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Dec. 19, 1911. 



main honey month. I had but a few colonies, 

 and about one-fourth as much honey as the 

 previous season. I ha%'e some black, some 

 hybrid, one Italian, and two Carniolan colo- 

 nies. The blacks gave me no surplus at all. 

 I lx)ught an Italian queen last year, and that 

 colony produced three or four times as much 

 hooey as any of the rest, with the exception 

 of live or six out of about 80 colonies. They 

 gathered some honey nearly as bright as cas- 

 tor-oil ; I never saw any like it before, and do 

 not know what they gathered it from. 



Most of my bees spent the season rearing 

 queens, I think. I, for one, do not want my 

 •queens clipped. I am a farmer, and can not 

 be here all the time. It the queen can fly 

 they will settle and wait till I come home. If 

 they are clipped they will come out and go 

 liack before I can get there. I lose one now 

 and then, but I like them to be able to fly. 



I have just read Mr. A. E. Isaac's report in 

 the American Bee Journal for Nov. 21, in 

 which he mentions his honey having a sour 

 smell. I notice it here every year, I think, 

 but I do not know what causes it. Bees 

 gather bitter honey here nearly every fall, but 

 none of mine ever candies. 



Several bee-keepers have asked Dr. Miller 

 about late drones this fall. My bees reared a 

 lot of them very late. I think it was because 

 they had a very good flow of bitter honey. 



This is my first year with Carniolan bees, 

 and I do not know whether I will like them or 

 not. I bought an Italian queen last summer, 

 and she seemed to be all right until a few 

 days ago, when I missed her, and found sev- 



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eral sealed queen-cells. But it is too late for 

 them to rear one. 



I think the staple-spaced frame is the best 

 here. We have too much sweet-gum for any 

 other. 



Mr. Brown, in speaking of Mr. (iercld's 

 loss by melting down, said that if he will 

 raise his hives on benches, and put a roof 

 over them, he will have a comfortaljle hall for 

 his bees. I had part of mine on a small pole 

 on the ground, in the hot sun. It was WO to 

 lOS degrees the past summer. I used an inch 

 plank on the hive, and an inch one on top of 

 that, and they came through all right. 



My bees are in very good shape for winter. 



Hale Co., Ala., Nov. 2S. J. S. Pattox. 



Growing Pepper-Trees in Illinois. 



I have some pepper-trees growing in a box ; 

 the seed was sent to me last winter by a 

 friend in California. When I work and water 

 them I think of Prof. Cook. I make trees 

 my companions, and I will take these with me 

 to Florida, to see it they will flourish there. 

 Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Peoria Co., 111., Dec. 9. 



Report for 1901— Hive-Covers. 



I harvested 31.50 pounds of honey, 400 being 

 extracted. The buckwheat crop was short on 

 account of rain. I packed 9" colonies for 

 winter, having introduced 16 new queens this 

 fall. My honey was all sold three weeks ago, 



Red Glover Queens m] 902 Free 



Loug-Tougue Variety— Warranted Purely Mated. 



We have already arranged with the queen-breeder who furnished Long'-Tong-ue Red Clover Queens 

 for us during the past season, to fill our orders next season. Although fully 95 percent of the untested 

 queens he sent out were purely mated, next season all that he mails for us will be warranted purely mated. 



We want every one of our present subscribers to have one or more of these money-maker Queens. We 

 have received most excellent reports from the queens we supplied during the past season. And next year 

 our queen-breeder says he expects to be able to send out even better Queens, if that is possible. He is one 

 of the very oldest and best queen-breeders. His bees average quite a good deal the longest tongues of any 

 yet measured. The Breeder he will use is direct from Ital)', having imported her himself. Her worker-bees 

 are large, of beautiful color, very gentle, scarcely requiring veil or smoke. 



Orders for these fine, " long-reach " Warranted Queens will be filled in rotation — " first come, first 

 served" — beginning as early in June as possible. It is expected that orders can be filled quite promptly 

 (even better than the past season), as a much larger number of queen-rearing nuclei will be run. (But never 

 remove the old queen from the colony until you have received the new one, no matter from whom you order 

 a queen). 



All Queens will be guaranteed to arrive in good condition, and will be clipped, unless otherwise 

 ordered. 



A Warranted (Jneeii for sending iis Only 2 New Yearly Snbscribers 



In order that every one of our subscribers who wants one of these Warranted Queens next season can 

 easily earn it, we will book your order for one queen for sending us the names and addresses of two new 

 subscribers to the American Bee Journal and $2.00. Fukthkkmokk, we will begin to send the Bee Journal 

 to the new subscribers just as soon as they are received here (with the $2.00), and continue to send it until 

 the end of next year, /go2). So, forward the new subscriptions soon — the sooner sent in the more weekly 

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This indeed is an opportunity to get" a superior Queen, and at the same time help swell the list of 

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We are now ready to book the Queen orders, and also to enroll the new subscriptions. Remember, the 

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