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HoAV are your bees wintering? 



Neav-Yi:ak"s day — rain; very unusual. 



The American Bee J(>urnai>. in its new 

 form, is very neat. 



Newman is calling the roll of the dead or 

 missing bee-journals. 



Honey has 13 to 33 per cent — normally 18 to 

 21 per cent— of water: the rest is sugar. 



My intkoducino - cage beats Mclntyre's 

 when you get a queen from abroad, or take a 

 queen to an out-apiary. 



The British Bee Journal is a rather loose 

 affair. It is nev^er stitched together. It's not 

 loose in its views, though. 



McIntyre's inthoducing-cage is ahead of 

 mine for changing a queen from one hive to 

 another in the same apiary. 



Cyprians and Hoey-Lands are not much 

 talked about nowadays. Does any large honey- 

 producer use them exclusively ? 



Tea-eeaves kept in pans of water are rec- 

 ommended for drinking-places for bees, by W. 

 Woodley. in British Bee Journal. 



The index of the Aincrican Bee Journal 

 deserves commendation for giving with each 

 subject the name of the author. 



Dooi.iTTLE says. **If you wish a large yield of 

 section honey, keep prolific queens, and let the 

 brood-combs alone, after they are once filled 

 with brood in the spring." 



QuEENLEssNEss. according to Doolittle, in the 

 American Bee Journal, can never be detected 

 from the outside, if the bees have the means of 

 raising a queen. Thus the few things I thought 

 I knew about bees are diminishing in number. 



Bees in celears are always quieter — at least 

 mine are — just after a windy time, whether cold 

 or warm. A still, muggy time is worst. Don't 

 tell me cellars need no ventilation. 



Outside cases for wintering are among the 

 things that I meant to have tried this winter. 

 I'm " drefful "' anxious to know how those 28 at 

 Medina pull through the winter, if we have 

 any winter. 



"Stkay swarms'" is what "'Observer,'' in 

 Canadian Bee Journal, calls this page. He 

 says, "I venture the opinion that it will be an 

 interesting page." I always did think "Ob- 

 server" was venturesome, and lacking in judg- 

 ment. 



Bees hanging out can be made to '' go in and 

 attend to business, simply by the use of a smo- 

 ker," according to the A B C. I don't believe a 

 word of it. I tried it lots of times. They'll go 

 in, of course; but does it make any difference in 

 their work? 



Adulteration in Australia was deprecated 

 at a meeting of bee-keepers there, where it 

 was declared, ■• Large quantities of an article 

 labeled 'honey' are manufactured here, in 

 which there is not a fractional part of real hon- 

 ey — in some ca.ses none at all." 



British aveather has been unusually severe. 

 In England. Nov. 28, the thermometer 'marked 

 5 above zero — "twenty-seven degrees of frost," 

 as they call it — a very rare thing, and snow 

 covered the ground from two inches to two feet. 

 Tlie BritisJi Bee Journal says, "Indications 

 everywhere point to the probabilities of an ex- 

 ceptionally severe winter." 



Binders for Gleanings and other papers 

 I've thrown aside. When the year is up, I put 

 the numbers straight together and get some 

 one to hold them so, while I drive in, and entire- 

 ly through, three two-inch wire nails, at the 

 right place to stitch them together. Each nail 

 is drawn out just as I want to .>*ew the cord 

 through the hole ra ade by the nail. 



