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liere, with a damp atmosphere, it will 

 not flo to let them be covered up in 

 snow as they do in the west. We put 

 38 colonies in the cellar on November 

 15, and took them out May 3. They 

 were»contined 109 days ; 4 wer^ead; 

 2 of them starved witli plenty of 

 honey on the outside combs, the mat 

 laid close down on the frames. I did 

 not cut holes in the combs ; 2 had 

 ■dvseutery, and several showed signs 

 ■of it. Some of them were stronger 

 wlien they came out, than when they 

 went in. Others were weak ; all had 

 plenty of honey. Since putting them 

 •out, 2 more have died, and we doubled 

 up two more ; most of them had 

 brood, and some liad frames, capped 

 over. They are bringing in pollen, 

 but it is very cold and windy. Our 

 •cellar is under the house we live in ; 

 the thermometer stood at 36 ' to 40-; 

 tlie hives were put up over the pota- 

 toes ; some of them were as bright as 

 they were last fall. We think that 

 the cellar was too cold. We put a 

 small stove in, to dry out the moisture. 

 We had a pipe under ground to let in 

 air, some 60 feet from the house, 

 l)elow the frost. The bees were in 

 Root's Simplicity hives, with the bot- 

 tom board up-side-down, with half- 

 inch opening ; burlap mat to cover the 

 frames ; cover up-side down. The 

 bees in the cellars came out strong 

 and better than last year. The bees 

 that were wintered out on the sum- 

 mer stands in summer hives are all 

 ■dead. JAS. H. Tilley & Bros. 



Castle Hill, Me., May 14, 1883. 



Will they Rear a (Jiieeu 1 



I liave a light colony that became 

 queenless a week ago ; I shall unite it 

 to another. 



1. If I give the queenless colony 

 brood with eggs and larvae, or if they 

 have it already, will they rear a queen 

 before drones have appeared i* 



2. If I give them a frame of brood 

 with eggs, larvse, and filled drone 

 comb, will they rear a queen V 



3. Will a colony rear a queen when 

 its own hive contains neither drones 

 nor drone comb, but when drones i^re 

 in other colonies near V 



4. In forming a nucleus, is it neces- 

 sary to place drone combs in the nu- 

 cleus hive ? Chas. F. Willcott. 



Exira, Iowa, May 5, 1883. 



[If you have no prospect for getting 

 a queen soon, it will be better to unite 

 the queenless colony with any other 

 weak one having a queen. 



1. Drones will be on hand by the 

 time the bees have reared a queen. 

 Many have them now. 



2. Of course they will immediately 

 rear a queen, if you give them the 

 means of doing so. 



3. Yes. 



4. No.— Ed.] 



have taken the Held yet, which is 8 

 months and 10 days ; therefore I will 

 not be very uneasy after this if I do 

 not get any breeding in September. 

 My Italians will be ready for the 

 honey flow, if we get fair weather. 

 They are not so nervous as blacks, 

 and pull through bad weather better. 

 I have tested the two distinct races 

 pretty well, and can give their pedi- 

 gree any time. I kept a standing 

 offer, last year, of $5 for any person 

 being attacked with an Italian bee ; 

 if it had been in favor of the blacks, 

 I should soon have been in poverty. 

 To explain the above, we got no fall 

 crop here,and the way I fed up was on 6 

 frames; there was no breeding; neither 

 could be. I was afraid, but appar- 

 ently without cause. 



Chakles Mitchkll. 

 Molesworth, Ont.. May 12, 1883. 



Backward Spring iu Maine. 



Four Indies of snow fell here to- 

 day. It has been one of the most 

 backward springs that we have had 

 for a long time. My bees are quite 

 vveak, owing to the cold backward 

 spring. G. W. Dunbar. 



North Anson, Me., May 1.5, 1883. 



1^ The Marshall County Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association meets at !Marshall- 

 town, Iowa, Saturday, May 26, at 10..30 

 A. M, The place of meeting is at the 

 Sherilt's office. Subject for discussion: 

 "Summer Care." The meeting of 

 March 24th was one of much interest. 

 Five new members were admitted 

 into the Society. All present seemed 

 to realize it was "'good to be there '' 

 and the general feeling was to build 

 up a good first-class society. 



J. Sanders, Sec. 



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