THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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Ed, Am. Bee-Kefper, Dear Sir: 

 About five or six years ago I purchas- 

 ed my first tested queen and paid a 

 good price for her. To make sure and 

 not loose her I put her in with four 

 or five frames of hatching brood. 

 Now, in some way her majesty got 

 daubed, and upon opening the hive I 

 found her stiff and dead. I decided 

 (as she was really a beautiful bug,) to 

 put her with my collection of insects, 

 but first I must wash the honey off, 

 so I put her in a small glass vial and 

 washed her by shaking. I left her 

 on a piece of blotting paper and went 

 to bed. In the morning I went with 

 a pin to pin her with my collection, 

 and lo and behold the queen was gone 

 and I found her at the window as 

 lively as ever, and by introducing her 

 by the Peet method she proved a 

 treasure indeed. Have since experi- 

 mented a little and find that a bee 

 can be apparently dead for several 

 hours and if thoroughly washed will 

 revive. 



I discovered this by chance, and as 

 it may prove useful to some of your 

 readers who might save a valuable 

 queen I send it to you. 



Yours respectfully, 



Harry L D wight. 



Friendship, N. Y., April 22, 1891. 



Ed. Am. Bee-Keeper, Dear Sir: 

 As I noticed a blue cross on my last 

 paper I enclose subscription for its 

 continuation. I think it is excellent, 

 and consider it far superior to the 

 Advance. 



We have had very poor seasons for 

 bees of late here. There was scarcely 

 any surplus honey or increase last 

 year, hence there has been a great 



many colonies lost the past winter, 

 but this Spring opens up very favora- 

 bly and bees are doing well so far, 

 and we hope for better times. 



Alb. R. Head, P. M. 

 Joy, Ala., May 11, 1891. 



Ed. Am. Bee-Keeper, Dear Sir: 

 I have just received the May number 

 of the Bee-Keeper as a sample copy, 

 and I must say it is just what I want 

 and I must have it if it is to be a 

 paper for beginners. I fully apprec- 

 iate your remarks concerning other 

 bee papers, which I have found by 

 experience away up too high and 

 scientific for one like myself who is 

 only in the A. B. C. of the business, 

 but however I shall continue to read 

 as many of the other papers as I can 

 get so as to get up in the advanced 

 class as soon as possible, but as long 

 as I am in the A. B. C. I must have 

 the Bee-Keeper, so you will find en- 

 closed stamps to pay my subscription. 

 Yours truly, 



Mrs. A. L. Hai.lexbklk. 



Millard, Neb., May 11, 1891. 



Ed. Am. Bee-Keeper, Dear Sir: 

 I have thirty colonies of bees in Sim- 

 plicity hives. I wintered four in the 

 cellar and the balance on the summer 

 stand with outside frames removed 

 and division boards inserted, with 

 chaff between the boards and outside; 

 also over frames, All came through 

 in fair shape. The winter was very 

 mild, the thermometer only reaching 

 eight degrees above zero. The bees 

 were rearing some brood in February, 

 but a cold spell last of Feb. and first 

 of March stopped brood rearing 

 and also destroyed most of the 

 Maple and Elm bloom. Last week 



