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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



800 pounds of nice comb honey in sec- 

 tions. One of the new swarms I hived 

 in a dovetailed hive ; the rest of my 

 hives are the 10-frame Simplicity. I 

 like the dovetailed hives so well that 

 next spring I shall transfer all to that 

 style. 



I winter my bees on the summer 

 stands, preparing them after this man- 

 ner : About Nov. 1st I see that the 

 brood-chamber is full of honey and bees, 

 and that they have a queen. Then I 

 place over the frames " Hill's device," or 

 three corn-cobs across the frames of 

 each hive, forming a space for the bees 

 to pass over the top of the frames. I 

 then cover with burlap, place on the 

 second story, fill it with oat chaff, and 

 put on the cover. Then I pile up around 

 and over the hive some prairie hay or 

 straw, leaving the front side and en- 

 trance open, and leaving a wide board 

 up in front and against the hive ; the 

 board to be used as an alighting-board 

 on warm days when bees are on the 

 wing. I do not allow the entrance to be 

 clogged up with ice, snow or dead bees. 



I have followed this plan for eight 

 years, and have not lost a colony when 

 cared for in this manner. 



We have a very good bee-country here, 

 and I shall now try to build up a good 

 apiary. Jeeome Barnell. 



Wahoo, Nebr. 



Bee- Yard Under the Snow. 



The snow is about four feet deep on a 

 level in the woods, and the roads are 

 about all full, and my bee-yard is out of 

 sight, hives and all. We can beat Dr. 

 Miller's locality on cold, as it has been 

 30° below zero here. My bees have had 

 only one flight this winter ; then they 

 showed diarrhea badly. 



H. M. Seeley. 



Harford, Pa., Feb. 27, 1898. 



Bee-Keeping in Tennessee. 



Our winter has been severely cold. It 

 set in Jan. 1st, and continued until Jan. 

 22nd, when the bees flew a little for the 

 first time since Dec. 31st, being confined 

 three weeks of about the coldest weather 

 we ever had here. The cold wave was 

 the most destructive to bees that I ever 

 saw in this country. Some colonies froze 

 clean out ; others half froze to death. I 

 lost 3 colonies, and others lost from one 

 to 20. From Jan. 22nd to Feb. 17th it 

 was warm most of the time, and rainy. 

 Jan. 13th was the coldest day, and the 

 pight of the 15th was the coldest night. 



Bees have been flying some every few 

 days from Jan. 22nd until Feb. 17th, 

 when it turned cold again. There is no 

 pollen yet for bees to get. As they are 

 beginning to rear brood they will need 

 some fresh pollen to help them along. I 

 will have some oats and wheat ground 

 together as a substitute, and they work 

 on this in the warm days finely. I think 

 we will have a good honey-flow this 

 year, as the prospect for white clover is 

 good. 



Bees, at this time, are housed up, and 

 it looks at present as if they would not 

 be out for several days yet. Last Feb- 

 ruary, at this time, bees were gathering 

 pollen. 



On page 184, Mr. John Boggs asks a 

 question in regard to Italian bees as 

 honey gatherers. My experience is that 

 the yellow bees gather more honey than 

 the hybrids ; they also build up faster 

 in the spring. The hybrids are worse to 

 swarm than the yellow ones, and are 

 worse to sting than the golden Italians. 

 My yellow bees protect their homes bet- 

 ter than the hybrids. I don't think that 

 Mr. B. has made any mistake in the pur- 

 chase of the golden Italians. I think he 

 would do well to purchase golden Ital- 

 ians for all his colonies, that are not full 

 blooded Italians. A. C. Babb. 



Greenville, Tenn., Feb. 20, 1893. 



Severe "Winter for Bees. 



It has been a severe winter here, with 

 a great deal of snow, but my bees have 

 so far managed to keep alive, although 

 they run great risks sometimes in order 

 to take a flight, and a great many fall 

 into the snow and perish. 



Newton, Mass., March 6, 1893. 



How Far Bees Go for Honey. 



I have hunted bees in the woods for 

 the past 12 years, and have found them 

 to go over four miles to work on horse- 

 mint, for it Is a good honey-plant in this 

 location. In 1888 I received a good 

 yield of honey from it, and it was as 

 nice as any clover honey I ever saw 

 around here. 



I was out one day hunting bees in the 

 mint location, in 1891. I caught some 

 bees and put them into my bee-box to 

 get them at work. So I got some bees 

 back on my combs, and I moved the 

 combs on the line to find the bee-tree; 

 so I kept on moving, and I got out of the 

 woods to a marsh. From the marsh it 

 was over three miles, and I had run 



