Dec. 6, 1906 



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a warmer lime, but not warm enough for bees 

 to fly, water sometimes runs from the en- 

 trance and freezes as it comes in contact with 

 the outside air. Now, as the dead bees help 

 to hold the water tbey are frozen up air-tight, 

 and if another cold spell comeson that colony 

 is doomed even with plenty of honey. Man; 

 times I have found the entrance on one side 

 frozen solid with ice, but the other side dem- 

 and free. So don't pin your faith ou a single 

 entrance, except it is the full width of the 

 hive. 



Another thing I would like to hear about is. 

 How many beekeepers have lost queens in 

 winter that can account for it? A hen found 

 her way into one of my bee-houses last Jan- 

 uary and laid in a super that had been left 

 there. The colony under and on each side 

 lost theirqueen6; came out queenless in the 

 spring. Two queens were reared the year be- 

 fore. I lost no other queens in the bee-houses. 

 Forty five others came through all right. 1 

 shall see that my bees are not disturbed in 

 very cold weather this winter. 



Marceline, Mo., Nov. 5 Irving Long. 



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Secured More Honey Than Others 



I have been too busy to give proper care to 

 my bees, but I secured more honey than any 

 one else in this neighborhood the past season. 

 My best colony produced 56 sections of honey 

 and 6 extracting supers full to overtlowing. 

 Lewis Lamkin. 



Sioux City, Iowa, Nov. 7. 



Home-Reared Queens, Etc. 



I bave reared several queens this year, but 

 not by the Doolittle plan, and have found by 

 careful breeding that queens reared by this 

 plan are as good as aDybody needs. I have 

 received several queens from dilterent Slates 

 by mail, and tind that they don't do any bet- 

 ter than those reared right at home; but if 

 one is rearing queens he ha6 to get a breeder 

 or common stock from some other State in 

 order to get different blood, care being taken 

 that all drone-)arv;e are destroyed. With an 

 uncapping knife shave their heads off, or use 

 entrance-guards to be sure that none get out. 

 Now, when all are destroyed, and when cer- 

 tain that nothing but the best drones are at 

 large, have the virgins in nuclei, and you will 

 find that queens mated in this way are as 

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 not better, as most of the queens received by 

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 one by mail that would lay from 3 to 10 eggs 

 in one cell for nearly a week, after which 6he 

 would begin to lay only one in each cell, and 

 turned out to be a good layer at lasi ; but the 

 eggs that were laid the first week were quite 

 a loss, just when I wanted tbe bets mo6t. 



My bees have done fairly well this season. 

 Some of the strongest have stored 150 pounds 

 of extracted honey, but have not stored much 

 section honey. They would sooner work in 

 a hive-body with starters lhau to enter a 

 super. 



1 had 20 colonies last spring, increased to 

 35, and got 1000 pounds of extracted and 

 about 150 pounds of comb. The fall crop 

 was very good, so they had plenty of stores 

 below for winter Some of them bave 6tored 

 40 pounds of fall honey above, which 1 ex- 

 tracted. 



1 sell all my honey right at home at 8 cents 

 for extracted, and 10 to 15 cents for comb, 

 according to color and weight. 



B. F. Schmidt. 



North Buena Vista, Iowa, Nov. 12. 



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