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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 19, 19C4. 



one of her wings and press my thumb down 

 upon it. The work is done in much less time, 

 than it talies to tell it. 



I find nothing better than a common ecrew- 

 driverwith which to loosen covers, frames, 

 etc. 



I made a comb-carrier with a tight cover in 

 which I place the combs when taken from the 

 strong to the weak, also to carry extracting- 

 combs; and with a strip of leather I make 

 some places on one end to hold a screw- 

 driver, case-knife, whiskbroom, etc., and find 

 it very convenient. 



The last two or three days the bees have 

 been gathering considerable pollen and some 

 honey, mostly from soft maple, 1 think. 



J. Ridley. 



Wright Co., Minn., April 28. 



Colony Absconded. 



My bees wintered splendidly. One colony 

 absconded, and left some 1.5 or 20 pounds of 

 honey. The queen was a tine one, and left 

 clean combs and fine white honey, but no 

 sign of any brood. There were about 8 pints 

 of bees. They swarmed out and settled. I 

 put them in a hive and they came out and left 

 for parts unknown. C. A. Mangus. 



Blair Co., Pa., April 28. 



Wintered in Bad Shape. 



I took the bees out April 23; they were in 

 bad shape, having spotted the hives badly, but 

 I think they will come out all right if the 

 weather is favorable from now on. To-day 

 they are busy carrying in pollen. 



C. H. Harlan. 



Kanabec Co., Minn., April 28. 



Hiving Swarms— Winter Loss. 



I read a good many things in the Bee Jour- 

 nal that are worth a good deal to me, so I feel 

 as if I ought to give a small kink back. I 

 hived a number of swarms last season, and at 

 night found the hives empty. One swarm I 

 watched to see go in, and saw 5 queens, sol put 

 on an entrance-guard, tacked it tight, and that 

 was the only swarm I saved that day out of o. 



It rained so much that I did not get half a 

 crop last season ; we had a good fall flow, so 

 the bees had plenty to live on. 



The winter loss was more than usual. 



C. G. ASCHA. 



Berkshire Co., Mass., April 30. 



Cold Winter— Wintered Well. 



My bees wintered well. I lost 8 colonies 

 out of 131, wintered outside in chaff-hives. 

 They average almost all strong in bees. We 

 had a very cold winter and plenty of snow. 

 They had a few cleansing flights. I looked 

 them over. H. Behbens. 



Ozaukee Co., Wis., April 1. 



Severe Snow-Storm in April. 



This country was visited by one of the most 

 severe snow-storms imaginable, lasting fully 

 24 hours, and the snow piled up in my bee- 

 yard to the extent of 3 feet in some places, 

 whole rows of hives were completely covered. 



I am now starting out with a scoop-shovel 

 to relieve the bees from their imprisonment. 

 The storm started April 14 and lasted to April 

 15. 



I expect a heavy loss in liees, and they have 

 been confined fully 5}^ months to the cellar, 

 and consequently many of them are short of 

 stores by this time, with hardly any chance to 

 help them any on account of the severe 

 weather. A. C. F. Bartz. 



Chippewa Co., Wis., April 16. 



Weak Colonies in the Spring. 



I want to caution some uf the amateurs in 

 the East who, I know, will have many little, 

 weak colonies this -ipiiug, and who will be 

 anxious to help them build up, and many will 

 make the common mistake of giving frames of 

 brood to the little, weak ones. 



First, it is very hard to Und a frame of brood 

 hat s hatching in a strung colony that will 



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