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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Jan. 10 19tl. 



and if so, I wish there might some day 

 be publisht an article giving^ his ex- 

 perience with it. 



We have a honey-plant here that is 

 a good one. It is a biennial, and has 

 only a few long narrow leaves the 

 first year ; the second year it has a 

 long stalk and commences to bloom. 

 The flowers are blue, and from June 

 until frost you should see the bees on 

 it ; I have heard them fairly shouting 

 over it, like a lot of schoolboys just let 

 loose. I do not know the name of it, 

 but the flowers are not larger than a 

 Canadian five-cent piece. I have seen 

 them growing only in two places in 

 Canada, and it seems to me we must 

 have gotten them in some brewery re- 

 fuse in some way, as they were grow- 

 ing around breweries. 



W. D. H.\RRis. 



Ontario, Canada, Dec. 21. 



Did FalPly Well. 



Bees did fairly well in this locality. 

 I secured about 4,000 pounds of comb 

 honey from 57 colonies, with an in- 

 crease of 20. C. A. Stann.^rd. 



Lapeer Co., Mich. 



A Discouraging Season. 



In the spring we started with the ex- 

 pectation of having a good honey sea- 

 son, as our bees were out in good time, 

 and went to work. The weather was 

 warm so that we soon had, plenty of 

 bees. White clover bloomed in abun- 

 dance the last of May, but the bees did 

 not store any honey from it. Bass- 

 wood has been our main source for 

 honey, but the worms destroyed that 

 two or three years ago. and last fall 

 they stript the trees of their leaves 

 again. Our crops this season run all 

 the way from to SO percent of a crop, 

 so far as I can learn of my bee-keep- 

 ing neighbors. Some sell their comb 

 honey at 10c per pound, and the ex- 

 tracted at from 5 to 8 cents. It is hard 

 to keep up a home trade where we run 

 across some one else peddling it at SO 

 cents per gallon, and three sections for 

 25 cents. I get 8 cents per pound for 

 extracted honey, and that is the only 

 kind I have. F. C. Smith. 



Pierce Co.. Wis.. Dec. 19. 



A Successful Beginner's Report. 



Two years ago I became interested 

 in bees by hiving a large swarm that 

 alighted near my home. I put them 

 in the back yard and began to study 

 their hibits. I found the subject so 

 interesting that I gave it all my spare 

 time. Not knowing exactly how to 

 care for them, the first winter killed so 

 many that I started in the spring with 

 only a handful, and it was all they could 

 do to get ready for last wiuter, but they 

 came thru in fine condition. I took 

 off the first surplus honey (28 pounds) 

 last summer, and fixt them for this 

 winter leaving them about 35 pounds of 

 honey. I use the lo-frame Langstroth 

 hive. A bee-keeper living near here 

 who saw the bees last summer said it 

 was the finest colony he had ever seen. 

 Having just the one colony, and buying 

 the very best of everything, I was able 

 to keep it as neat as a pin, and I also 

 profited by the valuable suggestions 

 found in the American Bee Journal. 

 As soon as possible I hope to increase 

 to 3 colonies, which will be as many as 

 my business will allow me to care for. 



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