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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



May 23. 



mostly strong in numbers. On the morning 

 of April 7 I carried out SO colonies, it being 

 all I put into the cellar except one, which 

 was ijueeuless last fall. 1 suppose my cellar 

 was too damp and cold, as the hives and 

 combs were somewhat moldy, and a fev< 

 colonies were slightly affected with dysen- 

 tery. All weak colonies, and those that are 

 not right otherwise, it they are worth sav- 

 ing, I unite with other colonies. 



H. P. Newton. 

 Whitney's Crossing, N. Y.. April 23. 



Bees and Strawberries Again. 



I have just read the last article in the 

 Bee Journal on strawberries and bees. I 

 have about '4 of an acre in those berries, 

 and 22 colonies of bees. As there has not 

 been a day since the strawberries com- 

 menced to bloom that the bees did not work 

 most or all the day, I feel sure I should 

 know they'Mrf.s, in this locality; and more 

 especially so this year, as I planted a new 

 bed of the choicest varieties this spring, 

 and have cared for them with the greatest 

 of care; and yet (yes, I will say it) I have 

 not seen one honey-bee on a single straw- 

 berry. I have seen a variety of fleas, and 

 other insects, but no bees. 



Does that prove they don't work on 

 strawberries? To my mind, not at all; 

 but it does prove that they can find other 

 honey and pollen producing plants that are 

 more to their liking than strawberries. 



For the last 10 days we have had apricot, 

 pear, crab, plum, cherry, apple, and all 

 the forest trees in full bloom, and that is 

 the reason they could not fly low enough to 

 see the strawberries. 



Our kind Heavenly Father has so pro- 

 vided things that the' work of fertilization 

 is not left to one class of insects, so when 

 bees fail it is done all the same. 



Cooksville, 111., May tj. E. B. Ellis. 



Wintered Finely, Etc. 



Bees wintered finely in the cellar, and 

 they came out strong. I put my bees in 

 Nov. 12, and put them on the summer 

 stands Feb. 25. They had a good flight, 

 and a few days later they worked on the 

 soft maple, which helped wonderfully in 

 brood-rearing. This is promising to be a 

 fine year for bees so far. Now they are 

 working on gooseberry blossom, which is a 

 good honey-producer. Next is apple-bloom, 

 which makes them hum the more. My bees 

 are partly working in the sections, some 

 colonies having 24 sections two-thirds full 

 from apple blossoms. 



I say bees are a benefit to fruit and berry 

 blossoms of all kinds. I would not be with- 

 out bees to grow berries and fruit of any 

 kind. I grow berries of all kinds, and also 

 fruit in a small way, and keep bees for 

 pleasure. Geokge F. Yogs. 



Central City, 111., April 29. 



Wintered Well in North Dakota, 



On Nov. Ifl, 1804, we put into the cellar 

 30 colonies of bees, all in fine coddition, and 

 on April and T we took them all out alive, 

 and all in good condition except one colony. 

 That one is very weak in bees, but has a 

 fine large queen and plenty of honey. We 

 would have put them into the cellar earlier, 

 but delayed in hopes that we would have a 

 warm day so the bees would have a good 

 flight, but it continued cloudy and rather 

 cold. The morning of Nov. 18 the mercury 

 stood at T) degrees below zero, and the 

 morning of the I'Jth (the day they were put 

 into the cellar) at zero. They did not have 

 a good flight after Oct. 15. They were out 

 a little on Oct. 23 and 24, and on Nov. 5. 



I think the fact of their wintering so well 

 was owing to being so well supplied with 

 honey and bees. They were in one part of 

 the cellar under the dwelling-house, which 

 is divided from the other part by a board 

 partition. The only ventilation they l)uil 

 was from the inside cellar door and through 

 the chimney, which is built from the bot- 

 tom of the cellar up, with a hole for a stove- 

 pipe in the cellar. I had a stove in the eel- 



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 Hardy Bees that Winter Successfully. 



