Oct. 13, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



701 



the cellar this winter. I had never 

 tried wintering bees in the cellar until 

 last winter. I had 3 colonies which 

 were afterswarms, and those did not 

 have 10 pounds of honey to winter on, 

 yet those colonies came through the 

 winter without the noticeable loss of 

 any bees, while strong- colonies, being 

 wintered on the summer stands, were 

 either frozen to death or so depopu- 

 lated as not to be able to give any sur- 

 plus. 



I am getting about all my education 

 along this line from the American Bee 

 Journal, and think the bee-keeper that 

 doesn't read it is the loser. 



James Wolfe. 



Marshall Co., W. Va., Oct 2 



Likes Italians Best. 



I use a lOframe hive, taking a frame 

 12x12 inches, and super frames 12x9. 

 My bees are all the way from golden 

 Italians to blacks. I like the Italians 

 the best on account of their beauty, 

 and their gentleness when I lift the 

 frames from the hives. 



F. B. Stilvi'ell. 



Tazewell Co., Va. 



A Lively Time Moving Bees. 



In May, 1903, I started out to buy a 

 few colonies of bees. Several miles 

 from home, on the bluflFs of the San- 

 gamon River, I found a widow who 

 had 8 colonies which she was willing 

 to sell. The bees were all in 8-frame 

 dovetailed hives except one, and that 

 one was in an old hollow log set up on 

 end, about 32 inches across the top, 

 and larger at the bottom. It was ar- 

 ranged so that a super could be placed 

 on top, and it had a hive-cover on it. 

 I examined all the colonies, and agreed 

 to give her S21 for the 8 colonies, 21 

 empty hives, 36 supers, and 500 new 

 sections. 



Upon examining the log hive I found 

 it chock-full of bees — these little black 

 smarties — and the log stood S'^ feet 

 high, with an auger-hole bored 7 inches 

 from the bottom, also a few notches. 

 But it seemed that the bees could creep 

 out anywhere around the bottom of the 

 log. I told the widow I would be after 

 them the next evening. 



The next day I looked around for a 

 team. I found a man whom I will call 

 John, with a two-horse team. We 

 started in time to get over there at 

 sundown, with a lumber wagon and a 

 terrible rough road to travel. We fixed 

 all the frame hives with wire-screen. 

 We had no room for the log hive, so 

 we struck for home. I don't think bees 

 ever got such a shaking up as they 

 did. We got them unloaded just at 

 daylight. 



The next evening we went after the 

 old log, reaching there just at sun- 

 down. As soon as it got a little dark 

 we went to work. I had a wire screen 

 for the top and one for the bottom. 

 We got the screen on the top all right, 

 but when we went to put the screen on 

 the bottom I found I had used the 

 wrong screen for the top, and the other 

 one would not cover the bottom. Sol 

 took the screen ofif to put on the right 

 one, and the bees got mad, and still 

 madder, and went for us in full force. 

 I told John to stick to them, and if it 

 got too hot to run. I soon found that 

 run was the only thing to do ; but we 

 got the screen off the top while it was 



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