March 7, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



155 



only of one passage, but the whole last page 

 is almost a dark cloud to me. 



What a splendid gift Mr. Doolittle has in 

 being able to explain his ideas so clearly and 

 logically, and building up in such correct 

 order one thought after the other, in a way 

 that one niuxt understand. 



I tried Mr. Henry Alley's method of ([ueen- 

 rearing with good results, while I made a 

 failure of Mr. Doolittle's, but I am convinced 

 that it was my own fault. I should like to 

 know, tho, where I was at fault — whether in 

 transferring or in the colony I used to rear 

 the queens. The result always was that after 

 transferring food and larvfe into made queen- 

 cells, inserting them into an upper story over 

 a queen-excluder, with a good colony and 

 laying queen below, the food and larva> would 

 be gone and the queen-cells empty the next 

 day. The excluder covered only a part of the 

 colony below. Could this have caused the 

 trouble f 



I do not advocate increase by swarming, 

 but prefer to build up nuclei and keep down 

 the swarm ing-f ever. J. Noeltin'(;. 



Argentine Republic, Oct. 10, 1900. 



Bees Wintering Well. 



The weather is tine, and no snow a^ y 

 Bees appear about normal in the cellar. 

 Sioux Co., Iowa, Feb. 31. F. W. H.m.i.. 



Poof Seasons— Hive for Extracted 

 Honey. 



The honey-business has been rather discour- 

 aging the past two seasons in this section, on 

 account of the dry weather. Bees stored very 

 little surplus, and a great many are dying of 

 starvation this winter: but we are looking for 

 better things in the future. 



Which is considered the better for extracted 

 honey — the S-frame or the 10-frame Lang- 

 stroth hive ? W. S. Shield. 



Fierce Co., Wash., Jan. 31. 



Has a $100 Queen. 



I had one queen last season that helpt me lo 

 clear .*10(), and I can prove my statement. 

 Kroni her colony and the two swarms which 

 issued from it, I secured 325 pounds of fine 

 honey between March 1st and Sept. 1st. 1 

 sold the honey for from .30 to 40 cents per 

 pound — Mexican money — so you will plainly 

 see that I had a JilOO queen. 



Bees do well here, but the demand for a 

 good article is very small. Extracted honey 

 brings froni 10 to 35 cents per pound, and 

 strained honey from 4 to 6 cents — that is, in 

 " Doby dollars." W. S. Allan. 



Mexico, Feb. 11. 



Report for 1 900— Two Queens in One 

 Hive. 



My crop of honey for 1900 was practically 

 the same as that of the two preceding years — 

 an average of 40 pounds per colony. I dis- 

 posed of all of it in the local market at 14 and 

 15 cents per pound. I also increast the num 

 ber of colonies one-third. 



We all winter our bees out-of-doors here, 

 and never lose any unless they are very weak. 



By way of experiment I am wintering two 

 queens in one hive, with a division-board be- 

 tween the small colonies. These are in the 

 cellar. A. B. Cross. 



Meigs Co.. Ohio, Feb. 4. 



Feeding Bees in Box-Hives in 

 Winter. 



< )n page 88 some one asks how to feed bees 

 in box-hives in the winter. Like questions 

 are so often askt that I am tempted to give 

 my practice, which seems to conflict with the 

 answers of others. 



I have several colonies in straw-hives that 

 are short of honey. I have feeders made of 

 taker's tins, 9x12x2 inches, with thin strips 

 running lengthwise to keep the lices out of 

 the feed. I then make a rim two inches wide, 

 the size of the bottom of the hive, and place 

 this on theilxittom-board, with the feeder in- 

 side of it. I put the hive in the cellar, or an 



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adjacent warm room, at night, then fill the 

 feeder with very warm syrup, made of 1() 

 jiounds of sugar, ,"> pounds of water, and ,'> 

 pounds of honey. I then put the hive on the 

 rim over the teed, and give them upward 

 ventilation, to let off the steam or moisture 

 generated by till' Hits. If the colony is large 

 euougli t" 'n- wiMlh wintering, the feeder will 

 he empty iIm' ihM morning. The ne.xt night 

 repeat tlii^ liMiJiiiL^-. I would not advist; feiMl- 

 ing more than twice in this way, as that is all 

 the unsealed feed a colony ought to have in 

 the hive at this time of the year. If one de- 

 sires he can b^)re si.v one-inch holes in ttie 

 rim, and tack on wire-cloth, then close the 

 entrance to the hives while feeding. 



