AMERICAN i5E.E: JOURNAL-. 



791 



Tight-End Frames and Moths. 



• In 1890 I bouglit 3 colonies of bees in por- 

 tico hives and hanging frames. The next 

 spring I bouglit 5 more colonies in the same 

 make of hives, and in 181)0 and 1891 I made 

 hives for what swarms that came out, with 

 hanging, loose-end frames, just the same as 

 the hives I bought with the bees, but I saw 

 the moths were troubling my bees in behind 

 the end-bars, so I decided that tight-end 

 frames would give the moth less chance for 

 nesting, and all of my hives since 1891 1 

 have made 13 inches wide inside by 18 long, 

 and 91.2 deep, giving the hive about 3,600 

 cubic inches. 



In 1893 I lost every old colony, and all the 

 new colonies that I put into the loose-end 

 frame hives, by the moth, and out of 35 

 tight-end frame hives I have never seen a 

 sign of a moth, and the tight and loose end 

 frame hives were standing in the same 

 yard within 3 feet of each other. On April 

 24th I took my bees back into the cellar, 

 and on April 26th it snowed hard again. 

 On the 2?th there was about 16 inches of 

 beautiful white snow, and I hauled saw- 

 logs to the mill. It was good sleighing. 

 Osakis, Minn. Mark D. Judkins. 



First Swarm on June 12th. 



I had my first swarm of bees yesterday. 

 June 13th. It was a pure Carniolan. I have 

 150 colonies in all. G. G. Baldwin. 



Port Huron, Mich., June 13, 1893. 



Short Honey-Flow Expected. 



Bees did not do very well in this locality 

 last year. From 8 colonies we only took 

 150 pounds of comb honey. 



Bees wintered all right last winter, but 

 this spring was very cold and trying. Out 

 of 12 colonies we lost 3 from starvation. 



I think our honey-flow will be short this 

 year. Bees could work on fruit-bloom but 

 a day or two, as the weather was so cold. I 

 will try to report later on in the season as 

 to our honey-flow this year. I like the Bee 

 Journal. F. N. Blank. 



Prairie Home, Mo., May 31, 1893. 



"Rough on Rats" for Killing Ants. 



On page 656 is a request for something 

 that will exterminate ants. As I have had 

 some experience with them, I venture to 

 tell how I dispose of them. 



Mix a small quantity of " Rough on Rats" 

 in some sweetened wa,ter or honej', and 

 place it where the ants can get it, but 

 where the bees will not find it. I have 

 never known this to fail to exterminate 

 them. 



This spring I discovered that the ants 

 were working in one of my hives, and on 

 making an examination 1 found they had 

 taken possession of the top of the hive, had 

 covered the quilt and filled every crack 

 with eggs. I had no "Rough on Rats " on 

 hand, but as something must be done, I 



bui'ned that quilt and destroyed what I 

 could ; then taking a piece of common 

 school crayon, I drew a heavy line of chalk 

 entirely around the hive. The ants would 

 come up to that line by the hundred, but 

 not one went over. I examined the hive 

 the next day, but there was not an ant to 

 be seen, nor has it been troubled since. 



I wish that all bee-keepers who are both- 

 ered with them would try these two reme- 

 dies together, and report their success in 

 the Bee Journal. I shall watch for a re- 

 port of Mr. Lovesy's experience. Be sure 

 that there are no breaks in the chalk-line, 

 and that your bees cannot get at the 

 poison. D. L. McKean. 



Cobham, Pa. 



Poor Honey Caused the Loss. 



Bees wintered poorly in this locality, 

 most bee-keepers losing from 50 to 75 per 

 cent, on account of poor honey, and not 

 being capped, as the only honey we did get 

 was in the fall, which soured and gave the 

 bees the diarrhea, and many died either be- 

 fore they came out of the cellar or soon 

 after. My bee-house was dry, and I lost 

 only 3 out of 30 colonies. The 18 are doing 

 nicely now. C. P. Lang. 



La Crosse, Wis., June 7, 1893. 



Apple-Bloom and Locust Honey. 



My 18 colonies of bees, on the summer 

 stands, wintered well, and have gathered 

 about 20 pounds per colony from apple- 

 bloom and locust, and are now waiting for 

 the white clover, which is looking finely, 

 and promises to yield abundantly. Bees in 

 box-hives, In this locality, nearly all died, 

 and perhaps ^{ of those in movable frames, 

 where they were not properly attended to 

 in the fall. 



The American Bee Journal is always a 

 welcome guest, and we could hardly keep 

 bees without it. Robt. B. Woodward. 



Somerset, O., June 9, 1893. 



Terrible Storm in Missouri. 



On the evening of Thursday, May 25th, 

 our section of country was visited by a ter- 

 rible wind and hail storm. Many houses 

 and barns were scattered to the four winds 

 of heaven, and hail as large as walnuts fell 

 in torrents in places to a depth of 6 inches. 

 Although the home bee-yard was I4 mile 

 south of the hardest of the storm, the hives 

 were all turned over, and some of them en- 

 tirely emptied of all combs and bees. My 

 damage is very heavy ; many queens were 

 lost, most of the old bees were shaken out 

 and drowned, and pounded into the earth 

 by the hail. Should a clover harvest come 

 uiy Avay, I would be badly left. 



Mr. P. P. Collier, who lives at Rush Hill, 

 and had an apiary of some 70 or 80 colonies, 

 I understand sufl'ered almost if not quite a 

 total loss of bees, brood and combs. This 

 has been a very wet spring here, bees and 

 clover are both away behind time, and I 



