-Sept. 7, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



573 



May G. 1S97. The main points are a brood- 

 nest of sufficient size, chaff protection for 

 broodnest and supers, against both cold 

 and excessive heat. I consider essential 

 that the supers should be protected, so as to 

 keep them warm during the night and thus 

 keep comb-building going on, day and 

 night. 



E. S. Lovesy— I use and prefer the Lang- 

 stroth hive. With all due modesty I have 

 to admit that I like our own make of super 

 the best ; it is a super that I adopted three 

 years ago. Myself, Mr. Bouck, Mr. Dudley, 

 and many others are using it here now. It 

 may have been used before, if so I did not 

 know it. It consists of separators and 

 double section-holders so arranged as to 

 completely box in all sections, thus keeping 

 tbem clean and free from travel-stain. 





A Good Report. 



I began in the spring with three colonies, 

 two fair ones, and one rather poor. I ex- 

 tracted honey from the two good ones, and 

 the third one I workt so that I got seven 

 small colonies out of it. I got in all 200 

 pounds of extracted honey, and have now 

 10 colonies. Joseph Mayek. 



Sheboygan Co., Wis., Aug. 31. 



Bee-Keepeps Discouraged. 



The honey crop in our locality is very 

 small this year. I have taken only 1,000 

 pounds of ccmb honey from the carload of 

 bees (100 colonies) that I brought here in 

 June, The bees have increast to 17.5 colo- 

 nies by natural swarming, and are in good 

 condition for winter. The fatality among 

 bees in this locality last winter and spring 

 I think was fully 90 percent, and bee-keep- 

 ers are discouraged. I. A. Tkavis. 



Wood Co., Wis., Aug. 21. 



Very Poor Season for Bees. 



My bees have stored no honey since Al- 

 sike clover bloom, and there is but little 

 hope of their getting winter stores. Span- 

 ish-needle, goldenrod and boneset — our 

 only show for fall honey — are all in bloom, 

 and I yet have to see the first bee on any of 

 it. S. W. Smiley. 



Lincoln Co., Mo., Aug. 2S. 



Hunting Bees in Trees. 



In giving my way of bee-hunting, on 

 page 499. I failed to give my method of 

 starting bees when they cannot be found 

 on flowers. First go to a place where you 

 think there are wild bees; build a fire, into 

 which throw stones, and when they are 

 heated take to the side of the woods where 

 the wind will take the smoke into the 

 woods. Then take three sticks of wood 

 about five feet long, and set them up in a 

 triangular form and place the bait on the 

 vertex; put the heated stones below the 

 bait, then drop some honey on the hot 

 stones, or sugar will do, and the fumes will 

 attract bees, if there are any in the vicin- 

 ity. 



I guarantee this method to catch them 

 every time. Samuel Varnes. 



Coshocton Co., Ohio. 



Too Wet and Too Dry. 



Editor YoitK:— I am a bee-keeper in a 

 small way, so I thought I would join your 

 throng of writers who have something to 

 say. Bees are not a success with us this 

 year. The early part of the season was too 

 wet, and now it is too dry; even the buck- 

 wheat is drying up, without giving the 

 poor bees half a chance. And as far as 

 many of my bees are concerned, they will 



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