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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 29. 1904. 



Good Reading-Matter a Great Help. 



I am enjoying- reading: the back 

 numbers of the American Bee Journal. 

 I have 12 colonies of bees, and if I had 

 had as much good reading- several 

 years ago as I am having now, I might 

 have had SO or 100 colonies. I use 10- 

 frame chaff hives. Ai.LEN C. Dicks. 



Grant Co., Ind., Sept. 19. 



Season Rather Unfavorable. 



My crop of honey this year will be 

 about 3000 pounds from 88 colonies, 

 spring count. I have increased but 

 little, as the season has been unfavor- 

 able. All of the new colonies, as well 

 as the old from which I got increase, 

 must be fed. I now have 96 colonies, 

 all in good condition for winter. 



Samuel H. Hitt. 



Jo Daviess Co., 111., Sept. 15. 



Many Swarms and Unfavorable 

 Weather. 



Our honey crop is not very good this 

 year, about one half crop of honey and 

 3 crops of swarms. We never had as 

 much swarming as this year. We had 

 swarms as late as September. 



The season opened fine ; it was nice 

 and warm with plenty of pollen to 



build from, but when the harvest came 

 cold rains with cold nights spoiled the 

 clover harvest, and the fall is pretty 

 much the same. Our crop will proba- 

 bly be 50 pounds to the colony, spring 

 count. Samubl C. Majors. 



Nemaha Co., Nebr., Sept. 16. 



Drones and Queens Feeding Them- 

 selves. 



I notice on page 611 a letter from a 

 Dupage Co. bee-keeper saying drones 

 have been seen feeding themselves. I 

 have observed the same thing many 

 times. I've observed something more 

 wonderful than that — if that can be 

 considered wonderful — and that is one 

 queen feeding another. Desiring to 

 requeen some colonies, two queens that 

 had been removed from the hives were 

 put into the same cage ; they clinched 

 for apparently a life-and-death strug- 

 gle, but soon released their grasp, and 

 one of them commenced eating some 

 honey that had been put on the screen 

 cloth ; then went to the other queen 

 and went through all the motions of 

 feeding her, and there was no more 

 fighting between them; but another 

 queen being put into the cage, she 

 killed them both sooner than it takes 

 to tell it. Wm. M. Whitney. 



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