. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. IHE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 13 you are at liberty to make any extracts from this you please and if you wish to ask me auy more questions I shall be glad to answ-er them if I can. I have about a dozen colonies of Italians at the Summit yard but they were not " iu it" with the blacks this year. La Valle, Wis. Nov. 15, 1898. [I believe some one once took me " to do " quite severely for asserting that when the flow was abundant and near at hand, no bees surpassed the pure blacks as honey gatherers. This experieuce of Bro. Head's is only one
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. IHE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 13 you are at liberty to make any extracts from this you please and if you wish to ask me auy more questions I shall be glad to answ-er them if I can. I have about a dozen colonies of Italians at the Summit yard but they were not " iu it" with the blacks this year. La Valle, Wis. Nov. 15, 1898. [I believe some one once took me " to do " quite severely for asserting that when the flow was abundant and near at hand, no bees surpassed the pure blacks as honey gatherers. This experieuce of Bro. Head's is only one of several that confirms me in that belief. When the flow is scanty and must be searched for far and wide, the " shoe is on the other ;—Ed.]. Advantages of the House - Apiary for Win- tering and "Springing" Bees, and for Stimulative Feeding. B. TAYLOK. yRIEND Hutchin- JT" son:—I am great- ly pleased with Mr. C. Spaeth's artic'e in the December Re- view explaining edi- tor G. Weygandt's method of caring for bees in Ger- many. The reason 1 am pleased is be- cause his experience and ideas exactly coincide with my own experience. You know it gives any person pleasure to know that others searching in quest of the same facts as themselves have reached the same con- clusions. You know I have been saying for some time that the " house-apiary had come to stay " and that the time was not far dis- tant when most of the bees in professional hands would be licpt in that way, as it gives a better chance of caring for bees properly and Cheaply through the entire year than auy method yet in practice. So I concluded to prove the faith that is in me by explain- ing to your readers just what I have done to carry out the new method. In the course of his remarks in the article referred to Mr. Spaeth says: " The wintering trouble and cause of bee diarrhcea is solved by Rev. C. Weygandt, of Flacht, Germany, editor of the Bee, a monthly bee paper. He ha
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