March IS 1906 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



239 



my apiary 9 or 3 queens that were as fine lay- 

 ers as any, but not one egg would hatch, and 

 I have moved frames of eggs to colonies where 

 everything was perfectly reasonable for a 

 hatch, but not an egg hatched. I know that 

 the eggs of a queen that has never been per- 

 mitted to mate will hatch, and so will laying- 

 -workers' eggs hatch, so why not these! 

 Berelair, Tex., Feb. 1". John W. Pharr. 



Why Did the Bees Die Off? 



This has been a very mild winter so far; 

 bees were gathering pollen in January from 

 maple, I think, as it was in bloom, but there 

 came a cold spell for a couple of weeks and 

 stopped all work on the bees' part, Feb. 14 

 was very warm for that time of year, and when 

 I came home at 5 p.m. the bees were rolling 

 in the pollen ; the next morning it was freez- 

 ing, but to-day bees are working nicely. 



Last season I carried 4 colonies out into the 

 country about 8 miles to see how they would 

 do. Two of them did nothing, and two stored 

 10 pounds of honey each. I brought them in 

 in the fall, and the two that stored the honey 

 commenced to die, and they keep it up. It 

 seems to me that enough have died to depop- 

 ulate the colony, but there are still bees in the 

 hive working nicely. Why have those two 

 died off so much more than the rest of the 

 bees? The other colonies haven't died to 

 amount to anything at all. I do not under- 

 stand it. Any information will be appreciated. 



I read the bee-papers with much interest. I 

 can get more practical information out of 

 them than I cau out of any of the bee-books 

 that I have. Still the books are all right. The 

 index to the American Bee Journal is fine. 

 The one in another bee-paper is not as plain 

 as yours, but they are both all right. 



W. C. Edoeworth. 



Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 18. 



(Courtesy EpworthlHerald. ) 

 A .Mistake. 



Some people passed in back ob 

 me, a-talkin', ef yo' please; 



I beerd one isper to her friend 

 " Is dat a hive fo' bees ?" 



I looked up from man book rieht 



then (it sut'nly struck me 



[funny >; 



"Mah lan's !" I said, " I aint no 



hive ; l's jus a li'P honey." 



—St. Nicholas. 



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CONVENTION NOTICE. 



Utah.— The Utah Bee-Keepers' Association 

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