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old colonies, and putting them into the new 

 hives, and filling them all up with empty 

 frames. That gave me 6, all about equal ; 

 4 of them worked about as usual, 2 of them 

 never showed their heads for a week — per- 

 haps they had no queen, and I had no ex- 

 perience in finding one. so I let them shift 

 for themselves, then they went to work all 

 right. On Thanksgiving day I put them all 

 into the cellar. 



My cellar is cemented, and has a furnace 

 in it. I put them into the coldest part, 

 where it ranged 40 to 4.5 degrees above zero, 

 and they were as still as mice all winter. 

 On March 26th, it being warm, 50 degrees 

 above zero. I carried them out to their old 

 stands, and gave them a flight. They had 

 a fine time, and so did 1. I put on my new 

 veil, and whilst they were out I took the 

 frames from the first one and put them into 

 an empty hive a(jJoining, and cleaned out 

 the dead, and scraped it clean, then put 

 them back again, putting the cloths on top, 

 then the covers. I served them all the same 

 way. They never offered to fight. They 

 have plenty of honey, a clean hive, no 

 moths — why, they were so glad over their 

 clean quarters and flight, that they would 

 buzz with their wings in front of the hive en- 

 trance. Give me the cellar for wintering 

 bees. George Rackleff. 



Woodford, Me., March 30, 1893. 



Bees and the Weather. 



Bees are all O. K. — what are left. I have 

 lost 10 colonies out of 15. It snowed here 

 the 14th 3 inches deep. 



John V. Emmert. 



Lebanon, Ind., April 17, 1893. 



Bees Wintered Nicely. 



Bees have come through the winter nicely 

 in this locality, nearly all being wintered 

 on the summer stands. On April 3rd my 

 bees were bringing in pollen in abundance, 

 but to-day we have six inches of snow. 

 However, it will all be gone to-morrow, 

 and the birds will be singing as sweetly as 

 ever. I am pleased with the American Bee 

 Journal. M. Beaupre. 



Forestville, Ont., April 15, 1893. 



Bees in Poor Condition. 



Last year was a poor year with us. I got 

 only about 200 pounds of comb honey from 

 21 colonies. There was too much rain the 

 forepart of the season. Bees went into 

 winter quarters in good condition. I put 

 them into the cellar on Nov. 15th, and took 

 them out on April 3rd. Every colony was 

 alive, but they had the diarrhea badly. I 

 think I will lose X of them. On March 1st 

 I examined them, but found no signs of dis- 

 ease then, but they were confined too long 

 43^ months in the cellar — without a flight. 

 It will not do, I don't care how good their 

 stores are. I don't believe they will stand it. 



I am going to move them six miles on a 

 wagon in a tew days, to a better location. 

 They will have more fruit-bloom and white 



clover, and quite a good deal of Alsike 

 and basswood. I hope and pray that we 

 may have a better season this summer. I 

 shall have to manage the bees all alone 

 now. One year ago last fall my two young- 

 est boys died — all the help I had ; now we 

 are left alone. It is hard to bear, but the 

 Lord's will, not mine, be done. 



L. Reed. 

 Reed City, Mich., AprU 9, 1893. 



Lost Only 3 Colonies. 



I took my bees out of the cellar last Tues- 

 day, and lost only 3 out of 23 colonies in 

 wintering. B. M. Savage. 



Independence, Iowa, April 11, 1893. 



Dealing Direct with Producers. 



I am especially pleased with the position 

 of the Bee Journal on the adulteration of 

 honey. We California bee-keepers feel that 

 our business is vei-y much injured by com- 

 mission men in our State, who use glucose 

 in abundance in the adulteration of ex- 

 tracted honey, and' then ship it East as 

 California white-sage honey. If Eastern 

 dealers desiring California honey would 

 deal directly with the producer, I think it 

 would do very much to offset the sales of 

 adulterated honey from this State by com- 

 mission men. They might learn who we 

 are by correspondence with our State Sec- 

 retary, Mr. J. H. Martin, of Riverside, who, 

 I believe, was authorized to give us some 

 assistance on the question of selling our 

 honey. Allen Barnett. 



Whittier, Calif. 



COWYENTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of me&tAng. 



1893. 



May 18, 19.— South Texas, at Wharton, Tex. 

 T. H. Mullin, Sec, Eagle Lake, Tex. 



May 19.— Lambton, at Sarnia. Ont. 



J. R. Kltchin, Sec., Weidmann, Ont. 



May 23.— Capital, at Springfield. Ills. 



C. E. Tocom, Sec., Sherman, Ills. 



Oct. 11. 12, 13.— North American (Interna- 

 tional), at Chicai?o, Ills. 

 Frank Benton, Sec, Washington, D. C. 



In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — The Editor. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President— Dr. C. C. Miller Marengo, Ills. 



Vice-Pres.— J. E. Crane Middlebury, Vt. 



Secretary— Frank Benton, Washington, D. C. 

 Treasurer— George W. York.. .Chicago, Ills. 



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XTational Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— Hon. R. L. Taylor.. Lapeer, Mich. 

 Gen'l Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago, 111. 



