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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 22, 1903. 



G. B. LEWISCO., 



Watertown, Wis., U. S. A. 



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GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 144 & 146 Erie St., Chicago, 111. 



nicely, indeed. AH that now seems necessary 

 to perfect the arrangement will be to put some 

 excelsior in the bottom of the crate on which 

 rests the cases. I leave the plan with you to 

 speak for itself, free from any restriction as to 

 whatever use you see to ma:teof it. 



At preserving-time, I find the plane a con- 

 venient instrument for maliing the paraffin 

 shavings, which my wife uses by puttingthem 

 in the jelly tumblers and before she pours in 

 the hot jelly or fruit. 



Dk. W. O. Eastwood. 



Ontario, Canada, Dec. 19. 



Prefers lO-Frame Hives. 



I started last spring with 10 colonies, and 

 increased to 37, which I have in the cellar, 

 having put them there Nov. 2ij, in good shape. 



My honey crop was light ; I had only ISO 

 pounds of section honey, which I run for al- 

 together. I look for a good honey crop next 

 season. I never saw as much white clover as 

 there is now. 



As to the hives that suit me. I prefer the 

 "Wisconsin" to all others. I bought 11 

 Danzeubaker and 5 Wisconsin last spring, 

 and find I like the Wisconsin the better; the 

 Danzeubaker is too shallow. I found that my 

 bees swarmed twice as much in S-frame hives 

 as they did in 10-trame. I will not use any 

 but 10-frame hives in the future. 



As to wintering bees in the cellar, I had 

 such good luck last winter that I am trying it 

 again. 1 put a ventilator 9 by 13 inches in it, 

 so I can ventilate it to suit me. 



E. B. Pbitchett. 



Warren Co., Iowa, .Ian 5. 



An Old Subscriber. 



I commenced in the days of Wagner, and 

 have taken the American Bee Journal about 

 all the time since, and am now over 80 years 

 old. It is much belter today than it has ever 

 been before. Long may it live. 



.J. W. Robinson. 



Columbia Co., Wis., Dec, 2. 



Queen-Rearing. 



They say that in a multitude of counsellors 

 there is safety, but I tell you that as far as 

 queen-rearing is concerned, (iallup. Alley. 

 Doolittle, etc., have got me where I hardly 

 know where I am at. I rear queens only for 

 ray own use, but I want the best that can be 

 reared. I have tried nearly all the methods 

 given, with varying results, during the last 

 few years, and have thought that 1 had set- 

 tled down to the best way to rear queens, but 

 now comes a host of old veterans {as witness 

 the last volume of the American Bee Journal) 

 and almost quarrel over the way queens 

 should be reared. So you see where it places 

 us ordinary mortals, who just begin to think 

 we know something. But let them come, 

 and while you are about it, let W. H. Laws 

 finish what he promised us on page 598 of the 

 American Bee .Journal for 1902. 



Yours for further enlightenment, 



L. L. Travis. 



Wyoming Co., Pa., Dec. 30. 



[All right, there are no laws, as far as we 

 know, against Mr. Laws finishing the queen- 

 rearing story he began. He can send on more 

 of it any time he finds time to write it out. — 

 Editor.] 



Didn't Get Any Honey. 



This is the first year since I commenced to 

 keep bees that I did not get any honey— not 

 one pound from 45 colonies; but everything 

 looks favorable for next year. 1901 was too 

 dry, and 1902 too wet, but I got SOO pounds in 

 1901, JouN A. Blocher. 



McLean Co., 111., Dec. 2r. 



Swarming— Light Honey- Yield. 



Although 85 years t)ld next month, I still 

 keep a few colonies of bees, not for the profit 

 but for pleasure and pastime, I live in the 

 city and have not room for more than 30 or 40 

 colonies, I run them for comb honey. I coa- 



