New Holland, Pa., March 8, 1881.
=Mortality Reports.=—It seems to me that the only way of
profiting by the experience of bee-keepers throughout the
country, this exceptionally severe winter, is to reduce their
reports to a tabular statement. If they could be induced
to send in these reports, in the form of brief answers, to
questions like the following, we could read the history
of the past winter on a single page of the BEE JOURNAL,
and learn from it lessons of scientific value. I mean such
questions as these: