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AMERICAN BEE lOUKNAL 



Nov. 7, 19( 1. 



Standard BelQian flare Book ! 



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Fairly Good Season. 



Bees did fairly well the past season, consid- 

 ering- the drawbacks. White cloyer did not 

 amount to anything. I had 40 eolonies, 

 spring count, and increased to 60, and have 

 taken off, up to date, 3,084 pounds of honey, 

 l.ruO of which is comb. I haye sold most 

 of this from my honey-room, at 13 and 1.5 

 cents per pound. I kept further increase back 

 by caging the queen in the parent colony. 

 After 9 days I destroyed all cells, and then re- 

 leased the queen. Honey is what I am after, 

 not bees. Silas Johnson. 



Marshall Co., W. Va., Oct. 21. 



Purity in Queens. 



1 saw an answer to my article on page .530 

 as to the purity of drones. Mr. Hasty, on page 

 liir. does not understand me. I said that 1 

 did not believe that a queen that would pro- 

 duce black and golden drones was pure, and 

 he goes on to say that wild birds are pure, yet 

 the male, in manytases, is brilliant in color, 

 while the female is plain looking. But sup- 

 pose we take lots of our White Leghorn 

 chickens that are pure, and we will then pro- 

 duce white chickens still. What I meant was 

 that our bees will, if pure, produce either 

 golden or black drones, and not two kinds 

 from the same mother. I meant that if our 

 queens and bees are three-banded, then our 

 drones should be one color. I am not after 

 three-banded queens, but I wanted to know if 

 it could be possible that they were pure. 



R. C. Abernathy. 



Fannin Co., Tex., Oct. 16. 



Honey Crop Not Extra. 



The honey crop has not been very extra here. 

 [ got 1'., tons from 4a eolonies, spring count, 

 only .500 pounds of this being comb honey. 

 " The Home Circle" is very delightful read- 

 ing. Herman Ahlehs. 



Clatsop Co., Oreg., Oct. 31. 



Poorest Year in Seven. 



This has been a very poor year for bees in 

 this part of the country. Although reports 

 have been good, 1 fear they have been made 

 only to keep the price of honey down. I have 

 ISO colonies, and had 12 swarms the past sea- 

 son. I have extracted once and got only 13 

 cases, and will not have half a crop this year. 



I am in one of the best localities in the 

 county. I have kept bees for seven years and 

 this has been the poorest we have ever had. 



1 have taken the American Bee Journal for 

 one year, and like it very much. 



W. M. Wilson. 



Tulare Co.. Calif., Sept. 10. 



Where Bumble-Bees Winter— Poor 

 Season. 



On page 108, I notice a letter from Thomas 

 Wallace in regard to bumble-bees in winter. 

 I suppose the majority of people think they 

 go South, but I do not agree with them. Last 

 spring 1 was grubbing stumps, when I found 

 proof to the contrary. I found one nearly 14 

 inches below the surface of the ground. 1 

 caught it by the wings when it started to 

 •• se-se," like all bumble-bees, and in 15 min- 

 utes it flew away. I found them the same 

 way the latter part of .September. The first 

 thing bumble-bees work on is the gooseberry, 

 and I have not seen them fly until that bush is 

 in bloom. 



The hornets, also, winter between the bark 

 of old, rotten trees, fur 1 have found them 

 there very late in the fall. They were weak, 

 the same as the bumble-bees. I think they 

 must winter here, the same as grasshoppers, 

 snakes, toads, frogs, etc., which arc never 

 seen in winter. Last winter I found a snake 

 which was covered with a few leaves, where I 

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