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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Jan. 24, 1911. 



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workt eight days myself. Counting" 

 my work worth S2.50 per day would be 

 S20, hence my spring- valuation and all 

 expense to date would be ?163. 



My bees increast 10 colonies, which 

 at $4.00 per colony would be worth S-4-0 ;. 

 I extracted 22 cases of honey, 120- 

 pounds per case, or 2,640 pounds, which 

 sold at 6 cents per pound would bring 

 S1S8.40. This with the increase worth 

 540 makes a total of S198.40, the income 

 on a S163 investment, allowing- myself 

 S2.50 per day for the time I workt. 

 How is that for a greenhorn ? 



C. E. Stevens. 



San Diego Co., Calif., Jan. 2. 



Did Fairly Well— Paper-Bag Feeder. 



My bees did fairly well the forepart 

 of the summer, but the fall crop of 

 honey was an entire failure on account 

 of the dry weather, tho all had a good 

 supply for winter stores. One colony 

 that did not swarm stored 54 pounds of 

 honey, besides having plenty for win- 

 ter. The colonies that swarmed stored 

 no surplus honey ; I had Sll worth in 

 all. I sold one colony, and put 12 intc> 

 winter quarters on the summer stands. 



I do not quite understand Mr. Ker- 

 nan's article (page 606, 1900) on paper- 

 bag feeders, and wish he would be kind 

 enoug-h to give his plan a little more 

 completely, in the Bee Journal. Does 

 he make the pin-holes on the top of the 

 sack, or where ? and does he make 

 many of them ? I was quite favorably 

 imprest with the plan, as I have so 

 much feeding to do, and no one to help 

 me. Mrs. Sarah J. Griffith. 



Cumberland Co., N. J., Jan. 2. 



Report For the Season of 1900. 



I had 120 colonies, spring count ; I 

 divided the strong colonies and now 

 have 165 in fair condition, I hope. I 

 have done nothing with them since 

 July, but manzanita is beginning to 

 bloom and I must overhaul them at 

 once. 



The amount realized on honey the 

 past season averaged about $2.00 per 

 colony. It has been higher than I 

 have ever seen it since I have kept 

 bees. C. W. Kerlin. 



Monterey Co., Cal. Jan. 1. 



"Reducing the Swarming Habit." 



My bees are in fine condition ; the 

 weather could not be better for them 

 to clean house, and have a good flight. 



On page 819 (1900) I noticed an edi- 

 torial on "Reducing the Swarming 

 Habit." I can agree with Mr. Lathrop 

 and Mr. McNay (and many other 

 bee-keepers can do likewise), in saying 

 that by careful attention on the part 

 of the bee-keeper swarming can be 

 discouraged, but I can not agree with 

 them in saying that bees can be reared 

 that will be non-swarmers, for this 

 reason : 



I have been keeping bees — tho not 

 continuously — since 1883. I sold out 

 in Nov., 1897, but started again in the 

 business in 1899 with 7 colonies, which 

 I have increast to 13 ; in all these years 

 I have had but two natural swarms. 

 When I sold out in 1897 one bee-keeper 

 bought 4 colonies that I had had for 6 

 years — one colony with a 3-year-old 

 queen, two colonies with two-year-old 

 queens, and one colony with a queen 

 of July, 1897 — and in all that time they 



