Mar. 17, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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FROM MANY FIELDS 



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A Good Year for Bees. 



Last year was a good honey-year for Old 

 Missouri. I ba«3 IB colonies of liees, spring 

 count, increased to 32, and got 200O pounds of 

 extracted and 200 pounds of comb iioney from 

 them. I have been in the bee-business for 15 

 years, and this is the largest average I ever 

 got. 



Two years ago all of my bees died excepting 

 "colonies. This is a very cold winter for bees 

 here. John N. Michael. 



Caldwell Co., Mo., Feb. 11. 



Cold Wintep in Mapyland. 



We have just passed though one of the cold- 

 est winters^ up to a few days ago, since ISSO. 

 The cold weather commenced about the mid- 

 dle of November add kept up until about Feb. 

 5. On Jan. 1 it was nice and warm, and on 

 the 21st, 22d and 23d of January there was a 

 little thaw. Sometimes the thermometer was 

 down as low as 20 below zero. I tind a great 

 many bees are dead throughout the country. 

 Last Saturday afternoon I drove up to my 

 farm, and found only 4 colonies dead out of 

 my apiary of 40 colonies. I fed them up in 

 the fall, and protected them from the north 

 winds, I have a few at my home, and they 

 are all in good shape. I put them into the 

 cellar during the cold, and carried them out 

 when there would be a warm spell, but they 

 were few and far between. 



I was in Washington, D. C, Jan. 21, 22, 23, 

 21 and 25, and on Sunday the 24th I went 

 about 22 miles north of Washingion to visit 

 and old friend, A. S. Dalb\ , a bee-keeper, and 

 he told me that he thought there were a great 

 many dead bees in his neighborhood. A lady 

 in Washington said she found 4 of her colo- 

 nies dead out of 32. If we do not have a very 

 early spring for them to breed up good and 

 strong we can't expect a big crop of honey. 



I find my colonies short of bees, and lots of 

 dead ones in the hives. We have good pros- 

 pect for a big crop of clover. I have about 

 acres of alsike clover on the farm, and a few 

 acres of crimson clover to start with. 



L. A. Hammond. 



Washington Co., Md., Feb. 8. 



Flies, Not Drones. 



On reading the item on page 99 (" Drones 

 as Gatherers "). I wished 1 was a Mr. Hasty, 

 or some one else so I could say what I think 

 and no notice would be taken of it! i'et I 

 will venture to say that those writers would 

 better put their spectacles on before some one 

 calls them novices, for I well know some one 

 would call me a novice were I to write such 

 for publication. Sure, they look very much 

 like a drone, but are far from being one. 

 Wings long, and large in body, but attennsc 

 are long and very pointed, needle-like. But 

 they are tlies all the same. If they will catch 

 one and send it to Prof. Cook they will be 

 convinced. 



Bees are wintering well. 



A. Y. Baldwin. 



DeKalb Co., 111., Feb. 15. 



A Good Season with the Bees. 



The past season was one of unusual worth and 

 interest to bee-keepers. There was an almost 

 uninterrupted honey-flow from May to 

 November, and the bees were gathering pol- 

 len from the chrysanthemums as late as 

 Nov. 21, consequently the largest crop for 

 many years was harvested. 



Basswood was the only source that I know 

 of that did not enter the contest for furnish- 

 ing the bees with nectar. Starting in the 

 spring with 12 colonies, I increased to 3S in 

 spite of judicious doubling up, manipulations 

 of every kink that I know of, and runaways. 

 I "took "1200 pounds of surplus, for all of 

 which I found a ready local market at 12'., 

 cents for chunk and 15 cents for the comb, not- 



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