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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



March 8, 1900. 



gather the honey. It is just like having a 

 lot of men to do a lot of work — more men, 

 more work is done. Besides, I don't be- 

 lieve they will swarm so badly. 



Virgil Rogers. 

 Buffalo Co., Neb., Feb. 24. 



Bees in Good Condition. 



Bees are wintering well so far in this 

 locality. Some of my neighbors are win- 

 tering theirs on the summer stands, and 

 they seem to be all right. But this has 

 been a mild winter up to a week ago when 

 it turned cold and snowed, which is still on 

 the ground, and it is a good thing that there 

 is snow, as it will protect clover and other 

 plants. So far clover looks all right, and I 

 don't think it will freeze any more, for it is 

 getting along toward the first of March. 

 The mercury has been 7" and S" below zero, 

 but it is getting warmer again. 



My bees are wintering nicely in the cel- 

 lar that I built last fall. It is made of river 

 stone, which I dug myself, and did the 

 mason-work myself. I work at the mason 

 trade when I can get away from my bees. 

 I am going to run a small nursery with my 

 bees, as I think every bee-keeper ought to 

 raise some fruit, so that his neighbors, who 

 do not keep bees, and claim that his bees 

 injure fruit, can be convinced that they do 

 not. but that they help to fertilize all kind 

 of fruits and some farm crops, such as 

 clovers. I think that alsike is one of the 

 best of clovers for hay and pasture, and it 

 will stand a damp and cold soil better than 

 the common red. Another advantage alsike 

 has over the other kinds is that the bees 

 can and do work on it more readily. It is 

 this work done by the bees that causes it to 

 bear seed the first crop, and in this part of 

 Illinois it gets ripe a little before timothy, 

 so that when the hay is made lots of the 

 seed falls on the ground to come up the 

 next spring and take the place of the old 

 clover. 



Last fall I went out thru what little tim- 

 ber there is left in this vicinity in search 

 of bees, and I found three trees one after- 

 noon that had bees, but it was too late to 

 do anything with them last fall, so I 

 thought I would wait until spring, and if 

 they are then alive I will transfer them. 

 While two men were cutting cordwood in 

 this timber this winter, they happened to 

 fell one of these trees that contained a col- 

 ony of bees that I found. This was Jan. 

 23, and they came and told me about it. I 

 did not like to see the bees starve and 

 freeze to death, so I fixt up a small hive 

 with some nice combs of honey, and started 

 for the tree. It was nice and warm, so it 

 was not a hard job to get them into the 

 hive, and I brought them home and put 

 them into the cellar. They are doing nicely 

 so far. I think they will come thru all 

 right. Jacob Wirtu. 



Henry Co., 111., Feb. 19. 



Nuclei, Spring Dwindling, Etc. 



In the fall of 1898 I had 63 colonies and 

 three 3-frame nuclei, all nicely arranged in 

 chaff hives for outdoor wintering. I did 

 not expect the nuclei to live thru, but 

 thought to try the experiment. 



After the well-remembered extremely 

 cold snap (26"^ to 28'^ below zero here) was 

 over, there came some nice warm days late 

 in February. On looking the bees over I 

 was surprised to find all alive and appar- 

 ently in fine condition. The surprise was 

 that the nuclei should endure such extreme 

 cold. In most colonies there was young 

 brood. From that time till April the 

 weather was cold, cloudy or blusterj', so 

 the bees could not fiy. On April 9 I lookt 

 them over again, and found the three nuclei 

 and 16 colonies dead, and many others very 

 weak. In all the dead colonies there was 

 dead brood. I think my loss was charge- 

 able to early breeding and bad spring 

 weather, rather than the extreme cold. 



In the summer I had a colony that I 

 thought was queenless, but in looking them 

 over 1 was surprised to find a capt queen- 

 cell ! I was determined to see what was in 

 it, and on cutting it open fotcnd a drone 



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