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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 17, 19( 1. 



were plenty of Ijlossoms, and I never 

 saw bees do better on fruit-bloom. 



I can not do \vithout the American 

 Bee Journal as long as I keep bees, 

 which will probably not be many years 

 more, as I am 71 years old. 



S. H.\KPST. 



Mercer Co., Pa., Dec. 31. 



Prospect Fair Fop Next Season. 



The honey crop last season was an 

 entire failure in this part of Ohio. 



Bees are enjoying a flight to-day. 

 Mine appear to be all right, tho I had 

 to feed for winter. 



White clover is plentiful and the 

 prospect is fair for the coming season. 

 G. C. Allingkr. 



Marion Co., Ohio, Jan. 10. 



How to Sell Candied Honey. 



Years ago I came to the conclusion 

 that the proper way to dispose of ex- 

 tracted honey was to sell it in tin pack- 

 ages in the candied form, and I began 

 putting up our honey for the winter 

 trade in raised-cover tin pails, and 

 for my trouble I met lots of opposition, 

 but I determined that the battle must 

 be fought along that line. I first had 

 to overcome the prejudice to candied 

 honey by guaranteeing my honey to 

 be strictly pure, and that it would 

 candy in cold weather. The next 

 trouble was that the packages were 

 too dear for my customers, and I be- 

 gan using 3-pound tin fruit-cans and 

 sealing the lids with wax (grafting 

 wax is best). I get 23 cents per can, or 

 $2.75 per dozen ; this is for fall honej', 

 mostly touch-me-not. I buy the cans 

 by the gross, and stick on them a neat 

 label. For the summer trade I use the 

 one-pound glass jars to a small extent. 

 I get SI. 32 per dozen for pound jars. 



My crop of honey was 1,675 pounds 

 of extracted honey from 63 colonies. 

 C. A. Bunch. 



Marshall Co., Ind., Dec. 28. 



Wintering First-Rate. 



There was not a blossom of white 

 clover or linden the past season, and 

 my bees did very little. They are 

 wintering first-rate. 



The thermometer is 8 degrees above 

 zero this morning, and weather clear. 

 We have had but little snow, and fine 

 weather. H. Mksser. 



Green Co., Pa., Jan. 4. 



Not Much Surplus Honey— Foul 

 Brood. 



The bees did not store much surplus 

 last season. They did fine in the 

 spring during maple, elm, box-elder 

 and locust bloom, and also during fruit- 

 bloom of all kinds. I expected to get 

 a large amount of honey, but you know 

 how often we are disappointed in our 

 expectations, and I did not get over 25 

 pounds of surplus honey, all told. 

 Swarming commenced the latter part 

 of April and continued until June 2d. 

 My bees never were, in better condition 

 for work, being very strong. I sold 40 

 colonies the latter part of May to a 

 bee-keeper in this county, and he se- 

 cured considerable honey. 



I have about SO colonies left, which 

 are in good condition for winter. I 

 winter my bees on the summer stands. 



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and they are always packt, suminer 

 and winter — "what will keep out the 

 cold will keep out the heat," you 

 know. The covers are sealed down 

 tight, and soft-maple leaves are packt 

 two inches in front of the hives, 4 to S 

 inches at the sides and back, and 7 or 

 8 inches on the top of the cover. The 

 outside cover is 's to '2 inch thick. 

 All hives have good shingle covers 

 projecting all around the ends and 

 sides. I can put my hand in among- 

 the leaves on top of the hive in the 

 coldest weather and it will be quite 

 warm. I have had very little winter 

 loss for a number of years, or since I 

 got rid of foul brood. 



I lost hundreds of colonies from foul 

 brood. I bought some bees that had 

 it, and once it got into the apiary I 

 had a time of it. I did not then know 

 what it was, but tried everything to- 

 get rid of it, and burned a great many 

 colonies, hives and all. That was 

 about 8 or 9 j-ears ago, and I do not re- 

 member when I got rid of it. 



Some of the old hives that were in 

 use at that time were piled up, their 

 covers put on after the bees were dead, 

 and were left in the apiary. I cleaned 

 out some of them two or three years 

 ago and put new swarms into them. I 

 boiled some of the frames so as to be 

 on the safe side, and tried a few with- 

 out boiling, and there was no differ- 

 ence — no signs of foul brood in either 

 case — so I scraped all the old hives 

 and frames and they are now in use. 

 I sent specimens of the foul brood to 

 A. I Root and Dr. Howard. I detested 

 the odor of foul brood, but workt with 

 it until I got rid of it. 



D. C. McLkod. 



Christian Co., 111., Dec. 29. 



Bees Did Pooply. 



Bees did poorly in this neighbor- 

 hood last season, but mine gathered 

 enough for winter and stored an av- 

 erage surplus of 12 pounds per colon3', 

 amber extracted, from fall flowers. 



May the American Bee Journal long- 

 prosper, and if bee-keepers can't afford 

 to send in the dollar we might as well 

 give up trying to keep bees. 



S. O. Larson. 



Isanti Co., Minn., Dec. 31. 



Report Fop the Season of 1900. 



We run about 250 colonies for comb 

 and extracted honey the past season, 

 and averaged SO pounds to the colony. 

 We hope to do better in 1901. 



We winter our bees on the summer 

 stands with sawdust on top of the 

 frames. W. J. Stewart. 



Utah Co., Utah, Dec. 31. 



AsteP as a Honey-Plant Introduc- 

 ing Queens. 



The honey-crop in 1900 was about as 

 much of a failure as in 1899, if not 

 worse, but we should be thankful for 

 what little we did get, and hope for 

 better things the coming season. 



I began with two colonies, spring 

 count, increast to five, and secured 198 

 pounds of honey. nZII3 t^3 



I also had charge of an apiary which 

 we began with 23 colonies, spring 

 count, increast to 24, and secured l,20i> 

 pounds of extracted honey, mostly 

 from aster. 



Mr. W. W. McNeal certainly gives 



