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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 23, 1899. 



one 46 pounds. The Italians and hybrids 

 ran from 40 down to 27 pounds. 

 [; It is very difficult to find one of the native 

 queens. The bees rush over the sides and 

 out at the entrance as soon as I open the 

 hive and give them a little smoke, and I 

 think the queen goes with them. It is good 

 of them to do this at extractingtime, but 

 they seem to do be.-t at comb honey. It 

 may be that they steal the most of what 

 they get. as they are bad robbers. They 

 can do a big day's thieving when it is so 

 wet and cool that the yellow bees will be 

 lying around on the sidewalks, chilled. I 

 am beginning to think there is no bee that 

 equals the old natives for this climate. 



T. R. WOODARII. 



Riobmand Co., Quebec. 



Last Season Disappointing. 



Many of us in this part of the world 

 (northwestern Pennsylvania) were disap- 

 pointed in not getting a large yield of 

 honey the past season, notwithstanding the 

 prospects were very bright last spring up 

 to white clover bloom. Many of our bee- 

 keepers got no yield of clover honey, and a 

 few got fair yields. My apiary averaged 

 about 30 pounds per colony, one-half white 

 honey, which sold at 12 cents, wholesale. 



We are afraid our bees will get the grip, 

 as well as the rest of us, for the unsteady 

 weather cannot be good for them — at zero 

 or below one day. and 40 or 50 above the 

 next day Is certainly not encouraging 

 weather. Bees seem to be all right so far. 

 Geo. Spitler. 



Crawford Co., Pa., Jan. 10. 



Nopthepn Honey Not Granulated. 



Dr. Miller says all extracted honey that 

 does not granulate may be lookt upon with 

 suspicion, yet I have some extrated honey 

 that has been all winter where the temper- 

 ature has not been above 40 degrees, and 

 has been down as low as freezing for a week 

 at a time, and the honey is all right now. 

 Perhaps New Hampshire honey is an ex- 

 ception. James Quinn. 



Strafford Co., N. H. 



An Expepienee— Things Learned. 



My past season's experience convinced 

 me more strongly than ever that I don't 

 know much about bees. When I reacht 

 New Hampshire, the middle of April. I 

 found my five colonies packt in chaff cases 

 had wintered so strong, and were working 

 so fine, I felt like crowing long and loud, 

 but like the goose of a rooster I was I never 

 opened a hive until near the opening of 

 apple-bloom, when to my surprise they 

 were building queen-cells and about ready 

 to swarm. I could not stay with them and 

 hive swarms, could not consult Dr. Miller, 

 as I had only five minutes to find out what 

 to do. Well. I had to use something I call 

 judgment, tho I did not have any — if I had, 

 I should have lookt after the bees in time. 

 It was a poor season. I learned a few 

 things. 



One colony of Italians made progress all 

 through the season, and when they had 

 three stories full and sealed, I could ex- 

 change for empty combs from other hives 

 and thus give the Italians room. 



I secured one swarm, increast by the 

 nucleus plan to 15, and packt them all up in 

 chaff cases of my own make. Most of them 

 were in two stories of S-frame hives. 



I reacht Florida Nov. 1, and found 19 col- 

 onies alive out of 2.t here. The fall fiow 

 was nearly over. I hurried through them, 

 extracting four frames from each hive, and 

 they nearly filled them again. I secured 

 four colonies from trees in the woods. 



I have learned that a wired frame with a 

 starter put in the brood-nest, the new comb 

 will be brought down over the wire all 

 right. 



I have learned that when a nucleus is 

 left in one side of a hive behind a division- 

 board, the balance filled out with frames 

 and starters, the bees will cross the divl- 



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