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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



is lacking to-day is the bees, and they 

 are fast being reared to stock our vast 

 territory. Mark you, 10 years hence, 

 Texas will produce more honey than any 

 other State in the Union. Now, you may 

 think that this is a broad assertion, but 

 if you only knew of the many apiaries 

 now numbering their colonies by the 

 thousands, and rapidly on the increase, 

 but they are saying nothing about it. 

 Why, Mr. Eich, bees will gather more 

 honey in Texas than they can possibly 

 gather in Iowa. Jennie Atchley. 



Another California Honey Report. 



Mrs. Atchley : — The season here is 

 just about at a close, as far as further 

 extracting is concerned. The yield 

 was only 16 tons from 135 colonies, or 

 about 240 pounds per colony. The in- 

 crease was 85, or to 220 colonies, all 

 told. The best colony gathered about 

 600 pounds of surplus honey, and would 

 have made a good record had they not 

 been broken up to get queens from. 



A. F. Unterkircher. 



Redlands, Calif., Aug. 11, 1893. 



Experience with a Queen in the Mails. 



Mrs. Atchley : — I recently ordered a 

 queen, but she was not in my post-office 

 box ; but as I left the office, the post- 

 master called me and showed me the 

 queen-box, which was broken and split 

 in two pieces, and of course empty. The 

 postmaster said they had not seen any 

 bees or queens. I asked to see the empty 

 mail-sacks, and succeeded in finding one 

 worker-bee. We concluded that our 

 name was Dennis this time, and started 

 to leave the office, when close to the 

 door, where a crowd of people were 

 standing but a moment before, I saw the 

 queen on the floor, and I picked her 

 up, hastened home with her in my 

 liand, and placed her on the frames of 

 the hive I wished to introduce her to, 

 and I think successfully. It seems to 

 me this is rather rough usage for a 

 queen to survive. J. L. Bowdish. 



Oxford, Kans., Aug. 21, 1893. 



Honey as Foo«l and Medicine is 



just the thing so help sell honey, as it shows 

 the various ways in which honey may be 

 used as a food and as a medicine. Try 100 

 copies of it, and see what good 'sales- 

 men " they are. See the third page of this 

 number of the Bkr Journal for description 

 and prices. 



Causes of Winter Losses — Hotv 

 to Prevent Them. 



Query 887.— 1. What are the principal 

 reasons for heavy losses of bees in a winter 

 like the last one ? 2. Can you sug'g'est any- 

 thing to insure safe wintering of bees, so that 

 losses in wintering would be the exception in- 

 stead of the rule ? — A Mourner. 



1. Poor food, and severe winters. 2. 

 Good food, and a good cellar, or thor- 

 ough packing will ensure success. — A. 

 J. Cook. 



1. Extreme cold and long confine- 

 ment. 2. A dry cellar, with a uniform 

 temperature of from 40° to 45°. — J. M. 

 Hambaugh. 



1. Want of good food. Too long con- 

 finement by reason of cold weather, and 

 too much dampness. 2. Reverse the 

 above conditions. — E. France. 



1. I think the reasons are light stores 

 or long-continued cold. In the cellar I 

 only lost the light colonies. 2. Keep 

 them in the cellar. — J as. A. Stone. 



This space is limited. It will require 

 a long article to give any principal rea- 

 son. We could suggest several methods, 

 but space forbids. — H. D. Cutting. 



1. May be cold and long-continued 

 confinement. 2. In cold places, keep 

 them in a specially prepared cave, or in 

 a cellar with fire, if too cold without fire. 

 — 0. C. Miller. 



1. Quantity and quality of stores are 

 deficient, or the cellars are unfit to win- 

 ter bees. 2. Better care and more out- 

 door wintering in double-walled hives. — 

 J. H. Larrabee. 



1. Severe cold for a long time without 

 a let up, for bees to fly, or shift on their 

 combs. 2. Dampness and lack of venti- 

 lation. 8. Insufficient and poor food. — 



C. H. DiBBERN. 



1. The overloading of the intestines 

 by the use of nitrogenous food, such as 

 bee-bread, at a time when the bees have 

 no opportunity to take a flight for the 

 purpose of emptying themselves. 2. 



