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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 11, 1904. 



have the same number, 1S.5, and have left 

 them on the summer stands. The year I had 

 them in the cellar the weather was very warm 

 and open ; this year is theewldest I ever knew. 

 At the next town south, Salem, N. Y., it has 

 been 47 degrees ; atFairhaven, Vt., 1 hear that 

 the mercury went as low as 48 degrees below ; 

 here about 34 to 36 degrrees below, and I ex- 

 pect over 100 colonies are dead now. I will 

 report later. C. M. Lincoln. 



Bennington Co., Vt., .Tan. IS. 



Bees Winteping Well. 



I have 80 colonies of bees which are winter- 

 ing out-of-doors, and all are doing well. We 

 have had a regular winter for about 7 weeks. 

 We are having sleighing at present. 



Madison Co., Ind., Jan. 18. Rot Cox. 



Succeeding With Bees. 



When I reported last I had only 16 colonies 

 of bees, and now I have about 70. I obtained 

 from my best colony last year $21.50 worth of 

 honey, and from the poorest about $3.00 

 worth, the average being about S-S.OO per col- 

 ony. I produce bulk comb and extracted 

 honey which brings here 133^ cents per 

 pound. 



I have recently formed a partnership with 

 Mr. J. R. Sprinkle, who is " an enthusiastic 

 admirer of the elegant habits of bees," and 

 who realizes that practical knowledge is the 

 secret of successful bee-keeping. We are, 

 therefore, reading the best books and journals 

 pertaining to apiculture. I enjoy reading the 

 American Bee Journal more than any of the 

 other papers I have read on bee-keeping. 



Chas. L. Sams. 



Madison Co., N. C, Jan. 13. 



Wintering All Right So Far. 



The bees are wintering all right so far. I 

 don't think I have lostauy yet. I am winter- 

 ing 143 colonies. W. S. Feebaok. 



Nicholas (Jo., Ky., Jan. 16. 



Sweet Clovep foF Honey and Forage 



I wonder how long those who find sweet 

 clover honey to be of poor quality leave it on 

 the hive to ripen. Now my bees have access 

 to between 8 and 10 acres of sweet clover, and 

 I find the honey very good. A bee-keeping 

 neighbor about 3 miles from here, who has 

 100 colonies, which also have free access to 

 this plant, produces excellent honey — good, 

 heavy, clear, rich honey — but we are never in 

 a hurry to extract our honey. We leave it on 

 the hive until the season is well over ; in fact, 

 it remains on until all (lowers are destroyed 

 by frost. I confess that I cannot let any 

 piece of ground lie around waste without 

 scattering some sweet clover seed on it. I 

 sometimes feel tempted to scatter it along 

 the roadsides, and I don't think I would be 

 doing much harm, then, either. 



Talk about cattle not eating sweet clover ! 

 They will do it freely without any forcing, 

 when they get a taste for it. I have seen cat- 

 tle turn up their noses at alfalfa before now, 

 until they got used to it, and that is consid- 

 ered to be good enough for anything. 



W. D. Harris. 



Ontario, Canada, Jan. IS. 



Report for 1903— Swarming. 



I got my first bees 13 years ago, when in my 

 teens, and have been a faithful student of the 

 little insect since. 



The season of 1003 was probably the best 

 ever known for honey in this locality. On 

 my return home from the west, on May 15, I 

 had 31 colonies, 3 of which were cjueenless 

 and soon died, leaving 3S colonies, most of 

 which were strong. They increased to 47, 

 and stored UHOO pounds of comb honey. I 

 took off the first honey June 15; the last, Sept. 

 23. The bees worked all this time, with the 

 exception of about 10 days the first of August. 



The first part of the season several colonies 

 became queenless. 1 probably lost some 

 queens in manipulating, as, for instance, I 

 had been using an empiy hive, with a tele- 



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