. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. May 12, 1904. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 347 c FROM MANY FIELDS } Bees Wintered Well. I put 69 colonies in the cellar Dec. 4, and April 5 took out 68 colonies, only one dead. I left 15 colonies outdoors, and one of them died, leaving 14. I have the bottoms nailed on all of my hives, with a -'s-inch entrance, which I leave open in the cellar. Out-of- doors I contract from 3 to :! inches. I put burlap and paper on all of my hives, and the bees seemed to do well. Those I had in the cel- lar seem to be the strongest now. The bees that were wintered out-of-
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. May 12, 1904. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 347 c FROM MANY FIELDS } Bees Wintered Well. I put 69 colonies in the cellar Dec. 4, and April 5 took out 68 colonies, only one dead. I left 15 colonies outdoors, and one of them died, leaving 14. I have the bottoms nailed on all of my hives, with a -'s-inch entrance, which I leave open in the cellar. Out-of- doors I contract from 3 to :! inches. I put burlap and paper on all of my hives, and the bees seemed to do well. Those I had in the cel- lar seem to be the strongest now. The bees that were wintered out-of-doors, about one- third of them are dead. I am the only one that puts them in the cellar. My cellar is 12x12x7 feet, and we had our fruit, vegetables, and 69 colonies of bees in it. I had one neigh- bor who had 56 colonies in the fall, and now has 22; another had 102, and now has 56: another had 50, and now has 44; the rest of my neighbors have lost from to 50 percent. It has been bad for my bees since I took them out of the cellar—too cold. We had 2 inches of snow April 20, and it is cold to-day. E. B. Pritchett. Warren Co., Iowa, April 20. Heavy Loss in Wintepinjj. I wrote the forepart of the winter and made an estimate of what I thought the percentage of loss of bees would be in this section. I think I said it would be about 75 percent, but as nearly as I can learn I did not place it high enough. By what I can learn, some have lost all their bees, others a third, but 1 don't score with either. I started with 1S5 hives full of bees and honey. March 80 I had 185 hives full of honey, three of which had about a quart each of live bees in them. I should think there was 4000 or 5000 pounds of honey. Most of it looks like slale molasfes. Tester- day was the first day since last October that bees could fly and get back to their hives. I put part of my bees into the cellar and left part of them on the summer stands. Part were packed in chaff-lined hives, and part were not, with
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