THE BEE-KEEPERS" REVIEW 419 



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EDITORIAL 



Xational Convention, Cincinnati, Ohio, February 12th and 13th. 



Shetland Ponies Die From Eating Sweet Clover. 



R. G. Smith, of Olathe, Colorado, recently lost three Shetland 

 ponies from impaction of the bowels caused by eating dry sweet 

 clover stalks. This is another instance Avhere stock relish sweet 

 clover even to their hurt — W. F. 



Predicts Good Wintering in Colorado. 



A good flow^ from some source like alfalfa and sweet clover 

 with good weather conditions insures a high quality of winter stores. 

 .Such honey will not candy readily in the hives. Poor wintering 

 conditions throughout the west have been quite largely caused by 

 the candying of honey in the hives. The condition of the winter 

 stores is above the average this fall in most locations, so the pros- 

 pects for favorable wintering are good. — \V. F. 



Have Your Bees Enough Honey for Winter? 



A note of warning is found in the following extract from a letter 

 just received from Elmer Hutchinson, of Pioneer, Mich. He says : 

 "We have had to feed the bees the heaviest this fall that we have 

 since we came to this part of the State. We have fed more than 

 5,000 lbs. of sugar." 



