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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



menl, the woodman's axe would leave 

 them as barren as a desert. Associations, 

 with men of wide experience in forestry, 

 are in active operation; and when the 

 planting of trees is in progress the bee 

 man is remem.-ered in the planting of 

 the eucalyptus. The basswood will grow 

 in California, and a judicious planting of 

 it in favored locations on the mountains 

 would surely result in Vjeiiefit. 



We hope the time will come when we 

 shall learn to cultivate Nature, as seen 

 in the animal, the tree, the fountain, 

 the flower and the insect, and there 

 will be harmon\- between them all. We 

 have much to learn, and many questions 

 to ask of dame Nature, but she will not 

 fail us if we ask unselfishly and listen pa- 

 tiently. 



SHKK.M.\NT()N. Calif., July 24, 1S99. 



ood things 



Ffom Other Journals, 



SEI<ECTED BY DR. .\. K. M.\SOX. 



CEI<L.\R VERSUS OUT-DOOR WINTERING. 



In the August ist Busy Bee, Mr. 

 Hairston tells Mr. Brown how to prevent 

 frost and ice accumulating under his hive 

 covers. He says: — 



If he will put on supers in the fall and 

 spread a cloth over the frames of the 

 brood-nest, and pack the super full of 

 nice clean hay or forest leaves, he will 

 not be bothered any more with this 

 trouble. * * I have good success with 

 the eight-frame standard depth, but one 

 as shallow as the Danzy. hive won't do 

 to winter on the .summer-stand. 



I wintered a three-frame nucleus with 

 bees enough to cover one frame, by put- 

 ting the frames on one side of the hive, 

 with division board, and spread a cloth 

 over the frames and let it extend tlown 

 the division board to the bottom of the 

 hive; then ])ut on an empty super, and 

 finished fi'.ling the hive and su])er with 

 nice clean hay. You can imagine my 



glad surprise to find them considerably 

 stronger after the extreme cold winter 

 than when I packed them. It was 22 

 degrees below zero at one time. 



I don't winter my bees on their sum- 

 mer stands, but it is quite a common 

 occurrence to have them come out of the 

 cellar in the spring stronger in numbers 

 than when put in winter quarters in 

 November, and that with but little if any 

 signs of disease, and I believe it pays 

 well to winter in a good cellar. The 

 average loss in weight last winter was a 

 little less than two pounds per month per 

 colony. 



It seems to me that with proper stores 

 in the right place, and with the proper 

 winter protection, there need be but lit- 

 tle, if any, loss in wintering. 



BKES .SOMETIMES WINTER WELL ON 



HONEV-DEW. 



]\Ir. Hairston also says that "dampness, 



inferior stores, such as honey-dew and 

 fruit-juice are what cause winter losses." 

 Now it doesn't seem possible that any, 

 or either, of these were the cause of the 

 large loss last winter, and that bees do 

 frequently winter well on what might be 

 called a very poor grade of honey-dew I 

 knovv to be a fact; for I believe I never 

 knew m^' bees to gather such a poor lot 

 of iionev (honey-dew) as last season, so 

 very poor that I didn't offer a pound for 

 sale, and my bees never wintered better 

 tliaii thev did last winter. 



" S.\S.SING " THE CRITIC. 



Say, Mr. Editor, can't I "sasS" your 

 Critic Taylor a little ? In my article in 

 the March Review I gave him notice not 

 to "sass" me or there might be trouble. 

 A few weeks ago I wrote him that I en- 

 joyed his criticisms, and, in reply, he 

 he expressed his pleasure at the fact, 

 and in a sort of jocose way added, "per- 

 haps you won't enjoy them so well when 



1 have to pitch into you. Some don't 

 seem to enjoy them;" and goes on to 

 name a few, for fear, I suppose, that I 

 may not have noticed it; but I had. 



