. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March 13, 1902. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 171 >*u^t^/^\\r^^m!^.^jirvi'.sm ^m winter Is Over Here. My 38 colonies liftVI) come ilin)ii;rli in tine shai)e. They ure i;atliorinn pollen t'vuiy day. Winter is over in this locality. II. D. MUKKY. KunUin Co., Miss., Feb. '27. Wants More Papticulars. We are (it'teii 'ii to read a scciuiiijjly interesting; article and a( the eunclusion ex- claim, "() pshaw I" .lust so with the Inick- wheat item on patre lOS. We have no way of jud^iny: the value of the ]>lant liy that item, as we do not lino
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March 13, 1902. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 171 >*u^t^/^\\r^^m!^.^jirvi'.sm ^m winter Is Over Here. My 38 colonies liftVI) come ilin)ii;rli in tine shai)e. They ure i;atliorinn pollen t'vuiy day. Winter is over in this locality. II. D. MUKKY. KunUin Co., Miss., Feb. '27. Wants More Papticulars. We are (it'teii 'ii to read a scciuiiijjly interesting; article and a( the eunclusion ex- claim, "() pshaw I" .lust so with the Inick- wheat item on patre lOS. We have no way of jud^iny: the value of the ]>lant liy that item, as we do not linow whether he had onecolony or a thousand working on the buckwheat. Bee-keepers, please give usconi])Ietereports, not half-finished, unintellij^nblc ones. Our time is too valuable to be thus wasted. •biHN M. Davis. Maury Co., Tenn., Feb. -'.5. Wintering in Chaff Hives. Bees did fairly well last season. I .started ?with '2r> colonies last spring, and increased to 45, from which I harvested eases of 24 sections each of comb honey, and 1,000 pounds of extracted. I have 40 colonies in winter quarters, which are all right at the present time. I wintered them on the summer stands, in chaff hives of my own construction, made of lap-siding 26x20x24 inches tor the S-frame dovetailed hive, giving room for 3 inches of chaff all around, and about 13 inches over the brood- nest. The cover is made like a roof of shingles. I find that the more chaff there is over the brood-nest the better it is, because it takes up more moisture during severe, cold weather. C. J. Oldenburg. Scott Co., Minn., March 3. A Florida Report. If my health were good I would consider my- self in good pasturage ; but I am afflicted with sciatic rheumatism and a good part of the time I am not able to be with my bees. I have produced some large crops of honey here on the river. Three years ago my bees gave me 22 gallons of honey to the colony. Last year was a bad one, and they stopped at 14 gallons. I keep from 6
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