March 23, 1905. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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has only one left, and a large supplj- of 

 wormy combs and cocoons. All died from 

 starvation. 



Another who had 300 colonies in the moun- 

 tains, but lives in town, went out about the 

 middle of the summer to see what condition 

 they were io, found them on the point of 

 starvation, and before he could get sugar to 

 leed them, he lost 150 colonies. He fed the 

 rest well, and has lost but very few since. 

 Most of the real bee-keepers have carried their 

 bees through without a very great loss. 



In my own apiary I have 82 colonies left 

 from a total of 103 a year ago. The loss has 

 been caused by loss of queens principally, as 

 there were no swarms and no drones to ferti- 

 lize the queens where queens were super- 

 seded. I have also lost a few by the depreda- 

 tions of " hoodlums."' 



I have fed about 1500 pounds of honey and 

 sugar at a cost of $72— an average of about 90 

 cents per colony — and they have enough to 

 carry them through till honey comes in from 

 the fields. We have a very good prospect for 

 a honey crop, as there have been since the 

 last of December frequent and copious rains, 

 totaling 10.86 inches for the season, and the 

 season for winter rains is only about half 

 passed. In the mountains where most of the 

 honey is produced, there has been consider- 

 able more rain. F. C. Wiggins. 



San Diego Co., Calif., Feb. 1. 



Management with Box-Hives. 



I secured a half ton of extracted and a half 

 ton of comb honey in 1904 from 40 colonies. I 

 now have 60 colonies, and am buying other 

 bees. I have 26 colonies in box-hives which I 

 wish to transfer to Higginsville hives m the 

 spring. 



Last year I returned all swarms with clipped 

 queens, but even when I left a mature queen- 

 cell the bees invariably started other cells. 

 Then when the queen emerged and found the 

 other cells, out she came with a swarm. 



1 want honey and not increase, and I would 



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