April 25, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



269 



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Having boufjhl a Job Lot of a neighbor add 

 added to what I had, I must dispose oi same to 

 make room for my increase. They are mostly 

 j-oung — 3 months and over — with a few bred 

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BEE 



peratui'L- has nut been lower than 4.5 degrees 

 or more than t.S decrees all winter. The cov- 

 ers are sealed down, bottoms the dee]) side 

 Danzenbaker in most cases; others have an 

 inch blficli under them. Most colonies are 

 clustered beluw tlie bottom-bars, some beinf? 

 on the floor iif the hive, and others hanging 

 out of the entrance, as if preparinj? to swarm. 



I would venture to guess that a prettj' good- 

 sized swarm was in the air during the few 

 minutes I was in the cellar. I made a hasty 

 survey of matters, and " closed up," conclud- 

 ing to give them their liberty the first day the 

 weather would permit. 



We used the last section of our 1900 crop of 

 honey at dinner to-day. It is a regular dish 

 at our house, and no unpleasant results have 

 come of it as yet. 



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•Sioux Co., Iowa, April 1. F. W. Hall. 



1900 a Dry Year— Prospects Fair. 



My liecs began carrying in puUen about 

 April 2d. It is cold and wind}', and we have 

 just had 4 days of rain, so the bees have not 

 been out. 



The wind on Mfl,rch 30th was in the north- 

 east, and it rained a little on that day: old 

 settlers say that is the sign of a wet sunnner. 

 I hope it is, for 1900 was the driest year I have 

 ever seen. We had plenty of rain in April, 

 1900, to raise the wells and springs, but did 

 not have any more to amount to anything un- 

 til March, 1901, and the wells and springs were 

 nearly all dry, but we have plenty of water 

 now. 



I hope this season will be a good one, for 

 we have had two poor ones in succession. 

 .John H. Kimble. 



.Sussex Co., N. J., April S. 



Report for Two Years. 



This year will be my third one in the bee- 

 businf.ss. I started with one colony, and 

 bought four more the following fall, but lost 

 one in wintering. I had an increase of 3 col- 

 onies last season. The last of August one of 

 the colonies became iiueenless, and I bought a 

 new queen from a bee-keeper here, but the 

 bees killed her, so I put a i)iece of thin wrap- 

 ping-paper on the top of one of the other col- 



onies, and set the queenh^ss colony on top 

 of it ; they made holes thru the ])aper and are 

 all right. 



I have wintered the bees on the summer 

 stands packt in straw, all facing the South. I 

 have not unpackt them yet as it is cold and 

 windy. Every warm day they are out work- 

 ing on apricots and wild flowers. We have a 

 stiiall flower here not more than I! inches high 

 which blooms about March 1st, and the bees 

 get honey and pollen from the flowers. They 

 grow as thick in some places here as do the 

 wild strawberries in the East. 



I secured (10 pounds of honey from one col- 

 ony the first summer, and the second year I 

 got 315 pounds from 4 colonies. This year I 

 have .5 colonies, and the prospects are very 

 good for this season. 



Mks. Ben. Ferguson. 



Ford Co., Kans., April 8. 



A California Lady Bee-Keeper's Ex- 

 perience— Dark Beeswax. 



I have kept bees for the last .5 years, and the 

 first 3 were very good honey-years, but I knew 

 very little about the business. The year 18',Kt 

 being a very poor year, I rented the bees to a 

 man who claimed to be a scientific bee-keeper, 

 and he divided them as long as there was any 

 thing or any bees to divide. Last year I rented 

 them to two young men, who did the best thev 

 could with them, but the honey crop was a 

 total failure, so they could do nothing but 

 build up the colonies. The bees wintered all 

 right, and are doing well. I will attend to 

 them myself this season, hiring help when 

 necessary. I never wear a veil or gloves, and 

 very rarely get stung, I treat them as I do 

 people— never go into their house without 

 rapping, then wait for them to slick up a little 

 before I raise the cover, I then give them a 

 little smoke, but not enough to make them 

 think that their house has turned into a 

 smoke-house. 



Some people seem to have a great deal of 

 trouble with dark beeswax. I think the uten- 

 sil used to melt it in has much to do with it. 

 I have some very dark beeswax made from 

 starters. I had about 303 frames containing 

 starters about 'J inches wide; I wanted fufi 

 sheets of foundation, so last fall I exchanged 

 them. 1 put the starters into an iron kettle to 



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