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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



March 21, 1901. 



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Bees Wintering All Right. 



My bees came thru the winter all right, 

 without the loss of a single colony so far, and 

 I look for a good honey-year. 



The American Bee Journal reaches me every 

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Rix L. Haskitt. 



Tipton Co., Ind., March 9. 



Encouraging- Outlook for Southern 

 Calif opnia. 



Southern California has had a good wetting 

 this winter, and it is raining now, with the 

 jirospect of a good deal more to come. Farm- 

 ers and bee-keepers appreciate and welcome 

 the long-prayed-for rain, after the long drouth 

 of three successive years. Nobody here minds 

 going out in the pouring rain and getting wet 

 thru, as did the writer, tho a severe attack of 

 •' la grippe " was the conseciuence of his folly. 

 However, I doctored myself out of it, and am 

 on the way to recovery. 



It is rather too early to say much of the 

 approaching season. Vegetation in general is 

 backward, especially in places on as high 

 altitudes as we are. But with the first warm, 

 sunny spring days a good and lasting houey- 

 fiow can not fail for those th^it have the bees 

 to gather the nectar. Of course, the losses 

 during the long drouth have been considerable. 



We winter our Ijees on the summer stands 

 in a slieltered place. As they were strong 

 and had plenty of stores last fall, I hope they 

 will pull thru all right. 



The general outlook is very encouraging for 

 the coming season. Gustav Voss. 



Riverside Co., Calif., Feb. 9. 



aliua the Bee Journal 



More About Bumble-Bees. 



On page lOS I notice some remarks of Mr. 

 'I'liomas Wallace, in regard to the large bee 

 mentioned above. He gives us his age. think- 

 ing doubtless that his great age would entitle 

 liis belief to have much weight. I, too, was 

 lirought up on a farm, and find myself some 

 older than Mr. Wallace, as I was 84 years old 

 Sept. 30, 1900. 



Mr. Wallace does not think the bumble-bee 

 winters North. One reason he gives for his 

 lielief is that he has " never been able to find 

 u bumble-bee's nest in the winter." That he 

 has not found a nest of this bee in winter 

 arises from the fact that of this bee the queen 

 only survives the winter, and they never 

 cluster as the honey-bee does to keep the 

 mass warm. But when the flowers are all 

 killed by frost, the workers — undevelopt 

 (|ueens — and the drones, soon die from the 

 combined effect of cold weather and want of 

 food. At that time, instead of the queens 

 going South, as Mr. Wallace thinks, I iwojothat, 

 in many instances at least, they remain at the 

 North. They crawl down under a thick clus- 

 ter of leaves, and remain there until about the 

 time the lilac blooms. And the reason that 1 

 am so positive about it is not a matter of be- 

 lief, but I have repeatedly found the queens, 

 only one in a place, in the early spring when 

 gathering what we boys called "spring 

 Ijeauty." but the botanists early named 

 (laytonia carolineana. The queens, tho, so 

 late in the season, I found deeply I'uricd 

 among the leaves, always at the bottom, 

 directly on the soil; at such times they could 

 walk, t)ut were too much chilled to fly. From 

 my earliest Ixiyhood I was always much inter- 

 ested in bees, and at that early day my father 

 kept no honey-liees, and this led me to study 

 jDore carefully the bumble-bee. 



The last hatch of the season the queen lays 

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 no workers, which are simply undevelopt 

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