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AMERICAN BEE lOUENAI. 



March 27, 1902. 



/*N^ _ _ TVT_ /"^ J. i ■ describing and listing tl 



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Please Mention the Bee Journal iJ^^rSSrsF.. 



It was too wet, and tliey got no honey from 

 that source, and the same way when white 

 clover bloomed, and also when the linden 

 bloomed, but later in the fall we got some 

 nice honey from golden-rod and wild aster. 

 I'he bees gathered suthcient stores for winter 

 so that we did not have to feed any. We 

 got about 3000 pounds of comb honey, for 

 which we found ready sale near home. 



Taking our situation as a whole 1 think 

 our locality a good one for bee-keeping; wc 

 rarely ever have a complete failure. We 

 winter our bees on the summer stands, and 

 rarely lose any; and if we do lose any it 

 is by some other cause, not cold weather. 



We have had what we call a severe winter 

 for our locality, but at mv place the mer- 

 cury has not been as low as zero, but it has 

 been cold and wintry since Nov. 15, and to- 

 day (March 5) it is snowing; it began last 

 night, and the snow is about 10 inches deep, 

 and still coming down, but I do not think it 

 will stay long on the ground, as the season 

 is too far advanced. 1'. I. Huffman. 



Rockbridge Co., \'a. 



Bees Winteping All Right. 



My bees are wintering all right in the 

 cellar ; I put in 63 colonies. I have no 

 trouble in wintering my bees. The cellar is 

 8x10 feet. I use the Langstroth 8-frame hive, 

 loose top and bottom, and pack them one 

 on top of the other 5 high. I hive the 

 swarms on the old stands. I had only 13 

 swarms from 50 colonies last year, and over 

 a ton of comb honey. I have sold it at home 

 for 15 and 16 cents a pound. L. C. Green. 



Winnebago Co., Iowa, March 4. 



A Report of Last Season. 



It is not four years since I commenced 

 the business, the first 2 years being nearly a 

 failure, but I think now I can do better. 



Last spring I started with 4 colonies, in- 

 creased to 9, and took 300 sections of nice 

 comb honey, and my bees had plenty of honey 

 when I put' them into the cellar. They appear 

 to be wintering well. 



I use a hive of my own make, which I 

 think is a very good kind for comb honey. 

 Geo. W. Davis.. 



Windsor Co., Vt., March 13. 



Bees Doing Well. 



My bees are doing well. I think. They seem 

 strong, and are gathering pollen almost every 

 day when it does not rain. There have not 

 been more than 30 days all together, but what 

 they have been Hying; they are quite strong. 

 I was looking at them, and they were in 

 between all the combs, and all seemed to have 

 plenty of honey. I did not take the frames out, 

 but could see sealed honey where the bees were 

 not in the wav. 



We have had quite a good deal of rain 

 lately, and it is raining to-night, and the wind 

 has been blowing very hard all day. 



W. H. ROSEBROOK. 



Siskiyou Co., Cal., March :i. 



Some Canadian Suggestions. 



A man asked me the other day how' to pre- 

 veiit a small queen from going through the 

 metal honey-board. 1 told him to feed her on 

 dried apples and give her plenty of water to 

 drink. Was that right? 



What I want to suggest is this: I have read 

 so often where valuable queens have been 

 ruined by transit thro|.igh the mails. Why not 

 send such queens by carrier-pigeon? I under- 

 stand that carrier-pigeons will return home 

 immediately when tlicy get their liberty^ several 

 hundred miles. And liy ui^ing 2 or 3 pigeons a 

 queen cnuld be sent 1000 miles or more. For 

 illustration, say that I want a queen from 

 Chicago. I get a pigeon, send it to Detroit; 

 have a jiarty there to get another and send it 

 to Chicago; the second pigeon would be held 

 by the party in Chicago long enough to give 

 the party in Detroit notice just when the 

 pigeon would be released, and the party in 

 Detroit hold the queen long enougli to give 

 me notice; and so on. 



Where it is convenient, cheap queens might 

 be sent a few hundred miles in the same way. 

 Has anyone ever tried the above way of trans- 

 portation? If so, let us hear from him; if 

 not. and no one cares to try it, I think I will 

 try it the coming season. 



I would like to suggest to some one who 

 hn9. a cream separator, and also keeps bees 

 and produces extracted honey, to extract 



