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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



horsemint and a vine similar to grape. 

 Golden-rod does not produce honey every 

 year. Aster, ratan, elms, sumac, swamp dog- 

 wood, milk-weed, fire-weed and hundreds 

 ol other plants that produce some honey. 

 Drouth cuts off all, at times. July, Aug- 

 ust and September ordinarily are the 

 hardest months of the year. I think it 

 will pay to ship south to winter. After 

 frost in the north bees would here gather 

 a fine harvest, and winter supplies ; then 

 in spring they would swarm, then all 

 swarm again in your climate. It would 

 not be expensive to charter a car. I have 

 thought for several years that an apiary 

 on the Mississippi River would pay. 

 Winter in the orange fields of Louisiana 

 and take the seasons up the river to Min- 

 nesota ; we have a new source of pollen in 

 September, rust, from cotton wood leaves." 

 M. S. Klum. 



Hamilton, Illinois, January 13, 1876. 

 " I see that through the instrumentali- 

 ties of my article on Foul Brood, I am 

 unintentionally injuring the business of 

 Messrs Dadant & Son. Having dated it at 

 Hamilton, 111., I had thought that my 

 address was too well known to make 

 extra mention of it, but it seems some 

 overlook these things. At the end I said 

 "parties wishing to write me, will please 

 notice tJie change of address. Certainly this 

 does not imply that I had my bees here. 

 But for the benefit of those who do not 

 know, I will say that I lost my bees in 

 Berlin, Wis. 1 would not for the world 

 injure anyone by such means, although 

 there are those who will read this, whom 

 I well know, tried to injure my business, 

 by circulating a report to the effect that 

 my honey was poisoned, because my bees 

 were aftected with foul brood ; the party 

 pretended to be a warm friend of mine, 

 and under that guise, obtained all informa- 

 tion from me necessasy to start in bee-cul- 

 ture. Another party kindly sent a note to 

 one of our journals stating that I and my 

 neighbors had foul brood among our bees, 

 but I did not let it be known. I know 

 who it was, though not infoimed by the 

 editor, and I thank him for his trouble — 

 hope it may set his conscience at ease." 

 J. D. Kkuschke- 



Lenawek Co., Mich. — Nov. 16, 1875. — 

 " Like many of my brother apiarists, I 

 have kept silent for a long lime waiting 

 for a favorable report to give the public. 

 This I could not do in the spring, as my 

 loss in wintering was very heavy. I 

 arranged my bees for wintering by plac- 

 ing them in a row fronting to the south- 

 east; placed them eight Indies apart with 

 a tight board wall behind, eiglit inches 

 from them, jiacked the spaces between 

 and behind them with straw, also filled 

 the caps with the same. Had them pro- 

 tected in front with a wide board to keep 

 off the rays of the sun, when it was too 



cold for a flight, and covered with a 

 board roof to keep out the rain, but after 

 all my trouble the extreme cold of the 

 winter was too much for them ; for when 

 the first flowers of spring came I had but 

 nine left out of sixty, and some of those 

 were in a very bad condition. About the 

 first of May I bought seven colonies (one 

 pure Italian, from which I have Italianized 

 the most of my stock). The season has 

 been a very favorable one, both for in- 

 crease and honey. I have increased my 

 stock to forty colonies, mostly by artificial 

 swarming. Have received twenty-one 

 hundred pounds of box-honey (made in 

 the sectional honey boxes) and four hun- 

 dred pounds of extracted. I use the Bar- 

 ker and Dicer hive and sectional honey 

 boxes; I think these boxes are almost 

 perfection, find I can realize from three 

 to four cents more per pound for my 

 honey, than by putting it up in any other 

 way." S. PoKTEK. 



ANSWERS BY MRS. TUPPER. 



Is Northern Colorado suitable for api- 

 arists? Is the moth as troublesome 

 there as here? Is it necessary to provide 

 pasture for bees there ? How about the 

 Rocky Mountain bee plant? A. H. M. 



Scottsville, 111. 



The few who are keeping bees in North- 

 ern Colorado, report excellent success. 

 Pasturage there is abundant, and the in- 

 crease of stocks rapid. No occasion as 

 yet to plant anything there for them. The 

 Rocky Mountain bee plant is found in 

 most parts of Northern Colorado, and 

 these are rich in honey. The moth will 

 trouble you there after many bees are kept, 

 no doubt — if jou are careless — but with 

 Italifin bees and movable comb-hives, any 

 one can, with reasonable care, be free 

 from moths. 



Is it beneficial to set bees out and let 

 them have a fly on warm days, where they 

 are wintered in the celhir? 



Asa Tefft. 



Chatauqua Co., N. Y. 



We cannot think there is any advan- 

 tage in it, when bees have been properly 

 put away, with plenty of sealed honey. 

 If they have been fed in the cellar or 

 house, or been excited by light or too 

 warm quarters, to eat freely, it is best to 

 put them out for a cleansing flight. 



