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the day is warm, still and brijiht, tliey will 

 carry iu quite a lot of water, iiud no small 

 amount of brood will result, which, I believe, 

 is always injurious in the cellar, just in pro- 

 portion to the amount started. 



In the cellar, breeding is a hard pull upon 

 the vitality of the queen, the bees and the 

 food, without anything to show for it of 

 value. I l<now, Mr. Editor, that all your 

 readers will not agree with me in this. Let 

 me say that t/ir hies t/iat remain ijuiet ilariii;/ 

 tfit'ir stay in the eet/nr, witJiuut breakinif eluster, 

 <in(l without ttrecding^ are the ones theit eat the 

 least food and do the best work (he foVowing sea- 

 son. 



Let your experimenters give all the condi- 

 tions. 



On the same page I read about bees from 

 time to time voiding the contents of their in- 

 testines. For many years I have held the be- 

 lief that they do under favorable conditions, 

 and, when they do, they always winter well. 

 It is said. '■ Chief among these conditions are 

 pure air and the proper temperature." Good 

 food, should have been added. 



Ontario, Canada. S. T. Pettit. 



Fair Honey Crop Expected. 



The outlook for a good crop of honey has 

 been greatly improved by the rains of April 

 16 and 1", which gave us a fall of an inch 

 near the coast, and from 3 to 4 inches in the 

 mountains. 



The season is a little late, and the bees were 

 a little weak in the early spring, owing to the 

 short crop of last year, and in some instances 

 scant stores, but they are building up fast, 

 and in some localities extracting has already 

 commenced. With a few more rains, which 

 we expect, a fair crop will be secured in 

 southern California. F. C. Wiggins. 



San Diego Co., Calif., April 30. 



Best Prospects in Years. 



It is dry here, but the best prospects for a 

 honey crop in years, as we had rain during 

 the winter. I had to feed my bees all winter ; 

 they are working on willow now. 



S. M. WlI.KERSON. 



Wise Co.. Tex., April 23. 



Bad Weather for Queen-Rearing. 



April weather stopped our queen-rearing 

 business, as for three weeks it was so cold 

 and rained so much that we could not do any- 

 thing. Bees consumed all their stores, biood 

 was chilled and died in the nuclei and many 

 full colonies. We had to feed sugar syrup — 

 a thing we never did before. Yesterday was 

 the lirst day in April that seemed like settled 

 weather. To-day the wind is from the east. 

 Bees could get some honey now, I suppose, if 

 they could fly, though the flowers may not 

 have any honey in them. We are trying every 

 way possible to have queen-cells built, but 

 our cell-cups are rejected by the bees ; one or 

 two, and sometimes four in a batch, are ail 

 we can get, and many of them are inferior. 

 Not looking for such unfavorable weather, we 

 were wholly unprepared for it. 



Pickens Co., Ga., April 28. T. S. Hall. 



Expects a Fair Crop. 



The weather is very backward for bees, but 

 whenever it is warm enough they gather large 

 quantities of pollen. My bees wintered fairly 

 well, and I am consequently expecting a fair- 

 crop of honey. A. C. F. Biktz. 



Chippewa Co., Wis., April 23. 



A Beginner's Experience. 



April ir, 1002, I bought 7 colonies of bees 

 and IG empty hives. I brought them home 

 and noticed the bees going and coming, but I 

 did not know the reason. I soon found out 

 that something was wrong. I got a smoker 

 and examined them, and found what is called 

 moth. I then sent for " A B C of Bee-Cul- 

 ture." and it was worth live tiiiu-^ the price 

 to me. I took a veil, smoker and knife and 

 cut out the moth, and cleaned the hives 

 nicely. The millersi still ^came around, and I 



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