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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Mar. 3. 19C4. 



As to the results from my bees, I took 4600 

 pounds of honey, and increased to 1S4 colo- 

 nies by natural increase, and sold IS colonies 

 to neighbors (they furnishing the hives) for 

 $2.50 each. The next year (1900) honey re- 

 ceived was 8000 pounds, and increased to 290 

 colonies. The following spring I let out 11.5 

 colonies to an old bee-keeper, I receiving one- 

 half of the crop. I lost quite heavily winter- 

 ing, or rather springing. The first of .June 

 found me with 115 colonies, and my crop was 

 5.500 pounds of comb honey, and I increased 

 to 174 colonies. 



In 1902 I lost quite heavily in wintering and 

 springing, down to 108 colonies after selling 

 .50 colonies at .?4.00 per colony. The honey 

 crop was 4500 pounds of comb, and increased 

 to 180 colonies. 



The spring of 1903 was a very hard one in 

 Wood County, being very cold and wet, so the 

 first of June found me with 113 colonies, and 

 my crop was 3000 pounds of honey and in- 

 creased to 230 colonies. I have them all in the 

 cellar now. 



About the first of April I go up and take the 

 bees out of the cellar. My wife and two sons 

 will come up in .lune and give valuable aid in 

 caring for the bees. I. A. Travis. 



Walworth Co., Wis., Jan. 30. 



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Grading Comb Honey— Sweet Clover 



Mr. Taylor, on page 835 (1903), says some 

 things I have been thinking of saying some 

 time. 



In " fancy " honey it is required that both 

 comb and wood be free from stain. Now, I 

 can scrape the propolis from the wood, but 

 the uliiix I cannot remove, because it pene- 

 trates the wood. What harm can it do the 

 honey? Before using it is cut out and the 

 section likely goes into the stove. There 

 seems to he a craze for getting combs white. 

 Now, the bees sometimes fill the cells so full 

 that the capping comes in contract with the 



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