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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 17, 



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56 Fiftli Avenue, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Qet;)eral Itenjs^ 



Honey-Flow All Right. 



The other day I went out into the coun- 

 try to find some beekeepers. I found a Mr. 

 Stauffer, who has had bee.s for 40 years. He 

 said be had 24 colonies of bees now, but 

 used to have 00 in Simplicity hives. He 

 said he could not sell bis honey. I have got 

 Hi colonies now, and can sell my honey, so 

 I bought a little of him. The honey-flow 

 here was all right last summer. 



I am very much pleased with the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, and read it before any 

 other paper that comes to my house. 



NiEi.s N. Ali.ino. 

 Perth Amboy, N. J., Dec. 24. 



Bees in Oood Condition for Winter. 



Bees were a failure this year. I had 90 

 colonies, and got 2.5 pounds of surplus 

 honey. The bees have plenty of honey to 

 winter on, and are in good condition, with 

 plenty of young bees. D. C. McLeod. 



Pana, 111., Deo. 37. 



A Method of Wintering Bees. 



I had 25 colonies which I wintered last 

 winter, and they gave me 3.00(J pounds of 

 honey, which I think was a fair amount. I 

 have not lost a colony of bees in wintering 

 for the last two winters. I have a new way 

 of wintering, which I think beats all. Those 

 successful bee-men are not going to tell all 

 they know about the successful, all-the-year- 

 around management of bees. This fact I 

 do know : What I know I have gotten from 



this one and that one. and put it all to- 

 gether. I think I have the right way. 



Now my bees came out very strong last 

 spring. They flew and brought back pollen 

 when the thermometer marked 40 degrees. 

 Who can beat that '. 



My bees are bred from the native, best of 

 blacks. I am sure that bee-paralysis comes 

 from poor, weak, yellow queens that are 

 "forced," or as I call them, "hot-bed 

 queens." 



Sugar is the very best to winter bees on, 

 as there is far more oxygen in it than there 

 is in the honey. 



My frames are Ifiixllj^ inches, outside 

 measure, standing frames. The hive is 

 14x20 inches, outside measure, 12 inches 

 high, %-inch top and bottom bar. I can 

 have 1 to 11 frames, with the division-board 

 crowded from behind. For wintering they 

 are surrounded by I'.j inches of sawdust, 

 and 3 inches in front, with the hive shoved 

 back against the outside case, with a bridge 

 in front for the bees to crawl under and 

 get outside. Back of the division-board is 

 a cushion of chaff. Sealed covers, and 10 

 to 12 inches of sawdust are on top of that. 

 This is a hive for wintering. They are all 

 packed in a clamp, with 1 foot of straw on 

 the back, and a roof that will shed rain. 

 Bees packed in this way will have access to 

 every part of the hive in almost any 

 weather, and will live, provided they have 

 enough stores to last until they can get 

 something in the spring. 



Dr. W. a. Hammond. 



Madison, N Y., Dec. 27. 



Study Up and Work XTp. 



1 cannot do without the American Bee 

 Journal. I have the greatest hopes for 

 next summer. X am preparing for it now, 

 and shall have everytljing ready and up to 

 the times. That is the reason I send for 

 the American Bee Journal. Do you not 

 think so. Mr. Editor ? I think I hear you 

 say, "Yes, study up, and work up, for the 

 harvest while you have time." Yes, sir-ree. 

 long live the American Bee Journal to tell 

 us the new things and kinks, that we may 

 keep a bee line. Fred Card. 



Burns, Mich. 



Bee-Keeping in Manitoba. 



In these columns, not long ago, I boasted 

 of being located the farthest north of any 

 bee-keeper, and solicited correspondence 

 with any one (if there was one) as far, or 

 farther, north. Soon after, I received a 

 letter from a bee-keeper in Manitoba — 250 

 miles north of here — who has kept bees 

 there for three years. Last spring he took 

 15 colonies out of the cellar, and increased 

 to 24 colonies, took 1.100 pounds of honey, 

 and they went into winter quarters with 

 plenty of stores. He takes them into the 

 cellar about Nov. 10, and carries them out 

 on May 1. He gets 25 cents a pound for 

 section honey, and 15 cents for extracted. 

 He takes the American Bee Journal. 



1 should be glad to hear from others up 

 north. Mrs. Mate Williams. 



Nimrod, Minn., Jan. 1. 



The Season of 1894. 



It was the driest in this section ever 

 known. The season opened beautifully; 

 the soft maples and box-elders bloomed in 

 February, and the apples and cherries com- 

 menced to bloom on March 27. The weather 

 continued fine up to about the middle of 

 May, when it froze all the sets in many of 

 the orchards, and then it turned dry and 

 continued so up to June 10, when we had a 

 fine rain ; but it came out so hot after it, 

 that it did very little good, so far as a yield 

 of honey was concerned. So the bees just 

 lived from hand to mouth, as it were, the 

 rest of the season. 



During July, August, and the forepart of 

 September, my bees lived almost altogether 

 on pollen from squash and melon vines, 

 and rotten apple juice. They have aver- 

 aged three pounds per colony, and even 



