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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Mar. 24, 19C4. 



that is gathered all from one plant always 

 granulates, but honey gathered from all kinds 

 of flowers never does. I have never heard of 

 it granulating in this place. 



I run my bees in S-frame Langstroth hives. 



I saw in a daily paper that there was a big 

 meeting of bee-keepers at Hanford the other 

 day : they are going to club together to get 

 more money for their honey, and also get 

 cheaper hives. R. Thompson. 



Marin Co., Calif., Jan. 3. 



A Teppible Winter. 



Isn't this winter terrible ; But as terrible 

 as it is, my bees had a glorious flight on the 

 Cth of this month. I looked through them 

 all and found them iu good condition. Plenty 

 of stores left. The knowledge of that took 

 an anxious burden off my mind. The next 

 day (Sunday) it was -10 degrees colder, and it 

 has been still colder since. 



The double-size number of the Bee Jour- 

 nal was flue. All of them are. 



R. B. McCain. 



Grundy Co., 111., Feb. 10. 



Blessed with Some Rain. 



Since writing you a day or two ago, Cali- 

 fornia has been blessed with a Une rain, and 

 the hearts of all have been made glad. It 

 amounted to 1.13 inches at this point, making 

 for the season, to date, 1.70 inches. The 

 storm has cleared, and it is very pleasant out- 

 side to-day. Albert Rozeli.. 



Los Angeles Co., Calif., Feb. 6. 



Too Long Confinement. 



My bees had a good flight the 6th. So far I 

 have lost 6 colonies — I think, from too long 

 conflnenient. I winter them on the summer 

 stands. Six da.vs more of conflnenient would 

 have made it '6 months since they had had a 

 flight. Most of the balance (6fl colonies) are 

 in good condition at present. 



John S. Dowdy. 



Logan Co., 111., Feb. S. 



Results of the Season of 1903. 



Last spring my bees were taken from the 

 cellar and placed on the summer stands April 

 1. My winter loss was .5 colonies, and I had 

 15 left, all in good condition. One of those 

 that died during the winter starved to death ; 

 the other 4 had plenty of honey. I don't 

 know the cause of their dying. 



My bees built up very fast, and by the last 

 of May had become so strong that they com- 

 menced to swarm. I put supers on early, as I 

 discovered that they were getting strong. 

 They went into the supers and commenced to 

 fill them with honey, but swarm they did. 

 This was not the case with my bees alone, but 

 it was the almost universal complaint, very 

 few exceptions. It made no difference whether 

 they were worked for comb or extracted 

 honey, they seemed to have the swarming 

 fever, and nothing would slop them until the 

 fever abated. 



Notwithstanding the swarms that issued 

 they gathered a large amount of honey ; there 

 were many tons of honey gathered in this 

 and adjoining counties. My bees did very 

 well the first part of the season, but not as 

 well as many others. My colonies increased 

 to 42, but I doubled 10 colonies and made 5, 

 giving me 37, and they produced 500 pounds 

 of comb honey, and two-thirds of this was 

 taken from old colonies that cast two 

 swarms each. The honey season closed with 

 the end of basswood and clover bloom. The 

 amount of fall honey gathered in this section 

 of country was so insignificant that it is not 

 worthy of mention. This accounts for the 

 small amount of honey I obtained from my 15 

 colonies, spring count, or 37 at the close of the 

 swarming season. 



When the honey-flow stopped all the late 

 swarms ceased to build comb or gather honey, 

 consequently when the time came to put them 

 in winter quarters 1 found 10 colonies too 

 light, both in bees and honey, to think of 

 wintering them, so I was just cruel enough to 

 destroy the bees and extract the honey and 

 save the combs for use next season. I expect 



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