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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



April 19, 1906 



is over them. Any sort of boards or shingles will do for thi6, or you 

 may put on top an armful of long grass weighted down with two or 

 three sticks of firewood. Neater and more convenient is a cover with 

 an air-space ; that is, a double cover. 



My oldest covers are plain board covers, just one thickness of % 

 lumber. The next are made of two layers of % stuff, the grain of 

 the upper layer running lengthwise, and the grain of the lower cross- 

 wise. A dead-airspace of : ' s of an inch is between the two layers. 

 This dead-air space makes it cooler in the hot sun, and warmer when 



the day is cold. The cover is covered with tin, painted white. The 

 latest covers I have are made the same way, only covered with zinc, 

 unpainted. They would be still better painted white when in the sun. 

 These are satisfactory covers, only too expensive — about 30 cents each. 

 I have two or three covers covered with Neponset paper, and painted, 

 that have been in use several years, and seem to last well. If I were 

 not so crowded all the time, I think I should make a few covers after 

 Arthur C. Miller's plan; covered with cloth pasted like trunk-covers, 

 and painted. It might be worth while, also, to try rubberoid or some 

 form of roofing. 



Reports cmb 

 (Experiences 



Good Year for Bees. 



Last year was a very good one for 

 bees in this part of the country, but 

 we do not have much of anything for 

 them to gather honey from except 

 white clover; and in the fall, white 

 asters. They do not store any surplus 

 honey in the fall, but they do gather 

 enough for winter stores. A. Cutlip. 



Frametown, W. V. 



Swarming Too Much. 



My bees are just filling their hives 

 with nice honey, but are swarming too 

 much. It keeps me busy making hives 

 for them. R. L. McColley., 



Sorrento, Fla., March 20. 



them just on the verge of starvation, 

 with the hives full of bees and brood- 

 rearing nicely started. I fed them by 

 putting combs of honey in the hives, 

 that I had saved from last summer 

 for that purpose, thanks to Dr. Miller's 

 advice. 



Our fine weather and promise of an 

 early spring changed yesterday morn- 

 ing when it began to snow, and this 

 evening there is somewhere between S 

 and 12 inches of snow on the ground. 

 So we may have some winter yet, al- 

 though it has not turned very cold I 

 yet, but it is still snowing. 



I have just received my copy of the 

 Annual Report of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, and am reading 

 it with much interest. I wish we could 

 have it in a more substantial binding, 

 for it deserves a place in every bee- 

 keepers' library. John Stotts. 



Dallas, Iowa, March 15. 



Keeps Bees and Poultry. 



The Bee Journal is an old friend of 

 mine. I have 12 colonies of bees, and 

 I think they will winter all right. I 

 have only a small farm of 15 acres, and 

 keep poultry. I have it very easy and 

 nice, as my wife and I are the only 

 ones in the family. I love bees very 

 much. I had about 1,000 pounds of 

 honey last year. Wm. Schultz. 



Zeeland, Mich., March 6. 



Bees Short of Stores — National Report. 



Many bees in this section are short 

 of stores, and will receive but little 

 attention from their owners, as most 

 of the bee-keepers are farmers who 

 keep a few bees to produce their honey 

 at home. There was but very little 

 honey gathered after July 15, 1905, and 

 by the beginning of winter the bees 

 had eaten much of their stores and 

 went into winter very short of feed. 

 This has been an extra ■warm winter, 

 and the bees have eaten more than 

 usual. On February 21 my bees were 

 flying like they do in spring. I opened 

 the lightest hives and found "ome of 



Wintered Well — Fair Prospects. 



The year 1905 was not a very good 

 one for bees in the central part of Ne- 

 braska. -I started with 11 colonies in 

 the spring, increased to 18, lost two 

 prime swarms, and got somewhat over 

 300 pounds of section-honey. 



Bees so far have wintered fine on 

 the summer stands, packed in oat- 

 chaff. March so far has been a stormy 

 month, with plenty of snow and rain. 

 The prospects are fair, and the farm- 

 ers around me intend putting in large- 

 ly of alfalfa seed this spring. Sweet 

 clover is spreading, but not fast enough 

 to suit me. Henry Hansen. 



Ashton, Neb., March 26. 



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Wintered Nicely — Poor Season in 1905. 



I put 51 colonies into the cellar last 

 fall, and they are all alive yet, except 

 1. I am waiting for a nice day to put 

 them out. All bees wintered nicely 

 here this -winter, even those that were 

 left outdoors, that had honey enough. 

 I am running for comb honey, and got 

 some 10-frame hives last spring, but I 

 think I made a mistake. I will try 

 them one more summer, and if I do 

 not get better results I will make them 

 all smaller. The S-frame I think is 

 the hive for comb-honey in this local- 

 ity. I had 29 colonies last spring and 

 got 1,200 pounds of comb honey. I let 

 them swarm once, and then cut out all 



the queen-cells but one 6 days after 

 they swarmed. Last year was a bad 

 one for bees here. A. H. Timmerman. 

 Prior Lake, Minn., March 28. 



Bees Wintering Well. 



I am wintering IS colonies of bees, 

 all from what I shipped into this coun- 

 try last year. All are doing well so 

 far. Some are in the cellar, some in 

 chaff hives, and some on the summer 

 stands. I sold what honey I had last 

 fall at 30 cents per pound. 



I. M. Beatty. 



Lewistown, Mont., March 12. 



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