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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 2, 



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time. But "mother earth,'' thoroughly 

 wet with water, is what I use for all kinds 

 of poisons, where a poultice is to be used. 



A brother of mine was once bitten by a 

 rattle snake. He was given whisky, which 

 made him drunk. When became to. he was 

 swollen to an enormous size, was blind, and 

 spotted as the snake. He then crawled to 

 the pig-wallow, and backed in to his waist, 

 and in 15 hours came out sound and well. 

 I have known this tried in many cases, and 

 never a failure; and it will cure every time, 

 I think. 



(3ne swarm of my bees are dormant, or 

 dead ; the others in good condition. Owing 

 to severe drouth we averaged only 120 

 pounds per colony of surplus honey last 

 year. 



Try stopping the robber-bees by using a 

 large dry-goods box over the afflicted col- 

 ony. Bore a small auger hole in front of 

 the entrance; leave as much space as you 

 can in front of the hive. The box must be 

 tight only at this hole. Put it over the 

 hive at night. 



Try uniting by putting one colony over 

 the other with wire-screen between, using 

 lath on the sides and one end. leaving one 

 entrance directly over the other, and take 

 the screen out in about one week. 



1 expect to make n double-glass hive of 

 small window sash, and make the frames 

 the size of the Hoffman, only setting them 

 up endwise in the hive. This will give nar- 

 row, deep frames. I also wish to try one 

 with two sides glass and two of lumber, to 

 see what effect it will have on robber bees. 



I stopped the ants working in one hive by 

 putting the bench legs in cans of water, 

 and the hive on the bench, Bbo, Bex. 



Grant Centre, Iowa. 



No 'Winter Losses. 



Been seem to be doing well. We had no 

 winter losses. J. S. Wokley. 



Isom, Tenn., April 1. 



Wintered Without Iioss. 



My bees wintered without loss. I have 

 43 colonies all uniformly strong. They did 

 well last summer. One colony gathered 

 105 pounds of surplus honey. 



Lakeville, Ind., April 9. Jacob Kron. 



What's the Cause? 



Bees are working on fruit-blossoms now. 

 I had four colonies last fall, and lost one 

 the past winter. They did not swarm much 

 the past two seasons. A neighbor of mine 

 only one-fourth mile distant, has not had 

 any honey the past two years, while I have 

 had a fair crop. Treatment about the 

 same. What's the cause ? 



O. Seoessemasn. 



Amazonia, Mo.. April 15. 



Season of 1894 — Wintering. 



Last spring I started with seven colonies 

 of bees, two of which were very light, and 

 the others in fair condition. I took the 

 queen from the 'oest colony, and some 

 frames of brood and bees from some of the 

 other ones, and made a new colony. They 

 commenced to build queen-cells, and I 

 reared six nice queens. I took them and 

 divided up my bees, and commenced to 

 rear some more queens. I kept this up till 

 in July, and when I got through I had 38 

 good colonies, which I put into the cellar in 

 good condition last fall. My bees stored 

 over 300 pounds of honey per colony, spring 

 count. 



One of my neighbor bee-keepers said to 

 me: " Your bees must be light." I said. 

 '■ I think not ; ,iust lift a hive.'' And so he 

 did, and said, " They have enough to keep 

 four colonies; they will average in weight 

 from 75 to 100 pounds per colony." 



I put them into the cellar early in the 

 fall— about Nov.il. I took two '2x4 scantling, 

 put them on edge on the cellar floor, far 

 enough apart to set the hives on. Then I 

 took the hive bottoms and tops off, and set 



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Conventioii notices. 



Minnesota.— The regularsemi-annual meet- 

 ing of the Southern Minnesota Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will be held on the first Monday 

 in May. 189.5, at LaCrescent, Minn. All bee- 

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Winona, Minn, 



I LLINOIS.— The spring meeting of the North- 

 ern Illinois Bee-Keepers' Association will be 

 held at the residence of H. W. Lee, in I'ecalon- 

 ica, MayiJ, 1895. It will be held one week 

 later If 'it is a stormy day. 



New Milford, 111. B. Kennedy. Sec. 



Connecticut.- The fourth annual meeting 

 of the Connecticut Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will be held at the Capitol, at Hartford, 

 Wednesday, May 8. 1895. commencing at 

 10:30 a.m. All interested are invited. 



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