1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Gr. B. LEWIS COMPANY, Watertown, Wis. 



WILLIAMS' Automatic Reversible Honey-Extractor. 



Perfect In Principle anil Workings. Here is what 

 the veteran bee-keeper. N. B. France, of Platte- 

 ville. Wis , says of it: "l consider the Williams 

 Automatic Reversible E.vtractor head and shoul- 

 ders above any I have ever used; and further- 

 more, consider it the best on the market." 



100 Italian Queens. 



Reared in 1894. We make the readers of the Bee 

 Journal A Special Ofler, in order to have them 

 move off quickly: for the next 30 days we will 

 sell these Queens as follows: 



One Queen reared in 1894 $ .75 



6 Queens •• ■ 4.00 



12 •• '■ ■• 7.00 



These Queens were reared from fine stock and 

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p. S. — We have in one of our bee-yards, a few 



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'- =^^ '""' for one. 5 for $1. Stamps taken for single Queen. 



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empty super under their hives, with a sc- 

 inch pine board sealed tight to the hive; 4 

 colonies had sealed hive tops and bottoms. 

 Now the result was, the 4 last-named win- 

 tered the poorest, then the second y, and 

 last and best, the 16 covered with two 

 thicknesses of old carpet. 



My bee-cellar is under my dwelling-house. 

 14x24x7 feet deep, sand stone wall 1'.^ feet 

 thick; dry and frost proof when banked 

 outside. The cellar has also plenty of top 

 ventilation, and is as pure as a living-room, 

 but the bees in the hives with sealed covers 

 got wet and moldy. Some of my co'onies 

 are so strong that they have 9 frames of 

 Ijrood. and are working in the supers; that 

 is very early for this part of the country. 



Now for me, the sealed covers have seen 

 their day. I am next going to find out how 

 many thicknesses of carpet are required to 

 produce the same result as the sealed covers. 

 I believe that bees seal their hive up so 

 tight because they are afraid of vermin. I 

 think that is also the reason that they use 

 pitch and gum of trees containing a tur- 

 pentiny smell, as most vermin object to 

 that smell. With me, bees do not seal up a 

 hole or crack through which they can pass. 



I hope if I am wrong in my opinion I may 

 be set right, but my experience cannot be 

 shaken. August tARTZ. 



Chippewa Falls, Wis,, May 13. 



A Beginner's Experience. 



I commenced the spring of 1S94 with one 

 8-frame Langstroth hive and a good strong 

 colony. I hived two swarms from the one 

 colony. From the old colony and second 

 swarm I got 40 pounds of good honey in 

 section-boxes. From the first swarm I got 

 nothing, and it was the larger of the two. 

 It cast a swarm, and was left weak, and 

 carried down what honey was stored in the 

 sections. 



My bees wintered grandly. I built a 

 good stand with shed roof and ends, roof 

 shingled, and with floor about 13 inches 

 from the ground. I set the hives on the 

 floor, and filled all space with dry straw 

 flush with the front end of the hives, and 

 had canvas hung in front of the hives. I 

 could throw the canvas back on the roof on 

 warm days, and let the bees have the sun. 

 Through December. January and February 

 it was very cold, any where from 7 to 1.5 

 degrees below zero. The stand was on the 

 south side of a building. I had three ply of 

 wool carpet on the honey-boards, turned 

 back one inch at the front end, and the 

 balance of the space filled with straw. 



Edwaiu) Fletcher. 



Portland, Maine, May 11. 



An Experience with Bees. 



I commenced with one colony in 1866; 

 they were very large black bees, and a large 

 colony. The bees passed over the field 

 where the hands were plowing, and they 

 followed them to the tree where the bees 

 soon went in. In a few minutes we cut the 

 tree down, hived the bees in a tall box-hive, 

 where they remained about a year, then 

 died. 



The next colony was in 1874, in a box- 

 hive. Then I concluded to increase my 

 stock. I built a shed 13 feet long. 3 feet 

 wide, and 6 feet high, sloping at the top 

 backward. For roof I covered it with one- 

 inch planks, and planked up the back of the 

 shed. The hives rested on a plank 3 inches 

 thick and 20 inches wide. 3 feet from the 

 ground. I also planked up the ends and 

 front of the shed above the hives. Then 

 there was one plank one foot wide with 

 hinges on, to be raised up when I wished to 

 examine the bees. The hives were about 8 

 inches apart. Two large locust trees IS 

 inches in diameter stand in front of these 

 sheds. 



The next shed is 14 feet in length, and is 

 tall enough for two rows of hives — one 

 facing southwest, the other northeast — 20 

 hives in all. h box-hives. 1.5 portico hives, 

 8 frames, depth from S'.j to 11 inches. 



About 13 years ago they had increased to 

 17; Host 13 that winter; the next year in- 



