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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Jan. 17, 1901- 



ISHT WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. York & Co. 



118 Michigan St., Chicago, III. 



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A Good Report Fop 1900. 



I started the season of 1000 with 62 

 colonies of bees, increasing- to 115 col- 

 onies, and got 4500 pounds of nice 

 honey, all of which I sold in the home 

 market. .One-third of it was comb- 

 honey, which I sold for 10 cents per 

 pound, and the extracted at 8'j cents. 



LON ROSSON. 



Ellis Co., Tex., Dec. 27. 



Bees Did Fairly Well. 



My bees did fairly well the pa.st sea- 

 son, averaging 50 pounds per colony, 

 but it was very dry all summer, and 

 one of my neighbors did not get any 

 honey at all. There are very few bee- 

 keepers around here, and our bees have 

 a large range. They are wintering- 

 finely so far; Dec. 23d and 24th they 

 had a good flight, and look healthy 

 and strong in numbers. 



I am going to try the fences and. 

 plain sections next season as I believe 

 they are an improvement. 



J. Warrkn Sherman. 



Suffolk Co.. N. Y., Dec. 29. 



Report For the Season of 1900. 



We have had another poor honey 

 season in Texas, altho there was con- 

 siderably more honey produced than in 

 1899. We commenced the season with 

 500 colonies, had but little increase, 

 and harvested 21,100 pounds of honey, 

 divided as follows: Extracted 11,900 

 pounds; bulk comb, 7,840 pounds ; sec- 

 tion honey, 1,464 pounds. We have 

 had abundant fall rains, and vegeta- 

 tion is up ; we therefore expect a good 

 crop for 1901. 



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Williamson Co., Tex., Jan. 1. 



Bumble-Bees in Winter. 



On page .S()9 (1900) a beginner asks. 

 "Where do bumble-bees winter ? " I 

 am pleased with the question, and 

 would like to have some naturalist tell 

 us all about it. 



In Canada we have several kinds of 

 bumble-bees, some very small and oth- 

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