Feb. 8 19T6 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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8eets,etc. HisyouDg likewise receive a worm 

 or insect now and thea. 



This is about the result of thousands of ob- 

 servations and experiments made in the field 

 and the laboratory —not by university pro- 

 fessors, but by experts who are maintained at 

 Washington by the people of the United States, 

 to find out the truth and telljit; and I would 

 advise every friend of the English sparrow to 

 obtain a copy of the pamphlet and be con- 

 vinced. 



Referring to thrushes, catbirds, etc., Mr. 

 Stolley says these miscreants can not stand 

 our Northern winters, and go South when 

 they have had their All, while the sparrow 

 bravely faces the storm and cold. 1 would 

 like to ask, What good does he do during this 

 time; Any? And what good do these mis- 

 creants referred to do while they are here? 

 Have they not helped to protect the fruit- 

 patch against the insect pest? and, when 

 with them a change in diet is in order, can we 

 justly blame them for taking simply their 

 own! No, Mr. Stolley, don't try to put our 

 friend ahead of all other birds — it will do him 

 more harm than good. Aug. F. Koch. 



Middle Amana, Iowa. 



[We think the discussion of the sparrow has 

 gone far enough in these columns, for a bee- 

 paper. If it is necessary to say more, it will 

 have to be done in a bird-paper, or elsewhere, 

 so far as we are concerned. 



But it shows that bee-keepers are an ob- 

 serving lot of people, and have other animal 

 friends besides the bees. — Editor.] 



Colonies in Fine Condition 



Bees have had 3 summer days: it has been 

 very warm. Not a colony is lost thus far, but 

 all are strong and in fine condition. 



Henbt Alley. 



Wenham, Mass., Jan. 23. 



Bee Keeping in Arkansas 



The " old reliable" American Bee Journal 

 continues to come regularly every Friday. 

 May it continue so to come. May it live long 

 and continue to spread out to every clime on 

 the globe. 



To-day bees are working on what I do not 

 know, and they are bringing in pollen. They 

 have a flight here nearly every week during 

 winter. The coldest I ever saw it here was 15° 

 below zero, and that was for only two days. 

 Last winter it was cold in January and Feb- 

 ruary ; I lost one colony only, and the reason 

 was the hive was made of ;\-inch stuff, with 

 no protection, and the bees were weak anyway. 

 I winter them on the summer stands in single- 

 walled hives. I take off the supers after the 

 honey-flow, put on a quilt and top-board and 

 contract the entrance. That's all, and I have 

 no trouble in wintering. I never saw any 

 foul brood, or heard of it in this part of the 

 country. I never saw any honey-dew here on 

 any kind oi tree but hickory and black-gum ; 

 that goes to prove to me that it falls just as 

 any other dew falls. The propolis is gathered 

 from the sweet-gum here. 



Why doe6 it take a drone longer to hatch 

 than a worker, and a worker longer than a 

 queen? Does it take the same temperature 

 for all of them to hatch? By select and care- 

 ful breeding I have one colony of bees that 

 work at night. Next season I expect to rear 

 all queens from this one queen. 



Arkansas has some mighty queer things. I 

 have a golden queen that is 1 5-16 inches long — 

 the largest queen I ever saw ; and lay — oh. my ! 

 she simply piles out the eggs. She lays so 

 fast I have to hatch the eggs in an incubator, 

 and after they are hatched I rear the bees in a 

 brooder ! That relieves the nurse-bees of a 

 lot of unnecessary labor, so they can be 

 gathering honey. 



Mr. Doolittle reports 63 pounds of honey in 

 3 days ; Mr. Root, 43. One man in Texas re- 

 ported "00 pounds from one colony in one sea- 

 son ; another one, 1000 pounds. That beats 

 Arkansas. 



I handle my bees without gloves. I don't 

 haul bees on a hay-rack, or pin down my veil. 



Mr. Root freezes his queens to make drone- 

 layers. Last winter, when my bees froze, they 



did not thaw out. If they can be frozen and 

 thawed out, it seems to me that would be the 

 best way to winter them. Put them in honey- 

 bags and hang them up and let them freeze, 

 and, when spring comes, hang them out in 

 the sun, and as they thaw tbey would return 

 to their hives, and that would save feeding 

 through the winter. Mr. Root might try it 

 and see how it works. Poor is the rule that 

 will not work both ways. 



W. C. Edgeworth. 

 Pulaski Co., Ark., Nov. 19, 1905. 



CONVENTION NOTICE. 



Washington.— The annual meeting of 

 the Washington State Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion will be held in the old M. E. Church, on 

 Third Street. North Yakima, Wash, Feb. 14, 

 15 and 16, 1906. An interesting program is 

 assured. One feature will be the illustrated 

 lectures on bee-keeping. Let all bee-keepers 

 in different parts of the State attend and make 

 this an interesting and valuable convention. 

 Virgil Sires, Sec. 



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