April 7, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



269 



caught in the Court House window, another 

 one, that 1 got in June, I carriet-l half a mile 

 on my back through the main street. By fall 

 I had '-'U pounds of comb honey from this 

 swarm. My bees increased to 4S colonies, 

 and their united efforts furnished me with 

 3000 pounds of nice comb honey, which I sold 

 in and around town for Vi^._. cents per pound. 



I keep my bees in a small lot in town. I 

 have a bee-house 52 feet long. S feet high, and 

 li and S feet wide, double-decked. On the 

 north side, hack of the bees, is a passage-way 

 in which I do all the work. 



1 lost a number of queens on their first 

 light last year, caused, I think, by having 

 the hives so close together. I always winter 

 ray bees in the cellar, and have never lost a 

 colony except through starvation. I ventilate 

 the cellar with a boiler-flue. 



I have received queens from the East, and 

 from the South. My dandies are from Texas, 

 and they are hustlers. I have various strains 

 of i»eei, some practicall.v non-swarming, while 

 others who handle their bees in the same man- 

 ner have swarms year after year. I have 

 about HOO halt-finished sections stored away. 

 What shall I do with them? 



A. C. Jackman. 



Wright Co., Iowa, Feb. 24. 



Report for Last Season. 



A queen I got as a premium seemed to do 

 well, although I got her late in June, and 

 the honey-flow stopped the middle of July. I 

 could not find out what her bees would do, 

 but they are of a nice yellow-gold color. I 

 always liked the Italians bees. I have no 

 time for the black bees, although there are a 

 lot of them in this part of the country; I 

 never could handle them like the Italians. 

 The first bees I had were blacks, but I Ital- 

 ianized them. I started in bee-keeping five 

 years ago, with one colony of blacks, and I 

 have been increasing slowly, I did not want to 

 start in too fast. I now have l."i colonies and 

 they are aliout all I can attend to with my 

 farm work. I don't neglect the bees for all 

 the farm work ; I like it better than farm- 

 ing. 



Here is a report of my crop : I had 11 colo- 

 nies, in 11103, spring count, and got 1,000 

 pounds of comb honey, 400 pounds extracted, 

 and increased to 15 colonies, which I put 

 into the cellar last November. They are win- 

 tering in fine shape. I expect a good crop 

 next season. 



We have had a cold winter in northern Wis- 

 consin. 



The American Bee Journal helped me a 

 great deal ; it is well worth SI. 00 a year. Some 

 of my neighbors keep bees, but they don't 

 take any bee-paper, and I cannot get them to 

 subscribe, either; and they do not get any 

 crop of honey from their bees. I intend to 

 keep more bees in the future. 



Edward Duax, 



Chippewa Co., Wis., Feb. 26. 



Races and Sizes of Bees— Bee-Keep- 

 ing in Mississippi. 



In answer to Mr. John Kennedy, of Adams 

 Co., Miss., in the Bee Journal of December 

 31, 1803, I would say that when I commenced 

 bee-keeping, in 18T4, for many years I had 

 only the bidck bee. There were no other 

 kinds in the county. I then introduced two 

 other kinds, a large brown bee and a very 

 black bee of smaller size. The latter were 

 very vicious. One colony was so combative 

 that a Cyprain could not surpass them. I was 

 compelled to kill their queen. The brown 

 bees were remarkably gentle. 



It is often remarked by bee-keepers here, 

 that with an apiary of pure Italians they will 

 gradually breed away all their yellow marks, 

 as I noticed in an apiary in Arkansas, owned 

 by a bee-keeper from the North, who had 

 none but Italians. One cause, in my opinion, 

 was mating with native drones from the forest. 



In regard to size of bees, I have the three- 

 banded, long-tongued Italians, that are even 

 larger than our brown bees, mid from their 

 size are, therefore, longer fngued. My 

 Golden Italians, Holy Land^. and Cyprians 

 are smaller, and the Carniolans are about the 

 same. The size of Mr. Kenne.i. 's bees may 

 result from the strain he purcliised. I can 



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