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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



February, 



paugh's Florida visit was cut short by 

 the news of his loss. Our contempo- 

 rary, Gleanings, has Mr. A. in Cuba, 

 with A. I. Root; which we believe is 

 an error, as he boarded a north-bound 

 train at Fort Pierce, complaining of 

 our hot weather. 



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As a ventilator, in moving bees, the 

 portico screen appears to be growing 

 in popularity. To obstruct the entrance 

 with screen or block, in many instances, 

 tends to confuse the bees, and this ir- 

 ritation in turn results in suflfocation; 

 while if the screen is placed some dis- 

 tance from the entrance, allowing the 

 bees to pass freely in and out at the 

 accustomed place, their actual confine- 

 ment seems not to be taken so serious- 

 ly, and quite general contentment fol- 

 lows. Our friend "Pat," used a frame 

 made of half-inch stuff, three inches 

 wide, against the front of the hive, 

 in moving to Cuba. This was covered 

 with screen, allowing the bees to crawl 

 about the entrance and upon a portion 

 of the end of the hive, which appeared 

 to meet with their approval. Mr. Al- 

 paugh, however, pronounces this device 

 too small, using himself a four-inch box 

 with wire-cloth side, against the front 

 and the full size the end of the hive. In 

 this, he says, the bees cluster as if up- 

 on the summer stands; and. even with- 

 out top or bottom screens, carry safely 

 upon long moves. 



Mr. Jacob Alpaugh, the Canadian 

 bee-keeper occasionally referred to in 

 these columns of late, had the misfor- 

 tune to lose all his 119 colonies of bees 

 and entire apiarian equipment by fire, 

 last month. They were packed for win- 

 ter in a house in Ontario, and Mr. Al- 



"Pat" writes, Jan. 8th, that he is do- 

 ing business still at Cabanas, Cuba. He 

 had at that date extracted about 200 

 gallons, and was very much of the 

 opinion that the season in his locality 

 would not prove to be a very good one 

 I'or honey. He had been favored with 

 ■\ visit from Mr. W. W. Somerford, of 

 Caimito, who has something like 1,400 

 '■olonies, and who had then taken out, 

 approximately, 2,000 gallons; and he 

 considered one-third of the flow past. 

 Mr. P. had just begun increasing opera- 

 tions, by starting queen cells for 120 

 nuclei, and is filling in time bv pre- 

 paring for the return trip to the Florida 

 coast in the spring. He has decided 

 to make a change in the manner of pre- 

 paring hives for the move. Says he, 

 "If the best results are to be secured, 

 it is necessary that the bees have ven- 



