June 6, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



363 



Farm Wagon Economy. 



The economy of this proposiiiun is not all 

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The Rural Californian 



Tells all about Bees in California. The yields 

 and Price of Honey; the Pasturage and Nectar- 

 Producing Plants; the Bee-Ranches and how 

 they are conducted. In fact the entire field is 

 fully covered by an expert bee-man. Besides 

 this the paper also tells you all about California 

 Agriculture and Horticulture. $1.00 per year; 6 

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BARNES' FOOT POWER MACHIRERY 



Read what J. I. Parent, of 

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 cut with one of your Com- 

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 50 chaff hives with 7-in. cap, 

 100 honey racks, 500 brood- 

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 a great deal of other work. 

 This winter we have double 

 the amount of bee-hives, etc., 

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EMERSON TAYLOR ABBOTT, Editor. 



A live, up-to-date Farm Journal with 

 a General Farm Department. Dairy, 

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 Veterinary, Home and General News. 

 Edited by one who has had practical 

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MODERN FARMER, 



9Ctf ST. JOSEPH, MO. 



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A Report from Massachusetts. 



This is more of a niarket-t^artlening coimtr.v 

 than auythin;.;- t'lse, with dairyin;,^ as a side- 

 issue. There is iici liuckwheat raised to speal; 

 of, and very little white clover. About 50 

 colonies, I shoulil judge, are kept within a 

 radius of two miles from here. Are " kept," 

 I say, but most of them keep themselves. 

 They are in box-hives owned by people who 

 never saw a bee-paper, and would not look at 

 one if they could, because their fathers never 

 did. In extra-sjood years they sometimes get 

 a little surplus honey, but in poor years their 

 bees starve. I bought one colony in a box- 

 hive tor ?2..t0 last spring (hybrids, I should 

 think), from which I took 20 pounds of fine 

 comb honey. The combs were very white 

 and well tilled out. but the honey was rather 

 dark, almost of a greenish color, but very 

 thick. I do not know what it could have 

 been gathered from. The bees did not swarm 

 last year, but will probably do so this year, 

 and I hope they will do still better. They 

 have wintered well on the summer stands. 

 Mrs. E. C. Fo.x. 



Middlesex Co., Mass., April 10. 



Prospect for a Successful Season. 



\\'e have ',H colonies, and the season bids 

 fair to be a successful one. Many of our 

 liives are already so full of bees that they are 

 banging outside considerably. None have 

 swarmed as yet. 



I find the American Bee Journal very use- 

 ful. S. M. Ali.'ex. 



Pierce Co., Wash., May 11. 



Clover and Bees Wintered Well. 



Bees wintered well, and the prospects for a 

 honey crop are good. Clover was not winter- 

 killed as it was the two previous winters. 



W. J. Brown. 



Ontario, Canada, May 13. 



Prospect for a Good Honey Crop. 



Colonies of bees are getting very strong it 

 it is cold, and the prospect is good for a large 

 honey crop. H. W. Lee 



Winnebago Co., 111., May 24. 



Migratory Bee-Keeping-Moving- 

 Bees. 



I have done more or less migratory bee- 

 keeping for a number of years, and have 

 hauled bees over all kinds of roads, in all 

 kinds of weather, and in every style of hive. 

 The hive matters but little, except that if it 

 is large and cumbersome it will make a differ- 

 ence in the number that can be hauled at one 

 time. I have only one large horse, and a 

 wagon made expressly for hauling bees, 

 heavy but with very easy springs, thus caus- 

 ing very little jar, and never breaking down 

 combs, although I have carried some very 

 frail ones. 



In the clover season my bees are taken to 

 my " Tucker " apiary, and at the close of this 

 flow I take them to the Zack Chandler marsh, 

 where there are thousands of acres of Spanish- 

 needle, which grades with clover in this 

 market. 



In jjreparing the bees for removal I have 

 only the bottom-lxiards fast. Nothing else is 

 done to them excei>t to remove the covers if 

 the hives will not tier up easily with them on. 

 I use no wire-cloth, and never close the bees 

 in. 1 drive to the yard, unhitch the horse, 

 and about dusk begin to load up. I usually 

 select a moonlight night, thus combining 

 pleasure with business. I have never had an 

 accident in moving them in this way, for if 

 they tind themselves at liberty, and therefore 

 settle ilown conteMtcd. while if they are shut in 



Italian Queens 



reared from the old reliable Leaiber-Colored 

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 of Ilaliaas to select my breeders from, and I 

 breed from uone but the very best honey-g^ath- 

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