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writers In different States during and 

 since the honey-flow. 



Mr. Wilson has been cautioned in re- 

 gard to his predicting that he might 

 jump into a country where there was no 

 linden or white clover, and he did that 

 very thing when he "jumped on" the 

 corners of Shelby, Crawford, Audubon 

 and Carroll counties, because white 

 clover has just started, and there is no 

 linden in that part, as it is near the 

 summit of the dividing ridge of the 

 Missouri and Mississippi rivers. 



KEMOVING EGGS TO OTHEE CELLS. 



On page 270, the assertion is made 

 that an egg that is taken from any cell 

 by a bee is destroyed, and is never again 

 deposited by the bees. Now my obser- 

 vation may meet with opposition, but 

 nevertheless I am settled on this point, 

 and will say for the benefit of Mrs. 

 Atchley, that it is a great deal harder 

 for the queen to lay in one's hand than 

 to deposit the eggs indifferent cells than 

 it is for a bee to remove the egg from 

 one cell to another. 



Being a queen-breeder myself, I have 

 frequently had bees go from one hive to 

 another, and steal eggs to rear queens 

 from, knowing full well that was the 

 only source they could procure them, 

 and I have seen them in the cell after 

 they were deposited, before they were 

 hatched. Only last year I had a colony 

 of bees to hatch, and after sealing all of 

 their brood, I removed all queen-cells, 

 and gave them two combs of fresh eggs, 

 and while they were rearing more 

 queens, the bees removed the eggs, and 

 reared ten queens on different combs by 

 the side of the combs I gave them. Now 

 is it possible that our Northern bees 

 know more tricks, and are more intelli- 

 gent than the bees in Dixie ? If Mrs. 

 Atchley will try different experiments in 

 rearing queens instead of 'sticking to 

 the one theory, she will discover in the 

 near future a great many things to be 

 wondered at, and will find out that bees 

 have different ideas. 



Guthrie Co., Iowa. 



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Capons and Caponizing^, by 



Edward Warren Sawyer, M. D., Fanny 

 Field, and others. It shows in clear 

 language and illustrations all about 

 caponizing fowls ; and thus how to 

 make the most money in poultry-raising. 

 Every poultry-keeper should have it. 

 Price, postpaid, 30 cents ; or clubbed 

 with Bee Jouknal one year, for $1.10. 



Do not write anything for publication 



on the same sheet of paper witn business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



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Colonies Fine and Strong. 



I took my bees out of the cellar yester- 

 day, and they came out fine and strong. 

 Only 2 colonies died out of 37. 



S. A. Paige. 



Masonville, Iowa, Api'il 4, 1893. 



Pretty Heavy Losses of Bees. 



I put my bees out yesterday, and have 

 lost 40 out of 64 colonies. I saw one man 

 last Monday who had lost all he had — over 

 40; another that had lost 17 out of 18; 

 another, 50 out of 113, and so on. 



A. H. Rogers. 



Osseo, Wis., AprU 5, 1893. 



Wintered About as Well as Usual. 



It has been a fearfully cold winter, and 

 all expected it would be trying to the bees, 

 but colonies with sufficient stores and win- 

 tered out-of-doors in protected hives have 

 come thus far through about as well as 

 usual. L. F. Abbott. 



Lewiston, Maine, April 1, 1893. 



Bees Appear to be Doing Well. 



My bees are three-banded. I put them 

 into the cellar on Nov. 34th, and they have 

 had no flight up to date, but appear to be 

 doing well. I have not a very large apiary, 

 but it is the largest in the township. I am 

 the first and oldest bee-man in the town- 

 ship. The weather now looks favorable for 

 the bees to have a flight. I think I shall 

 have them out soon. R. Howell. 



Gillett, Wis., April 3, 1893. 



Bees Wintered All Right. 



I took out my bees to-day, and they came 

 out all right except one colony. I put into 

 the cellar 48 last fall, having taken 1,300 

 pounds of honey from them during the 

 season. Last spring I had 30 colonies. I 

 keep a dairy in connection with bees, and 

 they work well together. This is my third 

 year in bee-keeping. I could not very well 

 get along without the Bee Journal. 



A. J. Pedersok. 



St. Paul. Minn., April 4, 1893. 



