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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



March 12, 1903. 



from transmission through the mails J Let 

 the breeders aud laymen ventilate this ques- 

 tion thoroughly. In the meantime, go on Dr. 

 Gallup ; if you are wronfr you have performed 

 a genuine service in opening this question; 

 if you are right in j'our theory, you have been 

 an incalculable benefit to bee-keeping pos- 

 terity. Norton Wagner. 

 L Lackawanna Co., Pa., Jan. 3L 



Best Flight in Two Months. 



The bees are having a Hight to-day, the first 

 good flight for two months. They seem to 

 be all right so far. J. F. Michael. 



Randolph Co., Ind., Feb. 2. 



Oregon and Washington for Bee- 

 Keeplng. 



I notice on page 5S the above heading. I 

 do not think there is any one man that can 

 answer that question. Washington alone 

 differs a great deal. It is a big State. While 

 the eastern part of Washington is dry the 

 western part, or coast, is extremely damp; 

 they have lots of rain, but little or no snow. 

 The bees can generally Hy all winter. Blos- 

 soms are in abundance, but weather in which 

 to gather honey is scarce. The bees gen- 

 erally begin to gather pollen the last days of 

 February and the first days of March ; but 

 usually after that there comes a setback of 

 rain which lasts sometimes until July, with 

 but little good dry weather. Of course, there 

 is some good weather, but the last tour or 

 five years have been remarkably wet. 



Of blossoms here that give honey we have 

 the salmonberry, thimbleberry, huckleberry, 

 blueberry, blackberry or black caps; white, 

 red, and yellow clover, dandelion and fire- 

 weed. And the trees that give honey are the 

 vine-maple, crab-apple, barberry, soft maple, 

 and a whole lot of others too numerous to 

 recollect; besides fruit-trees and small fruit 

 such as raspberry, strawberry, and blackberry. 

 Cultivated berries do well here. It is rainest 

 near the coast, and diminishes as you go 

 farther inland. The honey gathered, with or 

 without water, is a good deal better than 

 California honey ; and I have sold my hone\. 

 put up in one-half gallon jars, for 60 cents per 

 jar. This is all the information I can give 

 about Washington, and it is also true of 

 Oregon. 



We live close to Columbia, and when we 

 go to town we cross the river at Astoria, 

 Oreg. A map will show this is Wahkiakum 

 Co., Wash., while Astoria is in Clatsop Co., 

 Oreg. 



We have the first snow we have had in two 

 years; it is -1 inches deep. O. K. Rice. 



Wahkiakum Co., Wash., Jan. 28. 



Feaps Heavy Loss of Bees. 



My bees stopped breeding early last fall, 

 and I fear a heavy loss this winter and spring 

 On account of the age of the bees and the hard 

 winter. They are on the summer stands, and 

 have had but one good, cleansing flight dur- 

 ing the winter. H. W. Congdon. 



Monona Co., Iowa, Feb. 9. 



Report for Two Years. 



The year 1901 was a little better than the 

 year before. Spring was a little backward, 

 the bees built up fine after all, but the honey- 

 flow was very short; they gave some surplus, 

 and went into winter quarters In good condi- 

 tion. My bees came out in the spring of 1902 

 stronger in bees than they have since I have 

 had bees, so this leads to great hopes ; but, 

 dear me, to think we should see the reverse! 

 It was the worst spring for cold and wet 

 weather, which seemed to blast all of our 

 hopes. Our honey-How comes here about the 

 middle of June, but no honey was coming. 

 The stores of the bees were on the decline. 

 Weak colonies were starving and absconding 

 their hives, leaving the brood. But all at 

 once a change came the first week in July, 

 when the honey came, and those colonies that 

 had built up at that time did fair work, as it 

 was a good flow all through July, and so this 

 part of the country got, a good crop of honey 



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after all, and the bees were in good condition 

 for winter. So U)li3 turned out all right, and 

 I was satisfied. 



