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Feb. 8, IWC 



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will be very slow in removing the honey. 

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 pings bruised by a knife; cells containing 

 honey but not capt, should have the thick 

 rim at the mouth of the cell bruised, then 

 fill supers with them. Then go to several 

 colonies having little honey or brood In the 

 brood-chambers, remove the cover, put on 

 an empty super, then on top of this put the 

 supers of unfinisht sections, as many as you 

 please on each hive, and replace the cover. 

 Having all cells bruised, and the sections 

 removed several inches from the brood- 

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PooF Season Last Year. 



Bees did poorly last year. I got scarcely 

 any honey to sell. I have 53 colonies in 

 good shape for next season, which I hope 

 may be a fine one. Bees have had two 

 good flights, and all is well so far as I can 

 see. Henry Lohaus. 



Platte Co., Nebr., Jan. 35. 



Bees Outdoors in Winter. 



Bees are wintering very nicely so far, 

 where they had the proper attention in 

 going into winter quarters. But should 

 this warm weather continue long there will 

 be reports of heavy loss by starvation. My 

 experience has been that bees consume 

 more food in an extremely warm winter 

 than in a reasonably cold one. In a warm 

 winter, when they can fly every day, they 

 feed the queen, stimulating egg-producing 

 food, with the result that she lays too many 

 eggs; these eggs must be cared for, the 

 larvfe fed, and the " babies " reared, which 

 consumes a large amount of food; and it 

 frequently happens that just as they get 

 the brood-chamber full of young bees there 

 comes one of those cold waves, and — well, 

 goodby, young bees. Spring result, a 

 starved-out colony that under a more 

 severe winter would have pulled thru all 

 right. 



In examining my bees I find much more 

 brood than is usual at this time of year. 

 Of course, I am speaking of bees wintered 

 on the summer stands (and that is the way 

 we all winter here). 



Geo, W, Williams. 



Polk Co., Mo., Jan. 34. 



Moving Bees to Pasturage. 



I had 33 colonies, spring count, in 1899, 

 increast to 54, and got 3,150 pounds of ex- 

 tracted honey, and 150 pounds of comb 

 honey. I always divide my bees about 

 swarming-time, and aim to have a queen 

 for all of the swarms, so they won't lose so 

 much time in rearing them. 



My honey-house, on the west of the bee- 

 yard, is 16 feet long, and then I have a 

 board-fence 8 feet high running north 30 

 feet and east 50 feet, so I have a wind-break 

 for the bees. I put the hives 6 feet apart 

 each way. I have no shade for them ex- 

 cept artificial, and I use it for shelter in the 

 winter. 



Every fall, about Aug. 1, I move the bees 

 to the Illinois bottom for the Spanish- 

 needle and heartsease, which is in abun- 

 dance in a common season. It is about 13 

 miles there. I move them on a spring 

 wagon, and can haul 10 on each load. I 

 always take three loads, and leave the rest 

 at home for the buckwheat crop. 



I will give you an account of what I did 

 in the fall of 1897. August 10 I moved the 

 bees, and on the 34th we extracted two bar- 

 rels of honey ; on Sept. 4 we extracted two 

 more barrels — that was just 10 days. This 

 was done from 39 colonies; we moved 30, 

 but one had no queen, so it did nothing. 



I have a good trade in honey, selling out 

 all I had three weeks ago, so I have no 

 honey now for my customers. I sell my 

 honey mostly in tin pails of three sizes, 4, 



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