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THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW 



, Dorset, Ohio, April 1st. 



The Beekeepers' Review : — 



We are having: quite severe losses in bees in 

 this locality. We have 104 dead at this date, 

 out of 409, and in this locality the losses can- 

 not be counted until May 1st. 



The losses are due to a September honey 

 flovi' from astei-s and golden i-od. 



Yours truly, 



B. J. HOLDEN. 



Parksville, N. Y., April 12th. 

 The Beekeepers' Review : — 



Bees that were taken care of have wintered 

 well here. Some who did not care for them 

 last fall have lost nearly all. One man with 

 about 125 colonies, neai'ly all dead. 



Yours very ti-uly, 



A. W. SMITH. 



Littlestown, Pa., April 12th. 

 Editor Review : — 



My bees came out unusually strong this 

 spring. Out of 40 colonies two died, do not 

 know the cause, probably poor queens, could 

 not give them proper attention last fall on 

 account of the serious illness of both my 

 aged parents (which resulted in their death 

 recently only a few days apart), wintered 

 outside largely on stores gathered in the fall. 



Our main reliance for crop is locust and 

 clover. The clover has frozen out badly, but 

 at this writing just after a heavy rain, the 

 prospect for a clover crop seems fairly good. 



Yours truly, 



C. F. BUCHER. 



Dixon, Iowa, April I2th. 

 The Beekeepers' Review : — 



Bees have wintered well. Clover in good 

 shape, and a good stand. 



Yours truly, 



E. A. DONEY. 



Bellevue, Ohio, March 25th. 

 Editor Review : — 



Bees are not wintering quite so well as they 

 ought, considering the mild winter. We at- 

 tribute this to the dry fall, but little late 

 brood being reared, nothing but old field bees 

 going into winter quarters and with a light 

 brood nest. However, outside the nuclei we 

 have had but little loss in our own yards. 



Yours tx'uly, 



QUIRIN-THE-QUEEN-BREEDER. 



Clarkston, Mich., April 9th. 

 The Beekeepers' Review : — 



Bees are fairly strong with us this spring. 

 They gathered the first pollen the 6th of the 

 month. Take the whole township in general, 

 there has been about 45 per cent winter loss. 

 Prospects look good for a crop this year. 

 Yours very truly, 



W. L. LOVEJOY. 



Whittemore, Mich., April 13th. 

 The Beekeepers' Review : — 



My bees have wintered fairly well. Have 

 lost six colonies out of ninety. Four of the 

 dead ones were queenless. I did not feed 

 sugar syrup last fall and I expected a heavy 

 loss, as their stores were mostly buckwheat 

 and fall honey, a kind that candies white in 

 the combs, (Aster. Ed.) I wintered them 

 out of doors in double walled hives, with a 

 high board fence all around them. Have had 

 some heavy losses with apparently the same 

 kind of stores, and I began to suspect honey 

 dew. 



Yours very truly, 



EDWARD WILSON. 



(Neighbor Wilson: — Your trouble in win- 

 tering is a serious one, but you are likely 

 mistaken about its being honey dew. It is 

 likely just plain Aster that has caused your 

 previous losses. The remedy is so simple that 

 I hardly need repeat it here, but I will. Ex- 

 tract the honey at the close of the season 

 and feed sugar syrup, and your troubles will 

 disappear. Ed.) 



Blackfoot, Idaho, April 16. 

 Editor Review, 



Northstar, Mich. 



Hees have wintered vei'y good with the ex- 

 ception of soine yards not px-operly protected 

 from the cold, many of them starving to 

 death with honey on either iid'? and in many 

 cases in the other end of combs that bees 

 were on. In many cases the entrance frozen 

 up with ice and dead bees thus preventing 

 the bees from getting fresh air or flying out 

 when the weather would permit. In such 

 cases the bees are badly affected with dysen- 

 tery and many are found dead, scattered all 

 through the hive showing unmistakable evi- 

 dence of having been trying to find a way to 

 get out of their unsanitary confinement. 



A few yards have lost about 50 per cent. 

 The average will be about 12 per cent, while 

 mine will not be over 7 or 8 per cent. Bees 

 have been flying nearly every day since Feb- 

 ruary 15th. But not until April 7th did they 

 commence gathering natural pollen. 



(The exact date ours here in Central Mich- 

 igan brought in the first pollen. E. D. T.) 



It looks now as if it would be a good sea- 

 son for early increase ; what the crop will be 

 we don't know. If conditions are right the 

 bees will get honey ofl^ of a barb wire fence, 

 and if conditions are not right we may have 

 an abundance of bloom and millions of bees, 

 but no honey comes in. 



Have just read George W. Williams' article 

 in the April Review under the heading 

 "Booster Club," and think he hits the nail 

 square on the head. We need more such men 

 as Mr. Williams. 



Yours very truly, 



J. H. STONEMAN. 



April 1st, 1915, Statement of Ownership, 

 Management, Circulation, etc., of the Bee- 

 keepers' Review published monthly at North- 

 star, Michigan, required by the Act of August 

 24, 1912. 



Managing Editor — E. D. Townsend, North- 

 star, Mich. 



Business Manager — E. D. Townsend, North- 

 star, Mich. 



Publisher — The National Beekeepers' Asso- 

 ciation, Northstar, Mich. 



Owners — The National Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion, Northstar, Mich. 



Known bondholders, mortgagees, or other 

 securities : The National Beekeepers' Associa- 

 tion purchased the Beekeepers' Review on a 

 contract from E. B. Tyrrell, Detroit, who now 

 holds said contract. 

 Signed, 



E. D. TOWNSEND. 



Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st 

 day of April, 1915. 



F. L. COSS, Notary Public. 

 My commission expires March 17, 1918. 



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