I can not account for Mr. Doolittle's state- 

 ment, that bees need no ventilation in the 

 cellar more than thej' get through the walls. 

 This is a puzzle to me. I have a tube in mine 

 Sx7 inches, and it has not been closed one day 

 all winter to this date. The inner door has 

 been open nearly two weeks. The tempera- 

 ture is 44 degrees ; a few mild days it run up 

 to 48 degrees, and they were roaring. It was 

 all right to open the other door at night, as it 

 cooled them down to 3S degrees, and they 

 were as quiet as could be; they could hardly 

 be heard, so I do not see what I should do 

 without ventilation. I believe that without 

 ventilation my bees would come out and get 

 lost on the cellar-bottom. 



This winter I will make an experiment in 

 two directions — lirst, in taking them in on 

 Dee. S and 9, with the mercury 4 and 8 de- 

 grees below zero; second, with ventilator and 

 inner door open; at this time they seem to 

 winter all right, and so I hope for safe win- 

 tering, and a good honey season for 1903, so 

 that we may secure a good crop. 



C. H. VOIGT. 



Keewaune'e Co., Wis., Feb. 5. 



Taptarie Acid and Granulation. 



On page 78, Mr. C .1. Barber, of Monona 

 Co., Iowa, wrote: "To prevent extracted 

 honey from granulating, I put in a Mason 

 jar a little tartaric acid.'' Will be please let 

 us know how much that is in two quarts of 

 honey (by weight or measure) ? 



Arthur Schultz. 



Dodge Co., Wis., Jan. 3. 



One of the Old Bee=KeepeFS. 



Mk. Eiiitor: — You have improved the 

 American Bee Journal almost beyond meas- 

 ure. When I first took it — must be over 40 

 years ago when Wagner published it in Phila- 

 delphia — it was hardly a comparison to what 

 you have made it to-day. 



I venture to say I am the oldest bee-keeper 

 on your list; I kept bees in Pennsylvania '25 

 years; came here after the war (1866), bring- 

 ing bees with me, making it 37 years that I 

 have been here. 



It amuses me sometimes to note how singu- 

 larly some persons write about their conclu- 

 sions, as if they knew it all, and, no doubt, 

 think they do, and may be correct from their 

 standpoint, or their location ; but, as a whole, 

 or a combination of circumstances and loca- 

 tions, they are simply ■' off," and they would 

 not believe it if the strict truth were told 

 them. Bui " variety is the spice of life.'' 



Fairfax Co., Va., Feb. 9. Wii. Urich. 



NoPtheastepn Wis. Convention. 



The bee-keepers of the Northeastern Wis- 

 consin Association held their second conven- 

 tion at the residence of John H. Terens, in 

 Manitowoc County, Nov. 8, 190i. The meet- 

 ing was called to order by Pres. Terens at 10 

 a.m. As the Secretary was absent. Fred 

 Jachimstal was appointed secretary yjj'o tmi. 



Fred Trapp then read a paper on " Winter- 

 ing'and Ventilation of Bees," which brought 

 out a good discussion, as all present were 

 quite interested in the subject. After the dis- 

 cussion a vote was taken on which is the best 

 way to winter bees, inside or on the summer 

 stands. Six were cast for inside wintering, 

 and S for outside wintering. 



A paper was read by C. H. Voigt, on " Pre- 

 vention of Absconding Swarms.'' After it 

 had been fully discussed, John Coehems fol- 

 lowed with " What Hive is Best Adapted to 

 this Climate ?" He wanted the S-frame Lang- 

 stroth. After discussing that topic it showed 

 that the majority were in favor of the 10- 

 fraiue Langstroth. 



John H. Terens then gave a talk on, " Black 

 or Italian Bees, Which are Better J" He did 

 not think the Italians gathered any bet- 

 ter honey than blacks; in his opinion the 

 blacks would gather just as nice honey as the 

 Italians, but he was in favor of the Italians, 

 if for nothing else than their fine dress. 



A committee of three was appointed by the 



