May 14, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



315 



I the means to keep the outside moistuie 

 from treltinfj on the packing. 



Prospects are favorable for the present sea- 

 son. Bees are doing a tine lousiness from 

 apple-bloom, and should the present good 

 weather keep up they will get considerable 

 honey. 



I am thinking of building a shed for the 

 bees so as to keep them froai getting wet. 1 

 would have it open in front and arranged 

 at the back part so that a person could get at j 

 the hives. Should any of the readers have 

 any experience with a shed of this kind, I 

 would be glad to hear their opinion of It. 



E. X. EVERSON. 



Jefferson Co., Ohio, April 22. 



A Dry and Cool Spring. 



The bees wintered well last winter, and 

 clover came through also in fair condition, so 

 that the prospects for honey were good here. 

 But we have had a dry. cool spring and now 

 we have just had a light rain followed by 

 enow and a temperature of 24 degrees above 

 zero. Plum and cherry bloom is about half 

 out, and apple-buds abdut to open, so that the 

 prospects for fruit-bloom are very slim. 



A good season for fruit-bloom was needed 

 •on account of lack of good working-days for 

 such other bloom as we have had heretofore. 



So, while the loss of the fruit-bloom may 

 not prevent a honey crop later on, it will very 

 probably necessitate feeding. 



I am thinking of making some troughs and 

 feeding outside, as there are no other bees in 

 the range. 



Fortunately, the bees were almost all quite 

 strong, so that they will probably be able to 

 protect their brood. E. S. Miles. 



Crawford Co., Iowa., April 30. 



All Colonies Wintered Well. 



Bees are doing nicely on dandelion, willow 

 and cherries. All colonies came through the 

 winter in tine condition. I winter them in the 

 open air, having packed them with an extra 

 covering. Fruit-bloom was killed by sleet 

 and ice. The temperature went down to 16 

 ■below freezing. Gustavcs Rolls. 



Hall Co., Nebr., May 2. 



Swarming Management. 



On page 264, Wm. McEvoy gives his method 

 of preventing swarms getting mixed up. I 

 can see the advantage of his method, but 

 many of the small bee-keepers, like myself, 

 find it diflicult to follow. Many of those that 

 keep bees in this vicinity are farjiers, like 

 myself, and keep only a few colonies of bees 

 from a very few up to 40 or .5(1, just for the 

 pleasure of keeping them and having a little 

 honey to keep us sweet. According to the 

 definition given in the Bee .Journal, we are 

 not apiarists, only bee-keepers, and other 

 work prevents us from giving that time and 

 attention to our bees that is required of an 

 apiarist. We do not have any help, but each 

 one handles his bees alone, and it often hap- 

 pens that two or more swarms come out at 

 the same lime while the fai'mer is in the field 

 at work, and before he can get to his bees 

 they have all clustered together, and, the only 

 thing to do is to hive them in one hive. I 

 know of two instances of this kind that hap- 

 pened in this vicinity, and so many swarms 

 clustered together that they could not be 

 hived in a common hive, but were hived in a 

 dry-goods box, and they stored several hun- 

 dred pounds of honey. 



Last year I had a swarm come out, and, af- 

 ter being in the air for a time, they returned 

 to the hive without clustering, and while they 

 were returning I looked in front of the hive 

 and saw a small bunch of bees; on examina- 

 tion. I found the queen, picked her up with 

 my lingers and put her on the alighting- 

 board. The next day they came out again, 

 and at the same time another swarm from the 

 hive came out and were all mixed up, but 

 clustered in two clusters about ten feet apart, 

 and before I could hive them they all went to- 

 gether. They were both prime swarms and 

 tilled the hive full, and I got more honey 

 from them than any three swarms last season. 



A few days after this I had an after-swarm 

 come out, and while I was hiving them an- 



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