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Wintering "Well — Good Prospects. 



My bees are wintering well. This is 

 about the time when our bees have the 

 hardest time. They have been in the 

 cave two months. If bees are in good 

 condition this time of the winter, they 

 will be in good condition in the spring. 

 I examined five hives to-day, and they 

 all had sealed brood. We have had a 

 grand winter — about six inches of snow, 

 and five weeks of cold weather. When 

 we have a good cold winter and snow, 

 we have a good grain crop later, and 

 also a good honey year. Why not have 

 good courage? May we all be blessed 

 this year with a good crop of honey — 

 and that means money. 



G. W. Nance. 



Peiro, Iowa, Jan. 23, 1893. 



Cold Weather— Moving Bees, Etc. 



I have 120 colonies — 80 in chaff hives, 

 and the balance in cellars. I have not 

 made an effort to keep them warmer 

 than 88° in the cellar, but leave on 

 duck and cushions. When this cold 

 spell is over, it will be about 40° to 45°. 



I use the Tinker 7-inch depth 8-frame 

 Langstroth hive, and add alternate 

 combs with additional hives until the 

 honey-flow ; then I put the queen down 

 in the lower story, and as the brood 

 hatches, and the combs are filled I add 

 more combs and hives, and at the close 

 I have a queen in the top hive over an 

 excluder, often laying before the harvest 

 is over, and then I can divide, or destroy 

 the old queen. I have stored them as 

 high as 10 stories in a few cases, but 

 mostly 6 or 8, and to go into my yard 

 at night makes me think of the engine 

 depot, with all steamed up ready to 

 start. 



I am only 50 feet from a church, and 

 close to a horse-shed, and I do not have 

 much trouble, but I have noticed that if 

 I am out, and they get a little unsteady, 

 when I return they seem to know it, and 

 become quiet very soon after, if 1 go 

 around among them. 



Last summer I thought I would move 

 one large colony, and let come what 

 would. I moved them in the afternoon, 

 while part of the bees were away, to the 

 other side of the yard, about 30 feet, 

 and in a few moments the old stand was 

 enveloped in a dense cloud of bees. 

 With quite a cluster on the old stand, I 

 took this and moved slowly to the new 

 stand, many following me ; then I went 

 back and talked and motioned to them 

 to go with me to the new stand, and 

 finally succeeded in getting them all 



into their own hive. During the time I 

 was at work I could see that part of the 

 bees understood, and were acting as 

 guides, and soon all were quiet. The 

 next day they worked better than ever. 

 The reason 1 moved them was, they 

 were too much in my path. The last 

 two seasons have been so mild that 

 many have left bees out without protec- 

 tion this year, and are caught in this 

 deadful cold spell, and we will see how 

 they come out. My " knock down " chaff 

 hives contain 2 colonies each, 2 inches 

 of planer shavings on the sides, and a 6- 

 inch chaff cushion on top of duck ; 2 

 stories, with 2-inch rim under, and they 

 seem to be doing well. 



Martin H. Adams has 60 colonies that 

 he left out in double-walled hives, and 

 he is now sorry he did not put them in. 

 It will be a test worth noticing ; they 

 are in large hives, heavy with honey. 

 We have had it 23° below zero, and 

 some less for a long time ; occasionally 

 a few degrees above, but no let up from 

 cold weather for four weeks. Honey 

 was poor with us last year, but we have 

 hopes for next summer. 



E. H. Sturtevant. 



Fort Ann, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1893. 



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