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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Report, from Samuel Hall, Topeka, 

 oKansas, on Feb. 5, 1885 : 



I had 26 colonies of Bees last fall ; 

 and about Jan. 1, 1885, there was a 

 day or two of warm weather when all 

 of "them had a nice fly and appeared 

 to be all right. Yesterday I exam- 

 ined them and I think that every bee 

 is dead. I have about the same num- 

 ber of colonies some 5 miles from here 

 that I have not yet examined. 



Dampness the Cause of Bee-Diarrhea. 



8— Fayette Lee, (48—80) Cokato,© 

 Minn., on Feb. 7, writes thus : 



Honey gathers dampness, moisture 

 from the bees' breath accumulates on 

 the combs, and the deeper the snow 

 the damper will the cellar be. If any 

 one will enter the cellar now or in 

 March and raise the covers of the 

 hives, he will find water dropping off 

 and running down among the bees. 

 Dampness causes strong colonies to 

 rear brood, and if the young bees can- 

 not have, a fly, death is the result. 

 Sugar syrup is the best feed to winter 

 bees on, because it does not gatlier 

 dampness. The bees eat a little pol- 

 len in winter to make them fat for 

 spring work. They do not get enough 

 pollen in winter, but they get too 

 much water. If I find watery looking 

 stuff in the bees that I sweep up on 

 tlie cellar bottom, I am sure to lose 

 lots of bees before May ; but when 

 dry cappings are found at the en- 

 trances of the hives, all is well. I 

 think that Mr. Doolittle is mistaken 

 in regard to old bees not eating 

 pollen. 



Bees Affected with Diarrhea.— Jesse 



White, Perry,© Iowa, on Feb. 6, 1885, 

 writes as follows : 



Tlie past season was very unfavor- 

 able for bees in this section, on ac- 

 count of its being so wet, I think. 

 Last spring I started with 11 colonies, 

 increased them to 23 during the sea- 

 son, and obtained about 50 pounds of 

 honey. In the fall I built a board 

 fence and put my bee-hives south of 

 it, and packed the spaces between 

 and back of them with prairie liay, 

 and covered them over and shaded 

 the fronts with boards to keep the 

 bees from flying when it is too cold. 

 They had a flight on Jan. 8, having 

 been conflned for about 40 days. They 

 had another " fly " on Feb. 2 and 3. I 

 have lost one weak colony, and found 

 a dead queen at the entrance of one 

 hive. Some of them have the bee- 

 diarrhea badly, honey-dew being the 

 chief cause, I believe. We have had 

 a very cold winter thus far, the mer- 

 cury ranging, for the past 7 or 8 

 weeks, from 10^ to 35" below zero in 

 the morning. 



tion to it. I do not let the tempera- 

 ture remain at 2.5^ for more than 24 

 hours at any one time. I have a tin 

 box in which I can place a kerosene 

 lamp so arranged that the light can- 

 not be seen, and the heat of tne lamp 

 will raise the temperature to 42°. By 

 turning the wick up I can raise the 

 temperature to 50°. Less than four 

 quarts of bees have died from 43 col- 

 onies. They are not uneasy. I have 

 one upward ventilator 10 feet in 

 height and 6 inches square in the 

 house. There is no mold or damp- 

 ness in the bee-house. 



^^jecial Notices. 



i^° Do not forget that on Feb. 23rd, 

 1885, the books will be opened for the 

 subscription of Stock to " The Bee- 

 Keepers' Supply Company of New- 

 comerstown,Ohio." Every bee-keeper 

 that can should subscribe for some 

 stock. This will certainly be a profit- 

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CLCBBDIG LIST. 



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^' We often get a number of 

 notices and advertisements on Mon- 

 days, intended for the next Bee 

 Journal. As we close the forms on 

 Saturdays, all such notices rmist be here 

 on Saturday morning, or cannot ap- 

 pear until the following week. 



Bees Doing Well.— Henry Alley, 

 Wenham (5 Mass., on Feb. 9, 1885, 

 writes as follows : 



My bees have been housed for 

 nearly 11 weeks. I examined a few 

 of them last week, and they seemed 

 in as good order as when on the sum- 

 mer stands. The temperature of my 

 bee-house varies from 25^ to 55^ above 

 zero. There is no sub-earth ventila- 



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