April 3, 1902. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



219 



the old hive, and a good smokiii);- will in nearly all rases 

 take the fifflit out of the others. 



2. It would probably be an iinpo.ssil)ility in most places. 

 They can not go into winter (luartcrs with more honey tlian 

 to have all their combs lilled. In the course of the winter 

 they will cat out enough so as to alVonl the ipieen a place to 

 begin laying, and the enormous draft made on their stores 

 to keep up liroodrearing would omjjty out enough more to 

 allow all the room needed up to the time of harvest. If, 

 however, the locality is such tliat from the time they we're 

 taken out there would be enougli honey gathered to make 

 good the amount used each day, then the (pieen would be- 

 come crowded for room. If you find in your part of Iowa a 

 place where the queen becomes crowded for room to lay in a 

 colony to which you have fed notliing after putting in win- 

 ter quarters, be sure to report it. 



3. Yes, indeed. If you put them too far apart it makes 

 too much travel when working at them. If too near each 

 other you will not have room to work at them, and there 

 will be danger of queens and bees getting into the wrong 

 hives. If you leave room enough so that you can be com- 



fortably .seated between thdn, it will be about as well aH to 

 put them farther apart; and you can just as well put them 

 in pairs, putting the two hivs of a pair as close as you can 

 without touching, then hav<' space enough to put a scat be- 

 tween that pair and the next pair. 



4. The number varies. With eijually good wintering, the 

 number of dead bees will be much more in a colony that has 

 a large proportion of old bees. There may also be the same 

 number of dead bees with none on the floor in one case and 

 many in others, for in one case they may all Ije on the floor 

 of the hive and not on the cellar floor. The time they are 

 taken out also makes a great ili (Terence. In the past winter, 

 no more bees died for me in tlic first 75 days than in the 

 lasts. If not more than a quart die for each colony, you 

 may be pretty well satisfied. 



5. Other conditions being all right, it would.be a good 

 place, but probably no better than any other slope. If the 

 sand and sawdust were very dry when put in, it would make 

 some difference about the dryness of the cellar. Hut dry- 

 ness is not so important as temperature and ventilation. 



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No-Drip Shipping" Cases. 



After reading Mr. Davenport's minute 

 detail of no-drip shipping-cases, it seems all 

 Lu:iit)-honey pruuuccrs ^jiiuuid oe told a much 

 better and more modern plan of fastening 

 strips in no-drip cases. ^Ir. Davenport was 

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There is no red tape in getting comb-honey 

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