March 13, 1902. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



171 



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winter Is Over Here. 



My 38 colonies lift VI) come ilin)ii;rli in tine 

 shai)e. They ure i;atliorinn pollen t'vuiy day. 

 Winter is over in this locality. 



II. D. MUKKY. 

 KunUin Co., Miss., Feb. '27. 



Wants More Papticulars. 



We are (it'teii int.lucL'ii to read a scciuiiijjly 

 interesting; article and a( the eunclusion ex- 

 claim, "() pshaw I" .lust so with the Inick- 

 wheat item on patre lOS. We have no way of 

 jud^iny: the value of the ]>lant liy that item, 

 as we do not linow whether he had onecolony 

 or a thousand working on the buckwheat. 



Bee-keepers, please give usconi])Iete reports, 

 not half-finished, unintellij^nblc ones. Our 

 time is too valuable to be thus wasted. 



•biHN M. Davis. 



Maury Co., Tenn., Feb. -'.5. 



Wintering in Chaff Hives. 



Bees did fairly well last season. I .started 

 ■with '2r> colonies last spring, and increased to 

 45, from which I harvested 12.t eases of 24 

 sections each of comb honey, and 1,000 

 pounds of extracted. 



I have 40 colonies in winter quarters, which 

 are all right at the present time. I wintered 

 them on the summer stands, in chaff hives of 

 my own construction, made of lap-siding 

 26x20x24 inches tor the S-frame dovetailed 

 hive, giving room for 3 inches of chaff all 

 around, and about 13 inches over the brood- 

 nest. The cover is made like a roof of shingles. 

 I find that the more chaff there is over the 

 brood-nest the better it is, because it takes 

 up more moisture during severe, cold weather. 

 C. J. Oldenburg. 



Scott Co., Minn., March 3. 



A Florida Report. 



If my health were good I would consider my- 

 self in good pasturage ; but I am afflicted 

 with sciatic rheumatism and a good part of 

 the time I am not able to be with my bees. I 

 have produced some large crops of honey here 

 on the river. Three years ago my bees gave 

 me 22 gallons of honey to the colony. Last 

 year was a bad one, and they stopped at 14 

 gallons. I keep from 60 to TO colonies. 



We winter bees on the summer stands, of 

 course. I have "6 colonies now. nearly all ap- 

 parently in good shape. One of my neighbors 

 had a good swarm yesterday. I study bees, 

 read bees, work with bees, and with the help 

 of the '-Old Reliable." When asked if I am 

 a bee-keeper my answer is, "I bee." 



H. F. Baker. 



Liberty Co., Fla., Feb. 27. 



A North Dakota Report for 1901, 



Last season I was very successful with 8 

 colonies, spring count, and got over 600 

 pounds of honey, 70 was in sections and bal- 

 ance extracted ; besides, I increased to 20 col- 

 onies, which were put into winter quarters 

 the first week in November in fairly good con- 

 dition. L_ 1 ZZ .- «! 



I took a Michigan man's plan that I saw in 

 the Bee .Journal, to run more for honey than 

 increase of bees, but I got fooled some. The 

 plan was. when the colonies became strong in 

 brood, to put anextra hive on top with ex- 

 cluder between, and keep lifting up frames of 

 brood from below to the upper part. This 

 was to give no swarming and lots of honey, 

 but instead there was galore of swarming, and 

 1 fairly lost track of how they were, and 

 where they were. -""" 



I was fortunate in haviugia visit at the time 



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