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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



April 26, 1900. 



not had any inky drops since using 

 that kind of fuel. 



I have two test-books, but could not 

 think of gretting along- without the 

 American Bee Journal. There is some- 

 thing fascinating about it. If one of 

 the neighbors brings it to me at bed- 

 time I must see all of the headings and 

 read some of the articles. I don't think 

 Mr. Doolittle is named right, for he 

 does so much. I enjoy reading his arti- 

 cles. Then the patience that Dr. 

 Miller has, to answer so many ques- 

 tions, makes me feel that if I can do 

 anything that will benefit any one else 

 I ought to do so. 



As the past three years have been 

 poor here, I thought I would try keep- 

 ing pigeons with the bee-business, so I 

 have commenced with 13. I have had 

 a hard time this winter getting their 

 places read}-, and the nests made. I 

 have made 18 nests, and paid only S 

 cents in money for one box. I have 

 made it all myself, and have had hard 

 work to get it done. I am not ashamed 

 of it, considering the materials I had, 

 but I think I did pretty well for a 

 woman in her 71st year. 



Mrs. Sarah J. Griffith. 



Cumberland Co., N. J. 



Little Loss in Wintering. 



Bees are doing nicely so far. As a 

 rule not over 3 percent are lost. Pros- 

 pects are good. G. W. Vangundy. 



Uintah Co., Utah, April 8. 



Ppospeets Good. 



Bees are wintering pretty well. We 

 lost 4 colonies out of IS. The prospects 

 are pretty good. Pussy-willows are 

 beginning to bloom. 



Henry Roorda. 



Cook Co., III., April 13. 



Wintering and Springing Bees- 

 Laying Workers. 



Altho some claim to have reacht the 

 highest attainments in winter man- 

 agement, the reports of 'the winter of 

 1898-99 did not bear out the statement. 

 I do not claim to have reacht perfec- 

 tion by any means, but I think I have 

 a good method of winter management, 

 as I did not lose any colonies in the 

 winter referred to. 



The situation of the apiary and the 

 position of the hives are of vital im- 

 portance to successful wintering. Our 

 apiary is south of the main building, 

 and west of the poultry house. These, 

 of course, shield it from the cold wind. 



The hives are facing south now. and 

 alternately east and west in summer. 



The two main points to consider are, 

 plenty of stores and a tight hive. 

 There need not be so much attention 

 paid to the quality of the stores, and 

 their position in the hive, as we seldom 

 have more than a week or ten days 

 here without a day or two fit for the 

 bees to cleanse themselves. I use a 

 modification of the Hill's device, or a 

 chaff tray over the frames, and a board 

 that will just 1511 up the space. A hive 

 so packt is equal to a box-hive for win- 

 tering. 



The colonies in this country, worthy 

 of the name, commence breeding about 

 New Year's, in small dimensions at 

 first, but increasing until in March, 

 the best hives are pretty well filled up 

 with bees. In the latter part of March, 

 or first of April, brood-rearing com- 

 mences in earnest. At the same time 

 the work for the season commences in 

 earnest. 



The first thing to attend to is to see 

 that all colonies have good queens. 

 The next in order is queen-clipping 

 and general hive-cleaning, an'H put- 

 ting in foundation. Then comes the 

 big job — putting on the sections. I 

 would not unpack the ends of the 

 frames until settled warm weather. 



As I have said above, the best colo- 

 nies were the ones that breed all the 

 latter part of the winter unhindered. 

 And these best colonies are the ones 

 that store the surplus honey ; quite dif- 

 ferent from Mr. Doolittle's bees that 

 store no surplus if they commence 

 breeding before spring. But that is 

 very easily accounted for; Mr. D.'s 

 honey-flow comes in July from bass- 

 wood, while ours comes from clover in 

 May, and from basswood in July. 



We had plenty of laying-worker ex- 

 perience in the apiary last summer. 

 Of course that does not show up very 

 well for the apiarist, but I suppose I 

 may be excused if I have establisht a 

 cure. The case cited came about in 

 this way : 



A certain colony became queenless, 

 and we at once ordered a queen. In the 

 meantime I gave the colony a frame of 

 brood to keep, on which they at once 

 started queen-cells that became so 

 nearly ripe that I had to remove them. 

 I failed to give brood of the right stage 

 for queen-rearing. When the queen 

 arrived, and I started to introduce her, 

 I found that laying workers had made 

 their" appearance. I was afraid to risk 

 the fine queen in such an abnormal 

 colony, so I got a queen from a very 

 cross colon}', and caged her upon the 



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