We make Queen-Hearing a Spcciallv. We 

 never saw Foul Hrood or Bee-rarul ysis. 



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lar, and for nearly two weeks before put- 

 ting the bees in a" Are was kindled in the 

 stove every day to dry and ventilate the 

 cellar, and a little fire occasionally through 

 the coldest part of the winter. The tem- 

 perature of the cellar was generally only a 

 little above the freezing point. 



Our bees are now. and for several days 

 have been, carrying in pollen from the wil- 

 lows at a good rate. Whether bees get 

 honey from the willows here or not I can- 

 not tell, but I know they can get any 

 amount of pollen. 1 know nothing about 

 botany, and do not know what to call these 

 willows. They grow mostly about streams, 

 but will probably grow in any wet ground. 

 They reach a height of 15 to 20 feet, and 

 sometimes four to five inches through at 

 the butt. The wood, except the sap wood, 

 is about the color of wild cherry or Wash- 

 ington cedar, and is very lasty, and makes 

 excellent firewood. Can some one tell us 

 what it is called ? and whether or not it 

 produces nectar ? 



Up to this date the spring has been un- 

 usuallv mild. H. P. Willson. 



Bathgate, N, Dak.. April 24. 



A Report for 1894. 



In the last number I read the same old 

 tune— "clover is good." What clover ? 

 Clover is poorer than for six years past — it 

 is frozen out. with the exception of sweet 

 clover on the roadside. I would like to find 

 how far from here white clover is raised 

 for seed. It was good to poor last year^ 

 from 8 bushels to 45 pounds of seed per acre. 

 While last year there were 200 acres within 

 reach of my bees, this year only 5 acres. 

 See the difference ' The jirice was #!t.50 to 

 •SS per bushel. I had, in six weeks' time, 

 two barrels of white clover honey— little 

 enough for .50 colonies. So you can see if 

 the atmosphere is not just right, it will not 

 do anything. From 11 days' basswood I 

 had nearly four times as much. I do not 

 produce cotnb honey. 



I learned to cure foul brood since I wrote 

 last, and the three colonies cured are doing 

 finely, having 4 and 5 combs of brood. One 

 is on the same combs, in thesame hive, and 

 same frames as a year ago. 



John H. Gi"E>;ther. 



Theresa, Wis., May 1. 



The Ozark Motintain Region. 



We are in the Ozark Mountains, about 

 600 or TOO feet above St. Louis, Mo., and 

 115 miles south. I have only been here two 

 years, and I think this is one of the best 

 honey-producing countries I have ever seen. 

 First, we have the witch hazel, that begins 

 to bloora about Jan. 15, and blooms until 

 March ; then the soft maple, hard maple, 

 and numerous other trees incltiding the 

 linden. 



I brought four colonies of Italian bees 

 from Arkansas last year, and lost two of 

 nty queens, so I bad but two colonies left, 

 and I gave them the two queenless colonies, 

 and that made them very strong when the 

 honey season came. They gave me 325 

 pounds of comb honey, aud I increased to 

 four colonies. I have had but one swarm 

 in five years, that is, a natural swarm. I 

 find artificial swarming the most profitable. 



I use the Langstroth lO-frame hive, and 

 find it to be small enough here, while the 

 S-frame was large enough in Arkansas. 



I sow sweet clover for my bees, also 

 Alsike clover and buckwheat about July 13 

 or 15; the buckwheat sown at that time 

 blooms until frost. J. R. Gibson. 



Red ford. Mo., May 3. 



Something' About New Mexico. 



I have received the following letter from 

 R. S. Beektell, of Bellaire. Slich.. dated 

 March 4, lSii5: 



I am in the north part of Michigan, near 

 Traverse City. I have 90 colonies of bees. 

 What is the lowest price of bees there in 

 good hives ? or do you know of any for sale 

 cheap in box-hives near you, or south, near 

 Pecos, Tex. ? How cold is it there in win- 



