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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



March 26, 1903. 



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great bee-keeper, settling in Missouri in 1840, 

 when the woods were full of wild bees. He 

 was an expert hunter, and had a barrel of 

 wild honey every fall. My father followed 

 him, and I am following both. I would 

 rather hunt bees than do anything else I know 

 of. There are still some wild ones, and I am 

 known all over the country as the bachelor 

 bee-hunter and bee-keeper, although I am only 

 a young man yet. 



I have some of the best bee-books which I 

 read and study with pleasure. I have taken 

 the " old reliable " American Bee .Journal for 

 lour years, and I have every copy nice and 

 clean. 



We have the best prospect I ever saw for a 

 good crop of honey nest year. I hope it will 

 prove so. H. S. Carroll. 



Shelby Co.. Mo.. March 6. 



Season of 1902, 



We had a poor honey season in 1902, but my 

 bees averaged 100 pounds per colony, and still 

 some increase. 



I like the American Bee Journal and the 

 gritty old Dr. Gallup. J. G. Rystrum. 



Chisago Co., Minn., Feb. 33. 



Prospect Better than Last Year. 



We are just now having a much-needed 

 rain, making the prospect much brighter, but 

 even with this we are not yet fully assured of 

 a honey crop, as the rainfall up to date is 

 only a fraction over 9 inches; but the pros- 

 pect is much better than at this time last 

 year. (^lEO. W. Brodeeck. 



Los Angeles Co., Calif., March 5. 



No Cuban Bee-Keeping for Him. 



I have just returned from a four months' 

 sojourn in the island of Cuba, and now hasten 

 to attend to my neglected business. I shall 

 never own a single colony of bees on that 

 island. It there is any place on this earth 

 where eternal vigilance is the price of success 

 it is in the island of Cuba. The bees are for- 

 ever and always doing just the opposite oE 

 what the bee-keeper wants them to do. 

 Deliver me from Cuban bee-keeping forever. 

 Thos. Broderick. 



Cayuga Co., N. Y., March 5. 



He's Getting There. 



I became interested in bees one j'ear ago, 

 knowing nothing about them at the time. I 

 bought a colony of Italians and the Lang- 

 stroth book, and subscribed for the American 

 Bee Journal. I am getting there slowly. 



I increased my one colony to three, got 10 

 pounds of honey, and found out I have a 

 whole lot to learn. Harry Greves. 



Hudson Co., N. J., March 9. 



A Queen-Rearing Experience. 



I have been very much interested in the dis- 

 cussion on queen-rearing in the Bee Journal 

 lately. While I do not know much about it 

 myself I have studied it a good deal, and have 

 come to the conclusion that Mr. Alley's 

 queens can not be as good as queens reared in 

 the natural way, although Mr. Doolittle's 

 plan may be all right, provided his colonies 

 are good and strong. 



Now, I will tell of a little experience I had 

 with a colony. It cast a very large swarm ; 

 of course I looked for the queen, as she was 

 clipped, and I failed to find her, and the 

 swarm returned and clustered on the front of 

 the hive and remained there eight days, after 

 which a second swarm issued with a young 

 queen ; they clustered, and I hived them, and 

 they did well that year (six years ago). The 

 lirst swarm was still clustered on the outside 

 of the old hive two days after they swarmed 

 with the young queen, the old clipped queen 

 came out, and the swarm that was clustered 

 on the hive followed her. I caught and 

 caged her, and moved the old to the new 

 stand, and put another in its place, putting the 

 caged queen on the alighting-board. When 

 the swarm returned I let the queen run in 

 with them, and they did welL^The colony 



