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May, ic 



American ^ae Journal 



3, 1 would advise the way just given. 



4. One way is to put all brood in an upper 

 story over an excluder, lea^■i^g the queen be- 

 low," then a week or 10 days later set the upper 

 story on a new stand, giving it a queen or a 

 ripe'queen-ceil. 



If you have further questions, don't hesi- 

 tate to send them along. 



Good Prospect lor Honey. 



Bees are doing well now on fruit-bloom. 



Most of my colonies have the brood-chamber 



full of brood and honey. Alfalfa will bloom 



in 2 weeks, and if it yields honey freely, we 



will get along better than for several years. 



Dr. G. Bohrer. 



Lyons, Kan., April 21. 



Mild Winter — Wintered Nicely. 



We have had a very cold winter, and so far 

 as I know, bees have wintered very nicely. 

 '1 he next 4 or 6 weeks are usually the hardest 

 for bees here. W. H. Root. 



Carroll, Neb.. April i. 



Abundance of Clover. 



Bees have wintered well here. An abundance 

 of clover is springing up everywhere. With good 

 weather there will be an early and rich har- 

 vest of honey. Mrs. Wm. Middlecamp. 



Oshkosh, Wis., April 24. 



White Clover Growth is Small. 



Bees are doing well. Swarming is not yet 

 over. White clover is in bloom, but owing' to 

 drv weather the growth is small. 



J. W. K. Shaw & Co. 



I.oreauville, La., April 23. 



Wintered Best in Several Years. 



I took 183 colonies of bees out of the cellar 

 April 10 and 11. In general they are better 

 than they have been for several years. Some 

 colonies seemed nearly strong enough to swarm 

 when taken out of the cellar. F. W. Hall. 



Hull, Iowa, April 13. 



Wintered Too Warm. 



I wintered my bees in a little house above 

 the ground, with floor 2 feet from the ground. 

 It was planked on all sides but the south, 

 which was left open. When I took them out 

 the cushion was oripping with moisture. And 

 they had made comb below the Hill's device 

 and above the frame. They had wintered too 

 warm. They would have done all right out-of- 

 doors. R. B. Perry. . 



Greenfield, Tcnn., .\pril 17. 



Did Well on Fruit-Bloom. 



Bees did well here on Iruit-bloom. The 

 brood-chambers were about empty before the 

 bloom, but are in good sliape now. It is cold 

 today, but I hope we may escape frost. I lost 

 an apple crop of over 600 trees last year. 



G. BoiirEr, M. D. 



Lyons, Kan., April 27. 



On 



Apiarian Rights of Priority. 



pages .So and 81, and also on page 112, 

 appears a di^cu^sii.n between N. V. .\ndcr5on 

 and Dr. C. C. Miller .-ibout apiarian rights of 

 priority. It would be hard if a farmer has 160 

 or more acres of land and an expert bce-kcepcr 

 .3 or 4 acres, if the latter be there first why 

 should he not have the right to prohibit the 

 farmer from using his land for any purpose 

 he sees fit? It does not necessarily follow 

 that his bees are in boxes, nor that they are 

 rotten because the man is a farmer, no "more 

 than Mr. Root's are because he is a manufac- 

 turer, or Mr. Dadant's. who is a banker. A 

 farmer can not pasture his slock on any other 

 man's land without his consent, and if T buy 

 my land and pay for it, would it be right for 

 the government to dispose of the rights of the 

 bee-pasturage belonging to n private individual ? 



As fur keeping rotten bees, or foul-brood 

 bees, that is a different thing. The government 

 has a right to step in just as much as when 

 a farmer keeps any other diseased stock that 

 will spread and injure his neighbor's stock; 

 and if so many bees were kept in any locality 

 that it was necessary to reduce them, would 

 it not be more just to allot the number kept 

 according to the bee-pasturage a man possesses? 

 That a man is first in some place does not 

 give him any right to another man's property, 

 but no man, expert or not, should be allowed 

 to spread foul brood or any other disease to the 

 injury of his neighbor. .And still another thing, 

 it would be wise to prohibit any one from 

 keeping bees that would not give them proper 

 care, and let them swarm all summer and fill 

 the woods up with them to the injury of all, 

 and to no good for anybody. O. K. RiCE. 



Grays River, Wash., .\pril 25. 



Wintered Well- 



I put 18 colonies 



■ Bright Prospects. 



■inter 



quarters, and 

 [6 strong ones with plenty of honey, 

 and all with considerable brood. Prospects look 

 bright with me for a successful season. Last 

 year being a poor season, I fed my bees sugar 

 syrup in the fall, being afraid of the quality of 

 stores they had. I lost but 2 colonies during 

 the winter, and they were last-of- .August 

 swarms. One of my neighbors who did not 

 take the same precaution lost 4 out of 5 colo- 

 nies with dysentery. They do not take the 

 American Bee Journal. I do. 



H. S. Buchanan. 

 Indiana, Pa., April 21. 



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