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Close the entrance to about 4 inches. If 

 cellar-wintering is preferred, prepare as 

 stated above, and when the weather be- 

 comes cold, place them in the cellar and 

 cover with a board, which should be 

 raised three thirty-seconds of an inch, 

 and leave the entrance wide open. — Mrs. 

 J. N Heater. 



1. In answering this query, I answer 

 for this locality (Wis.). Other sections 

 might have had conditions different from 

 ours. But little honey was gathered in 

 this county, and that of poor quality. In 

 the summer of 1892, bees swarmed but 

 little, and a large per cent, of colonies 

 had old queens at the commencement of 

 winter. The winter commenced early, 

 and was long and severe. The spring 

 was the worst for bees of any that I 

 have seen in my experience. Many col- 

 onies that were in fair condition when 

 taken from the cellar died in April and 

 May. 2. Probably if Mourner would 

 take his bees to California, he would be 

 more successful in wintering ; and even 

 here, bees fed plenty of granulated sugar 

 stores for wintering, and fed early, have 

 wintered fairly well. — S. I. Freeborn. 



1. There are a great many things 

 about the wintering problem that seem 

 hardly understandable. But a long, 

 windy, cold winter seems to be the worst 

 enemy of out-door wintering. The past 

 winter has been a fatal one in some sec- 

 tions where the bees were thought to be 

 in good condition, and in other localities 

 where little or no attention was given 

 them they have come through in good 

 condition. This is one of the things we 

 cannot exactly understand. 2. But the 

 important thing is to have your colonies 

 just right — not too strong, with plenty of 

 good honey stores, and the hives warm. 

 If in the cellar, keep them warm and 

 dry, and you can do little or no more. A 

 certain amount, at least a third, of loss, 

 must be expected.— Will M. Barnum. 



1. I don't know. 2. Send me your 

 bees in the fall in good condition, and I 

 will insure you the same number in tip- 

 top condition the next spring, and 

 charge you only 50 cents per colony to 

 unload and put on board the cars. If 

 you have nor, a carload, get your neigh- 

 bors to go in with you. Who will ven- 

 ture? I think it will beat letting them 

 freeze to death, don't you ? I can care 

 for several thousand colonies, and would 

 like to sec this thing tried. I will un- 

 load ti>e bees, tak(i good care of them 

 all winter, and load them in the spring 

 for 50 cents per colony, and the freight 

 in carload lots ought not to be more than 

 ."iSI.OO per colony, as 300 or 400 single 



story hives will go into a large car, and 

 be taken off by the owners with but little 

 more trouble than to put them into and 

 out of the cellar. I have considerable 

 experience in shipping bees in carload 

 lots. I want to go to the bee-convention 

 in Chicago, in October, and if there is a 

 bee-keeper there that wishes to try the 

 scheme, I will make a contract with 

 him. — Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



[For years, bee-keepers have felt that they 

 owed the Kev. L. L. Laugstroth— the Father 

 of American bee-culture— a debt that they 

 can never very well pay, for his inventiou of 

 the Movable-Frame Hive which so completely 

 revolutionized bee-keeping throughout all the 

 world. In order that his few remaining years 

 may be made as happy aud as comfortable as 

 possible, we feel that we should undertake a 

 plan by which those bee-keepers who consider 

 it a privilege as well as a duty, might have an 

 opportunity to contribute something toward 

 a fund that should be gathered and forwarded 

 to Father Langstroth as a slight token of their 

 appreciation, and regard felt for him by bee- 

 keepers everj'where. No amount above $1.00 

 is expected from any person at one time— but 

 any sum, however large or small, we will of 

 course receive and turn over to Father L. 

 All receipts will be acknowledged here.— Ed. 1 



Ivist of Contributors. 



Previously Reported .^18 90 



Austin Reynolds, Cataract, Wis .50 



Wm. C. Wolcott, Eldorado, Wis 1 00 



R. E. L. Peck, Rockwall, Tex 25 



Total $30 65 



CoiiTentiou IlIotice««. 



INTERNATIONAL.-The North American 

 Bee-Keepers' Association will hold its 24th 

 annual convention on Oct. 11. 12 and 13. 180;i. 

 in Chicago, Ills. Not only is every bee-keeper 

 in America, whether a member of the society 

 or not. invited to bo present, but a special in- 

 vitation is extended to friends of apiculture 

 it every foreign land, Frank Bknton. Sec. 



Washington, D. C. 



NEBRASKA.— The yearly meeting of the 

 Nebraska State Bee-Keepers' Association will 

 be iield at Lincoln, Neb., on Wednesday and 

 Thursday evenings. Sept. IJithand 14th, 189.'j. 

 This will be held in connection with our State 

 Fair, and we would be pleased to have Eastern 

 visitors meet with us. One-way excur- 

 sion rates will be given on all railroads from 

 Chicago to l-incoln. at tliat, time. Let every 

 bco-keoper call and get acquinted with the 

 Nebraska honey - producers, whose iiead- 

 quarters are always open. 



York, Nebr. L. D. Stilson, Sec. 



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