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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug. 20, 1903. 



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FROM MANY FIELDS 



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Two Bpothers Go "A-Beeing." 



I don't know whether letters are relished 

 from tenderfeet or not. My brother, C. 

 W., and myself, with our families, dogs, 

 oats, parrots, and everything, moved to this 

 beautiful spot i from smoky Chicago last 

 spring. We decided to take up bees as a 

 side-line. I didn't know a queen-bee from a 

 lightning-bug, and all my brother knew he 

 had gleaned from a few random visits to a 

 mutual friend, Stoughton Cooley. However, 

 what he saw there got him interested, and we 

 purchased five nuclei from a dealer. 



Say, it would have made an old bee-man 

 crack his ribs, I suspect, to have watched us 

 manipulate bees ! Later we picked up a snap 

 in the shape of a couple of colonies from a 

 " widder" up in the country, whose son had 

 died, or done something, I have forgotten 

 what. Shortly afterward, Mr. Stoughton 

 Cooley being out, he informed us that, in his 

 judgment, both of our snap colonies had foul 

 brood. Of course, our hair rose straight up, 

 and we at once notified State Inspector Smith. 

 ■While waiting for him wedestroj'ed both colo- 

 nies, but boxed up the comb for his inspection. 

 He came last evening, and inspected us all 

 oyer to-day. 



Mr. Cooley was right; it was foul brood, 

 but fortunately they had not infected the rest 

 of the colonies, of which we now have 11. 

 Mr. Smith gave us a clean bill of health, said 

 there was not the slightest trace of foul brood, 

 which information was thankfully received. 

 Mr. Smith is a pleasant gentleman to meet, 

 and is evidently " on to his job " with a big J. 

 He submitted to being pumped gracefully, 

 and gave us quite a batch of information on 

 bee-lore. 



In our study of bees so far we are unde- 

 cided where to place them. Sometimes we 

 think they should be classed with Mark 

 Twain's ant in the Black Forest of Germany. 

 Don't seem as if they knew enough to come 

 in out of the wet. Then, again, it looks as it 

 they were pretty level-headed. We will give 

 you the ultimate verdict later on. 



Inspector Smith informed us that he had 

 42 calls booked now from all over the State. 

 Frank E. Kellogg. 



McHenry Co., 111., Aug. 7. 



An Interesting Expepienee. 



In ISIOI, I had 10 colonies of bees in old 

 boxes, nail-kegs, etc., and I gave a bee-man 

 half of the bees and honey to put my half in 

 old Langstroth hivee. That season we got 

 more honey and money for our bees than we 

 had in 10 years before. 



In 1902, we had (I say we, because I am 

 teaching my wife and children the bee-busi- 

 ness, as I think it better to leave them that 

 than an insurance policy, although I have one) 

 7 strong and 2 weak colonies. In June I 

 bought 35 colonies that were 35 miles from 

 home. There was plenty of black sage there 

 so I left them, but they have done but little 

 good, and I could not give them the care they 

 needed, and I am afraid they have foul brood. 

 We have no one here who knows what foul 



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