap as 

 painted muslin, and it would be indestructible. 

 1 lived for t^iveral years in the West, where 

 tlie dry wratlur warps the covers to pieces, 

 and 1 can say ihata cover made from 3'.^ -inch 

 flooring will iiot warp, when made as 1 make 

 them. I doii t see why sections can not be 



