. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. A Beginner With Bees. Last fall I bought a colony of bees, and after I had brought them home the man told me tbe queen was dipt. I started last spring with 2 colonies, and got 5 swarms. I have 7 colonies in the cellar now, that are wintering finely so far. I have a cellar built for bees, and nothing else. I keep the temperature from 2 to 4 degrees above freezing. I have a cloth over the frames, and the cover on with a wedge under it at the back. F. E. Kn'aim'. Wadena Co., Minn., Jan. 16. Cold Winter in Arizona, We are having the coldest and most snow
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. A Beginner With Bees. Last fall I bought a colony of bees, and after I had brought them home the man told me tbe queen was dipt. I started last spring with 2 colonies, and got 5 swarms. I have 7 colonies in the cellar now, that are wintering finely so far. I have a cellar built for bees, and nothing else. I keep the temperature from 2 to 4 degrees above freezing. I have a cloth over the frames, and the cover on with a wedge under it at the back. F. E. Kn'aim'. Wadena Co., Minn., Jan. 16. Cold Winter in Arizona, We are having the coldest and most snow this winter that we have had in this part of the country for many years. The mer- cury runs down 12 degrees below zero. That is cold for this part of the country. We are located a little south of the 34th parallel of latitude, with an altitude of about 7,000 feet, but still my bees have been wintered on the summer stands in single-walled hives, and came out all right in the spring, but just how they will come out this spring is hard to tell at this time, but at)Out 10 days ago they were all right. But I will not take such desperate chances another winter. The honey crop in lSi)7 was very light here, owing to a dry time the latter part of May and inrst of June. The alfalfa did not yield much nectar. The American bee- plant which grows in great abundance here was fairly good. We don't have much sweet clover as yet. We are looking for- ward to a more profitable season this year. Joseph A. Lewis. Navajo Co., Ariz., Jan. 27. A Report from Florida. There was a severe drouth in this portion of Florida last summer, and many colonies of bees perisht. Their owners say that "the moths eat 'em ; Lately I visited an apiary of four colonies; they were very small, black bees, and very spiteful. I've never come across any amiable ones here. One of the colonies was very weak, and many small, black ants were coming and going from the entrance. I account for the loss of the colonies
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