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reduction in price also. Bear in mind, this is 

 the maximum price of everything, giving the 

 manufacturers as fair a show as possible; but 

 my hives cost me slill less than the figures 

 given above, as I buy my lumberby the thou- 

 sand feet, and my nails by the keg; but I give 

 these figures for the Iwnefit of any one who 

 might be in a location where building mater- 

 ials rule as they do here. 



It seems to me as if the companies who 

 manufacture bee-keepers' supplies are getting 

 to be just as greedy as any of the trust com- 

 bines; but if the Iwe-keepers would make 

 more of their supplies, which they could do if 

 they would, these supply keepers would have 

 to reduce their prices. 



It would be a good plan for the National 

 Bee-Keepers' Association to build a plant and 

 manufacture supplies for the members at a 

 small profit, but as I do not know about the 

 financial strength of the Association I would 

 not say that it would be advisable at the pres- 

 ent time; but this I do say: If all bee- 

 keepers felt the same toward the supply 

 manufacturers as I do, the manufacturers 

 would not get fat right away. 



William W. Jacobs. 



Middlesex Co., Mass. 



Rain in Nopthern California. 



I wrote once or twice not long since that 

 we were having rain galore. Yes, then we 

 thought we had enough, but it has been rain- 

 ing every day for some time, and the end is 

 not in sight. This portion of California is 

 getting'a terrible soaking, 35 inches having 

 fallen in Oakland and vicinity, and here the 

 fall is nigh 20 inches. Floods are common all 

 over the northern portion of the State. It 

 will be a great year for crops. Sunday I saw 

 big fields of yellow flowers near Oakland. 

 Many fruit-trees are in bloom, and the bees 

 fly merrily — when the sun has a chance to 

 come out. The year may rival our famous 

 1862— " the year of the flood." 



W. A. Pktal. 



San Francisco, Calif., March 22. 



Satisfied with His Start. 



I commenced the season of 1903 with one col- 

 ony of bees, paying |!5 00 for just the bees and 

 the combs they were on, but I thought I did 

 pretty well, anyway. I increased it to 4 colo- 

 nies, and got 190 pounds of surplus honey, 

 including some unfinished sections from 

 which 186 pounds of honey were extracted, 

 and the balance was comb honey. I sold 

 about 81~.00 worth of honey at 15 cents per 

 pound, and kept the rest for my own use. I 

 am wintering five colonies on the summer 

 stands. I was out to see them to-day, and 

 found them all alive and apparently in good 

 condition. We had a long spell of cold 

 weather here, and the bees did not have a 

 tlighl from Nov. 15 until Feb. 5. 



I have not heard how my neighbor bee-keep- 

 ers' bees are wintering, so I can not tell yet 

 what the losses will be. 



The American Bee Journal is all right. I 

 will not do without it as long as I keep bees, 

 if I can help it. Job Kramer. 



Sioux Co., Iowa, Feb. 32. 



Bees Wintered All Right. 



I have 35 colonies of bees; they wintered 

 all right, and every queen is alive this spring. 

 lam putting on supers now while "youse 

 fellers haint thawed aout yit." The bees are 

 working on almond bloom now; the next 

 bloom will be apricots, then peaches, prunes 

 and cherries, in rotation. The last two make 

 the lightest colored honey, selling at 10 cents 

 per section, wholesale. Apricots and almonds 

 make a very dark, rank honey, but after 

 standing some time it gets better. 



We are troubled in this section of the 

 United States with some cheap honey being 

 run in for any old price that the farmer, who 

 has only 2 or 3 colonies, can get. 



Most of the " embryo apiarists " get " cold 

 feet " after getting stung a few times, and let 

 the bees have their own way. I guess it is 

 the same everywhere, just a plain case of the 

 "survival of the fittest." There is no organ- 

 ization of bee-men iu this part of California; 



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