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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug-. 4, 1904 



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WINTER-CASE for almost the II 



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to say regarding our Winter-Cases. It 



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Messrs. R. H. Schmidt Co., Sheboygan, Wis. <& 

 Dear Sirs:— Tlie NEW CUAMPION WINTER-CASES which I bought of you four M 

 years ago, have given me entire satisfaction, and I am more than pleased with same. L,ast j^ 

 winter being the severest in years my neighboring bee-keepers lost from SO to % percent of ^ 

 their bees, while mine— every colony packed in your cases-came out good and strong. I S 

 wintered a 3 frame Nucleus last winter, and when I took off the winter-cases, April 20th, li- 

 the 3-frame Nucleus had 2 frames of brood. 'ij> 

 Please send me by freight 100 more of NEW CHAMPION WINTER-CASES. En- S 

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JOHN BODENSCHATZ. <T> 



in dry leaves. His winter loss is 

 usually quite small. 



Mr. McNeill is a prohibitionist, and 

 has voted that way for 20 years. He 

 edits a temperance column in the 

 Weekly Gazette, and holds up the tem- 

 perance cause. G. W. McGuire. 



Columbia Co., N. Y., July 18. 



A Report fpom the Cpawford Co., 

 Wis., Apiary. 



Being- personally in charge at the 

 above apiary here on the Wisconsin 

 River, I have had a g^ood oversight of 

 this iield. We had a fair crop of light 

 amber spring- honey, a mixture that 

 probably included the nectar of dande- 

 lions, raspberries, a small amount of 

 white clover, apple and wild fruits. 

 This honey was clear, of good body, 

 and pleasing flavor. White clover 

 made no showing ; although there ap- 

 peared to be an abundance of plants 

 the bloom was scattering, and what 

 there was did not appear to have any 

 nectar in it. I attribute this largely 

 to the fact that the plants were seed- 

 lings. Next year these plants will be 

 due to produce a crop of honey. I have 

 noticed for many years that when we 

 have a general seed crop it is followed 

 by a crop of young plants (if there has 

 been rain enough to cause the seed to 

 germinate), and then we will not have 

 a paying crop from the field until the 

 second year. 



Basswood has yielded fairly well, 

 and lasted from the 6th until the 22d 

 of July. One thing is very noticeable, 

 the honey was simply ripe and heavy 

 almost as soon as deposited in the 

 hive ; this in spite of the fact that we 

 have had plenty of rain since basswood 

 first began to come into bloom. Bass- 

 wood, as a rule, is apt to be thin and 

 watery when first gathered, and some 

 bee-keepers have made a bad record for 

 themselves by extracting too soon. 

 This year there will be much thin 

 honey if all fields are like mine. The 

 honey that we are taking out to-day is 

 more like wax than a liquid, and that 

 right on top of the barrel. Who can 

 tell why the honey, or nectar, rather, 

 should be so much heavier some sea- 

 sons than others ? 



The white clover honey of 1903 could 

 not be excelled for quality, but the 

 basswood crop of this year need occupy 

 no second place. 



Just now the bees are working on 

 catnip, and we look for a crop from 

 autumn flowers on ihis field. 1 would 

 certainly dislike to depend upon a field 

 which produced only white clover, as 

 that plant is not one that yields every 

 year. It will be seen from what I have 

 said that we have a chance for four 

 runs, in the following order : Spring 

 flowers, white clover, basswood, fall 

 amber. 



Mr. Whitney, in an article in the 

 last issue of Gleanings in Bee-Culture, 

 talks as though it would be right and 

 proper to urge all farmers to keep bees. 

 I think there is very little sense to such 

 an argument. There is no more rea- 

 son why every farmer should keep bees 

 than that he should raise every kind of 

 crop that is produced on earth, and en- 

 gage in every otiier line of work that 

 can be done on a farm. I believe that 

 bee-keeping is a profession, and should 

 be followed by tliose who make it their 

 calling. The nectar in flowers be- 

 longs no more to certain land-owners 



