. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1881. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 157 'Mr GLEANINGS. Geo. Grimm reports having " lost 35 colonies out of ; Includ- ing the dwindling in spring he docs not think it will reach 10 per cent, of loss. He then adds: " In my chaff-hive apiary (consisting of one colony) I lost 100 percent. He is Greatly Puzzled.—Novice says : —Neighbor Shane, with an apiary of about 100 colonies, has not lost to exceed 10 per cent., and wintered out-doors at that. The hives were ordinary Lang- stroth hives with chaff cushions over the frames. He borrowed one
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1881. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 157 'Mr GLEANINGS. Geo. Grimm reports having " lost 35 colonies out of ; Includ- ing the dwindling in spring he docs not think it will reach 10 per cent, of loss. He then adds: " In my chaff-hive apiary (consisting of one colony) I lost 100 percent. He is Greatly Puzzled.—Novice says : —Neighbor Shane, with an apiary of about 100 colonies, has not lost to exceed 10 per cent., and wintered out-doors at that. The hives were ordinary Lang- stroth hives with chaff cushions over the frames. He borrowed one chaff hive from us, which wintered without a loss of over 2 dozen bees, and consumed much less stores than those in his other hives. Although he always wintered in cellars until of late,he now thinks he will winter out-of-doors next winter. I con- fess I am greatly puzzled. splendidly ; later they were somewhat uneasy. Observation shows that the colonies worked for surplus honey have wintered well, while those used for queen rearing were the fated ones, the "tinkering" in fall being the probable cause of their failure. Pollen is now being gathered, and at this writing, April 25, the weather is warm and very dry. We earnestly hope that contrary to the past few seasons, we may get a damp, rainy spell in May, and dry, sunny weather in June, when the great white clover harvest BEE-KEEPERS' EXCHANGE. Profit by Experience.—As the weak of all kinds, whether of men, animals or plants, are the first to succumb to disease and death, may we not console ourselves that the bees remaining after the recent severe winter are a hardy race, capable of wintering with less per- centage of loss in future seasons, and are in addition a class of bees that will multiply rapidly and thus, very soon again " fill the earth?" The proverb says, " there is no great loss without some small ; This we think is true. Undoubtedly many a shiftless bee-keeper will
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