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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 25, 1902. 



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Filling Shiping-Cases. 



Having read Mr. Doolittle's article on " Fill- 

 ing Shipping-Cases with Sections," on page 

 Til, and noticing the trouble he hiid with put- 

 ting in the sections, as the paper tray was 

 usuall.v torn, I decided to let him know that 

 he coiild do away with his tin, by a much 

 easier method, which I discovered at the fill- 

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Whenputting in tlie second last section, 

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Clinton Co., 111. J. D. Holdener. 



Results of the Past Season. 



I have 8.5 colonies. The honey season lor 

 1903 was poor. I took :f,500 pound sections of 

 honey in August. September has always 

 been our best month, but this year we did not 

 get a section after August. 



Alfred E. Smith. 



Posey Co., Ind., Dec. 2. 



Young Queens Swarming. 



My first swarm came out May 31, and was 

 put in a hive filled with old comb, and the 

 same queen had a swarm out the last of June, 

 and left 1.5 pounds of honey in sections. 



The colony that swarmed May 21 cast a 

 swarm August 3; that was a very large swarm , 

 as large as any I ever saw, and I have kept 

 bees the past 30 years. This young queen 

 must have laid the eggs of this swarm that 

 was hived August 3; and November 22 it was 

 killing off the drones. 



All three new colonies have enough to win- 

 ter on. They are Italian bees and are in mov- 

 able-comb hives. C. HoDGKiNs. 



Cheshire Co., N. H., Dec. 3. 



A Sliade-Board fop Hives. 



On page 728, W. R. Ansell describes, liefore 

 the Minnesota Bee-Keepers' Convention, a 

 shade-board made of laths and shingles. 



Would it be possible to have his method of 

 shading bescribed a little more particularly * 

 It might also be practical to insert the illus- 

 trations which Mr. Ansell presented at the 

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I believe that many bee-keepers are inter- 

 ested in a practical shade-board, and would 

 appreciate it it this shading-board were fully 

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I am .just preparing my bees for wintering, 

 and find I have .ST colonies in good condition. 

 Bees have not gathered much honey this year, 

 and I never have seen bees as mean and angry 

 as they were this year. I suppose the chang- 

 able cold weather was the cause of it. 



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 and have received a great deal of valuable in- 

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St. Louis Co., Mo., Dec. 2. 



[A picture of Mr. Ansell's shade-board was 

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 an engraving. If he will send us a good one, 

 with full description, we will be glad to pub- 

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