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much, but wet salt destroys the ant 

 larvas and eggs, and ants will not 

 lodge in a place where they cannot 

 rear young.— G. W. Demaiiee. 



Get an atomizer and spray them 

 with equal parts of carbolic acid and 

 alcohol. This is a certain remedy 

 and will do no harm if it does not 

 reach the bees. In cool weather long 

 strings of srilall red ants may be often 

 seen entering hives, but they do little 

 harm as compared with the little, flat- 

 bodied black ant, which is a real pest, 

 and makes a habitation of the top 

 part of the hive.— G. L. Tinker. 



If the ants actually trouble the bees 

 place the legs of the hive-stands in 

 cups of water, and sprinkle powdered 

 borax in the tops of the hives. Find 

 the ants' nests and give them a dose 

 of borax or kerosene. I have driven 

 ants away by the use of borax. If 

 the colonies are strong they will not 

 be injured by the ants, and will prob- 

 ably drive them out finally.— .J. E. 

 Pond. 



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For the American Bee Journal. 



Winter Denositories for Bees. 



C. p. HEWEIT. 



I do not consider a cellar under a 

 dwelling a fit place for a depository 

 for wintering bees. They do not get 

 that quiet that they should have. 

 !N either do I think that ventilation is 

 as essential as other conditions and 

 surroundings— such as cold, dampness 

 from the cellar bottom and walls, and 

 the floor is not suflicient covering to 

 give them the dry temperature that 

 they should have. Ventilation of the 

 hives is quite important. One may 

 have the best depository in the world 

 and yet the bees may be destroyed by 

 not giving the hives proper ventila- 

 tion. Artificial heat is the worst 

 thing that can be given them. A de- 

 pository should be out of reach of 

 frost, and then with good ventilation, 

 the temperature may be controlled 

 almost to a degree. 



As for stores, I cannot see any dif- 

 ference — I am using syrups iu some 

 of my hives. My depository is in a 

 sandy knoll. I dug three feet and set 

 in a regular frame and boarded it up 

 tight. This frame I made five feet in 

 height with a gabled-roof. I then 

 covered it with straw and earth one 

 foot in depth, then covered that with 

 marsh grass. I put two ventilators 

 4x(> inside, one at the end from the 

 door and one eight feet from the door; 

 this place is 8x24. I then put in a 

 ventilator coming in at the bottom 

 under the frame. This ventilator 

 comes under the door and runs under 

 the ground about sixty feet, and is 

 four feet under ground, 4x6 inside. It 

 continues in the shape of a drum the 

 whole length of cellar, and after put- 

 ting my bees in. I cover this with 

 loose boards and then cover the whole 

 bottom with chaff one foot in depth, 

 so what air comes through into the 

 cellar comes through this chaff. 



My hives are on shelves, and are so 

 constructed that air can pass clear 

 around the cluster, but not through it, 

 and pass out at each corner through 

 the top of the hive. I use no cusn- 

 ions ; I have no use for them. 



I venture to say that there was not 

 one pint of dead bees from my 74 

 colonies. When I open the door it is 



very light and strikes square into 

 some of the hives, and one might 

 easily think that there was not a liv- 

 ing bee in the hives, they are so quiet, 

 but upon putting the ear to the liives 

 and giving them a tap with a linger 

 they would respond. 



A neighbor who had a few colonies 

 in with mine, went in with me on 

 January 15, to see how they got along. 

 The Urst hive he came to he said, " I 

 guess they are dead." He put his ear 

 to the hive and gave it a tap and 

 found they were alive and all right. 



In order to get hibernation, all con- 

 ditions must be complied with to 

 bring it about. November is the 

 month for bees to commence hiber- 

 nating in this latitude, as much as 

 June is the summer month. A word 

 about pollen. If bees are put into 

 winter quarters and the condition of 

 the depository is such that they can- 

 not hibernate (or nearly so), and they 

 go on a racket all winter, I think then 

 it would be a good plan to have no 

 pollen in the hives ; but if they are so 

 handled that they hibernate, then I 

 would prefer the pollen in the hives. 

 There should be bees enough in the 

 depository so that when the ventila- 

 tors are closed the temperature would 

 gradually rise, or the ventilators 

 would be of no use. Hibernation 

 does not set in very rapidly ; some- 

 times it will take weeks, with the 

 best conditions, but continual treat- 

 ment will bring it about. The time 

 is coming when apiarists will look 

 into this matter. A depository in 

 which bees will not hibernate will be 

 a thing of the past. 



Kingston, Wis. 



For the American Bee Jom^ial. 



"BiiMM Worier-Coml]," etc. 



Vf. Z. HUTCHINSON. 



Had Mr. Mitchell (see page 410) put 

 on upper stories at the time of hiving, 

 instead of waiting six or seven days, 

 he would probably have arrived at a 

 different conclusion. The upper 

 stories should be furnished with 

 combs or foundation, and a queen- 

 excluding honey-board used to keep 

 the queen below. The "replies to 

 queries" are necessarily brief, but 

 had I supposed that anybody waited 

 six or seven days after hiving a swarm 

 before putting on supers, I should 

 have explained a little more fully. If 

 Mr. M. has the Bee Journal for 

 1884, on page 74-5 of that volume he 

 will find the subject treated exhaust- 

 ively. 



I may say this much, however, when 

 honey is coming in freely, and the 

 bees are compelled to build comb In 

 which to store their honei/ (not to rear 

 brood) they will build store or drone 

 comb ; but if they are given access to 

 a super containing comb or founda- 

 tion they will store their honey there, 

 while in the brood-nest they will build 

 worker-comb and fill it with brood. 



Mr. Mitchell reports exactly the con- 

 dition of things that I should haveex- 

 peeted with such management as he 

 gave. 



