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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 29, 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



Mk. W. BiSHor, of Colorado, writes: "The Bee Journal 

 is worth five times what it costs. It will save 100 per cent. 

 to the one who keeps bees." 



Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McEtot, of Woodburn, Ont., kindly 

 sent us an invitation to the wedding of their daughter — Miss 

 Eliza Jane McEvoy — to Mr. Walter M. Daw, which took place 

 Oct. 28. Our heartiest congratulations are hereby tendered 

 the happy couple. 



Mr. Thos. Wm. Cowan, editor of the British Bee Journal, 

 London, England, expects to make a trip to this country 

 shortly. We have never had the pleasure of meeting Mr. 

 Cowan, who is probably the most widely known English bee- 

 keeper of to-day. 



Pbof. Lawrence Bruner — entomologist and ornitholo- 

 gist at the University of Nebraska, at Lincoln — in a private 

 letter dated Oct. 20, writes this kindly sentence : 



"Now that the North American Bee-Keepers' meeting 

 has adjourned, and all of the visiting meiuoers have gone 

 home, we begin to realize what a good thing we had in that 

 meeting." 



Yes, and what a good thing all the " visiting members " 

 had when they were given the whole of Lincoln for several 

 days, including all the hospitality that was thrown in with it ! 

 We are sure everybody went home feeling well repaid for go- 

 ing. We did. 



Mr. Tho8. 6. Newman, now of San Diego, Calif., wrote 

 us thus, Oct. 14, for which we thank him : 



Dear Friend York : — Nebraska papers are here, with 

 the announce\pient of your election to the Presidency of the 

 North American Bee-Keepers' Association. Allow me to con- 

 gratulate you, and to hope that you may make it a brilliant 

 success. The meeting seems to have been harmonious and in- 

 teresting. I should have been pleased to have been there. . . . 

 I go to Los Angeles Saturday, where I am to preach twice 

 next Sunday. Last Sunday I was at National — near the Mex- 

 ican line. They are keeping me very busy all the time. Mrs. 

 Newman is improving. Thcmas G. Newman. 



Mb. a. D. D. Wood, late of Los Angeles, Calif., called on us 

 last week when on his way to his old home in Michigan. Mr. 

 W. has spent about a year in California, working with bees 

 and bee-supply manufacturing. It was he that expected to 

 rear queens on Catalina Island — some 50 miles off the coast — 

 where, until he investigated thoroughly, he thought no wild 

 bees were. But he found that there were already many 

 native bees on the island, so he gave up the project. He had 

 an apiary near Los Angeles of about 400 colonies, which he 

 has left in charge of Mr. J. H. Martin, we believe. 



Mr. Wood is a very pleasant man to meet, and one who 

 appears to fully understand his business. His wife has been 

 taking care of his home apiary in Michigan, during his ab- 

 sence, and reports a successful year ; while in California, 

 where Mr. wood was located, the season has been a complete 

 failure. 



CONDUCTED BY 



OR. O. O. JMILLBR. MAREKGO, IXt, 



(.Questions may be mailed to the Bee Journal, or to Dr. Miller direct! 



Double Hives for Wintering, Etc. 



I had 7 colonies of bees, spring count, increased to 17, 

 and got 375 pounds of comb honey, and about 100 pounds of 

 extracted. I use the 8-frame dovetailed hives, but I had a 

 lot of swarms leave for the woods the past summer. I tried 

 to get the colonies strong, but the first thing I knew they 

 had swarmed out, and they had plenty of room to work in. 

 They would work in a super till it was one-half full, and then 

 swarm out, which left me a lot of unfinished sections. 



1. I did not want so many colonies to winter, so I doubled 

 them up in August. I put one hive on top of the other, and 



at this time I take the top hive off and leave all the bees in 

 the lower story, which is very strong in bees and honey for 

 winter. Is this a good plan ? . 



2. Will the top stories be all right to leave all the honey 

 in, and put swarms in them next season ? 



3. How should I prepare my hives in the cellar, which is 

 little damp ? 0. S. 



Hayward, Minn. 



Answers. — 1. Your plan will work all right providing 

 enough honey is left for the bees. Possibly the bees would 

 winter all the better to leave them the two stories all winter, 

 and then in the spring you could take one story away in time 

 to use it for another colony. 



2. Yes, if there isn't enough honey in them to crowd the 

 queen too much. 



3. No special preparation of the hives is needed beyond 

 giving abundant entrance for fresh air below. One good way 

 is to take the floor away entirely, letting the hive be sup- 

 ported on each side so the bottom is entirely open. Then try 

 to allow some way for the entrance of air into the cellar. 



Wintering Queens — Bees I»y the Pound. 



1. Please tell me how to keep extra queens over winter. 



2. What kind of a receptacle do dealers put bees in for 

 transportation, when sold by the pound ? How do they send 

 them — by mail or express ? C. C. B. 



Answers. — 1. Not many are kept over except in weak 

 colonies or nuclei. You may successfully keep them by hav- 

 ing two nuclei in one full-sized hive, the nuclei being each 

 about half as strong as a full colony. Have a solid division- 

 board about }4 or ^i of an inch thick in the center of the 

 hive, so that no bee can pass from one side to the other, and 

 the bees of each side will cluster up against the division-board 

 just as if all were one colony. 



2. Selling bees by the pound has fallen into disrepute, 

 and you find them dropped out of price-lists, but when they 

 were sent, it was in light boxes provided with wire-cloth on 

 one or more sides. Bees by the pound were probably always 

 sent by express. 



House-Apiaries — The "ABC " — Wintering. 



1. Would it do to build a house and set my hives in it? 

 How close can I put the hives together ? 



2. Will the " A B C of Bee-Culture" do to go by ? 



3. Is it best to pack the hives in chaff for winter, or leave 

 them as when on the summer stands '? A. W. A. 



Webb City, Mo. 



Answers. — 1. If the climate of southwest Missouri, where 

 you live, is as mild as I suppose, I doubt whether there is any 

 better place to winter your bees than on the summer stand. 

 Yet ray opinion is not worth so much to you as that of some 

 one in your locality who is successful in wintering. Find such 

 a one, and learn what his custom is. 



2. The " A B C of Bee-Culture" is a very safe work to go 

 by, but I'm not sure that it doesn't speak a little too much in 

 favor of house-apiaries in one place. Some are successful with 

 them while others are not. Better go slow in that respect. 



3. It may be all the better to have some packing about 

 the hives. 



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 with illustrations, showing the value of Alsike clover, and 

 telling how to grow it. This Leaflet is just the thing to hand 

 to every farmer in your neighborhood. Send to the Bee Jour- 

 nal office for a quantity of them, and see that they are dis- 

 tributed where they will do the most good. Prices, postpaid, 

 are as follows : 50 for 25 cents ; 100 for 40 cents ; or 200 



for 70 cents. 



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