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THE A, I. ROOT CO,, Medina, Ohio, 



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Bees in Fine Condition. 



I have about 50 colonies of bees all 

 put away in the cellar in fine condi- 

 tion, and expect they will come out all 

 right in the spring. E. C. Smith. 



Ashland Co., Wis., Jan. 14. 



Finding a Queen. 



I see by page 41 that our good friend. 

 Mr. E. E. Hasty, evidently misunder- 

 stood my statement on page 792 (1900). 

 What I wanted to say was that I al- 

 ways found the queen on the combs on 

 that side of the hive not occupied by 

 the ventilating bees at the entrance. 

 Thus while the queen is pursuing her 

 accustomed duties she enjoys the bene- 

 fit and the comfort of a well-ventilated 

 room without being exposed to the di- 

 rect draft of cool air which is forced 

 into the hive by the fanning bees. 



I am fully satisfied that this means 

 of finding the queen has real merit 

 when rightly understood. 



W. W. McNeal. 



Scioto Co., Ohio, Jan. 18. 



Poorest Season in 23 Years. 



My 250 colonies are all packt on the 

 summer stands, as usual, and seem to 

 be wintering nicely. The past season 

 was the poorest that I have had since I 

 have been keeping bees (23 years), as I 

 secured only one barrel of surplus 

 honey. 



The prospects are good for the com- 

 ing season, and if promises are realized 

 I am making preparations to increase 

 from 100 to 150 colonies. 



I have never undertaken anything- 

 that has paid me better than bee-keep- 

 ing, for the money and time invested. 

 Emii, J. Baxter. 



Hancock Co., 111., Jan. 11. 



Bees Did Well— Honey for Smallpox, 



My bees did first-rate the past sea- 

 son, considering the care they had, as 

 I was away for three months during 

 the best of the honey-flow. My chil- 

 dren took care of them, and took off 120 

 pounds per colony, and left enough in 

 the hives for winter stores. The win- 

 ter has been dry, not very stormy thus 

 far, and it has not been very cold ; the 

 bees have been out nearly every day, 

 and the prospect is good for the com- 

 ing season. 



A honey-cure recipe for smallpox was 

 publisht on page 40 (1897). I saw an 

 account of it in another journal later 

 in the year, but did not get the one 

 that had the cure in. If you would 

 please be kind enough to reprint it it 

 would be doing the people in this part 

 of the country a great deal of good. 



The Bee Journal comes to me every 

 Sunday morning, and it is a very wel- 

 come visitor. JosKi'H A. EE'SVIS. 



Navajo Co., Ariz., Jan. 17. 



[The smallpox cure mentioned by 

 Mr. Lewis, reads as follows :— Editor.] 



Experiments made with smallpox 

 patients in Oaxaca, show that by ad- 

 ministering honey diluted in water to 

 smallpox patients the pustules of the 



