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to roll cull. I never saw them in bet- 

 ter condition in chaff hives. I shall 

 lose 2 or .'i ont of those in single-walled 

 hives. Ueports are coniinR in from 

 farmers around here, that tiiey are 

 losing their bees with hives full of 

 honey. 

 Xew London, O. 



^^ We will organize a bee-keepers' 

 association at the Court House In 

 Franklin. Ind., at 10 a. m.. April 5, 

 1SS4. All bee-keepers are invited to 

 attend and take part in the organiza- 

 tion. L. R. Jackson. 



Urmeyville, Ind., Feb. i:6, 1884. 



^^ The annual meeting of the Xew 

 Jersey and Eastern Bee-Keepers' As- 

 sociation, for the election of oHicers 

 and other bnsluess, will be held in the 

 city of New York at Room 24, Cooper 

 Union, beginning Wednesday, March 

 12, at 10 a. m., and continuing two 

 days. J. Hasbrouck, iSec. 



1^" We have received a pamphlet 

 of 118 pases, entitled " Tea and Cof- 

 fee : Their Physical, Intellectual, and 

 Moral Effects on the Human System," 

 by Dr. A. Alcott, with notes and ad- 

 ditions by Nelson. Price 25 cents. 

 Fowler & Wells Publishers, 753 Broad- 

 way, New York. 





Bees Confined 102 Days. 



My bees have been in the cellar 102 

 days. The temperature was never 

 below 43-' or above 45-' after they be- 

 came settled. Feb. 4, diarrhoea ap- 

 peared in one colony ; to-day it is 

 alive, and as quiet as the others. A 

 year ago saw 2 dead and 20 afflicted ; 

 with the same preparation tor winter, 

 and temperature from 32^ to 40^. 



C. W. Dayton— 61. 



Bradford, Iowa, Feb. 22, 1884. 



That "Improved "Case. 



We have tried almost exactly the 

 same arrangement described by Mr. 

 Dibbern on page 1,33. We made cases 

 in many ways, testing each thoroughly, 

 covering a period ot over two years, 

 before adopting the one we previously 

 described in the Bee .Journal. 

 Much damage has been done by hast- 

 ily recommending untried fixtures. 

 We are very sure that if Mr. D. will 

 try 20 or 40 cases, just as we make 

 them, by the side of an equal number 

 of his, he will discard his "improve- 

 ments " the second year. There is no 

 trouble in getting the sections out of 

 our case. It is stronger, as we make 

 •it, than with his tin T, and can be 

 made cheaper. The tins are objec- 

 tionable on account of bending when 

 handling the cases empty, if they 

 strike against anything. The glass is 

 also very objectionable. The neces- 

 sitated outer case is more objection- 

 able than all else, besides adding ad- 



ditional expense. We wish to use no 

 separators under any consideration. 

 We do not glass our honey, but if we 

 did, we could glass two- thirds of the 

 sections without the use of separa- 

 tors. We do not use % spiice above 

 the sections, but scant Js- ^Ve have 

 had no trouble whatever with any 

 variation in the size of sections. 



Ja.mes IIeddon. 

 Dowagiac, iNIich. 



Small Honey Jars. 



To-day's mail brings you my price 

 list for 1884. I send you also per ex- 

 press, prepaid, a sample of our dime 

 and 1^ lb. honey jars, which I think, 

 will prove quite an acquisition to the 

 retail honey trade. The honey market 

 is still without life, and our terrible 

 flood had not a bit of beneficial effect 

 on the market. I \\;as fortunate enough 

 to be above the high water mark. 



ClIAS. F. MUTH. 

 Cincinnati, O., Feb. 20, 1884. 



[These small jars are quite attrac- 

 tive. The illustration shows the "dime 

 jar of honey," and is simply marked 



"Pure Honey." The half-pound jar 

 is of the same design, but is marked 

 " yi pound Pure Honey." If they are 

 not too expensive, they will add 

 greatly to the retail trade in extracted 

 honey. — Ed.] 



Old Foundation Freshened. 



In answer to many inquiries, we 

 wish to state that foundation from the 

 previous season, that has been kept 

 over winter and has become pale and 

 brittle, can be readily freshened by 

 exposing it for a minute to the sun's 

 rays in warm weather, or better yet, 

 by passing it over steam from a tea 

 kettle or "other boiler. It then be- 

 comes as malleable and fresh looking 

 as when fresh-made. If it is already 

 fastened in frames, it is superfluous 

 to anneal it thus, as the bees do this 

 same work themselves by their natural 

 heat and moisture, as soon as they 

 take possession of it. 



CiiAS. Dadant & Son. 



Hamilton, 111. 



Vocabulary of Bee-Keeping. 



If improper names and terms are 

 continually allowed to lind a place in 

 the bee papers, there will hardly be 

 any change for the better very soon. 

 Beginners and new subscribers nat- 

 urally adopt such terms as they read, 

 and hand them down to coming gen- 

 erations through their communica- 

 tions to the papers. AVould it not be 

 best, that the editors of the respective 

 papers strike out every incorrect term 

 from any communication sent in for 

 publication, and substitute the proper 

 term intended by the writer, before it 

 goes to press V In this way beginners 

 would read nothing but what was 

 right, and the old hands would grad- 

 ually forget the old and wrong terms. 



2. I would like to ask, what is the 

 proper name for the second story of a 

 two story hive? Here we call it 

 "cap." If that is not correct, we 

 ought to have some similarly brief 

 name for it, as " second story,"" upper 

 hive,"' or " top-box " are too long for 

 every day use, unless generally 

 adopted. Wm. Muth-Rasmu.ssen. 



Independence, Cal., Feb. 12, 1884. 



[It would be well for the Bee Papers 

 to do as suggested ; we have been try- 

 ing to do so, as much as possible, for 

 some years, but until a vocabulary is 

 settled upon, it will be diflicult to 

 make such corrections. 



2. We know of no better term than 

 " second story ;" the other terms are 

 unappropriate and incorrect. — Ed.] 



Bees Packed with Clover Chaff. 



I have passed through the log gum. 

 Are and brimstone period. I have al- 

 ways tried to keep about 100 colonies 

 over winter ; that number would keep 

 me busy in my young days, at swarm- 

 ing time. I am now in my 7oth year, 

 but I will not admit that I am an old 

 fogie. I take most of my honey in 

 one-pound sections ; extracting is too 

 much work for me. I increase my 

 bees now by dividing them. I winter 

 about one-half of my bees in a house, 

 on Mr. Jones' plan, but I only make 

 the walls 20 inches thick, for this 

 latitude ; the other half I winter on 

 the summer stands, with a box to 

 cover, allowing 2 inches of space be- 

 tween the boxes, which I pack with 

 clover chaff ; for an entrance for the 

 bees, I cut two pieces of 6-inch spout- 

 ing and put between the boxes, to 

 keep up the packing from the en- 

 trance, which is }i of an inch wide 

 and 12 inches long ; then I bore 2 half- 

 inch auger-holes, 2 inches above the 

 entrance, to give air, in case of ice. 

 This kind of entrance will give air 

 enough, and will keep out mice, which 

 are very destructive to bees in cold 

 weather. Our honey season ends with 

 the while clover, about .July 10. There 

 is an abundance of sweet clover on all 

 of our roadsides, for ten miles square, 

 and has been for the last 60 years ; 

 bees gather pollen from it, but no 

 honey. I have been a close observer 

 of bees, and know whereof I write. 

 James C. Wilson. 



New Concord, O. 



