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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 1, 1903. 



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Manufacturers of Bee-Keepers' Supplies, WATERTOWN, WIS., U, S. A. 



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GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



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Alfalfa 

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Thisis thefamou'i 

 White Extracted 

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 the great Alfalfa 

 regions of the Cent 

 ral West. It is a 

 splendid honey, and 

 nearly everybody 

 who cares to eat 

 honey at all can't 

 get enough of the 

 Alfalfa extracted. 



Basswood 

 Honey J^ 



This is the well- 

 known light-colored 

 honey gathered from 

 the rich, nectar- 

 laden basswood blos- 

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 stronger flaTor than 

 Alfalfa, and is pre- 

 ferred by those who 

 like a distinct flavor 

 in their honey. 



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i^ Order the Above Honey and then Sell It. *'• 



9 We would suggest that those bee-keepers who did not produce 



j^ enough honey for their home demand this year, just order some of the 



■ •^ above, and sell it. And others, who want to earn some money, can get 



■^ this honey and work up a demand for it almost anywhere. 



i5 QEORQE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 E. Erie St., Chicago, III. ^: 



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the entrance, which is 5-16xl3ij. I left the 

 opening about 2 inches wide. 



The Ijees have not tal<en a flight since 

 November 13. The other day it was fairlj' 

 warm, and I noticed that halt of the bees in 

 one hive were dead, so I disturbed them, 

 and found moldy combs. What caused the 

 combs to become moldy, and the bees to die t 



My bees have honey enough for the winter, 

 but I did not get any surplus — too much rain 

 and cool weather. My bees are well sheltered 

 against the cold winds, on the north by hills, 

 and on the west by timber. 



I do not see how any bee-keeper can get 

 along without the American Bee Journal. 



Chas. J. DOPPEL. 



Ozaukee Co., Wis., Dec. 23. 



Bees Did Fairly Well. 



My bees did fairly well the past season. I 

 received about 35 pounds of honey per colony, 

 and my best colony gave 'M pounds, 72 pounds 

 during the month of September. 



I run for extracted honey, and winter the 

 bees on the summer stands. 



1 will have to call Dr. Miller's attention to 

 the fact that I had a laying queen that crawled 

 through the queen-excluder (a new one), and 

 laid eggs in the extracliug-super. She was a 

 good-sized queen, at that ; of this I am posi- 

 tive. 



The American Bee .Journal is all right. 



Chas. M. Darrow. 



Vernon Co., Mo., Dec. 16. 



Bees Starved to Death. 



1 hear complaint of bee-keepers (in a small 

 way) that their swarms of last summer are 

 now dead from starvation. A few of our bees 

 were carrying in water until the close of 

 November. 



We have calls for honey frequently, but 

 have none to supply the demand. A car-load 

 of comb honey arrived lately from California. 

 Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Peoria Co., 111., Dec. 15. 



A Bad Year for Honey. 



We have had a bad year for honey. The 

 bees will have a hard time of it next spring, if 

 they are not well fed. G. D. Hawk. 



Sullivan Co., Tenn., Dec. 5. 



Honey-Yield Disappointing. 



The yield of honey has again been disap- 

 pointing to the bee-keepers of northern Penn- 

 sylvania as a whole, although a few in some 

 localities were more fortunate than the many. 



Apple-bloom and other spring flowers 

 yielded an abundance of honey, so .that the 

 colonies were very strong, and all hands were 

 on deck in great expectation of harvesting a 

 big crop of clover and basswood honey. But 

 it was not to be. It has been many years 

 since white clover blossomed as it did the past 

 summer. The cold, wet weather caused the 

 failure. Buckwheat yielded a very little 

 honey. Had it not been for favorable fall 

 weather the bees would have needed feeding; 

 as it was, they gathered an abundance of 

 stores for their own use, and some surplus. O 



My yield of white honey was about 15 

 pounds per colony, and not ;so much fa ll 

 honey. dD C ( '■ 



We feel thankful that the prospect is very 

 good for next year, as the wet season did won- 

 ders for white clovei-. George Spitlek. 



Crawford Co., Pa., Dec. 9. 



Bee-Keeping in Cuba. 



I you were within hearing of my bees you 

 would hear a mighty roar, and that means lots 

 of work for the bee-man. They are now work- 

 ing on the purple bellflower (Aguinaldo raar- 

 ango), with white bellflower (Aguinaldo 

 bianco) just coming into bloom. 



I now have 300 colonies of bees. I shipped 

 a ton of comb honey this morning; this comb 

 honey venture is largely an experiment. I 

 hope for success from it. however. 



There are many things to contend with here, 

 as well as in the United States. It seems to 



