Feb. 14, 1901 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



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quite yellow, being markt better than 

 most of the Italians in this country. 

 The workers are smaller and darker, 

 and are great fighters ; I don't know 

 whether the queens fight or not, but I 

 think they do. The whole colony 

 works for a living — the drones as well 

 as the rest. I do not know that they 

 carry in any stores, but I have seen 

 them working on thistles. Like the 

 honey-bee drones they have no sting. 

 I have heard of boys catching them 

 and sucking the honey out of them, 

 but I have never tried it. 



Twice in my life I have found a sin- 

 gle bumble-bee three or four inches 

 down in the ground, under leaves or 

 trash, but I don't believe it would have 

 come out the next spring alive unless 

 there had been a great deal of salt put 

 on it, and maybe not then. 



The hornets also go South, or else 

 they all die, and a new queen comes 

 from the South. They don't make 

 their appearance here until about June, 

 then one starts a nest and keeps build- 

 ing up until fall, just as the bumble- 

 bees do, then they all die or disappear. 



The past season was the poorest we 

 have had in 30 years. I have been in 

 the bee-business for nearly that length 

 of time, but have never seen anything 

 like it. There was a pretty fair growth 

 of white clover but it secreted no nec- 

 tar. I don't think there was a pound 

 of surplus honey gathered in this 

 neighborhood. We have had no honey 

 worth mentioning in the last four 

 years, but we still live in hopes, tho it 

 seems a long time coming. 



Thomas Wall.^ck. 



Adams Co., 111., Jan. 22. 



Poor Prospects for Next Season. 



The prospects for a good honey sea- 

 son in this locality are away below 

 par again, I am sorry to say. We have 

 had only two fairly good rains thus far 

 this winter, and there is a deficiency of 

 over two inches of normal precipita- 

 tion, which means a good deal in this 

 land of " excess of sunshine." 



Since reading of the Bee Journal's 

 loss by fire I take pleasure in forward- 

 ing my dollar for renewal subscription, 

 and hope all bee-keepers will be prompt 

 in coming to the assistance of the 

 journal which is devoted soleh' to their 

 interests. The three successive poor 

 honey seasons here have made it seem 

 best for me to drop three other bee-pa- 

 pers, but I must retain at least one to 

 keep in touch with the bee-keeping 

 world. F. C. Wiggins. 



San Diego Co., Calif., Jan. 1<). 



Handled Bees 50 Years Rearing 

 Queens. 



I am 62 years of age and have han- 

 <iled bees for the past 50 years. I lived in 

 Royalton, Vt., until 13 years ago, when 

 I came to Florida. I commenced using 

 the Langstroth hives and frames in 

 1865. In 18b7 I bought 10 colonies of 

 Italian bees bred from imported queens. 

 During the past two years I have in- 

 troduced about 400 queens very success- 

 fully. For the 10 years that I have 

 kept bees in Florida I have averaged 

 100 pounds of extracted honey to the 

 colony, and increast from 12 to 400 

 colonies. 



My bees do not always behave as 

 nicely as the bees belonging to some 



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