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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



April 6, 1905. 



I want to learn to attend to the business according to the latest im- 

 proved scientific principles. New York. 



Answeks. — 1. It would be a great convenience if bees would hive 

 themselves when everything is made ready for them. Unfortunately, 

 they are more likely to prefer a hollow in some place difficult of access, 

 a mile or so away. I'm not sure that I ever beard of a swarm volun- 

 tarily entering a new hive (lots of such opportunities have been 

 offered) , although sometimes they enter a hive containing old comb. 



2. Yes, I think New York State has a law against spraying, by 

 which you can be be protected. 



3. It doesn't matter greatly. If you could buy Italians near home 

 it would be better to begin with them. If you have to send a long dis- 

 tance, expressage is so expensive that you would better buy any kind 

 you can get near home, changing the stock later. 



4. Whether you make a big success or a failure this year, try it on 

 a little larger scale next year. Better grow into the business than to 



jump into it. If you succeed for about 3 years you can then grow very 

 fast. 



5. Whatever you do, don't think of destroying any bees. It may 

 be right sometimes to kill a queen, but never a colony of workers, un- 

 less it may be badly diseased. 



6. It you get a black colony to accept an Italian queen all her 

 progeny will be the same as if you put her in in Italian colony. As 

 soon as the black bees die off (and the lite-time of a worker is only 

 about 6 weeks in the working season) the colony will be full-blood 

 Italian. 



7. I prefer the regular Langstroth dovetailed hive, 



8. Perhaps about 10 colonies, it you have each bee picketed so it 

 can not get off the 5 acres. But if the bees are allowed free flight, so 

 they can fly 3 miles or so in all directions, and there are no other bees 

 in that distance, very likely you can keep 100 colonies successfully. 



You're on the right track ; do a lot of reading and thinking, and 

 go at least a little bit slower than you think best at increasing. 



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Still Clear and Cold 



The weather is still clear and cold here, 

 from 6 to 10 below zero every morning, and 

 no signs of a change. There has not been a 

 day since bees went into winter quarters that 

 they could fly in the open air with safety. 

 Iri Babbeb. 



St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., March 17. 



Loss of Bees on Summer Stands 



I lost halt of my bees the past winter by 

 leaving them on the summer stands. I ex- 

 pected to put them in the new cellar, but did 

 not have it ready in time. It will be all ready 

 for next winter. 



Please tell Cora L. Hazard for me that — 



The roving bee is not the "he" — 



The ** he's " the other fellow. 

 And. Cora, dear, don't interfere 



With gathering gold-dust yellow; 

 Nor steal her sweet of honey-bloom, 



Or " she" will make you bellow. 



H. W. CONODON. 



Monona Co., Iowa, March 'X). 



Outdoor Wintering of Bees 



I have been looking over my colonies, and 

 find that they are all alive except one, which 

 is queenless. I have always wintered them on 

 the summer stands, and have never had any 

 serious loss. A year ago this winter most of 

 the bees in this section were killed. I lost 

 but 3 colonies at that time, and one died from 

 lack of stores. 



1 shelter them from the cold west and north 

 winds with a few bundles of corn-stalks. Af- 

 ter every snow or wind storm that blocks the 

 entrance, I see that it is opened. What they 

 need is an abundance of fresh air. When I 

 know they are getting that, outdoor winter- 

 ing of bees has no terrors for me. 



George Mitchell. 



Cook Co., 111., March 6. 



Hard Winter on the Bees 



I always winter my bees on the summer 

 stands, and they generally come through all 

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