1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Boot's dovetailed hives, with supers, sec- 

 tions, etc., for comb honey. Well, I paid 

 him $20 for the whole outfit, and got a new 

 "ABC of Bee-Culture," a new smoker, 

 veil, etc., "to boot." I then transferred 

 th* 8 colonies in box-hives into Root's hives, 

 and got 280 pounds of nice extracted honey 

 — I mean extracted the old way ; and the 6 

 swarms stored over 100 pounds of fine sec- 

 tion honey, besides I extracted some from 

 the brood-chambers. The bees are all alive 

 yet, and will go through safe, if there 

 doesn't come too much more cold weather. 



My entire crop, after paying one-half the 

 honey stored by the bees I took on shares, 

 was 1,500 pounds, and I now have 37 colo- 

 nies in good condition. C. H. Coleman. 



Shawanee. Tenn., Jan. 23. 



Snow and Cold Weather. 



Bees are in good condition up to date. 

 We are having snow and cold weather. It 

 is 15 degrees below zero. Chas. Rinck. 



W. Alexandria, Ohio, Feb. 6. 



Honey from Sluskmelon Bloom. 



I have 13 colonies of bees now. I had IT 

 last spring. The wind blew so hot July 26, 

 that the combs fell to the bottom of the 

 hive and killed several colonies. I had only 

 two swarms last season. This is a great 

 seed country. I think our bees gather as 

 much honey from the muskmelons as any 

 one plant we have, as they have fresh blos- 

 soms every morning. If some of the bee- 

 keepers would try one-half acre for an ex- 

 periment. I think it would be very profit- 

 able, as the melons are very good feed for 

 milch cows, it no other use can be made of 

 them. F. E. Lockwood. 



Waterloo, Nebr., Jan. 30. 



Cold Winter— Bees Doing Well. 



We are having a very cold winter, with 

 more snow than we have had any winter 

 for several years, but my bees seem to be 

 doing very well. I have not lost a colony 

 so far. W. S. Feeback. 



Carlisle, Ky., Feb. 6. 



White Comb from Sugar Syrup. 



I have read the article by J. W. South- 

 wood (page 51) on rearing brood on sugar 

 syrup. I have tried granulated sugar, both 

 fall and spring, and it is very good for 

 rearing brood, but there is another point I 

 would like tested, viz. : The bees wOl make 

 the nicest white comb when fed on granu- 

 lated sugar syrup. In the fall there are 

 from 4 to 5 weeks that bees could be fed 

 on sugar to make comb for use the next 

 year. Peter Steinebach. 



Colby, Wis. 



Bee-Keeping in North Dakota. 



There are but very few bees in all this 

 north country. I commenced last spring, 

 and have had a bright experience so far. I 

 lost the first two colonies in transporta- 

 tion, and then wentmyself and got another. 

 I put 5 colonies into winter quarters in 

 good condition. I had .32 sections of sur- 

 plus honey. Jas. B. Jcbd. 



Fargo, N. Dak., Jan. 31. 



Never Lost a Colony in Wintering. 



My crop, last season, was 1,400 pounds of 

 extracted, and 000 pounds of comb honey 

 in one-pound sections, almost all basswood 

 and sweet clover. Bees got little or noth- 

 ing out of white clover in northwestern 

 Ohio. 



For the five years I have kept bees, I have 

 not lost a full colony during winter. They 

 winter outside in a 3-story double-walled 

 hive, 19 inches long, and 11 deep, well 

 painted outside; a pillow of dry maple 

 leaves over the brood-frames, large enough 

 to fill the upper story, and 8 frames of the 

 above-mentioned size% sealed honey. They 

 will then "get there "in good condition if 



it comes down to 20 degrees below zero, and 

 three months steady winter. 



My 35 colonies of bees came through last 

 winter in good condition, and gave me 

 3,000 pounds of surplus honey last summer, 

 besides increasing to 30. 



Henry Bohlmann. 



Defiance, Ohio, Jan. 21. 



Wintering Nicely. 



My bees are in very fine condition, and 

 wintering nicely. R. S. Russell. 



ZionsviUe, Ind., Jan. 39. 



An Experience with Bees. 



I have kept bees several years in box- 

 hives, and that was all the good it did. I 

 would put a little cap on the hive, and if 

 they put a pound or two in it, it was all 

 right, and if they did not it had to be all 

 right. So last spring I got a few Lang- 

 stroth hives, and hived the swarms in them. 

 I have 11 colonies. 5 of which are in box- 

 hives. I purchased 4 colonies on July 3, 

 1894, and one of the queens died, but two of 

 the other three gave me 86 pounds of honey, 

 and the other 108 pounds. George Sage. 



Linton, Ind., Jan. 36. 



Lost 2 Out of 18 So Far. 



We have 16 colonies left out of 18. They 

 are in chaff hives, the tops filled with shav- 

 ings. I would like to know how W. S. M.'s 

 bees (see page TO) are getting along in New 

 Mexico. Matthlas Wechsler. 



Sterling, 111., Feb. 2. 



Bees in Fine Condition. 



I started in last spring with 5 colonies, 

 and increased to 8, from which I took 300 

 pounds of comb honey. I have sold the 

 most of it for 15 cents per pound among my 

 neighbors. I had about 40 pounds of 

 golden-rod honey, which is the thing. We 

 have lots of basswood and clover here. 

 There has not been much snow so far this 

 winter. My bees are in fine condition now, 

 on the summer stands. H. J. Samson. 



E. Middlebury, Vt., Jan. 38. 



Basswood Honey — Wintering Bees. 



I had from 100 colonies over 4,000 pounds 

 of all basswood comb honey. I wintered 

 T4 colonies last winter. I have 100 colonies 

 in the cellar now. all in good condition. 

 The fall crop of honey was not 10 pounds. 

 I have one of the best cellars in this town. 

 It is built of stone and cement, and venti- 

 lated especially for bees. It is 18x24 feet. 



My business is bees and small fruit, and 

 they go finely together. I think I have one 

 of the best plans for wintering bees. I use 

 common building paper (no tar), and put it 

 over the frame, then two strips of lath on 

 the sides and ends of the hive. The latter 

 should be 2 inches short, for ventilation. 

 Try this plan, leaving the entrance open. If 

 you have trouble in wintering bees with 

 tight covers, try paper and report. 



C. A. Goodell. 



Mankato, Minn., Jan. 31. 



The Season of 1894. 



The seasons the last two or three years 

 have been so poor that even the bees could, 

 or did, hardly make a living, not to men- 

 tion their keeper. The cold, wet spring 

 last year destroyed the fruit-bloom and 

 nearly all the white clover. It was neces- 

 sary to feed the bees to keep them alive, or 

 from starvation, in the spring and summer. 

 I allowed my bees (40 colonies) to swarm 

 very little — had 4 or 5 swarms. I believe. 

 In the autumn the bees gathered enough to 

 keep them through the winter, and about 

 300 pounds of surplus honey. 



I am wintering my bees on their summer 

 stands with the precautions necessary. The 

 winter is somewhat severe and cold, and 

 no doubt the bees will suffer, too. We have 



had four big snows, and very cold weather 

 for southern Indiana. I hope the next sea- 

 son will be better than the three preceding 

 ones put together. Arend NYHniSE. 



Chandler, Ind., Jan. 28. 



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