Watertown, Wis., March 8, 1881.
=Bees in Good Condition.=—The Weekly BEE JOURNAL is a welcome
visitor and is the first paper I read when I return home
on Friday evening. It is a friend that introduces me to my
fellow bee-keepers, and their manner of manipulating our
pets. My bees are in good spirits, yet they had but 2 flights
this winter. I have them packed in a shed in new Langstroth
hives, manipulating sides. They are 6 inches apart and packed
all around with straw, excepting the fronts. They face the
south, with a division board on each side of the frames,
leaving a dead air space.