THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Weather Predictions for 1883. 



Mr. Richard Mansill, of Rock Island, 

 111., has published a work called the 

 "Perilielia Crisis." In it we tind the j 

 following concerning the weather 

 from now until tlie end of next year. 

 Concering December, he remarks as 

 follows : 



Tlie world must expect to hear of 

 considerable wild earth disturbances 

 from about tlie 6th to the 14th of De- 

 cember of ttiis year, 1882, or at about 

 tlie time of Venus' transit, Dec. 6. 

 At its transit, Dec. 8, 1874, there oc- 

 curred a great storm on tlie Baltic sea, 

 that made a thousand people homeless; 

 many vessels and lives were lost on 

 the British coast on the 9th ; a severe 

 earthquake occurred atXew York and 

 along the Hudson on the 10th, and co- 

 inciuing willi these occurred tlie 

 breaking out of the volcanic ash 

 showers of Iceland. 



He gives the following predictions 

 for each month of the next year : 



January — the temperature is likely 

 to average above the mean of the sea- 

 son during January, both in Europe 

 and in the United "States— or between 

 latitudes 3.5 and 37 degrees north lati- 

 tude in the United States and parts of 

 Canada, and between latitudes 35 and 

 So degrees north latitude in Europe. 

 There may be sharp depression of 

 temperature between the 9th and 12th, 

 and between the 22d and 24th, together 

 with storms, and again about the 29th. 

 February — The temperature of Feb- 

 ruary is also likely to average a little 

 above the mean of the season— with 

 sharp depressions, perhaps below the 

 mean, from the 16th to the 12th, and 

 from the20tli to the 25th, accompanied 

 with severe snow storms in the more 

 northern districts, and heavy rains 

 and some lightning in southern sec- 

 tions. 



March— The temperature of March 

 is not expected to average above the 

 mean of the season, neither is it likely 

 to be ail unusually stormy month. It 

 will not probably run to great extremes 

 of temperature, either of elevations or 

 depressions. It may be somewhat 

 stormy from the 8th to the 12th, and 

 from about the 22d to the 2-5th. 



April— The temperature of April 

 will probably average below the mean 

 of the season. It will also be a more 

 stormy month than March, with eleva- 

 tions and depressions of temperature 

 greater than those of March, for the 

 season. 



May— The temperature for May will 

 probably average below the mean of 

 the season. It is not expected to be 

 quite as stormy a month as April. 



June — The temperature of the first 

 half of June will probably average 

 about the mean of the season, and the 

 last ten days below, with strong storms 

 between the 4tli and 9th. 



July— The temperature for July will 

 probably average considerably below 

 the mean of the season, both in Europe 

 and the United States. In fact, July 

 is expected to be the cold, stormy 



month for the season of 1883. as that 

 of May, 18S2, was (as pointed out by 

 this theory ) for that year. 



August— The temperature is also 

 likely to average below the mean of 

 the season during August, but per- 

 haps it will not be quite so stormy as 

 July. 



September— The temperature for 

 September will probably average a 

 little below the mean of the season in 

 the United States and Europe, though 

 the temperature should begin to im- 

 pi-ove toward the latter part of this 

 month. There should not be an ex- 

 cess of storms during this period. 



October— The temperature for Octo- 

 ber will likely average a little above 

 the mean of the season. The month 

 will be somewhat stormy, or more so 

 than September. 



November— The temperature will 

 likely average above the mean of the 

 season during November, in the 

 United States and Europe. The month 

 will have a full average of storms, but 

 not perhaps quite as many as October. 



December— The temperature for 

 December is likely to average con- 

 siderable above the mean of the sea- 

 son in the United States and Europe. 

 In fact, it is likely to be a pleasant 

 winter montli, with less than an 

 average of severe storms. 



We will probably have this year, 

 (1882) a warm autumn and mild win- 

 ter, on the average, continuing up to 

 the 1st of January. 



From the above monthly statements 

 or forecasts of the weather tempera- 

 ture of the year 1883, it may be said 

 that we are expecting to experience a 

 moderately mild winter (1882-3), fol- 

 lowed after March by a long, cool 

 spring and summer again during 1883 

 —while from this prospect it may be 

 inferred that a mild winter north and 

 south brings about a sort of an un- 

 usually early spring in southern lati- 

 tudes, or latitudes lying between 33 

 and 38 degrees in the United States. 



air for some time they arose up over 

 my house and started off. I did not 

 feel like giving them up in that quiet 

 manner and started after them. I had 

 two men at work for me who also 

 started in pursuit. We soon got left 

 behind but we kejit on in the direction 

 they had taken, as near as we couhl 

 through fields, pastures, meadows of 

 stout, wet grass, through brooks, 

 bushes, brush and mud until we came 

 to a large piece of woods, certainly a 

 mile and a half from home. We then 

 separated and began to hunt for the 

 bees, and after hunting a long time 

 one of the men heard them up over- 

 head, and we at last discovered them 

 clustered out on a limb of a rock maple 

 tree about fifty feet from the ground. 

 I then returned home and got a line, 

 saWj rope, etc., and prepared to hive 

 my bees. One man climbed the tree 

 with the ro|)e, passed it around the 

 limb the bees were on, and up through 

 another crotched one, dropping the 

 end down to the ground. I then took 

 hold of the rope while he sawed the 

 limb off and steadied it down as I 

 lowered away on the rope, and to my 

 gratification we soon had them in the 

 hive, where I let them remain until 

 evening when I took a hand with me 

 and went after them, bringing them 

 home lashed between two poles. 



Now, Ijustsavedmy swarmof bees, 

 but after spending three half days 

 work, besides part of the night, Icon- 

 eluded that it was rather an expensive 

 way of swarming bees and that an- 

 other year I would control the swarm- 

 ing myself. I had two more natural 

 swarms come off, which 1 hived with- 

 out any trouble, after which my bees 

 quit swarming for the season. My 

 bees gathered a good lot of honey and 

 were very strong in bees, so I thought 

 I would do a little swarming and 

 dividing myself, and from the seven 

 hives that I then had, I made four 

 more. 



Swarming ts. Dividing. 



Very often we have enquiries, ask- 

 ing our advice as to whether it will 

 pay better to divide, for increase, than 

 to trust to natural swarming; we, 

 invariably, answer by saying that it 

 saves time and money, itnd gives more 

 pleasure and profit to the bee-keeper 

 to divide for increase. We have just 

 noticed the experience of Mr. W. W. 

 Dunham, of North Paris, Me., as 

 given in Home Farm, and append it, 

 to illustrate in a practical way, the 

 points of pleasure and profit. He 

 says : 



On July 11, my firstswarmcame off, 

 at about seven o'clock in the morning, 

 and as it was so early in the day, it 

 was by the merest chance that wedis» 

 covered them. It was a nice large 

 swarm and I was on hand with all the 

 pride of a young bee-keeper, to hive 

 them, but after circling around in the 



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