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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



April 16, 1903. 



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so scarce, and the stock commenced on this 

 and trimmed up everything they could eat, 

 leaving it looking like a mess of hazel-brush; 

 it seemed to thrive as well as ever, new shoots 

 kept coming out, and they were as fast eaten 

 oil, until freezing killed it. 



I should like to ask Mr. Barber (page 78) : 

 Why put anything in Ijis honey to keep it 

 from granulating* If it is pure, put into a 

 tank and heat from Hill to 170 degrees, and 

 use a thermometer to he sure about tempera- 

 ture. Out of 600 pounds which I canned 

 while it was hot, 5 months ago, only 54 

 pounds has shown any signs of grain in it, 

 and this had been lieated, for experiment, to 

 l.")0 degrees and had candied again. 



Why cut your comb honey in chunks, and 

 put into cans for "extracted" or "comb"? 

 It is neither one nor the other. It seems to 

 me that the wholesale grocers put enough of 

 this stuff on the market without imitating 

 them. It seems to me that if a customer 

 wants comb honey let him have it straight, 

 and extracted the same. If a bee-keeper is 

 not neat enough to produce one or the other, 

 whv mix them? 



No offense meant, Mr. Barber. I suppose 

 others are doing the same. This is the way 1 

 look at it. B. A. AldrIch. 



Woodbury Co., Iowa, March 9. 



One of the Olives. 



What is the enclosed domestic shrubi Itis 

 our earliest bloomer, and is attractive to bees. 

 East Tennessee. 



[This is the first flower of the season. It 

 belongs to the Olive family along with the 

 ash and lilac, but as a native of Japan and 

 China no common English name has been 

 given to it. Botanists call it " Forsythia 

 viridissima." It is an ornamental shrub, the 

 abundant bright yellow flowers appearing be- 

 fore the leaves.— C. L. Walton.] 



Prospects of an Early Spring. 



We are having very nice weather, and it 

 has the appearance of an early spring, with 

 the temperature between ti.T and 70 degrees, 

 which has brought the maple to bloom, and 

 the busy bee is once more bringing in pollen 

 from the first flower of the season. The 

 roljins and the bluebirds have also made their 

 appearance, and fill the air with their sweet 

 music, to remind us of the beautiful spring- 

 time. 



My bees have wintered well, having lost 

 only 3 weak colonies, and the remaining 53 

 colonies are doing nicely on maple bloom. The 

 prospects are bright for 1003. 



Wm. H. Heim. 



Lycoming Co., Pa., March 30. 



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That Old Colony— Wintered Well. 



Mr. Hasty must not be to hasty about that 

 "old colony of bees" mentioned on page isi. 

 If he will put on his " specs " and look at the 

 article again, he will see plainly that said " old 

 colony" belongs "to a stock of bees that 

 were on the farm of ray uncle, Wm. Sager, 

 uear North Bristol, Ohio, for over 90 years 

 before I brought them over here," instead of 

 saying that said " old colony " was over 90 

 years old. 



The name of my aunt should have read Mrs. 

 Elizabeth Diehl, instead of Duhl. She has 

 since gone to her rest; having died Nov. 3S 

 1903. . 



I was very sorry to hear of the death of 

 Thomas G. Newman. I met him at 3 conven- 

 tions of the National Bee-Keepers' Associa- 

 tion, at Columbus, Ohio, in ISSS, and in Chi- 

 cago, in 1893. So thej' go, one by one— 

 Charles Dadant, Dr. A. B. Mason, " Rambler," 

 and next Thomas tl. Newman, all in less than 

 a year. I never met Father Dadant or 

 " Rambler," but I had met Dr. Mason several 

 times, and I regarded him as a very dear per- 

 sonal friend, and I was very much greived to 

 hear of his death. 



Bees have wintered very well, and have 

 been carrying in pollen lively for several days. 

 March 14 was the fir.st day I noticed them 

 carrying it in. There is lots of white clover. 



