1858 
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How to Winter Bees. 
Messrs. Editors —Noticing weekly the articles in 
your Apiary Department, and keeping a great many 
bees myself, suggests to me that it would be of interest 
to your readers to know how to winter their bees 
through, without being subject to the great loss which 
generally occurs by death from frost and dampness. 
We have in this town a farmer, Mr. P. J. Furlong, 
who keeps a great many bees, and had always been 
subject to much loss during winter. Like most other 
Yankees, he set to work thinking and whistling, and 
finally got up a perfect bee-preserver, very cheap and 
handy. I have had one in use the whole season, and 
am very much pleased with it. He calls it his Con¬ 
densing Bee-hive ; and it well maintains the name. Its 
properties are, that through the winter it keeps the 
bees perfectly dry, by condensing and carrying off by 
little troughs the dampness in the atmosphere and from 
the breath of the bees, (which in ordinary hives drops 
down on the bees and freezes upon them, causing their 
death.) The condenser is a glass slope roof, inside the 
flat roof of the hive, upon which the moisture collects, 
condenses, and trickles down into little tin troughs, 
which conduct the water outside the hive. There are 
other peculiarities about the hive, new and valuable, 
but I am only speaking of its value as a preserver of 
bees during the winter. They can be got up very 
cheaply, material and labor costing no more than twelve 
shillings each hive. I bought an individual right of 
Mr. Furlong, (who patented it June 1st, after a tho¬ 
rough trial,) and now I shall this winter make for my¬ 
self a lot of these hives, so as to be ready for next 
year’s use. I make them now, because spring will 
bring its own work. Matthew Mackie. Clydey 
Wayne CoN. Y. 
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Falling of the Womb in Cows. 
I saw a request for any person who had any ex¬ 
perience in the case there mentioned, (falling of the 
womb,) to give the same. I had a very fine cow a few 
years ago which was in that situation, and I took some 
warm water and cleansed the protruded part, and re¬ 
placed it as well as I could, but could not get it to stay 
there, until I took a stitch in each side of the outer 
part of the urethra, with a small cord and a strong 
needle, and tied the two ends together. I had to serve 
my cow thus about three times during three years, 
each time when she was about half gone with calf. I 
have advised some of my neighbors to do in the same 
manner, with success so far as I ever heard. A Vir¬ 
ginian. 
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