. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Feb. 16, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 111 mean a rainbow), as per Alley. So now I have 18 good colonies in winter quarters, each w ith a good queen, either pure Italian or hybrid, as I had excellent luck in getting those cells hatcht and queens laying. One thing in regard to the above I must give you from my record book: Hive No. 19—July 23 I gave unfertile queen ; Aug 2, no eggs; 1 gave Italian brood, whole frame; Ang. 9. saw queen but no eggs, and gave Italian larvse as per Alley; Aug. 19 I found full of brood, some brood in several more combs, and f
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Feb. 16, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 111 mean a rainbow), as per Alley. So now I have 18 good colonies in winter quarters, each w ith a good queen, either pure Italian or hybrid, as I had excellent luck in getting those cells hatcht and queens laying. One thing in regard to the above I must give you from my record book: Hive No. 19—July 23 I gave unfertile queen ; Aug 2, no eggs; 1 gave Italian brood, whole frame; Ang. 9. saw queen but no eggs, and gave Italian larvse as per Alley; Aug. 19 I found full of brood, some brood in several more combs, and four nice queen-cells. Question —Why didn't she go to laying at S or 10 days of age. instead of waiting until she was at least 26 days old ? L. L. Travis. Wyoming Co., Pa. Poor Season—Cellar Winteping'. We had a very poor season for honey in 1898. The worms destroyed most of the basswood blossoms. Tell " Iowa Joe," who spoke of cellar wintering with bottomless hives (page , 1898) that I place a four-inch super under the hive in place of the bottom board, with wire-screen on the bottom side, which keeps the mice from getting in, and the bees from getting out. The dead bees drop down on the screen. My bees winter nicely that way. Leave them thus until you put the bees out on the summer stands, and there will be no loss of bees flying out in the cel- lar. E. B. Langdon. Douglas Co., Minn., Jan. 17. An Illinoisan in Arkansas. My honey crop for 1898 was very good for the first year in Arkansas. The spring was very wet and almost all summer, but in the fall we had about 8 or 10 days when the bees and myself put in overtime, as golden-rod and Spanish-needle yielded a heavy flow of nectar, and after S or 10 days we got a heavy rain; then it was over for 1898. I started in the spring with colonies and increast to TO, having hived back about 40 swarms, and about 10 swarms took the traveling fever like a good many Arkan- sas people do. and left me because I was not
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