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trance and to keep rain from beating in. 

 Keep your yard clean, free from high weeds 

 and grass, which are a sad bother to the 

 bees, and when dry a danger, from fire. 



How few Apiaries do we go into where 

 we find the hives free and clean in this re- 

 spect. I have been into yards where the 

 poor bees had to alight on the top of the 

 hives and crawl down the front to the en- 

 trance, the grass being so thick that they 

 could get in no other way. 



Grass and weeds are fine hiding places 

 for mice, insects, toads, etc., where they can 

 come forth to work on the bees and their 

 proceeds. It also makes damp hives, moldy 

 combs, and diseased bees. 



We have our hives on legs, seven inches 

 high, with an alighting board reaching from 

 the ground to the entrance. Our chickens 

 roam at will ai'ound and under the hives and 

 woe to the bug, miller or mouse, who dares 

 come into their domain,,for their sharp eyes 

 detect every one. 



All the hives should have one good coat 

 of paint at least once a year, which can be 

 done on cool days when the bees do not fly, 

 without changing the bees over to do it, and 

 it aflds to the neatness of the yard, besides 

 preserving fi-om the ertects of the weather. 



Then bi'other bee-keepers, let us all be 

 neat in bee-keeping as one of the eifects to 

 bring the science up to the standard it 

 should occupy. Will. M. Kellogg. 



Bee Notes from Iowa. 



We are located in the s. w. corner of 

 Iowa, bounded on the west by the Big Mud- 

 dy, (Mo. River), with a loose soil from 100 

 to 200 feet deep, so says our geologist. I 

 have never been down that far, but have 

 spaded 80 feet, and found it correct Alsike 

 and white clover do not do well here ; the 

 soil is too loose and open, in my opinion. We 

 have two rivers running through the county, 

 from the valley of tlu'se our bees gatlier 

 considerable honey in the fall. The county 

 Is mostly prairie and newly settled, conse- 

 quently not blessed with as many blooming 

 orchards as some other sections of the 

 county. There is considerable of basswood 

 in the groves that yields honey some sea- 

 sons. I am two miles from the nearest bass- 

 wood timber, and within a radius of three 

 miles there are more stocks of bees than 

 there are linn trees, still my stocks gathered 

 about 30 lbs. per colony the past season. 

 There were several thousand pounds of 

 honey raised this year in this county ; all 

 consumed near home, I believe. I find a 

 good many prejudiced against extracted 

 honey; the fact is, they believe that if it is 

 not in the comb it is adulterated. A short 

 time since I asked a lady to buy some ex- 

 tracted honey, when she informed me that 

 she had a leceipt for making honey. But 

 whenever I get a customer to use ex'tracted 

 honey one season, I then have him cured of 

 his prejudice. I have never shipped any 

 honey. I had no success this season with 

 box-honey ; our fall honey, this season, is 

 of superior quality, very thick and candied 

 alreaoy. We have, what we call ' The Fre- 

 mont Co. Bee Keepers' Association,' and be- 

 cause you do not see our proceedings in 

 print you must not consider that we do or 

 say nothing ; the fact is we "keep our light 

 under a bushel." Ed. Wellington. 



Fremont Co., Iowa, Nov. 2, 1876. 



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