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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



As far as my observation goes from fif- 

 teen to twenty days is often enough to fly 

 and soon enough to go to their stores for 

 removing honey to the clustering bees. 



These facts ought not to be overlooked. 

 Sunshine purifies the air, and exercise pre- 

 serves the health of the bees. 

 Yours respectfully, 



H. E. BiDWELL. 



Mr. Bidwell certainly deserves thanks 

 for his valuable paper and if his method 

 Should prove a success generally we are 

 sure the bee keepers of the North will give 

 him proper credit. We would like very 

 ■well to try the experiment of wintering 

 some bees under sash, but just now we 

 are chuckling over the idea that we'll not 

 be "tinkering" our pets to death in 

 the "Sunny South." Quite comforting ! 



Edgefield Junction, Teun. 



Frank Benton. 



Bee Report. 



My bees have not made as much honey 

 as in summers past, owing to the white 

 clover being winter killed. They have 

 swarmed more than usual and laid up 

 winter stores, and made some honey from 

 buckwheat and other flowers. 



I have been led to ask what has caused 

 such a mortality amongst bees the past 

 few years? Have we not varied from 

 nature's path, in various ways? The 

 Creator placed them in hollow trees in the 

 forest, and this is why they incline to go 

 there in swarming time. It seems they 

 winter there bett(?r than In our hives. 

 How rare is it that a tree is found with 

 bees all dead or mouldy comb ? this has 

 led me to thuik that we have strayed 

 from their original mode of living. 



They have no upward ventilation, and 

 but one place of egress and ingress, and 

 need but little air ; and had it been need- 

 ful, no doubt divine wisdom would have 

 caused it to be so, for he made all things 

 perfect. The atmosphere is dift'erent in 

 the forest ; the sunshine does not start 

 them out until the air is warm enough for 

 them to fly, and when they swarm they 

 do not go to some apiary, but look for 

 another hollow tree in their native home. 

 But the art of man has brought them to 

 our doors, and now comes a change of 

 climate. The sunshine is more severe, 

 storms and winds much harder, and win- 

 ters more blustering. This makes it 

 necessary to vary in managmeut. 



I think now that I gave my bees too 

 . much ventilation, and sliall try diflerent 

 ways next time ; part upwards and part 

 other ways, and see which is best ; and I 

 wish that others would do the same, some 

 out of doors, some in the cellar. We had 



better luck in old box hives, in the spring 

 than now we have with all our improve- 

 ments. 



The Italian bees are making headway 

 here and will soon be a majority. 



Marcellus, N. Y. A. Wilson. 



Bee-Keepers' Meeting. 



The Utah Bee-keepers' semi - annual 

 meeting was held in the City Hall, Oct. 8th, 

 President A. M. Musser in the chair. 



Six counties, viz.. Salt Lake, Davis, Utah, 

 Juab, Iron, and Tooele, were represented. 

 Mr. Chas. Monk, from Utah Co., stated 

 that he and his son had attended in his 

 own apiary 135 stands. The average in- 

 crease in honey per hive was forty pounds, 

 valued at thirty-five cents per pound. He 

 had owned bees five years, had the moth 

 miller or bee moth there. But no fruit in 

 Spanish Fork was wormy as yet. 



Vice-president J. Morgan stated that the 

 committee on correspondence had prepar- 

 ed each mouth an article for publication 

 as requested. There was a great difler- 

 ence between the bee moth and the cod- 

 ling moth. He had taken from eleven 

 hives 400 pounds of extracted honey and 

 120 pounds of capped honey, in surplus 

 honey boxes. 



Geo. Bailey, of Mill Creek, reported his 

 bees doing well and in excellent condition 

 for wintering. He had considerable loss 

 last winter and spring, but had replenish- 

 ed his slock, and had taken 1,G40 lbs. of 

 houey. He recommended those who 

 owned bees to take a bee journal and at- 

 tend to their own bees, for it was a nice 

 study, and all could learn a lesson from 

 the little honey bee, who was in the United 

 Order. It was not the bees that bred the 

 codling moth. 



Mr. Samuel McKay slated that bees in 

 his neighborhood had not done well this 

 season. 



Mr. J. Barlow, of Davis county, said 

 that owing to ill health he had only done 

 tolerably well with his bees, but he could 

 have done better. He had taken 500 lbs. 

 of honey from thirty colonies. He recom- 

 mended to sow seed for pasturage and to 

 keep the bees as purely Italian as possible. 

 He thought the business profitable. 



D. Miller, of Farmington, said that he 

 lost several hives last spring by a cold 

 east wind, and that indoor wintering re- 

 quired considerable care and a suitable 

 dry cellar. The white or sweet clover, 

 was a good honey plant, especially for 

 late honey. 



Mr. C. Merkley gave his experience in 

 bee culture. 



Mr. T. D. Shodder, of Juab Co., stated 

 that he wished to help his bees, and from 

 four hives last spring, they had increased 



