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one; another had DO. and |;ot one colony 

 thru. 1 had Ki, and had I.S lant HpriiiK, liiit 

 nearly oil in had Hhape. I hail 11 In chnlV 

 hive», and T uf them dieil. and all had 

 plenty of honey, hut only a few heeH. One 

 colony had only one ijiiart (prent lightly) 

 of loose heuH, that is. those that had not 

 crawled into the comhs; the strongest had 

 ahout ti'.j (|uurts. The small amount of 

 bees I think was due to the fut^t that there 

 was no fall honey, and therefore no fall 

 brood to rear younf; bees for winter. 



Last season was almost a failure for 

 honey here. 1 k"^ about :il)l) pounds of 

 comb honey, and also ^UH) pounds in brood- 

 frames for the spring of liiOO. 1 have .'iO 

 colonies now, 44 in the cellar and ti in chail' 

 hives on the summer stands. 



Tniiu. H. Hum. BY. 



Tama Co., Iowa, Jan. !i!l. 



Bees in Almost Aip-Tight Places. 



Uurini; the week since my discovery that 

 tiees could live for weeks in an atmosphere 

 <!ontaininK little or no oxygen, I have 

 tbouf^bt over the habits of ordinary inset^ts, 

 and how, under their usual surroundlnKs, 

 they do seem to exist in an air perhaps 

 practically destitute of oxygen. Kvery 

 bee-keeper knows bow an old box or barrel 

 containini; old combs will heat up from the 

 maturing larvii' of the wax-motha it con- 

 tains, which, while practially air-tight, does 

 not hinder, but, on the contrary, assists 

 their development. 



Ants that live in families in the earth or 

 old decayed logs, may find the air we 

 breathe not essential to them. In Hondu- 

 ras I saw many ant'Ue.sts at the foot of trees 

 larger than a bushel basket. practi(;ally a 

 solid mass of living ants — so great were 

 their numbers that they had roads and 

 brought leaves from lemon trees to support 

 their young. One would think fresh air 

 would have been dilli(rult of access in the 

 center of such nests. 



I'erhaps an illustration may be found in 

 the hatching of (jueens. which are sulli- 

 ciently developt in an air tight cell to be 

 able to fly as soon as they can escape from 

 It. In such cells it would be reasonable to 

 presume the air might have become at least 

 poor in her last 10 days' confinement. 



Of course, it will be said that these refer- 

 ences are of no value— Nature has her way 

 of doing such things. That is all very well 

 on general principles, but perhaps while 

 the habits of insects have been studied care- 

 fully the chemical conditions of the air 

 they breathe has escaped analysis. 



Clare Co., Mich. T. K. Binoua.vi. 



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I havi? 3 well eqiiipt apiaiies dm Urast K"i'"tiiHl 

 in the KicUapoo Valley, all well localcd in Uie 

 while clover and basswood belt of Wisconsin, 

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 frame Lantrslroth hi ves; extraclin(f-caHCH, ex- 

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 each apiary, all in trood condition, nearly new. 

 I will sell one apiary or more, on easy terms, 

 and at a barfjain, AddreHs, 



fl. G. WILSON, Readstown, Wis. 



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