. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April ly, 1900. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 255 biR hive and another old-style " gum " I bought from a neighbor, which is 13 inches square and 22 inches high. They are win- tering all right so far. Those in the cave are wintering well with the exception of 4 colonies—one in a Danzenbaker 10-frame hive, which had dwindled away to nothing with plenty of white honey; two inS-trame dovetailed hives, and one in a box-hive with a late after-swarm. One of the colo- nies in the dovetailed hives was queenless. I had introduced a yellow queen Oct. 3, from an
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April ly, 1900. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 255 biR hive and another old-style " gum " I bought from a neighbor, which is 13 inches square and 22 inches high. They are win- tering all right so far. Those in the cave are wintering well with the exception of 4 colonies—one in a Danzenbaker 10-frame hive, which had dwindled away to nothing with plenty of white honey; two inS-trame dovetailed hives, and one in a box-hive with a late after-swarm. One of the colo- nies in the dovetailed hives was queenless. I had introduced a yellow queen Oct. 3, from an Indiana breeder, and she had left no signs that she had been successfully in- troduced. The other had a queen from an Iowa breeder, and no amount of coaxing would induce her to lay after Sept. , and on examining them on Jan. IS, there were no signs that she had laid any in the mean- time, so tar as I could observe. I contracted them to 3 frames, covered them up as warm as possible, put them at the top of the tier of hives in the warmest position 1 could, and left them until Feb. 24. I then ventured to take a peek at them, and to my surprise they were still living. On March 10, 11 and 13 it was very warm and pleasant, and they all seemed restless, and with the least ray of light were out on the cave floor. So I set them all out in the fore- noon of the 10th, and left them out until the forenoon of the r3th, when I put them back. The colony in question was dead. I have now 13 strong colonies, and 3 which are doubtful. I secured 516 sections of finisht honey, and about .50 unfinisht sec- tions from 8 colonies, spring count, in 1899. F. W. Hall. Sioux Co., Iowa, March 19. Bees Carrying in Pollen. I put 93 colonies of bees into the cellar last November, and March 19 I took out 90 live colonies; 4 being rather light I united them, making 3 good colonies, so that I have 88 good, strong colonies, and they are as busy now as I ever saw them, carrying in pollen from soft maple. The
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