May 24, 1906 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



451 



1ana, there Is an Inexhaustible quan- 

 tity of tupelo-gum, cottonwood, wil- 

 low, and some cypress, that can be 

 bought at one's own prices. An en- 

 terprising man could come here and 

 start a factory of bee-supplies and 

 make a success of it, so far as the 

 material is concerned. 



Tupelo-gum Is not used here for 

 anything, and I am certain no better 

 timber could be found for sections, and 

 It could be bought so cheaply. The 

 ■writer believes willow would also an- 

 swer the purpose. Cottonwood would 

 also be fine, if it would not warp, but 

 it would do for frames. Then there is 

 any quantity of red-gum, but the cy- 

 ipress has been culled over. Never- 

 theless, there is enough of the kind 

 not used for the general purpose of 

 building to supply the world in bee- 

 supplies for years and years. Rail- 

 roads are convenient now, running 

 through the timber lands, and no trou- 

 ble would be met with in transporting 

 the timber to convenient points 



The writer has no "ax to grind " 

 and does not own any of this timber 

 but he is a bee-man and interested 

 .needed" 1 settlngr bee-supplies when 



Besides, no better bee-pasture can 



:? 1 mw n< V har ? Tieht here amon Z this 

 timber Tupelo-gum comes nearer in 

 f™ era L a PPearance to the linden than 

 l^,iS the ^ klnd of «mber known, and 

 would undoubtedly answer all the pur- 



P !»f™°, f &? Iind . en ' John Kennedy? 

 ■Selma, Miss., April 10. 



Motv the Bees Wintered. 



n/rH U £ ing .u the Iast day in the month of 

 March the weather became warm 

 enough for the inspection of bees, and 



Sn < e , f f PnI ? the J have been working 

 on soft maple and elm bloom. 



Of my 36 colonies, 1 died; 3 were 

 found queenless (old queens of 1902) 

 and 1 queen proved to be a drone- 



?n e f d r ° r la £ er V Tne rest s eem to be 

 in the very best condition now with 

 an average supply of about 20 pounds 

 -of honey, in clean and dry hives 

 warm y packed, after uniting the 

 Xnl n i e?S ec-'cm'es with those ° leas t 

 strong in bees. 



„>*" average, my bees consumed 

 about 15 pounds of their winter stores 

 per colony, from October 1, 1905 to 

 April i, 1906— six months. Last win- 

 ter, up to March 1, it was compara- 

 tively warm and open, and but once 

 l-J^*? 11 J 7 * the thermomete? regis! 

 zero degrees, Fahrenheit, below 



In all we had in January 2 zero 

 days— 2 degrees below; in February 3 



l^gre^^efow. 610 " 1 ta MarCh ' 3 *™ 

 «r, B o e J had - fli f nts in December, 1905, 

 ?^ £ d v. ays; ln January, 1906, on 9 days : 



on ? e day| ry °" dayS ' and in March 

 Considering the precarious and des- 

 titute condition my bees were in at the 

 end of the month of September last 



Usui 7v, hen X , f . ed them Plentifully I 

 think they wintered remarkably well 

 Reports come in from all sides that 

 pnrt h° S ,f, eS 0f bee 1 are 1 u 'te general 

 f^u r h t ea ^ 5, m ^ ny . 1 i >sin ^ r aU they had. 

 ??lLr h 2 S f^ ho J eA wel1 in time, and 

 prepared their bees properly for win- 

 tering, sustained but light 'losses. 



The months of March, and April so 

 far also, forebode another wet summer 

 ^ aS ,°, n ' ^ h J ch of course would mean 

 another bad season for our bees But 

 then, "what can not be cured must 



£f ,X1 a , ur - ed - ^ M J, bees remain winter- 

 packed in double-walled hives until 

 supers are put on, and they begin to 

 be cramped for room in the brood- 

 chamber Wm. Stolley, Sr. 

 Grand Island, Neb., April 15. 



Frame-Spacers. 



I wish to tell Mr. Hasty, in answer 

 t0 "'s reference to bottom spacers, on 

 page 182, that I used the Wagner bot- 

 tom-spacer several years before adopt- 

 ing the present spacer, which he pro- 

 nounces too weak and liable to crush 

 down. This crushing down is theory. 

 The necessity of a stout spacer is 

 theory also. Of course, if the hive- 

 bottoms are loose, there would be no 

 danger; but, then, I do not use loose 

 bottoms, and do not think any one 

 should. Some use them in their in- 

 crease methods, but I think there are 

 better increase methods than those 



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where loose bottoms are used in con- 

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 my hives for honey-production, not in- 

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 down increase. 



There should be a sidewise pressure 

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