June 2, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



395 



appeared to be strong a month aeo have 

 springdwiodled badly, and what bees are 

 left have to stay at home to keep the house 

 warm, and consequently are getting no bene- 

 fit fiom the truit-bloom which is now on, and 

 will be over in a few days. C. H. Waib. 



LaPorte Co., Ind., May 13. 



Sulphur for Keeping Mice and Rats 

 Away. 



I send a clipping from a newspaper ; it is 

 not about bees or honey, but a remedy to 

 keep mice and rats out of corncribs and grain- 

 stacks by the use of sulphur, and, if so, why 

 can't we bee-keepers use it to keep the mice 

 out- of our bee-hives and extracting-combs? 

 During the winter Ihave been bothered quite 

 a little by their getting at my extracting- 

 combs, and I notice, on page 351, that F. Z. 

 Dexter & Sons use it with success to keep out 

 the bee-moths from old combs where the bees 

 have died. 



I have heard it said that when a green tree 

 is covered with caterpillars if you will bore a 

 hole in the tree and put some sulphur in it, 

 and then plug it up, the caterpillars will all 

 leave the tree in a short time. I only men- 

 tion this that if it be so we may gain some 

 knowledge of the use of sulphur. 



Hardin Co., Iowa. N. YouNG. 



[The clipping referred to by Mr. Young is 

 as follows:— Editor.] 



QcES.— We have been troubled a great deal 

 with rats about the barn and outbuildings. 

 Can you give us some suggestion as to how to 

 get rid of them ' 



Aks. — If you will sprinkle sulphur on your 

 barn floor and through your corn as you 

 gather it there will not be a rat or mouse 

 around the premises. One farmer who has 

 tried this plan says : 



•' I have done this for several years, and 

 have never been bothered with rats or mice. 

 I have some old corn in ray crib now and not 

 a rat or mouse can be found." 



In stacking hay or oats sprinkle on the 

 ground and a little over each load, and rats 

 and mice will not stay where the sulphur is. 

 A pound will be sufficient to preserve a large 

 crib of corn, and is good for the stock and will 

 not hurt the corn for bread. 



Disastrous Winter— Good Prospects. 



As I have seen no report from this part of 

 the State this spring, I will send a contribu- 

 tion. 



The past winter was a very disastrous one 

 to bees; they went into winter quarters 

 (which here is the cellar) very light in 

 stores, and as far as I have learned the losses 

 have been over 50 percent, and in several cases 

 at least two-thirds of the colonies are dead. 

 The greater part of them starved, although 

 quite a number died with plenty of honey in 

 the hive. The hives were badly besmeared, 

 showing that dysentery was quite prevalent. 



My own loss up to date is a little less than 

 one-half. I put in US colonies, and have from 

 75 to SO colonies left, a few of which are 

 quite light. Bees stored no surplus last season 

 after July 10, and when I took off the supers 

 I was well aware that they were light in 

 stores, and I then intended to feed for winter, 

 but my tenant was taken sick just at that time, 

 and the rush of farm-work took my lime and 

 attention so the bees were neglected, and I 

 was greatly surprised upon putting them into 

 the cellar to see how they had shrunken in 

 weight since I took oS the supers. 



After I had them all in the cellar I took 

 down the scales and weighed every hive I 

 thought doubtful, aud put supers containing 

 several pounds of partly filled sections upon 

 40 of the lightest. Nearly all of those thus 

 fed came through alive, and the supers and 

 sectionswere generally clean. 



I found one hive in which they starved, 

 that I marked 40}^' pounds; that is what it 

 weighed when put into the cellar Nov. 17; 

 this one had no super left oa it. 



Beei consumed much more honey last win- 

 ter than usual, owing to the lonj: confinement 

 and steady cold, the temperature in my bee- 

 room being about 40 to 42 degrees all winter, 



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