80 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. Apr 



low hive the stores of liouey -some- "Bee Paper^j— 'The regulatiou b 



times become divided, and while there journal of today has simmered dov 



may be an ample supply of houey in to the discussion of "When to put < 



one' end of the frame>s, the cluster of supers.'' Thus, the American Be 



bees may be at the other end, and the Keeper, Editor Hill, sighs for the da 



temperature being so low the bees are of "the Stingle«ss Bee Association 



unable to move, and therefore starve. America," with its 10-dollar «ubscri 



In the deep frame, the honey is always tion to give the promoter a trip 



above, and consequently acces-sible. Brazil. 1 should like to become a pi 



2. — Mice often "play havoc" with moter of such an association here, bi 



brood combs during the winter. They failing that, 1 don't oliject to be tc 



cause the honey to run and may seri- when to put on supers.'* 



ously injure a colony in Avinter quar- Editor Digges leaves it open to cc 



ters. If beas are in mice-infested re- jecture as to whether he would e-stn 



pository it is well to screen the en- ijgjj ^^^ Spygla.ss in some one of t 



trances to exclude them. many "Bee-keepers' Paradises" 



3— Tin fastened over the hive in which we read, or whether he woi 



winter would be a very detrimental ^g,jj| ^jjjjj ^^ Helena, INIontana. but 



arrangement. Slight upward ventila- eommits himself to some extent, as f 



tion. with some good absorbent over jQ^y.^. 



the hive is much better, for obvious »^g gj^jjii gladly subscribe to yc 



reasons.— Editor. association, if you allow us to fix yc 



destination! H. E. Hill is nothing if i ,,, 



THIS IS FUNNY. original. Give him a nice, fresh gho 



Mon-istown. N. .1., March 22. — Ow- and a 'punic,' and he will serve you 



ing to the very severe Winter many something more startling than mt 



colonies of bees have been extermin- supering. Beyond a doubt, the si 



ated, with the result that honey will be mering down procesis needs watchin: 



scarce and high this summer. Willis 



Andrew, who lives at Lamington, uwTr> orkP 't?at rt? ii- " 



thought he would take a look at his ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^-^• 



colonies on :ylondav, and out of twen- Some time ago we encountered i 

 ty-four hives he found but five liv- following inspiration (?) m a ^ irgi 

 iiig bees. He estimates that he lost at farm paper: 



least 100,000 bees bv the cold weather. "Honey Bees Outdone.— We got 

 They were not killed bv the cold, but beat! Our formula makes fine. h( 

 the honey on which thev depended for thy honey for T^ cents a pound. Foi 

 subsistence had remained .so solidly nla and complete directions mai 

 frozen during the cold weather that free for 20 cents, or free if you s( 

 the bees ^stal•ved to death. -^0 cents for the Inland one year. Mf 



The warm rain yesterday took off a fortune manufacturing this hon 

 the last of the snow, which has been put in glass tumblers. You can dou 

 on the ground in some parts of the your money and still undersell, 

 country continuously for 112 days. At others. Address Inland Review 

 the German Valley Inn a weather rec- somewhere out in Ohio, 

 ord hasS been kept daily for the past They say fortune knocks but once 

 1!)4 years, and the record of this win- jmy man's door; and as the wi'iter I 

 ter -shows that the average tempera- been patiently waiting for. going 

 ture has been lower than at any time ,s;e^•enty-six years for the cheery r 

 since ITOP,, although the snowfall was a-tap-tap of Dame Fortune's knucb 

 not as great as some years of the early niton his cabin door, he was not si 

 part of the nuineteenth century. — Ex. to recognize in this appeal a courtet 



invitation to become almost immt 



IRISH WIT. ately very wealthy. It was like h. 



We have referred before to the uni- ing two or thi-ee state and natlo: 

 que department of "A Spyglass," in banks placed in one's stocking 

 the Irish Bee .Tournal. and the spiei- rhristma-s time. And all so sudd 

 ne.s-s of the editorials which character- Visions of stately marble halls, an 

 ize this sprightlv and interesting mobiles, steam yachts, landed esta 

 journal. In the March number "A Spy- stretching away to the horizon a 

 "lass" comments thus: cattle upon a thousand hills, sped 



