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are charitable enough to sell a hive for 75c., 

 a queen for 90c., and a colony of bees con- 

 taining the aforesaid, for $6.50; so tliat you 

 ■can get the " worm " while he goes without 

 anything (except the .f6..50). 



In my article on page 95, March, 1877, 

 "$12 worth of honey in glass jars," should 

 read, $1,200 worth. Also read " Watt's 

 pills," ivater pills. 



I shall be on hand at the next National 

 convention, as I have a new patent as well 

 as a potent hive. It is one of those side- 

 door and glass fellows, only that the glass 

 is blue. Bees kept in tiiis hive, last season, 

 grew as large as humble bees, and could 

 ravish anything from a red clover head to a 

 gallon jug. All the obstacles yet met with 

 is that they can sting through an inch 

 board, such is their size and vitality. I 

 wish, Mr. Editor, you could get the Chicago 

 honey quotations under blue glass. 



James Heddon. 



Dowagiac, Mich., Mar. 5, 1877. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Blasted Hopes. 



We remember of no occasion that prompt- 

 ed deeper mourning over blasted hopes 

 than we now have in this county. Fully 

 three-fourths of the bees wintering out-of- 

 doors are dead already, and the weather is 

 very unfavorable for ihe balance. The 

 snow is about 14 in. deep; the thermometer 

 ranging from 6 deg. below zero to 30deg. 

 above, during last week. 



Of 68 in the cellar, 1 lost one up to Feb. 

 15. Have not examined since, but am 

 anxiously waiting for warm weather to give 

 them a fly and feed up weak colonies. 



We had no surplus honey, except in the 

 basswood season. We had an abundance 

 of white clover and fall flowers, but the 

 cold, wet weather prevented the secretion 

 of honey. The fall found us short in stores, 

 causing a great deal of feeding and uniting 

 of weak colonies. An unfavorable fall was 

 followed by a severe and rigorous winter. 

 On Dec. Stii the thermometer was 12 below 

 zero, and the cold continued till the last of 

 Jan.; when, greatly to the relief of the 

 little pets, they had a nice flight. Feb. was 

 favorable; March, cold and blustering. 



As to the cause of the great fatality, there 

 is, as usual, a diversity of opinions; but I 

 believe ail agree that poor honey and cold 

 weather will cause dysentery. To an 

 abundant apple crop 1 attribute one of the 

 main cavises. During the cold, wet weather, 

 when flowers were secreting but little 

 honey, the bees were swarming around the 

 cider presses and on the bruised and rotten 

 apples in orchards. The honey gathered 

 after Aug. was never capped. Before cold 

 weather set in they were busily engaged in 

 uncapping all that had been nicely sealed. 

 This uncapping I iiave been unable to 

 account for. Can you explain ? The 

 fatality is general. 



A near neighbor who was opposed to the 

 use of the extractor and the beautiful 

 Italian bee, runs his on the old style of 

 "Let alone policy." He extracted no honey, 

 and then, to his utter disgust, his 16 stocks 

 of untamperetl with, pure blacks all suc- 

 cumbed to dysentery. Now, Mr. Editor, 

 had these 16 colonies of blacks— treated on 

 the " Let alone policy" — all lived through 

 the winter, there would have been no 



further use of the extractor and rearing of 

 Italian bees. W. F. Williams. 



Liberty Center, O., March 19, 1877. 



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