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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Every Colony Wintered All Right. 



Winter is now about over, and I find that 

 every one of my colonies has come through 

 all right. We had a very severe winter, the 

 thermometer registering 25 degrees below 

 zero part of the winter. Some of my neigh- 

 bors have lost almost all their colonies. 

 Some that took my advice in preparing for 

 winter, have lost none. The last three days 

 have been nice and warm, and the bees are 

 bringing in pollen from the willow. 



G. W. Bell. 



Bell's Landing, Pa., March 30, 1893. 



First Flight for 140 Days. 



The thermometer registered 64 degrees in 

 the shade to-day, and bees are lively — what 

 are left. It was the first flight since the 

 middle of last November — nearly, or quite, 

 140 days. Clark A. Montague. 



Archie, Mich., April 8, 1893. 



Bees Wintering Well. 



My bees are wintering well. I have 31 

 colonies in the cellar, and they will be con- 

 fined about two weeks yet. I like the eight- 

 frame Langstroth hive the best of any that 

 I have tried yet. Chas. B. Allen. 



Central Square, N. Y., March 27, 1893. 



Bees all Wintered Well. 



I put 46 colonies of bees in shape for win- 

 ter last fall as follows : 12 colonies in 2- 

 story chaff-hives, and the rest in 1-story 

 chaff-hives. Now for this spring, at this 

 date. I have 46 good colonies. They gath- 

 ered the first pollen on March 24th, and 

 again to-day. Elbert Greeley. 



Lorain, O., March, 30, 1893. 



Worth Two Dollars a Year. 



I thought when the present publishers of 

 the American Bee Journal purchased it, 

 I would never like it any more ; but if it 

 was worth one dollar then, it is worth two 

 dollars now. I think it has improved so 

 much. You may consider me a life-time 

 subscriber, if you continue it that long. I 

 wish to thank you for what you have done 

 for me through the Bee Journal. 



A. Finney. 



Farm, W. Va., April 5, 1893. 



Came Out in Fine Condition. 



I put about 40 colonies of bees into the 

 cellar last fall, and they have come out in 

 fine condition. Every indication is that we 

 shall have a good honey season. 



The Bee Journal has been a great help 

 to me in caring for my bees, and any one 

 in this business, whether for profit or pas- 

 time as in my case, cannot afford to do 

 without it, because the correspondents are 

 mainly men of experience. 



W. F. BUUNING. 



Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, March 25. 1893. 



By Feeding they Wintered Well. 



The season of 1892 left many bee-keepers 

 without a pound of surplus in this locality. 

 From 3 colonies, spring count, I increased 

 to 6, and one of them stored 40 pounds of 

 comb honey. I was obliged to feed a little 

 sugar syrup to 3 of my colonies. They have 

 wintered well, as I only lost one colony 

 from the diarrhea. One of my colonies 

 was short Of stores, so I fed sugar syrup 

 during the winter, and they are doing very 

 well. My bees are all Italians, with the ex- 

 ception of one colony, which I expect to 

 Italianize the coming summer. The Bee 

 Journal is a welcome visitor at my place. 



Wm. F. Renk. 



Sun Prairie, Wis., March 22, 1893. 



Very Cold Winter in Vermont. 



I have just finished reading my last Bee 

 Journal with pleasure. I like it very 

 much. Mrs. Atchley's '' School in Bee- 

 Keeping " is just O. K. I am a beginner in 

 the bee-business, having 2 colonies in the 

 cellar. One is all right, but the other is 

 short of stores.' I have been feeding them 

 for over a month sugar syrup, and they 

 seem to be all right yet. We have had a 

 very cold winter here, but most of the bees 

 are wintered in cellars. W. E. Morton. 



Huntington, Vt., March 28, 1893. 



Good Prospects for Bee-Keepers. 



The weather is now exceedingly pleasant, 

 and colonies are building up very rapidly. 

 There are good indications for prosperity 

 among bee-keepers, at least such is the out- 

 look. Button-sage is just starting to bloom 

 in the lower valleys, while in this section, 

 with its altitude, it blooms about 10 days or 

 2 weeks later. I am glad to see the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal and Gleaniugs offering 

 their testimonials against the adulteration 

 of honey, fair and square. Good ! Down 

 with it ! Albert Unterkircher. 



Redlands, Calif., March 27, 1893. 



Nameless Bee-Disease in Tennessee. 



We are now blessed with fine spring 

 weather, and the bees, under the influence 

 of sunshine and bursting buds and flowers, 

 are happy. Colonies, owing to their loss 

 in the severe winter weather, are generally 

 weak, but are building up nicely ; but they 

 will have to whoop it, to get strong enough 

 for the honey-flow, which usually sets in 

 here about May 15th. The poplar, or white- 

 wood, affords our first crop of honey in this 

 locality. 



Bees are suffering, some with the " name- 

 less disease." Aside from the wintering 

 problem, this disease is our greatest draAv- 

 back. It makes its appearance in the early 

 spring, when we can least afford to lose a 

 bee. Its symptoms with us are various. 

 Some bees will become hairless, slick and 

 shiny ; others will crawl out of the hive in 

 a shake or quiver, and seemingly swollen, 

 but in cases of this kind I have invariably 



