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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 21, 1903. 



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low, upon its receipt, or 32 cents in trade. Impure wax not taken at any price. 

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 GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 ErieStM-CliicaKO, 111. 



many of the bee-keepers of Missouri anJ else- 

 where have the same feeling, and will mourn 

 the lose of our friend and brother. Let it be 

 a reminder of the mortality of our race. Es- 

 pecially, let us endeavor to imitate the good 

 Qualities of men like Mr. Nebel. 

 Carroll Co., Mo., May S. W. T. Cart. 



P. S. — The Missouri State Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation, which was recently organized at 

 Moberly, elected the following officers: 



President, .John Nebel ; Vice-President, J. 

 W. Rouse; Secretary, \V. T. Cary ; Treasurer, 

 F. K. Thompson. 



As Mr. Nebel has recently died, Mr. Rouse 

 will succeed him to the presidency until the 

 next election. W. T. C. 



Wintered in a Bee-Shed. 



We had 33 colonies of bees put up for the 

 winter last fall, 2 being somewhat weak in 

 bees. We had so many after-swarms last 

 August and even in September, which weak- 

 ened our old colonies and were no good. Of 

 the 33 we wintered all but 4, or, not counting 

 the 2 weak colonies, we lost only 2 good ones. 



This spring, we had very warm weather 

 inlMarch, and the latter part of March we 

 overhauled them and found every queen was 

 laying aud some had sealed brood already. 



I forgot to say that we wintered them on 

 the summer stands in bee-sheds. The sheds 

 have three closed sides and the one which the 

 sun strikes most upon; 20 colonies in chaff- 

 hives and the rest in single-walled hives. We 

 lost only one in chaff-hives. Those in single- 

 walled hives we supplied with hemlock outer 

 shells, but although they all had ' the same 

 supply of stores last fall, those in the single- 

 walled hives were almost out of stores in 

 March, while the others bad plenty left yet. 

 We consider that bees wintered in chaff-hives 

 need less winter stores. 



April was cold and we had much rain, and 

 May, so far, is cold. May 1st we had a hard 

 frost, which killed almost all of the apple, 

 strawberry, cherry and pear blossoms. We 

 should have warmer weather. Under one of 

 our hives, I discovered a striped snake, that 

 would poke its head from under the hive at 

 the entrance, and I suppose lived on bees, al- 

 though I did not see it take any. We killed 

 it and that ended her snakeship. 



Lehigh Co., Pa., May s. Geo. T. Rex. 



Bad Spring for Bees. 



Our spring has been bad for bees since 

 March 20. After the first three days in March 

 it never even froze during the next three 

 weeks. ThellSth, 17 th and ISth were so warm 

 that 1 set about half of my bees out of the 

 house cellar, and they brought in pollen 

 plentifully from the elm and soft maple, 

 which do not usually blossom till a month 



ForSaie 



27 colonies of Bees 

 1 10 and 17 frame 

 ives. Good Ital- 

 los. From $5.00 to 

 r.OO each. 

 JOHN HERBERT, Hampshire, Kane Co , III. 

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