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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



May 20, 



BEES & NUCLEI. 



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side; and also a well set and well trimmed 

 thoru hedge at the back of them, so tbey 

 are well jirotectert from cold and heat, and 

 they alway.s receive the best of care. But 

 they won't gather honey for me w hen there 

 are no honey-yielding plants, such as was 

 the case last year. They cost me many 

 dollars to get them through the winter, but 

 I hope to get it all back this season, and 

 more besides, for all is fair for a good 

 honey crop this summer, provided the 

 weather is suitable, so that bees can work. 

 Our pears, cherries, and other small fruits 

 are now in full bloom. Elistia Cakev 

 Bucks Co., Pa., May 2. 



Too Cold for the Bees. 



This weather the bees have to remain at 

 home while the apple trees are just a few 

 feet above their heads in full bloom, and 

 have to content themselves with their 

 mother by singing ■■ Gentle Annie '' in her 

 ear. and telling her there are better days 

 dawning: while what few drones have 

 made their appearance are " trembling in 

 their boots," as the honey grows less. They 

 know it's good by ■' sweet home " when the 

 bees say to them. ■• Self-preservation is the 

 first law of our hive." It puts me in mind 

 of a lot of women cleaning hou.se. Some 

 have a drone by the ear, leading him to the 

 door; others leading him out under the 

 whip; some drones are at the entrance on 

 the wing, singing ■• Boom-de-ay;'' some are 

 piled up outside of tbe hive on their knees, 

 praying for a honey-flow. Oh, by the way. 

 the bee-man is, too. and if the honey comes 

 the bees will come to the door and say, 

 " Now, old paps, we were ,iust joking when 

 we Ured you. Come in Bill, Jake, John, 

 Sam and Ike; but if honey gets scarce 

 again, yon will have to pack your grips and 

 start for Frazier river, or go to India to see 

 yonr big relatives, the Apis dorsata." 



Geo. Poiniie.xter. 



DeWittCo., 111., May 1. 



Experience in Wintering Bees. 



I had an experience in wintering the bees 

 in one of my yards that was somewhat of 

 a surprise. Late last fall I had to rebuild 

 my bee-cellar at this yard. It bad been 

 made of slabs and dirt, but I rebuilt it with 

 a stone wall; it being so late the wall did 

 not dry out, the cellar was so damp I feared 

 heavy loss among the IK colonies it con- 

 tained. About the middle of winter I bad 

 a load of dry oats straw and chaff scattered 

 on tbe cellar bottom and over the hives. 

 The temperature was kept at about 40 de- 

 grees ; toward spring, after very wet 

 weather, water was found standing S or 10 

 inches deep in the cellar — the hives had 

 been placed 14 inches from the floor, so no 

 water got in them. The water stood thus in 

 the cellar for over two months before those 

 bees were taken out, whichwas the middle 

 of April, and they came out in good con- 

 dition, with very small percentage of loss, 

 and nearly all strong. So much for good 

 luck. Harry Laturop. 



Green Co., Wis., May 1. 



A Tensessee Rejoinder. 



Mr. Wm. Webb said, on page 204, that it 

 was a very good thing that one man did 

 not know it all. Yes. he is just right, for 

 if he had known what the word "system " 

 means he would not have written as" he did. 

 Webster's dictionary says: "System— con- 

 nected assemblage of parts or things, regu- 

 lar order or method. Systemize, to reduce 

 to a system, or regular method ; to method- 

 ize." 



There are 4'3 bee-keepers in my settle- 

 ment, and only two men are keeping bees 

 in movable-frame hives. Mr. VV. said he 

 was not able to say how many practical 

 bee-men there are along the Smoky moun- 

 tains. I have been on both sides of his 

 home, through l.i counties, east and west 

 directions, and there are at least 20 keeping 

 bees in logs and plank guras to one in mov- 



able-frame hives. So it can readily be seen 

 that a regular method is the system. 



My article on Smoky mountain bee-keep- 

 ing does not insinuate that there is not a 

 practical bee-keeper in or along the Smok- 

 ies. There are several, and in the wealthy 

 parts of the State there are a great many 

 practical bee-men. 



Bees are in fine condition here. If the 

 boney-flow comes all right, they will "get 

 there " all the same. G. W. Wilcox. 



Blount Co. Tenn., May 2. 



A Hook Recoiiiiiiciided by Dr. Gallup. 



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In Health and Rlsease. 



By W. E Forest, M. D., 12th Edition, Re- 

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