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chased two 5-banded golden Italian 

 queens, and also two Italian queens. 

 Should they winter successfully, I shall 

 report later. I work chiefly for ex- 

 tracted-honey, using the Richardson ex- 

 tractor. The coming season I intend to 

 produce a good deal of comb-honey in 

 sections 4^x4^x1%. 



John Cakrick. 

 Hay, Ont., Jan. 8, 1892. 



Bees in Cuba — On Shares. 



I have in contemplation a very large 

 apiary, out of this one! actually possess, 

 and am daily improving. I apply to 

 you for a satisfactory solution of the 

 following question : A neighbor and 

 friend of mine owns some 825 acres (25 

 caballerias) of land, situated in a very 

 appropriate place for bee-rearing, about 

 four miles distant from this apiary. My 

 success in this, induces him to let me set 

 the new apiary right on his premises, 

 without his having any further invest- 

 ment in the enterprise. What is the 

 share he should have in the profits ? 



J. C. Barredo. 



Island of Cuba, Jan. 26, 1892. 



[His share should "he about 10 per 

 cent. — or anything you can both agree 

 upon. — Ed.] 



Wintering in a Bee-Cave. 



Last year was a year of i;ilenty of 

 every thing. The flow of honey was 

 good, more so than any year before, and 

 the bees were on the wing from morning 

 until night, bringing in the best of 

 honey. Last Summer I built a good 

 cave for the bees. I put them into it 

 the last of December, and at present 

 they are in good condition. Their combs 

 are dry, with no signs of any disease. 

 The cave has paid me well for my 

 trouble. The Bee Journal is a wel- 

 come visitor, as it brings light and life 

 to every bee-keeper, East or West. 



N. W. Afflerbaugh. 



Cameron, Nebr., Feb. 9, 1892. 



Bees Wintering on Honey-Dew. 



On page 216 is an article" from the 

 Michigan Farmer, stating that an Iowa 

 bee-keeper had lost many of his bees by 

 feeding them on honey-dew. The secre- 

 tion of this substance was unprecedented 

 in this State the past year, and in no 

 part of the State was this more notice- 

 able than in this part (central) and yet 



bees in this section are wintering all 

 right. There are bee-keepers here who 

 will lose many bees, but it is as usual — 

 the result of indifferent or no special 

 care. This Winter proves to me that 

 honey-dew cuts no figure in the Winter 

 problem, for, as far as appearance goes, 

 the bees are just as quiet, and enjoying 

 as good health, as usual, though all the 

 stores contain more or less of this sub- 

 stance. Most of the honey gathered in 

 this part of the State was unsalable 

 from this cause. The bee-keeper in 

 Iowa who loses his bees this Winter will 

 lose them on account of lack of food, or 

 of careless management — nothing else. 



Blairstown, Iowa, Feb. i2, 1892. 



The Ohio State Convention. 



Our Ohio State Bee-Keepers' Conven- 

 tion adjourned this afternoon to meet 

 again at Washington C. H., Ohio, at the 

 call of the President. The ofiScers for 

 the ensuing year are : S. R. Morris, 

 Bloomingburg, O., President ; C. F. 

 Muth, Cincinnati, O., Vice-President; 

 Miss Dema Bennett, Bedford, O., Secre- 

 tary and Treasurer. The best of feel- 

 ing prevailed throughout our meetings, 

 and if they were not as large as we had 

 expected, they were interesting to every- 

 body present. We had among us Dr. C. 

 C. Miller, of Marengo, Ills., and we had 

 a programme besides, every question of 

 which was exhaustively digested. What 

 sane man could doubt the assertion that 

 our meetings were both interesting and 

 instructive ? All were agreeably sur- 

 prised by the kind invitation of the 

 President of the Merchant's Exchange, 

 to visit the Chamber of Commerce. The 

 courtesy was accepted with pleasure by 

 all. Chas. F. Muth. 



Cincinnati, O., Feb. 12, 1892. 



Wavelets of News. 



Vaseline for Stopping Robbing. 



I promised to give some further ac- 

 count of an upset among my bees in 

 consequence of an attack by robbers 

 through the careless replacing of a hive 

 roof. The robber bees got into the 

 super in hundreds, and, after the roof 

 had been righted, they crowded about 

 every joint and crevice of the neighbor- 

 ing hives, as well as the one in ques- 

 tion. So I got my smoker in play, and 



