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into an old trunk partly filled with 

 papers and clothing. In the corner of 

 this trunk they had clustered, mostly in 

 the lid. The hingesof this being broken, 

 I took the lid with a majority of the 

 bees and shook them into the top of my 

 hive and closed the cover. I then 

 turned the trunk down with the corner 

 that contained the remaining bees 

 against the alighting-board of the hive, 

 and immediately they took up the line of 

 march to join their companions already 

 in the hive, and in 15 minutes from the 

 time that I began the operation, I had 

 almost every bee of the colony in the 

 hive, and closed up ready to take home. 



Once I had prepared a number of hives 

 with foundation starters in the frames 

 and stackt them up at the end of a tool- 

 house near the beeyard, to have them 

 convenient when swarms came out. Oue 

 day I noticed several bees working in 

 and out of one ofthe hives, but supposed 

 they were drawn there by the odor of 

 the wax foundation; but a few days 

 later, and ^hile the bees were still there, 

 an immense swarm came roaring down 

 from the mountains and weni. into the 

 hive where the few bees had been at 

 work for nearly a week. The swarm 

 was strung out till it took some minutes 

 for the hindmost ones to arrive after the 

 first ones had reacht the hive. Did this 

 indicate that the swarm had come a long 

 distance ? 



A number of swarms and colonies have 

 been offered me by the neighbors this 

 fall if I would go after them ; but a« I 

 should have to feed them I have not ihot 

 that it would pay, so I have declined 

 these gifts. 



My bees in the yard gave 1.50 per cent 

 of increase, and over 50 pounds per col- 

 ony of comb honey, spring count, besides 

 some extracted. Thus you see it is easy 

 to iiick up and build up an apiary here. 

 L. J. Templin. 



San Diego Co., Calif., Oct. 27. 



Good Report for 1897. 



My report for 1S97 is a good one. It 

 has been the best since I kept bees. I 

 got 300 pounds of section honey from 5 

 colonies spring count, and increast to 10 

 colonies. My bees are in good condition 

 for winter, with plenty of honey. We 

 have had a terrible drouth this fall. 

 Wheat molded in the ground but the 

 drouth is broken— it is raining hard to- 

 day. 



I have sold about half my honey for 

 12K cents. Section honey does not sell 

 well. People are crying hard times. 

 Poor people are looking for prosperity, 

 but have not found it yet. 



Hurrah for the Bee Journal; it is 

 right in line. W. M. Daniels. 



Wood Co., Ohio, Nov. 2. 



Don't Make Bee-Fencing'. 



No; we don't manufacture a bee-fence. 

 This is in reply to numerous inquiries 

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 be a good thing if some people had a 

 high-geared bee-fence, so that the apiary 

 would not encroach upon the highway 

 and allow the bees to become so point- 

 edly acquainted with the passers-by. 

 The hog fence and sheep fence have 

 both absolutely failed to keep our 

 own bees at home, or to keep our neigh- 

 bor's bees from coming over and gossip- 

 ing with ours. But when we erected a 



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Strip of the 25-bar 58-inch high stock- 

 fence, advertised in the Bee Journal, we 

 found that it was proof against every- 

 thing except bees and flies, and, to own 

 up to the truth, the full truth, we have 

 to acknowledge that we never saw a bee 

 fly through or over this fence ! Not only 

 so, but the hogs, sheep, horses, cattle, 

 and bulls never Interfere with the hives 



any more. The drones slowly dragged 

 themselves out, took a look at the 

 meshes, size of the wire, and height of 

 the fence, concluded they were in a jail, 

 and died from shame. The queens even 

 donned their regal robe, drest themselves 

 in their most fascinating attire, a-nd took 

 an airing in perfect safety, although we 

 really did lose one queen; she was a 



