THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



the fly-hole, so that the bees any warm 

 day of 450 can have a fly. By this way 

 their fly-hole is 6 inches long. No sun 

 ray can strike the inside, No cold storm 

 can immediately press out the warm air, 

 and the bees are less disturbed than those 

 having a short fly-hole." Ch. Sonne. 



Jefferson, Wis., Feb. 28th, 1876. 

 "I have had lots of trouble with Mrs. S. 

 E. Spaidesand her husband, C. D. Spaids, 

 and that they owe me over $1500 yet on 

 two notes which, with another one they 

 had given me after a settlement I had 

 with them at their store at 50 Grand street. 

 New York, in December, 1874. I was 

 forced to sue them for the payment of 

 those notes ; they brought every obstacle 

 in my way, but I finally beat them, get- 

 ting judgment against each of them, but 

 during the progress of the lawsuit they 

 had sold out, leaving New York,— Mrs. 

 Spaids going to West Virginia, and he to 

 Maryland. At present my attorney has 

 obtained an order from the court to im- 

 prison their lawyer, who is in prison since 

 the 21st of this month, because he would 

 not take an oath and then answer ques- 

 tions concerning the whereabouts of the 

 property of the Spaids. I considered Mrs. 

 Spaids honest, at one time sold her oyer 

 $4000 worth of honey without any security, 

 and she paid me, but since she got con- 

 nected with Spaids, she cannot do as she 

 wants to, and perhaps changed her idea 

 about paying debts. Adam Grimm. 



Bethany, O.— March 3, 1876.— "This 

 has been a very mild winter, consequently 

 there has been but few bees lost with the 

 cold, some have already died and others 

 soon will die if they are not fed, as but 

 little honey was gathered last year, and 

 that from fall flowers, and I find on exam- 

 ination that a great deal of it is granu- 

 lating in the cell. 



I saw swamp maples in bloom January 

 22. On Feb. 13 my bees were carrying in 

 natural pollen ; but since then the weather 

 has been too cold for them to fly much. 



Our main honey plant is white clover. 

 Last year, I did not get an ounce of sur- 

 plus, and besides, had to feed about fifty 

 lbs sugar, and will have to feed that much 

 more this spring." W. S. Boyd. 



it a fact, that first swarms issue in the 

 forenoon." My after swarms issued most 

 any time of the day, but especially early 

 in the morning, some before 7 o'clock, 

 and 1 have had first swarms frequently in 

 the afternoon, some as late as 6 o'clock in 

 the evening." W. Wolff. 



SciOTA Co., O.— Feb. 26, 1876.— "My bees 

 are all (20) on summer stand and doing 

 ^ell — never better; rearing brood all win- 

 ter; more bees now than I began the win- 

 ter with. I am trying to learn my bees to 

 stay out all the time, for we must find 

 some way to succeed on summer stands." 

 W. F. Patterson. 



Jefferson. Wis.— March 20, 1876.— 

 " Mv bees wintered so far good, they were 

 set out on the 10th and had a good flight; 

 but now, we have one snow storm after the 

 other, and all hope of an early spring is 

 gone. I winter my bees in a House a la 

 Novice, 15 inch wall, filled with sawdust, 

 the same kept free of frost the coldest of 

 last winter and the temperature was mod- 

 erate this slight winter, about 40 degrees 

 on an average. My bees came out in 

 good order, lost only one out of 60 hives. 

 In the March number, '75, I read : " Is 



Cadiz, Ky.— "I have 9 stands of bees, 

 6 of them in Langstroth's hives. The 

 first part of last year my bees did but lit- 

 tle ; late in the fall they did better. I took 

 300 lbs. of honey from 4 stands and got 

 2 swarms." J. Larkins. 



Aberfoyle, Ont. — March 17, 1876. — 

 "I am much pleased with The Journal. 

 If I could not replace the numbers of 

 this year I would not take $10 for them. I 

 have kept bees for 7 years and have read 

 Langstroth and Quinby. The American 

 Bee Journal should be in every bee- 

 keeper's hands. One of my neighbors 

 subscribed for another Bee paper, but no 

 sooner does my Journal come than he is 

 over to read it. Bees have not done well 

 here for two years. We have lots of linn, 

 buckwheat, clover and raspberry. In the 

 valley near me, there are many honey 

 plants, and we have as good a country for 

 bees, as anywhere in Canada." 



R. C. Cameron. 



Wilkesbarre, Pa., March 9, 1876:— 

 " Seeing an advertisement of Mrs. Tup- 

 per's, that she had for sale, $5 queens, 

 ' safe arrival guaranteed,' I sent for one, 

 forwarding the money Aug. 1st, 1874. It 

 did not come till so late in the fall, that I 

 ordered il not to be sent,— and the money 

 returned. In answer to this, came a dead 

 queen. In the spring of 1875, she agreed 

 to send me another, but it never came. I 

 am not surprised at her downfall, as she 

 proved dishonest to me some time ago. 

 Geo. D. Silvins. 



Appenoose Co., Iowa, March 9, 1876: — 

 " Bees have wintered splendidly in this 

 neigliborhood. I have not lost a single 

 colony this winter. My bees are all 

 bright and healthy; this time last year 

 I had lost nearly all. I had only two 

 colonies left, to begin with, last spring. I 

 increased them to twelve colonies; got 

 over 100 lbs. of box honey ; raised forty- 

 five queens; and had all my bees in good 

 fix for winter, without feeding. My bees 

 are all Italians; I breed from imported 

 mothers; think they are much the best. 

 I get my imported queens from Ch. 

 Dadaut «& Son." M. M. Callen. 



