May 21, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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later. With the 34lh it turned colder, and was 

 not sufticiently warm a^ain so the rest of the 

 bees could be set out till April 12th and 13th. 

 On the Uth it turned cold a),'nia with a con- 

 tinuous north wind, so that the ground was 

 frozen every morning for the next Vi days ex- 

 cept one. Most of the days it was also too 

 cold for the bees to tiy. 



On April '2Sth the mercury went up to br>\ 

 on the 2'.lth to 77 ; and on the 30th to 87. The 

 bees enjoyed this, but the night of the 30th 

 the mercury sank to 2S, and at noon of May 

 1st I was at our mill where they grind feed by 

 water, and the spray from a little jet, caused 

 by a nail-hole in the " water trunk," was 

 freezing and had frozen on to a little tree, so 

 that it was all bowed down with ice; and 

 there were icicles on it an inch in diameter 

 and two feet long. And the sun was shining 

 on this tree and spray all the time. Such 

 . freezing of water on a sunshiny day in May, 

 at mid-day, was never known here before. 



On the morning of May 3, we had ice an 

 inch thick on standing water, and U' inch 

 thick this morning. May .=>. 



There is very little brood in any of the 

 hives, and the bees are not nearly so good as 

 they were in March. They came out of the 

 cellars in good shape, and would have been 

 now, it we could have had a good spring. If 

 it does not turn warm soon, to stay so, those 

 colonies lightest in bees will perish. 



G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



Onondaga Co., N. T., May 5. 



Cold and Windy Weather. 



Bees generally winter well here. The most 

 of April, and so far this month, the weather 

 has been bad for the bees. Fruit-trees have 

 been in full bloom for over a week, but we 

 have had very few days that the bees could 

 improve the time, owing to the cold, cloudy 

 and windv weather. F. A. Snell. 



Carroll Co., 111., May 4. 



Bee-Keeping in Florida. 



I see a communication from Mrs. L. Harri- 

 son, of Washington Co., Fla., in the Bee 

 Journal. She seems to speak very discourag- 

 ingly of bee-culture here. I wish to say that 

 there have been some of the largest yields of 

 honey in our State ever known. Mr. W. S. 

 Hart produced an average of over 250 pounds 

 per colony from 100 colonies, and I have had 

 some splendid yields in the pine woods of 

 Columbia county. We have several up-to- 

 date apiaries. My brother and I have over 

 100 colonies, and took the premium at the 

 Slate fair last November for greatest variety 

 and best honey; and Mr. George VandeVord 

 for bees. Besides there are several large apia- 

 rists in West Florida, who do a good business 

 with their bees. I). H. Hekloni}. 



Columbia Co., Fla., May 3. 



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" Sweeter Than Honey." 



German Presbyterian Tueo. Seminary, 

 Dubuque, Iowa, Sept. 20, 1903. 

 Mr. Weigand— 



Deiir .Sir.-— I was agreeably surprised in re- 

 ceiving by your sou, some delicious honey, 

 which you so thoughfully forwarded us. Mrs. 

 McClelland and I have feasted on it and en- 

 joyed it not only because of its own excellent 

 quality, but even more because of the kind 

 thoughtfulness which prompted the gift. As 

 for myself, I found my mind, no less than my 

 mouth, absorbed in its enjoyment. I could 

 not refrain from thinking on tho words of 

 the Psalmist, "Thy word is sweeter than the 

 honey and the honey-comb.'' The more I 

 thought, the more resemblances between the 

 Bible and honey-comb. Permit me to name 

 some of these resembhinces between the Divine 

 honey-comb and that of the bee. The most 

 obvious is that of sweetness, as given by the 

 Psalmist. Truly God's word is very sweet to 

 the man of spiritual discernment. And of all 

 the elements of sweetness none so pronounced 

 and delicious as the wonderful love of God as 

 set forth in Holy Scripture. 



Again, as I e.xamined the comb itself, I 

 found each cell was a regular hexagon. How 

 wonderful this! Surely, God is here. For, as 

 each I angle in such; a cell is lOS degrees, it is 



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