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that I had entered a brotherhood, all allied 

 in sympathies and interests, not so great in 

 numbers as in extent of habitation, and all 

 kindly disposed toward one another; and it 

 strikes me that is an outgrowth of the busi- 

 ness, that men who are engaged in investi- 

 gating the works of the Creator, and work 

 along with Him, become kindly disposed, 

 and more and more in line with Him. 



About the right time I got in correspon- 

 dence with a good supply dealer, who 

 furnisht me with the necessary supplies, all 

 of one pattern, S-frame dovetailed hives. 

 My old hives were of different shapes and 

 sizes, were quite old and poor, and the 

 combs very black. In the course of the 

 season I got the bees all out of the old 

 hives and piled them up by the woodpile. I 

 transferred the bees all into the new hives, 

 with new brood foundation. So now. in- 

 stead of what I started with, in the spring, 

 [ have 10 good colonies, all on new combs, 

 and in new hives, all of the same make, all 

 painted white, and standing in a straight 

 row, under the south side of a row ot large 

 locust trees, a few yards south of my house. 

 I also got about 4lG pounds of extracted 

 honey, and S.") pounds in sections, besides 

 quite a number of sections partly filled. 

 The man of whom 1 got the bees helpt me 

 with his aiivice. and started me out, Init 

 nearly all the work was done by my own 

 inexperienced hands, assisted, at times, by 

 members of my family. 



Pretty late in the fall I examined all the 

 hives, and estimated that the lightest had 

 about 22 pounds of honey, and the heaviest 

 about 32. I put a Hill's device on top of 

 the frames, then a piece of burlap, then an 

 empty half story, and filled it with dry 

 leaves, wintering on the summer stands; 

 the hives are IS or 20 inches apart. A little 

 later on I took corn-fodder and laid it down 

 straight on the ground against the north 

 side of the row ot hives, packing it down 

 close, and piling it up as high as the tops of 

 the hives. Then I took some more, and 

 stood it on end, letting it lean against the 

 other, and over the tops of the hives, hav- 

 ing something the form of a shed over 

 then I. Then, going to the south side of the 

 row, I packt the spaces between the hives 

 with old hay. and partly covered the hay 

 with stove wood, that it might not get out 

 of place. 



I think I have a good location. It is on 

 the second bottom ot the Big Blue river, 

 near the base of the south side of a high 

 bluff. My lees did nothing the forepart of 

 the season— Ihad to feed to keep them from 

 starving. Some who did not feed lost their 

 bees. The surplus was stored between the 

 the middle of August and about Sept. 30 or 

 2.5. C. G. Beach. 



Marshall Co., Kans., Jan. ti. 



Bees Wintering Well. 



I increast my bees from 31 to 41 colo- 

 nies, and lost 3. I got about COO pounds of 

 comb honey and 200 of extracted — half 

 white clover and half vine maple. I had a 

 colony of Italians that swarmed May 26, 

 and the new swarm swarmed June 2(i. and 

 gave me S4 pounds of comb honey. Bees 

 are doing well so far. M. A. Bkadford. 



Multnomah Co., Oreg., Jan. 0. 



Bee-Keeping in Manitoba. 



No doubt many readers of the Bee Jour- 

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 regions, and therefore no place fit to keep 

 bees. To such I may say that 1 have kept 

 them here for 10 years, and 1 find it a much 

 better place for them than (JId England, 

 where 1 kept bees tor 20 years, and had to 

 feed some colonies each year or lose them. 

 I have not had to teed one pound of syrup 

 in Manitoba. 



The season of 1S9G was the poorest yet 

 experienced here. Golden-rod failed to 

 yield anj* surplus honey for the first time; 

 and that and wild mint are the chief honey- 

 flowers at present, there being no clover 

 here yet except what I grow myself, which 

 is only about one acre. We have no bass- 

 wood. The honey is almost all from wild 



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fruits and flowers at present. But 1 am 

 looking for greater results from clover if 

 the farmers could be persuaded to grow it. 

 Alsike and white flourish well where sown. 

 I saw bees visiting Alsiko as late as October. 



I winter my bees in an outside cellar or 

 cave, the temperature of which is not 

 nearly so high as bee-writers advocate. 

 Last winter mine was from 2 to 14 degrees 

 above zero most of the time, and every 

 colony came through safely. I put 28 in, 

 the beginning of November, and placed 

 them all out the Hrst week in April. One 

 year they were gathering pollen April 4. 

 Another year it was April 31 before I could 

 put them out. 



In this climate bees are not subject to 

 dysentery; moths do not trouble at all, nor 

 is there any honey-dew. 



When extracting honey, about the end of 

 September, 1 found a nice-colored queen 

 upon the first frame taken out, which 1 set 

 against the outside of the hive, and got 

 hold of the next frame upon which was 

 another queen, of a darker color. 



J. Gatlet. 



Manitoba, Canada, Dec. 36. 



A Lady Bee-Keeper's Report. 



There are about 500 colonies in this 

 county (Montezuma). I have 150 colonies 

 in two apiaries. Our home apiary of 05 

 colonies produced S,000 pounds of extracted 

 honey, altho I had to destroy 13 colonies 

 and treat several others for foul brood. 

 The out-apiary of 70 colonies produced 5.000 

 finisht sections of honey, and 3.5U0 pounds 

 of comb honey, in halt-depth extracting 

 frames, which we sell by the frame in the 

 home market. Besides the comb honey, we 

 have an increase of IT good, strong colonies 

 in the out-apiary. All have hives well-filled 

 for winter use. Honey is cheap — best white 

 sections, 3 for 35 cents. 



Mrs. a. J. Barber. 



Montezuma Co., Colo., Jan. 13. 



Report for the Past Season. 



1 promist to report when I got a crop of 

 honey. 1 can hardly call it a crop, but bet- 

 ter than nothing. 1 took my .50 colonies 

 from the cellar last spring alive — all but 

 one or two— but they springdwindled down 

 below 40, and they were mostly weak. 

 They commenced to build up on spring 

 bloom, then in basswooJ bloom they did 

 well for a few days, then all stopt until red 

 clover bloom, then they filled up well for 

 winter, all but two or three late swarms. I 

 increased to 60 colonies, and packt 41 on 

 the summer stands, the remainder I put 

 into the cellar. All appear to be wintering 

 well. Those out-doors have a jubilee occa- 

 sionally—one on New Year's day. I think 

 the prospect good for a good season in this 

 part of the country. White clover has 

 come in thick, and it appears to be winter- 

 ing well. 



The past year I got for my part about 

 700 pounds of honey, and have a major part 

 of it on hand yet. It brings only 1'2'._, cents 

 per pound. For the most that I have sold I 

 got 14 to 15 cents. A. F. Crosbt. 



Franklin Co., Iowa, Jan. 12. 



Wild Parsnips Again. 



On page S06, P. N., in referring to my 

 article on wild parsnip, asks, " How long 

 will tame parsnips have to run before they 

 become poisonous ? ' Years ago, when I 

 was a young man. I was told that if pars- 

 nips were allowed to grow a few years with- 

 out being molested, they would become 

 poisonous, and I supposed it was true until 

 a few years ago one of my neighbors had a 

 bed of parsnips in his garden, and the next 

 spring he built a barn and enclosed the 

 parsnip bed in his yard: but just out- 

 side of the fence a few parsnips came up 

 and went to seed, and the seed was scat- 

 tered, and they grew there to my knowl- 

 edge 10 years or more, being self-sown, and 

 they grew seed every year. One day the 

 man told me it I wanted any parsnip seed 



