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Notes from Western Iowa, 



This section of the country enjoyed a 

 very warm, dry autumn up to Thanksgiv- 

 ing Day, and since then we have had solid 

 winter weather. To-day there is five or six 

 inches of snow, and still snowing. Bees 

 went into winter quarters in good condi- 

 tion, with plenty of stores. 



I found the 10-frame hives very little 

 heavier than the S-frame ones, tho the 10- 

 frame hives seemed to have the most bees. 

 The yellower the bees, the heavier the 

 brood-chamber, with me. I find the strong, 

 cross colonies of hybrids very hard to get 

 into the cellar, where one leaves the bot- 

 tom-board off. I have carried them and 

 set them carefully close to the cellar door, 

 loosened the hive from the bottom, and let 

 it set two or three hours, then carefully lift 

 off" the bottom without any jar whatever, 

 and still they would roll out all the way 

 down cellar and till the cellar was dark- 

 ened. But they generally came out strong 

 in the spring. I suspect a hundred or two 

 make a pretty big show in the air, but are 

 not enough to weaken the colony to any 

 harmful extent. 



I shall respectfully beg leave to use the 

 8-frame hives unless future experience dif- 

 fers from the past in regard to swarming, 

 in which I could see no difference. The S- 

 frame size is heavy enough for me when it 

 comes to stacking them up in the cellar. 



I find the "home market'' has its off 

 years, as well as everything else. Two or 

 three years ago I was wishing for honey to 

 sell at IS and 20 cents per pound, but now 

 the home market is 10 cents, and nobody 

 wants honey, either. If I should have pusht 

 all my crop on the home market, in addi- 

 tion to what was already bound to sell 

 there, it would have been less than 10 cents. 



Bee-keepers are the only class I know of 

 who are always urging others into their 

 business. I have noticed those who are al- 

 ways booming the bee-business as the best 

 paying thing on earth, always have some- 

 thing to sell to the prospective beginner. I 

 have the same motive in not wanting so 

 many to go in. So you see I don't claim to 

 be "holier than thou." Let bee-keepers 

 beware lest in inducing their neighbors to 

 keep bees, and educating them in the busi- 

 ness, they destroy their own. "He that 

 provides, not for his own is worse than an 

 infidel." E. S. Miles. 



Crawford Co., Iowa, Dec. 3. 



A Beginner's Experience ■with Bees. 



I think I saw a little instance of late 

 which I have not seen explained in the 

 valuable Bee Journal — valuable because I 

 would not sell the information I have ob- 

 tained through its columns, since I sub- 

 scribed for it in September, for four times 

 the subscription price. 



Bees will go a long way to sting me when 

 a good chance is open, but I am such a 

 lover of honey that I always thought if I 

 ever got a chance to catch a swarm I would 

 try it, and May 10 I got the chance, and 

 with the aid of a visitor (an old bee-man) a 

 box was made and the bees successfully 

 gathered in. They staid and workt. of 

 course. As I then had a colony of my own. 

 I got bee-crazy at once, and closely eyed 

 every paper and askt every man where I 

 saw a bee-hive, for information. 



Being unusually busy the past summer, I 

 did not disturb the bees until in August, 

 when I got a hive with instructions to get 

 my bees iiito it; as it had movable frames, 

 I could examine them at will. I came 

 home, got ready, and the next morning I 

 went at it. 



I gave up smoking before I had the habit 

 fairly learned, but of course it was all right 

 to do anything to help the bees! So I 

 bunted up an old keepsake pipe and home- 



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