. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1897. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 267 weather, put over this a piece of heavy car- pet cut so as to fit snugly in the super, and filled the super with dry leaves. The hives themselves were raised at the back on blocks. I took the covers off the ^hives whenever a warm day came, so as to air the leaves, as they were sometimes quite wet. My bees are placed around my back yard near the west and north fence, and face the grass plat in the middle of the yard. The fence acts as a shelter in win- ter, and this position also gives them all a southern exposure. I
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1897. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 267 weather, put over this a piece of heavy car- pet cut so as to fit snugly in the super, and filled the super with dry leaves. The hives themselves were raised at the back on blocks. I took the covers off the ^hives whenever a warm day came, so as to air the leaves, as they were sometimes quite wet. My bees are placed around my back yard near the west and north fence, and face the grass plat in the middle of the yard. The fence acts as a shelter in win- ter, and this position also gives them all a southern exposure. I use old, Muth jar cases laid on their sides for stands, and find they give a solid foundation for the hive. To-day was very warm, and as the bees were working hard, bringing in pollen, I thought this a good time to inspect the hives. I examined the five colonies, and found, contrary to my expectations, that they had plenty of stores left from the winter, also plenty of bees, and the queens laying in good shape. There was quite a good deal of new honey in the cells, which I think they are getting from the maples and willows now in blossom. I don't want any more chaff hives, as long as my bees continue to winter as well as above in the single-walled dovetailed hives; besides this, the chaff ones are very unhandy to move around, and to work with, besides costing just about twice as much as the single-walled ones. W. G. Holding. Hudson Co., N. J., March 33. A Beginner in Lomsiana. I am a bee-keeper of two seasons, having started with 3 old box-hive colonies, but successfully increast to 34. all in frame hives. I can't, in my experience and opin- ion, but see and read with regret of the failures of honey crops and dwindling of colonies, as reported by some correspond- ents, and assign their failures to climatic disadvantages only : and to back my asser- tions, I will say that last summer we had the longest drouth ever known here—no rain from April 13 until September; with what ef
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