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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



June 18, 1903. 



marketed in our hometown. We have been 

 years educating the people to extracted honey, 

 and can now dispose of our entire crop of A 

 No. 1 clover and alfalfa honey at tip-top 

 prices. I have lately had occasion to travel 

 over a large part of the State, and find that 

 bees, on the average, have wintered well, and 

 the prospect is good for the coming season. 

 R. K. Dte. 

 Fond du Lac Co., Wis., June 2. 



Very Dry in the East. 



I wrote you some time ago how well my 

 bees wintered. 1 write you again how they 

 came through the spring. I have lost about 

 50 colonies, and have 100 now, with not over 

 100 quarts of bees in the lot, and very little 

 brood. I have ?5 very good colonies, but they 

 are getting poorer every day. There are very 

 few bees flying in the yard — nothing for them 

 to get. My bees did not lack honey, but the 

 wind has been in the north most of the time 

 for 55 days. When the sun comes out warm 

 bees leave the hive, and it will cloud over and 

 leave the bees in the fields to perish. All the 

 bees now in the hives are from eggs layed the 

 warm spell we had in March. As near as I 

 can figure, there is not anything they can 

 gather from now. Basswood is not budded 

 to bloom ; blue thistle is dried up. We have 

 had no rain to speak of in two months. The 

 losses of bees so far this spring will be about 

 50 percent in this vicinity, with a fair prospect 

 of losing the rest. But it is just as bad on 

 the farmers. I know of several that keep 

 from 20 to 40 cows, and it looks as if they 

 would not be able to cut two tons of hay for 

 each. C. M. Lincoln. 



Behnington Co., Vt., June 1. 



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Beedom Boiled Down 



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Spreading Brood a Two=Edged Sword. 



Editor Hyde says in the Progressive Bee- 

 Keeper : 



For localities where the honey-flow comes 

 late and the bees have a long season in which 

 to get bred up, it certainly will not pay to 

 spread brood, it will simply be a great loss. 

 In the hands of experienced men and in the 

 right localities and in the right seasons, there 

 is nothing that the bee-keeper can do that will 

 pay more than the scientific spreading of 

 brood. In the hands of the inexperienced or 

 in the wrong season there is nothing that will 

 cause more loss than spreading brood. I am 

 honest when I say that I believe there has 

 been more loss by brood-spreading than there 

 has been gained. But because there is loss 

 with the wrong parties and in the wrong sea- 

 sons, is no argument against it if done in the 

 right way and at the right time. 



How Much Is a Good Queen Worth 

 as a Starter? 



A. I. Root tells in Gleanings in Bee-Culture 

 about a visit in Cuba to C. E. Woodward, 

 who has been there three years, is now the 

 active partner in 2000 colonies in seven apiar- 

 ies, and was just filling an order for extracted 

 honey to the amount of ?16,000 to be shipped 

 to Germany. Mr. Root says : 



Ernest has been pretty thoroughly criticised, 

 not only in Gleanings, but in other bee-jour- 

 nals, for suggesting that our red-clover queen 

 was worth $200. Now,mindyou,Iam not going 

 to advertise our queens this time. Friend W. 

 got his best queen of our veteran friend Doo- 

 little. He paid .¥10 for her, and then paid for 

 a nucleus besides to ship her in, so as to have 

 her come in good order ready for breeding. 

 He has stocked the whole apiary I saw with 

 queens from this Doolittle queen. The hives 

 are two-story, and some of them three-story. 

 The bees are nicely marked, gentle to handle, 

 and good workers. 



" Friend Woodward, how much do you sup- 



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 1st to 5th, inclusive, via Nickel Plate 

 Road. Especially low rates. Liberal 

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 free from disease. Untested, 75c each; 6. $4.00. 

 Tested, $1.25 each. Untested ready July 1st. 

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We have a strain of 

 bees bred specially for 

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One Untested Queen $ .80 



One Tested Queen 1.00 



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One Breeder Queen 2.00 



Ose - Comb Nucleus (no 

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stock which cannot be excelled. Each variety bred in separate apiaries, 

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Have no superior, and few equals. Untested, 

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which left all records behind in honey- 

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