June, 190S. 



American Hee Journal 



from my hips down ever since. Yet I 

 work among my bees every day in my 

 wheel-chair, and needless to say, read 

 the American Bee Journal regularly. 

 Hancock, Minn. John A. Lenty. 



A Large-Hive Out-Apiary 



The photograph I enclose is of an 

 apiary on my place at Clieviot-on-the- 

 Hudson. It is run for extracted honey 

 only. You notice that the supers are 

 larger than the hive-bodies. They con- 



liox" is a great help to beginners; in 

 fact, I also find in it many good sug- 

 gestions for those older in the business. 



Some years ago I had 600 colonies of 

 bees in this locality, but other business 

 required my attention so I dropped the 

 bees. A year ago I bought 12 colonies, 

 6 of them very weak, and increased to 

 33 colonies besides getting 300 pounds 

 of section honey. There was no swarm- 

 ing. I have never had any trouble in 

 this respect. 



I put the befs into winter quarters 



Ovt-Apiary of James McNeill. 



tain 14 Hoffman frames, while the hive- 

 bodies hold II. The frames are placed 

 in the usual way in the hive-body, but 

 are placed crosswise in the super on ac- 

 count of its large size. The hive-bodies 

 are air-spaced and the bees are wintered 

 just where the hive stands. The object 

 of the extra-large size is to prevent 

 swarming, as this is an out-apiary 

 owned by James McNeill. The apiary 

 contains nearly 200 colonies of Italians. 

 F. D. Clum, M. D. 

 Cheviot, N. Y., May 20. 



A CoiTection 



It appears that when I attend bee-con- 

 ventions I talk too fast to enable report- 

 ers to get it down correctly. On page 

 149 I am made to say that "we never 

 thought we- could sell honey to small 

 grocers." All who know me are aware 

 of the fact that we have sold honey to 

 the retail grocery trade for over 40 

 years. What I spoke about was the 

 wholesale grocery trade, and that ex- 

 plains how we could sell $600 worth to 

 one firm, which could not have been 

 done with "small grocers." 



C. P. Dadant. 



by packing them in sawdust after plac- 

 ing them in rows 6 inches apart with a 

 lo-inch wall of saw-dust behind them 

 'and 6 inches over the top. I did not lose 

 a colony, and they are very strong. I 



cage but did her work in the open air. 

 Some of the children shown in pic- 

 ture No. 3, were a little nervous but no 

 one was stung. Last year being almost 

 a failure in this section I am not able to 

 say how the Caucasian bees will turn out 

 as to honey-gathering. M. D. Johnson. 



A Wisconsin Apiary 



The picture I sent you is of my apiary 

 of 53 colonies. It was taken about the 

 middle of October, 1907. I am standing 

 among my Dees. The little girl is an 

 orphan child we took. She wanted to be 

 in the picture also, so I told her she 

 must stand up. 



The house to the right is my bee- 

 house where I have an extracting room, 

 work-shop, and store-room for bee-keep- 

 ing necessities. The other building is 

 the barn and stable. The other buildings 

 are my neighbor's, '/i mile away. The 

 little house to the right of the little girl 

 is the smoker-house where I keep the 

 smoker so that there is less danger of 

 fire. 



I kept bees from 1873 to 1884, when I 

 lost all of my 98 colonies by foul brood. 

 Then I kept clear of bees, but did not 

 sell nor give away any of the boxes or 

 implements, nor did I destroy them. So 

 it went on for 12 years. I had a farm 

 of 160 acres to take care of. In 1890 

 we sold a part of the farm, and in 

 l8p6 I found a colony of bees in a hol- 

 low cedar-tree. I cut the tree down and 

 got the bees out and made 2 colonies of 

 them, and had a washtubful of comb and 

 honey left. It was the forepart of Au- 

 gust. They built up and gathered 

 enough to winter over. The next year 

 I got 2 swarms from them and 50 pounds 

 of honey — that was the best my bees 

 ever did. I wintered them in a cellar 



Apiary ok John Cochems. 



Onr First-Page Pictures 



Referring to the pictures on the first 

 page, and also to some other matters, 

 M. D. Johnson, of Keokuk Co., Iowa, 

 writes as follows : 

 Editor American Bee Journal — 



My first copy of the American Bee 

 Journal came today (May 5), and I find 

 it far ahead of what I expected. I con- 

 sider this one copy well worth all it costs 

 for the year. "Dr. Miller's Question- 



opened a lo-frame hive today and found 

 brood in the outside of the outside 

 combs, and it was full of brood, too. 



You ask for apiarian pictures. I am 

 sending some showing my little girl, Lu- 

 cile, demonstrating with Caucasian bees. 

 She used no smoker, veil, nor gloves, 

 and didn't receive a sting. She handles 

 them like flies. She is 8 years old, and 

 was quite a help to me last season. It 

 will be noticed that she used no screen 



that was too cold, and lost 2 the next 

 year. In 1898 I increased to 6 and got 

 325 pounds of honey. That year I sold 

 more of my farm and bought the place 

 where I am now. 



At present I winter my bees in a 

 house-cellar. I have a furnace in the 

 cellar which helps to keep it dry, and 

 that makes it much better for the bees. 

 Otherwise the cellar would be too wet 

 to keep bees in. 



