Dec. 6, 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Tll6H0J16llBe6 



Revised by Dadant— 1899 Edition. 



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 basswoods, elms and hickories in my 

 locality were covered with honey-dew, 

 and the bees filled the brood-chambers 

 just as full as they possibly could of 

 the off-colored stuff. I did not like to 

 risk the wintering of all my bees on 

 honey-dew, when I had plenty of sealed 

 clover honey in the top stories, which I 

 had saved to winter them on, but I 

 thought I could safely do some experi- 

 menting along this line and go thru 

 the winter without any loss. I had 85 

 colonies, and in the fall I took all the 

 combs out of 65 brood-chambers, and 

 placed from 5 to 6 combs of sealed 

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 each, (which I had taken from other 

 colonies), and after placing division- 

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 packt these colonies with leaves also. 

 I then fixt up the other 10 colonies with 

 3 sealed combs of clover in the center 

 and a comb of honey-dew at each side 

 and the division-boards, packing these 

 colonies in leaves the same as I did the 

 others. 



The 65 that were given the sealed 

 combs of clover honey wintered fine, 

 and were very strong with bees in the 

 spring, and gave a large yield of honey 

 in 1885. The 10 that had mixt stores 

 dwindled down very much in spring, 

 and gave me but very little honey that 

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 soiled their hives very badly, the 

 most of them died before spring, and 

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