Feb. 8, 1906 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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Mildest Winter Experienced 



DWe are having the mildest winter I ever 

 experienced. Vp to date the thermometer 

 has touched zero only twice; there has been 

 no snow, aod if a severe cold snap comes it is 

 likely to prove disastrous to the alsike clover. 

 Bees appear to be wintering all right. 

 Markbam. Ont.. Jan. 15. J. L. Bter 



7^35 Summer in C alifornia 



r I have just come in from my home-apiary, 

 and I never saw the like of bees in the air for 

 Jan. 3. And what do you think? One of my 

 very strong colonies, with a 1905 queen, had 

 drones! 



This has been the dryest season I have yet 

 seen in California — only a little over an inch 

 of rain has fallen. No doubt the bees think 

 it is summer yet. Cuaui.es Edson. 



Grafton, Calif. 



What One Nucleus Did 



I bought a 3-frame nucleus Junes, li)05. I 

 gave it full frames of foundation in an 8-frame 

 hive, and on July 10 it swarmed; on July 18 

 it swarmed again. Oct. 10 the parent colony 

 weighed 58 pounds in an 8-frame hive; the 

 prime swarm, 72 pounds in a 10-frame hive; 

 and the other weighed 50 pounds in an 8- 

 frame hive. I weighed them without the 

 hive-covers. They are all in Wisconsin hives. 

 I also got 24 pounds of honey, which I sold 

 for 15 cents a pound. 



The foregoing is the very best way to get a 

 6tart with bees. I have some black bees, but 

 they are not " in it" with the Italians. 



If I had known about the American Bee 

 Journal 40 years ago I would have had it. 

 James Gamash. 



Waukegan, 111., Dec. 26, 1905. 



Packing Bees for Winter 



Last July I embarked in the bee-business, 

 and as I have owned bees since that time (5 

 months) I should be able to give some " val- 

 uable advice I " 



The last of August I was taken sick and did 

 not get out of the house until in October. 

 When I did get able to be around I examined 

 the bees and found two of the colonies about 

 destroyed by the moth, and 3 or 4 with but 

 very scanty provision for the winter. 



I brought them in from the country (46 col- 

 onies in all), and placed them facing the east 

 and south, along the fence and an out-building, 

 placing the colonies 4 inches apart. After they 

 had become used to their new quarters I 

 packed them well with straw, filling in the 

 space between the hives and fence, which is a 

 2-foot space, and in between the colonies and 

 underneath. However, before I packed them 

 I cleaned all the moth out and fed up the 

 weak coionies, although it was late in the sea- 

 son. 



December 1st I took tarred paper 3 feet 

 wide, put one layer on and let it project over 

 the front of the hives about 12 or 14 inches, 

 then placed another one on, reaching back to 

 the fence and lapping over the first one about 

 a foot. This, I think, will help to keep the 

 heat in, and the snow, rain, and cold out. 



After they had several good flights, the la6t 

 one being December 26, I leaned some short 

 boards against the hives at an angle of about 

 45 degrees, and on these I placed another 

 sheet of the tarred paper, thus closing the 

 bees up as completely as though they were in 

 a, cellar. This will save the work of carrying 

 the bees in in the fall and out in the spring. 

 Besides, they will have the advantage of a 

 •flight every warm day, as all that will be nec- 

 essary will be to lay the last sheet of paper 

 back on the gronnd and they will be out-of- 

 <loors; and the paper will cover up the snow, 



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