. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June 8. 1905 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 411 2\cport5 anb (Sxpcrtcnccs Bees Doing: Well Bees wintered well on the summer stands. No losses. One swarm came off yesterday, a good, large one. Hived nicely. Is this the first swarm reported this season in this region? One colony is working in the super. We hope for a good honey season. A, B. Mettlek. Will Co,, 111., May 24. [We have published all the very early swarms that have been reported to us.— Editor] Heavy Winter Losses—Good Pfos- peets Apple-trees are in bloom now and bees are doing very well, but we
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. June 8. 1905 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 411 2\cport5 anb (Sxpcrtcnccs Bees Doing: Well Bees wintered well on the summer stands. No losses. One swarm came off yesterday, a good, large one. Hived nicely. Is this the first swarm reported this season in this region? One colony is working in the super. We hope for a good honey season. A, B. Mettlek. Will Co,, 111., May 24. [We have published all the very early swarms that have been reported to us.— Editor] Heavy Winter Losses—Good Pfos- peets Apple-trees are in bloom now and bees are doing very well, but we still have some frost at nights. Some of my colonies in 12-frame hives have 9 frames of brood. The winter loss seemed very heavy just in this immediate locality, but mostly from lack of feed. There were also a great many queenless colonies this spring, and some spring dwindling. Clover never looked more promising, and if nothing happens to prevent it we will have another 1903, I have found some queen-cells in my best colonies, Harvey Smith. Ontario, Canada, May 22. ,.'f>. Shalien Swarms Without Shaiiinpr On pages 411,459,493,520, (1904) will be found references to a plan which I stated on page 411 under the head of " Shaken Swarms Without ; I do not remember to have seen any other mention of it. I would like to call the attention of the readers to it, BLACK JBREASTCn FIE» CAMES- ' •• The KINO of V'ouitry. '^ Large size, good layers oi' finest eggs. Hardy and fearless, the best all urpose fowl. Willow legs and lav eyes. Illustrated circular. 26t6year. H. H. FLICK, MANCHESTER, MD. The most attractive eastern ex- cursion during the coming summer vi^ill be to Asbury Park, N. J , on occasion of the annual meeting of National Edu- cational Association, .luly 3 to 7, inclu- sive, via the Nickel Plate Road and its connections, either the West Shore or LackawannaRoad,with privilege of stop- over at Chautauqua Lake points, Niag- ara Falls and New York City.
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