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row of two posts east and west, nailing the 

 front plunk 2 inches lower than the back 

 one, but making it perfectly level east and 

 west. This gives a slant of 2 inches to the 

 entrance of the hive. This stand holds 

 three hives; there being only fjur posts, 

 makes it an easy matter to fight ants, 

 simply by putting axle-grease around the 

 posts. 



Now comes the funny part of my experi- 

 ence: It was with the bee-escape. Follow- 

 ing up the directions, I put her, him, or 

 it. on the hive the evening before 1 

 wanted to make the raid. I could hardly 

 rest during the night, being so anxious to 

 take off honey without a bee on it ! Finally 

 the time came to raise the cover. I must 

 have raised something else, by the way the 

 bees came out. They were madder than 

 ever I .saw bees before. (I wouldn't have 

 cared if I had not had three neighbors come 

 over to see how easy it is to work with 

 bees when you are properly fixt!) If I had 

 not been drest as heavily as I was, I would 

 have been properly " flxt," sure enough (by 

 the bees). The escape now hangs on the 

 wall with a list of other curious things. 

 Prank B. Atkins. 



Marion Co., Mo., March 2. 



Tennessee Bee-Keeping'. 



The Smoky Mountain system of bee-keep- 

 ing is in a hollow log. or a box made of 

 plank from 2>^ to M'^ feet long, and all of 

 the bees kept in thfs vicinity are blacks. 

 Some of them are crost a little with the 

 Italian bees, and if they can make enough 

 to live on it is all right, and it they dou't 

 their keepers think they are not worth any- 

 thing, and let the bees starve to death. I 

 tell them I am reading the American Bee 

 Journal and the little book, '• Bees and 

 Honey," and that I have learned more by 

 reading them than I could have learned in 

 a lifetime of blundering experiments. I tell 

 them they ought to subscribe for the 

 American Bee Journal. Some of them say 

 it is just a money machine, and others say 

 that I have got the bee-fever. Very good; 

 if the money machine continues for a few 

 years, and my fever continues, I will show 

 the boys who is the bee man. 



I have colonies at present. I lost one a 

 few daj's ago that contained upward of 20 

 pounds of honey. As soon as I found that 

 they were dead, I drove another swarm 

 into the hive from a colony that I had pur- 

 chast for .W cents, which contained .5 or 6 

 pounds of honey. I never heard of bees 

 being driven in February before. I was 

 successful in driving them; they seemed to 

 be at home, and well pleased with their new 

 location. 



It was a poor season last year for bees in 

 this locality. I only got 115 pounds from 4 

 colonies. It was too wet here. I fed my 

 bees UO pounds of sugar for winter. Ou 

 page Ht) is an article written by Dr. Gallup, 

 that is worth the subscription price of the 

 Bee Journal. G. W. Wilcox. 



Blount Co., Tenn., Feb. 21. 



Watering Bees. 



Seeing on page 11.5 something on water- 

 ing bees. I thought I would tell how I water 

 mine. I take a i>lank G feet long, 1',^ inches 

 thick, and 10 inches in width ; in this I bore 

 holes with a 2-inch auger a half inch apart, 

 and '4 of an inch deep, with gutters from 

 one hole to the other the same depth. These 

 holes are bored within IS inches of the one 

 end, leaving room to set a barrel, or half 

 barrel, as described further on. I lay this 

 board ou a solid foundation made of wood 

 or other material, perfectly level sidewise, 

 but lengthwise one inch fall in (i feet, or 

 just so the water will pass from the supply. 



Now I saw a good barrel in two, and .set 

 this on the upper jiartof the board, with a 

 faucet in it near the bottom of the barrel. 

 I then can regulate the water to one drop 

 every four seconds, more or less, as occa- 

 sion may reijuire. 1 put in the barrel floats 

 of wood or other material, to keep the bees 

 from drowniug. In the spring, when the 

 morning is cold, I till the holes direct with 



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