Nov. 20, 1902. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



749 



tlxed a place in the cellar for llioiii, liy liiiUd- 

 ing a sealYdld about live feel lilgli umler a 

 part of 11)1) house, where there would bo lire 

 kept durin^r the winter. 



I placed the V!ll colonies on this scalTold 

 aboul Ihc middle of Novendicr, with plenty 

 of hoiit!y. 'rile hives wore dry, and I t,l)outrlit 



1 had LluMM tixod in jjood shape for wintering, 

 as ther^^ would bo a tiro about three foetal)ovo 

 them, and the cellar was arranged so 1 could 

 ventilate It when I wished to. 



The bees were ciuite noisy the latter imrt of 

 the winter, and 1 took thcnioul in March and 

 found IT) colonies were dead. I saw why it 

 was. I had left on the honey-l)oard, which 

 hold the dampness in the hives, and the combs 

 had moldoil. 



I bonjrhl 11 colonies more and started in 

 the sprlu); of lsi)9 with 25 colonies; they in- 

 creased durin;; the summer by natural swarm- 

 ing to 40. I thought I would try the cellar 

 again for wintering, and tlxed a room in one 

 corner, 10 by 12 feet, by putting up aboard 

 partition. This room was under a part t>f the 

 house where there was no lire kept, and as 1 

 wanted to keep the room dark, I had no win- 

 dows in it. 1 placed some sticks on the cel- 

 lar bottom, about two inches thick, to sot the 

 hives on. I took off the honey-boards and 

 put on supers with a piece of burlap in tljc 

 bottoms, and then tilled them with planer- 

 shavings and dry corn coljs, about two-thirds 

 of the former and one-third of the latter. 



I put the liees into the ,'ellar about the mid- 

 dle of November, one hive above the other, 

 four tiers deep, with an arrangement for ven- 

 tilating. They were quiet during the winter, 

 and I took them out the first part of x\pril, 

 1000—40 colonies, all of which were in tine 

 condition. Since then I have kept my bees 

 in the same room during the winter, and have 

 packed them in the same way, with less than 



2 percent loss. I lost only one colony that 

 had honey enough to winter. They were in a 

 box-hive, and 1 think had no queen. The 

 others were late swarms that had but very 

 little honey. I fed them in Octotjer by giv- 

 ing them supers partly Idled with comb 

 honey, but I did not uncap it, and when 1 

 packed them for winter, in November, I 

 found they had not carried it below. Since 

 then, when I have ted honey in the combs, I 

 have uncapped it, and they lose no time in 

 taking care of it. 



My experience leads me to believe that if a 

 cellar is kept as it should be, without decay- 

 ing fruit or vegetables, it would not be neces- 

 sary to ventilate it for bees. Keep them in a 

 dark room, where they will not be disturbed, 

 packed with something that will absorb the 

 moisture they generate, and they will be all 

 right. I think that dry, rotten wood in place 

 of corn-cobs would be just as good, and may 

 be better. George Brown. 



Chickasaw Co., Iowa, Nov. 3. 



Among the Oldest. 



I am, I think, among the oldest apiarists. 

 For 60 years I have never been without some 

 colonies of bees, and now have only 73. The 

 past season was a very bad one. C. Erb. 



Clarke Co., Va., Nov. .s. 



A Far Westepn Apiary. 



This (Wahkiakum) county is about 25 miles 

 from Cape Hancock, the most westerly point 

 in the United States, and I think the most 

 rainy, too. So you will know that it is not a 

 good country for bee-keeping, yet I have 41 

 colonies and get some honey. A good many 

 keep a few colonies of bees, but in a slovenly 

 way. O. R. Rice. 



Wahkiakum Co., Wash., Nov. 1. 



A Peculiar Season. 



This has been a very peculiar season in this 

 locality. Bees have not done very much in 

 the way of storing surplus honey. While 

 there was plenty of white clover at the begin- 

 ning of the season it was too wet most of the 

 time for the bees to work. Some colonies 



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