. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. A CLOSER VIEW-MONASTERY APIARY. OLDENBERG. IND,. the fruit was cracked by moisture. The conseciuences were that tlie honey fer- mented in the winter Quarters, and the bees dwindled away. I did not set one pound of surplus honey last year, while three years ago I had i^.ooo pounds. C. W. Lang. La Crosse, Wis., May lo. Colorado Prospects We are having lots of rain and cloLuly weather. Bees are not building up well, and a good many are weak. We liope for better weather soon. WEsLEy Koster. Boulder. April 15. Prospects Not Good We are having the co
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. A CLOSER VIEW-MONASTERY APIARY. OLDENBERG. IND,. the fruit was cracked by moisture. The conseciuences were that tlie honey fer- mented in the winter Quarters, and the bees dwindled away. I did not set one pound of surplus honey last year, while three years ago I had i^.ooo pounds. C. W. Lang. La Crosse, Wis., May lo. Colorado Prospects We are having lots of rain and cloLuly weather. Bees are not building up well, and a good many are weak. We liope for better weather soon. WEsLEy Koster. Boulder. April 15. Prospects Not Good We are having the coldest spell here that I have experienced for years. Nearly the whole soring has been cold and cloudy. The ground is very wet, and the season is fast advancing, and we need warm weather to accomplish results. I am feeding many col- onies. This is unusual following a wet win- ter. We cannot tell what the crop will be. M. H. Mendleson. Ventura. April io. Wintered Well on Aster Honey I had 51 colonies last fall that I wintered, and they had nothine but aster honey. It was the second timesince I have been keep- ing bees that aster had any honey, and that is since 1008. I was afraid my loss would be heavy, but I lost only one colony, and it was light in bees in the fall, and the first cold spell we had they died. I had five colonies that were aueenless in the spring, but this was not any fault of the stores, and there were plenty of bees. The spring has not been very favorable, the weather was too cold through March and part of April, and it is very dry. There was no rain from March 22 until May 7, There won't be any white clover here this year, as what little there was last year was killed by the dry weather last fall. We did not get any white clover last year. Percy. 111., May 10. James T. Johnson. Making Separators I enclose a photograph of an aparatus for perforating separators. It is a rough looking machine, but does fine work. The perfora- tions are three-sixteenths of
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