July 14. 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



491 



IS or 20 supers soon to come oflf, be- 

 sides about 300 pounds of extracted. I 

 have 7T supers on, and will put more 

 on to-day. 



We had a backward spring-, but I 

 made every effort to get the bees strong 

 and had over one-half in 3 supers. 

 Basswood promises the finest bloom I 

 ■ever saw, and will be in in about 8 or 

 10 days. I am fixed for it. I have SO 

 empty hives, regular Root hives, ex- 

 cepting I " rooted " them out myself. 

 Also 8,000 sections which I got for'$2.S0 

 per 1,000. 



I have had some swarming, but not 

 much. I have SO colonies now ; 34 in 

 the spring. J. E. Johnson. 



Knox Co., 111. 



Bees Doing Passably Well. 



The season has been cold and back- 

 ■ward, but the bees are doing passably 

 ■well at present. I am caring for 140 

 colonies. There are no less than 1,500 

 colonies of bees within a radius of 5 

 miles of this place. 



The American Bee Journal is a wel- 

 come guest at our house. 



C. F. HO.\DLEY. 



Finney Co., Kan., July 2. 



Long Winter Confinement of Bees. 



I notice in June 16th number several 

 references to continuous long confine- 

 ment of bees during the winter. 



In the fall of 1880, at my old home in 

 northern Iowa, I put away 115 colonies 

 in chaff-hives. These were confined 

 to their hives during the winter, with- 

 out a single flight, for 151 days. Six 

 of these colonies died during the win- 

 ter and 109 survived, all of them prac- 

 tically free from disease, and all sur- 

 vived through the season. I don't 

 think I ever had bees come out of win- 

 ter quarters in stronger and better con- 



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1 Untested Queen 75 



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E^ My crop last season was about 40,000 

 pounds of honey (nearly half comb' from 210 

 colonies, spring count, and increased to 2S0 col- 

 onies, which shows mv bees are hustlers. 



N. STAININGER. TiPTON. IOWA. 



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