It I have a colony in a I-.angstroth hive that 

 needs feeding, I simply put the feeder on top 

 of the frames with two cobs across it to keep 

 the covering up, till the feeder, and cover all 

 with the cushions. 



I fed bees successfullyiyears ago with this 

 |ilan, and have fed several colonies the same 

 way in my basement this winter, where the 

 temperature was at least 60 degrees above 

 zero, and have not lost a hundred bees. 



While this method is perfectly safe and .sat- 

 isfactory in the early winter months, it would 

 not do at all to try it in the spring months 

 when the bees have become tilled with excre- 

 ment and uneasy for a flight. 



George W. Bassett. 



Washington Co., Vt., Feb. 10. 



1900 Almost a Failupe— Laying- 

 Workers. 



The year I'.IOO was almost a failure for .Miss- 

 ouri bee-keepers. The last three seasons 

 have been very poor, but we are looking for 

 better things next season. 



1 put 10 colonies into winter quarters in 

 isii'.i, and did not lose any of them. In the 

 spring 1 increast to 28 by dividing. Bees 

 swarm very little here, so I did not have any 

 natural swarms. 



I winter the bees on the summer stands, 

 with chaff cushions over ttie brood-frames. 



When I examined the bees last spring 1 

 found one colony with laying-workers: I 

 gave them eggs from another colony, but they 

 would not start queen-cells, so I gave tlieni 

 more eggs, and changed places with anotlier 

 strong colony, and the strange bees started 

 cells properly, and reared a queen. This col- 

 ony is now one of the best I have. 



My bees stored honey enough for winter 

 stores, but very little surplus. I like the 

 ,\merican Bee Journal very much. 



K. COVLE. 



Vernon Co., Mo.. Dec. a). 1001). 



Bee-Exhibits at Farmers' Institutes. 



I take great intere.st in reading the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, and took special jjairs to 

 have my last year's numbers displayed at our 

 county •Tat'iniM^' In-tiluti-." We secured 

 space for an exhit'il 'il l..r -applies, lixtnii-s. 

 etc.. as well as Iki- liiri aiinc, which was of 

 interest to inaii.\ . \\ i- hope to see good re- 

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 ]>le the ini-rits of bi-e-ciiltnri'. I see no rea- 

 son whv the lioney interests of oiU" country 

 should not have as much attention paid to 

 them in our institutes as is paid to horficid- 

 ture or poultry. To be successful in horticul- 

 ture we must call tiee-culture to our aid. 



Many often ask th(^ question, " Whafs the 

 matter witli iny bees;'" and doubtless tho.se 

 very persons have never taken a bee-paper in 

 their lives, nor even read one. 



C'YKfs Uoi(iI,.\s. 



John.son Co.. Ncbr., Feb. s. 



The Cry of Hard Luclc in Cuba. 



It .seems very strange to me that all ho 

 everything I read in the fjee-papers aboni 

 Culm is fnll of foul brood and all sorts of bail 

 Ihings. vet the writers of these artic-li"^ .■ire 

 liuving 'new hives by the luunhv,!-. li i.s 

 hunl to rcconciU- the theory with Ihr |irai li.c. 

 One of my friends wlio talks m.i.~t discuurag- 

 inglyaboiitit has bought .500 new hives this. 

 sea.s<)n: another who has recently publish! 

 a very pessimistic article is putting in ^lO 

 more. Personally, I liave always advised my 



