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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 12, 1904. 



removed the top hive, turned the box-hive up- 

 side down, and placed the hive (with combs 

 of honey that had been stored) on top, and 

 smoked the bees up into it. I then put them 

 back on the old stand, and they have wintered 

 all right. I think this is an easy way of doing 

 the trick. 



This has been a hard winter on bees— they 

 did not have a flight all winter. I lost one 

 colony of golden Italians. I like the dark 

 Italians best, as they seem to winter better. 



There is a lot of alfalfa growing wild here. 

 I do not know where it came from, but I 

 mean to keep my eye on it and see if the bees 

 pay any attention to it. 



I hope some one will start up the queen- 

 rearing discussion again. It makes interest- 

 ing reading, and some of those breeders need 

 stirring up. I have often paid a breeder his 

 price for good queens, and he sent me some 

 queer kind of bugs that I can not name. 

 They certainly were not queen-bees. 



Haket Greves. 



Hudson Co., N. J., March 12. 



Wintered Without Loss. 



We are having very fair weather here at 

 present, but it is trying to rain today. The 

 white clover was pretty well killed out here; 

 that is, where the grass is left long, for the 

 mice have cut it tignt to the ground, but 

 where the grass is short it is alive. Whether 

 there will be any honey in it or not we do not 

 know. The basswood wasn't any good last 

 year, so we have some hopes of it this year. 



I put 41 colonies of bees in the cellar Dec. 

 11, and took them out March 33. They are 

 all alive yet. The reason for my taking them 

 out so early was that some of them were very 

 ight, and the rest of them were very restless, 

 so I thought I would better take them out. 

 Most of them are very strong, and some of 

 them have quite a lot of brood. This is the 

 first time, thus far, that I have wintered bees 

 without losing quite a lot of them, and I have 

 worked at the bee-business for IS or 20 years. 

 I bought '■) colonies this spring that were win- 

 tered outdoors, making .50 colonies for the 

 coming summer. U. S. Boyd. 



Grant Co., Wis., April 5. 



Bee-Keeping in Alabama. 



Winter is gone, and spring is here again in 

 all its glory, but it makes me feel sad to see 

 BO many vacant places in my apiary. Last 

 fall I had 86 colonies, but on account of the 

 very dry fall nearly all were short of stores 

 and very weak. It was cold all the time from 

 the middle of November until Feb. 20. 

 Although the average was from 5 to 6 degrees 

 lower than usual, yet we had no severe cold 

 like we have sometimes. The coldest morn- 

 ing was 20 degrees above zero. Since Feb. 20 

 it has been very warm most of the time. The 

 coldest morning was April 4. The warmest 

 day was March 22— S8 degrees in the shade. I 

 had 3 queenless colonies; the robber-bees de- 

 stroyed two or three, and about 30 starved. I 

 have been feeding ever since it turned warm. 

 The most of my colonies are in very good 

 shape BOW. Our best flow began about four 

 days ago. This is the largest since 1S02. 

 While the prospect is all one can ask for now. 

 yet there is a chance for us to have a lot of 

 cold winds. If we do, the crop will be short 

 again. 



Now, I must tell our black-bee brothers a 

 little more about those "valuable blacks" 

 and " worthless Italians.'' While those " val- 

 uable blacks" either all starved or came 

 through very weak, those " worthless Ital- 

 ians "all lived except one colony, and were 

 the first to put up a cell of honey. So there, 

 now! 



I read with interest about those boys and 

 that bee-tree, also Mr. Hasty's comments on 

 it. I believe Mr. Hasty is right. While it is 

 true that there are some things that ought to 

 be tried in law, it is also true that there are 

 somethings in law that ought not to be there. 

 I have had robbers visit my apiary three times. 

 I think I had evidence enough to have con- 

 victed them, but I did not bother about it, 

 and I am glad that I did not do so. I will 

 add, too, that I am as hard on stealing as any- 

 body need to be. 



I think that Mr. Gill and others are right 



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