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the time, and mauled down the ant- 

 liill into a stiff mud. I served all I 

 could find about the yard in the same 

 manner, and I found it completely 

 destroyed them. In about a week, 

 liowever, a few ants started up new 

 hills, by the side of the old ones, but 

 another dose of the "maul" fixed 

 them effectually, excepting a few 

 stragglers that would collect under 

 pieces of boards, or anything that 

 came in their way, but these I de- 

 stroyed by stamping with my boot. 

 I then laid down a few pieces of 

 boards for this purpose. Ants and 

 ant-hills were very scarce about ray 

 bee-yard last summer. If the hills 

 are too dry at the time, pour on a 

 little water. 



Report, from .J. W. Sanders, Le 

 Grand.© Iowa, on March 20, 1885 : 



Some bee-keepers in this county 

 have put out their bees, but I think 

 that it is almost too early, unless they 

 are returned to the cellars after hav- 

 ing a llight, for it is yet cold and 

 dreary. J5y a Marshalltown paper I 

 notice that Mr. O. 15. Harrows put his 

 bees out on March i;>, and out of 66 

 colonies he has lost 8; while Mr. 

 llanna, a short distance north of Mr. 

 15., has lost 50 colonies out of .58. I 

 hope to make a fuller report of this 

 section in April. 



Reversible ■ Frame Suggestions. — 



Dr. D. C. Spencer, Augusta,^ Wis., 

 writes as follows : 



Perhaps not a few of us have a 

 goodly number of partially tilled 

 frames tliat we would gladly see com- 

 pletely tilled, and as this could be 

 done if these were only " reversible," 

 I wish to suggest how this can be 

 done, and we can tluis be able to ex- 

 periment a little without going to the 

 trouble and expense of getting new 

 reversible frames and waiting to have 

 them tilled. I propose to saw off the 

 projecting ends of the top-bars and 

 supply their places with wires run- 

 ning across the ends of the entire 

 frame, with the ends bent at right 

 angles in opposite directions ; one end 

 of the wire will take the place of the 

 once projecting end of the top-bar, and 

 the other will be under the bottom- 

 bar, affording a good support to the 

 frame. This wire is fastened to the 

 end-bars with two staples, such as are 

 used in making window-blinds. When 

 wishing to reverse a frame, do so, and 

 turn the wire half way around, and 

 replace it in the hive. 



^:|rjetial glotijcjes. 



l^~ Our inconveniences from the loss of 

 our Smoker Factory arc surmounted, and we 

 are nearly up with our last season's ship- 

 ments at this date. Our unusually large 

 European and California early orders are 

 now tilled. This, with our new tools and ex- 

 tra help, will enable us to fill orders for 

 Smokers and Knives on receipt of the same, 

 during the season of 1885, 



Bingham & Hetherington. 



Abronia, Mich., March 27, 188.5. 



Early Queen,— Otto Kleinow, De- 

 troit,o.. Mich., on March 2,3, 1885, 

 writes : 



In January, 1885, I found a young 

 queen in front of one of my chaff 

 hives, which would have hatched in 

 about 3 days, and 1 surmised that the 

 old queen must have died, and ttie 

 bees had reared young queens; so on 

 the first pleasant day I examined the 

 combs and found one queen-cell torn 

 open, but the old queen was ail right. 

 She had been reared last season. 

 Tliere were 3 frames with brood, from 

 freshly laid eggs to hatching bees. It 

 was an average colony, and contained 

 a great many young bees. The queen 

 is a Cyprian, and was mated with an 

 Italian drone. 



Bees Doing Well.— A. D. Bennett, 

 Waterloo,© Iowa, on March 2-1, 1885, 

 writes : 



We have had cold weather so far 

 this spring, and it is cold and clear 

 today. My bees are doing well in 

 the cellar, but all that I left out-of- 

 doors have died. Other bee-keepers 

 here who have always wintered their 

 bees out-of- doors with fair success, 

 have lost all this winter, some having 

 as many as 2.) colonies. We look for 

 general losses here, for it has been a 

 very hard winter on bees. 



Extremely Cold.— G. M. Doolittle, 

 Borodino,© N. Y., on March 'M, 188.5, 

 writes thus : 



Since Jan. 20, it has been extremely 

 cold in central New York, the mer- 

 cury going below zero for over one- 

 half of the nights since then. Es- 

 pecially cold has it beeli the last two 

 weeks, the mercury being below zero 

 every night except one during that 

 time, and going as low as 20^ below 

 on one night; tliis morning it was 4^^ 

 belovv. l%e snow is from 2 to 12 feet 

 deep, according as it is drifted. Bees 

 are suffering for a flight, except those 

 which are in the cellar, and if they do 

 not have a flight soon, a great loss 

 will be the result. 



Out-Door Wintering. — Jos. Beath, 

 Corning, p Iowa, on Mar. 19, 1885, says: 



The greater part of the bees which 

 were wintered out-of-doors, in this 

 neighborhood, are dead. 



E^~ In response to an advertisement in 

 the Bee Journal, I have received some 

 small amountsot money from several parties 

 who failed to give their names. As I have no 

 other way to reach them e.\cept through the 

 Bee Journal, I wish to .say that their goods 

 will be ready when I have their correct ad- 

 dresses. People who order goods and send 

 for circulars should write their names and 

 full addresses plainly, and then they will 

 get what they call for. H. Alley. 



Wenham, Mass. 



i^~ My New Factory is completed, and 

 again in running order. As many in the 

 South depended upon ine for their Hives, 

 etc., I had to rush things up, and I have lost 

 no time in re-building. P. L. V'iallon. 



Bayou Goula, La., March 'J3, 1885. 



iW" My factory was burned on Jan. 28, in- 

 chuling all the new machinery and lumber. 

 My loss was $:),.500 with insurance of $500. 

 I have replaced with new machinerj' and 

 stock and am now ready for orders for sup- 

 plies. HiLAS D. Davis. 



Bradford, Vt., March 25, 1885. 



I:*" The Mahoning Valley Bee- Keepers' 

 Association, will hold its next meeting at 

 Newton Falls, Ohio, on Thursday, May 28, 

 1885. E, W, Turner, Sec. 



Bees Seem All Right. — Hansom 



.Allen, (Jarland,© .Mich., on .March 19, 

 1885, says : 



1 have 80 colonies of bees in the 

 cellar, which I put in on Dec. 5, 1884, 

 and thev are quiet and seem to be all 

 right, 'Not having room, I left 8 col- 

 onies on the summer stands, and 3 of 

 them are alive at present. 



Bee-Hunting and Hibernation. — J. 



H. Andre, Lockwood,? N. Y., writes : 

 From my 25 years experience in 

 bee-hunting and cutting of bee-trees 

 at all seasons of the year, I think that 

 I could shake the hibernation theory. 

 It looks singular to me if hibernation 

 means what some might call a semi- 

 comatose condition (and that is as near 

 a delinition of it as we can get at), if 

 bees in a bee-tree, when it is felled in 

 winter, with the thermometer at zero, 

 should wake up so quickly and rush 

 out for a few seconds, if the tree 

 happens to split, until they are over- 

 come by cold. I have known of lum- 

 bermen being stung on a cold, wintry 

 day, by cutting a tree accidentally 

 before the bees became chilled. 



1^ The bee-keepers of Portage 

 county and vicinity will meet at 

 Ravenna. Ohio, on April 24, 1885, for 

 permanent organization. Let every 

 bee-keeper be present. 



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