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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



March 5, 1903. 



Tennessee dueens. 



Daug^hters of Select Imported 

 Italian, Select long--todg'ued 

 [Moore's, and Seleci, Straight 

 5-band Queeds. Bred 3% miles 

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 Smiles. No disease. 30 years' 

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9A26t SPRING HILL, TENN. 



Plef'^e mentiou Bee Journal when vrriting 



Incubator Triumph of the Age.— It was Chas. 

 A. CvpberF, president of the well-known Cyph- 

 ers incubator Co., who, afier s years of study 

 and experimenting, discovered "the diffusive 

 principle' in successful artificial incubation. 

 Bv means of Mr. Cyphers' great discovery, as 

 embodied in the incubator bearing his name, 

 the natural moisture within ihe egg is con- 

 served, answering all purposes, the chicks com- 

 ing larger and stronger because hatched "' in 

 nature's way," and under all ordinary condi- 

 tions no thought or attention whatever need be 

 given to the heretofore troublesome and often 

 disastrous *' moisture question," or to the 

 proper ventilation of the hatching chamber. 



[Cyphers incubators, as manufactured to-day, - 

 are practically automatic, being s^elf-ventila 

 ting, self-regulating, and requiring no supplied 

 moisture. All the attention they need is 5 min 

 utes in the morning and 5 minutes in the even- 

 ing to fill the lamp, trim the wick and turn the 

 eggs. The incubator does the rest and does it 

 perfectly.) 



Mr. Cyphers built his first incubators with 

 his own hands, wood work, metal work and all. 

 To-day— only 6 days later— the Cyphers Com- 

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 its own stores in New York, Boston and Chi- 

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 all interested persons who will write for it and 

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up to that time, and seemed to be strong, and 

 very few bees are dyingr so far. I winter the 

 bees on the summer stands, and worlc for 

 comb honey altogether, and natural swarm- 

 ing. Last season I had 17 new swarms, and 

 did not lose a swarm or a queen from spring 

 until packing time for winter. I think that 

 a record-breaker, don't you ? 



The following is a list of the ofHcers of the 

 South Dakota Bee-Keepers' Association for 

 this year: President, <i. L. Dibble; Vice- 

 President, L. A. Syverud: Secretary, J. M. 

 Hobbs, of Yankton; and General Manager, J. 

 J. Duffack. District Vice-Presidents: H. 

 Schell, P. N. Cross, G. L. Chamberlain, L. A. 

 Syverud, and G. L. Dibble. 



J. M. H0BB8, <SVf. 



Yankton Co., S. Dak. 



Report for the Season of 1902. 



I started last season with 3 colonies in chaff 

 hives, and although it rained nearly every 

 day in June I increased to 6 colonies, and 

 took 360 pounds of honey, which I sold for I.t 

 cents, besides the sections that were not well 

 filled, which we used ourselves. 



The main crop was buckwheat, and a lot of 

 fall aster honey, which was as clear as water. 

 Dean Laudenslayer. 



Clearfield Co., Pa., Feb. 4, 



Cellar-Wintering of Bees. 



Is it desirable, when a favorable day comes, 

 to take the bees out of the cellar in winter 

 and then return them after a flight i Years 

 ago I wintered my bees in a very dry cellar, 

 where the temperature run from 30 up to 60 

 degrees, Fahr., and I wintered bees in there 

 pretty well. I gave them a flight as soon as 

 possible. One year (I don't remember which 

 year it was) I thought I would try to answer 

 this question, and left two colonies in the 

 cellar; the rest I gave a llight, and after I got 

 them on the summer stands they were very 

 weak, and did not come out of the hive. I 

 took them into a warm room and they crawled 

 out on the floor, but could not fly. They 

 looked like a queen full of eggs. About a 

 week after that every one was dead. I be- 

 lieve if I had taken them out with the others 

 they would have kept all right. 



Here is my guess : With the uneven tem- 

 perature and very dry cellar they felt uneasy 

 for a long time, and ate more than they 

 should, got too full, and could not get rid 

 of it. 



In 1896 I put the bees into the cellar Nov. 

 22, where I could keep the temperature be- 

 tween 42 and 46 degrees, and tried this ques- 

 tion again. I took a strong colony whose 

 weight was .58 pounds. March 2 we had a 

 nice wind; that day I got the colony out of 



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