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THE AMERICAN. BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 28, 1904. 



DOt, let me tell Mr. Hasty that whatever 

 might be the case, if a "critter" of the kind 

 got him (Hasty) in its clutch, the particular 

 lovely vision depicted had none too light a 

 hold on our Texas brother, otherwise he 

 could not have escaped so soon after the 

 honey-moon to be "one of the boys" on that 

 California trip. Moreover, I, who had oppor- 

 tunity to observe the manner and bearinj:^ of 

 the gentleman in que.slion, will give my testi- 

 mony that it was anything but that of a love- 

 lorn swain. 



As to keeping them off, Mr. Hasty, "crit- 

 ters" of that ilk are no doubt much the same 

 in Texas as elsewhere. You might find to- 

 bacco-smoke pungent enough to avail some- 

 what. It ought to be entirely eHective, but 

 unfortunately one can not warrant it in all 

 cases. While their natural instinct is against 

 it, constant association blunts the sensibility 

 of the " critters." Nebraska. 



Bee-Keeping in Southern Georgia. 



Bee-keeping here in southern Georgia is 

 mostly on the old-fashioned style — gums made 

 of hollow logs and goods boxes, etc. The 

 strain of bees is blacks, and are so spiteful 

 that some of the gums are never robbed at all. 



I have been keeping bees in this style for 15 

 years. Last year I got all the information I 

 could from bee papers and books, and trans- 

 ferred my apiary of 5!l colonies to the 8-frame 

 Langstroth hive. I lost one colony in the 

 operation, increased to S3, reared some queens, 

 bought some, and improved my strain of bees. 

 I got 1550 sections of honey, all No. 1, which 

 I sold at 12'.^ cents each. And I want to say, 

 I don't want to keep bees in the old-fashioned 

 way any more, although I was successful and 

 had good crops of bulk honey every year, and 

 got 10 cents per pound; and for some I got 

 12J.< cents. One contributor seems to approve 

 of this plan, as it is so cheap, and has gone so 

 far as to count up the expense for several 

 years ahead on the improved method. Yes, 

 and I am figuring ahead, too, but my bees 

 will pay their expenses, which they did this 

 year, and built all their combs from 1-inch 

 starters. 



When I started to transferring in the 

 spring, other people, as well as bee-keepers, 

 laughed at me and said I was silly, and my 

 name is still going as a bee-crank. 



My comb honey was all sold as fast as I 

 could take it from the hives, but the chunk 

 honey was harder to sell. 



I will keep bees on a somewhat larger scale 

 another year, and I am expecting to have a 

 partner or helper. 



The " Old Reliable " is a welcome visitor to 

 my home, and 1 wish it was a daily instead of 

 a weekly (through the winter, anyway). I 

 think I have read every line in every copy 

 since I subscribed. J. J. Wilder. 



Dooly Co., Ga., Dec. 10. 



Best Season in Many Years. 



The best honey season was 1903 since I have 

 kept bees, and I have been at it since the lat- 

 ter part of the 'OO's. The early part of the 

 season was cold and rainy, so the bees did not 

 do much, good— in fact. I had to do a good 

 deal of feeding, and doubled back from au to 

 33 colonies; but after the middle of June the 

 bees went to wcrK in earnest, both in gather- 

 ing honey and swarming. It was not a very 

 fast flow, but right steady, without any inter- 

 mission, until near the middle of August, 

 when there was a liitle let-up for about 10 

 days or 2 weeks, when they went at it again, 

 and carried in over 1800 pounds more of late 

 honey. My bees increased from 33 colonies 

 to 51, 4 became queenless, and I doubled them 

 back to 47, all in fair condition. 



My crop of honey for 1903 is 8360, 437 

 pounds being in 1-pound sections. If I had 

 been prepared for such a run I could have 

 had 10,000 pounds, easily. I got out of sup- 

 plies and extracting-combs, and had to let 

 several colonies be idle. One colony with a 

 ■queen became disgusted with things and 

 swarmed out. I saw them hanging in a tree 

 for an hour or two, but let them go to try 

 their luck elsewhere. 



My bees are still on the summer stands; I 

 can not find a suitable day to put them into 

 the cellar. The weather is so gradually get- 



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