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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



into their hive with a good supply of 

 stores. My wife was out picking up the 

 dead bees that was at the entrances, and 

 found the queen lying 3 or 4 feet from 

 the hive. She had laid there all night, 

 but she revived, and was as active as 

 ever in a few minutes. I purchased one 

 Italian queen, and introduced her all 

 right, for ray first experience. I have 

 made a sawmill on a small scale near my 

 house, to cut up lumber to make hives. 

 I have a good location for the bee-busi- 

 ness, which I intend to follow. In 15 

 days, bees in this locality will begin to 

 gather pollen from the alder, which is 

 here in abundance. Wm. Webb. 



Sutton, Tenn., Feb. 3, 1892. 



A Grood Year for Bees. 



The past was a good year for bees. 

 My crop of honey was 1,800 pounds 

 from 27 colonies. Spring count, 3 of 

 which were queenless. I also increased 

 to 40 colonies. Tlie best yield from one 

 colony was 160 pounds. My crop was 

 all extracted, and was all very dark. I 

 am well pleased with the Amekican Bee 

 JouKNAL, and expect to take it as long 

 as I keep bees, and can get a dollar to 

 pay for it. James A. King. 



Sub Rosa, Ark., Jan. 29, 1892. 



Wavelets of News. 



The Man Who Knows It All. 



Dr. John Dzierzon reached his 81st 

 year Jan. 16th, 1892. He is enjoying 

 good health, is engaged in keeping bees 

 to quite an extent, and is still one of the 

 best if not the ablest writer on apicultu- 

 ral matters in his native country, Ger- 

 many. 



The 36th German - Austrian Bee- 

 keepers' Association met in Luebeck, 

 Germany, Sept. 25-28, 1891. The first 

 one of these conventions was hold in the 

 '40's, if I am not greatly mistaken ; and 

 according to Dzierzon an invitation was 

 also extended to the (at that time) dis- 

 tinguished bee-keeper Gundelach. His 

 reply, however, to Dzierzon was that he 

 thought he could not learn anything 

 more in connection with bee-keeping, 

 and therefore should not attend. 



How selfish and foolish the conduct of 

 this man appears in view of the present 

 light of apiculture — in view of the wond- 

 erful discoveries, the many highly prized 

 inventions! 



But have we reached the climax? are 

 we on the top-round of the apicultural 

 ladder? By no means. Much may be 

 known ; but more is to be revealed in the 

 future ; and the man who "knows it all" 

 (?) and does not try to keep himself 

 posted by attending conventions or read- 

 ing some of the best bee-perifjdicals ex- 

 hibits as little wisdom as Gundelach 40 

 or 50 years ago, when he refused to 

 meet with the best bee-keepers of his 

 time, when bee-literature was hardly in 

 its infancy. — F. Gkeinek in Olemiings 

 in Bee-C^ilture. 



Confined. Bees Uneasy. 



Several parties have written lately 

 that their bees are uneasy in their win- 

 ter quarters, that they are making " a 

 loud humming noise," and seemed dis- 

 turbed generally. Some of these parties 

 have had their bees confined in the hives 

 by closing the entrance with wire cloth, 

 or otherwise. It is bad policy to confine 

 bees to the hives. We have tried the 

 plan in former times, but as soon as the 

 bees found themselves imprisoned, they 

 at once became disturbed, and remained 

 so until they were given their liberty 

 again. Everything loves freedom, and 

 I do not blame bees for objecting to 

 being sent to the penitentiary. 



This Winter has been very warm so 

 far, and the bees should have the entire 

 entrance to their hives left open, and it 

 would be better to have the hives raised 

 % or K inch from the bottom-board, by 

 having a small piece of lath under each 

 corner of the hive. 



Examination of our own cellar showed 

 the temperature to be 48°; this was 6^ 

 or 8° higher than we like, at this time of 

 the year, and so we immediately ad- 

 mitted more air and lowered the tem- 

 perature to 40-^. A colony that is rest- 

 less will consume all the stores and 

 starve before Spring, unless they have 

 a large amount. Every cellar should 

 have a good thermometer in it, to indi- 

 cate the exact temperature at all times. 

 — Faiin, Stock and Home. 



Raccoons as Bee Enemies. 



'Coons esteem honey-bees a great deli- 

 cacy. A 'coon will go to a liive, tap on 

 the top to start the bees out, and as they 

 swarm on the alighting-board will clap 

 his paw on three or four of them, flatten 

 them out and put them in his mouth, 

 entirely disregarding their stings. — 



