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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 10, 1903. 



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Best Season in 25 Years. 



My bees are doing well this year. This is 

 the best season we have had here in 25 years. 

 I have 11 colonies, all strong and working 

 finely. They are badly mixed, no full-bloods. 

 I have not had one natural swarm this sum- 

 mer. I forced one, and that is all the increase 

 I have had so far, and do not want any more 

 swarming this year. J. L. Bader. 



Coffey Co., Kans., Aug. 18. 



Bad Weather for Honey. 



The weather here has been so bad that our 



honey crop is a failure. The bees are getting 



some honey now from buckwheat, so we hope 



to get along without feeding very much sugar. 



J. I. Clark. 



Addison Co., Vt., Aug. 24. 



A Good Record. 



This has been the best season here for white 

 honey for many years. I have taken from 

 one to four supers of honey from all my colo- 

 nies, and from one double swarm 183 pounds 

 of comb honey. Bees are doing well at this 

 date. 



I think I have one experience that makes a 

 new record. 



On Junes, I received a 3-frame nucleus with 

 queen. I put it in a 10-frame hive on old 

 comb. On June 25, I found the hive filled. I 

 gave them room by a super of 28 sections, 

 and they went right to work in them. July 4 

 they cast a good swarm, which I hived on 

 drawn comb. They have the hive well filled 

 at this date. So I have no reason to complain 

 of my red-clover queen. John Cline. 



LaFayette Co., Wis., Aug. 28. 



Plenty of Fall Flowers. 



The bees are working nicely on the fall flow . 

 I got about a ton of white honey. I have had 

 less trouble this year than usual in loss of 

 queens while mating. Bees are all in fine 

 condition to gather nectar, if there will be a 

 good flow. There are plenty of fall flowers, 

 and I hope it will not get so hot as to dry 

 them up. D. C. McLeod. 



Kendall Co., III., Aug. 24. 



Cellar-Wintering of Bees. 



My book shows that I stored 3(5 colonies of 

 bees in the cellar Dec. 3, 1902, counting C 

 three-frame nuclei as colonies. It is a large 

 root-cellar built under the entrance or drive- 

 way into the barn. The temperature of cellar 

 was 38 degrees, and the ground was covered 

 with snow. 1 have the Langstroth-Simplicity 

 hive, with loose bottoms. All hives are placed 

 on rims 2 inches deep, with wire-screens so 

 the bees were entirely confined all winter, 

 running from 34 degrees to 38 degrees, but 

 stood at 36 degrees the most of the time. The 

 ventilation was a common stove-pipe running 

 up through the roof, which was closed most 

 of the time. The cellar was quite dry, and 

 the bees real quiet up to March 19. 



The same book shows that I put the bees 

 out March'lig, 20 and 22, 1903, all living, ex- 



Long Tonoues ValuaBle 



South as weJl as North. 



How Moore's strain of Italians roll in the 

 honey down in Texas. 



HuTTO» Tex., Nov. 19, 1002. 



J. P. Moore.— Dear Sir:~I wish to write jou 

 in regard to queens purchased of you. I could 

 have written sooner, but I wanted to test them 

 thoroughly and see if they had those remarka- 

 ble qualities of a three-banded Italian bee. I 

 must confess to you I am more surprised every 

 day as I watch them. They simply " roll the 

 honey in." It seems that they get hooey where 

 others are idle or trying to rob; and for gentle- 

 ness of handling, I have never seen the like. 

 Friend E. R. Root was right when he said your 

 bees have the longest tongues; for they get 

 honey where others fail. I will express my 

 thanks for such queens. I am mon* than 

 pleased. I will stock my out-apiaries next 

 spring with your queens. 



Yours truly, Henry Schmidt. 



The above is pretty strong evidence that red 

 clover is not the only plant which requires 

 long-tongue bees to secure the greatest quantity 

 of nectar. 



Daughters of my 23-100 breeder, the prize- 

 winner, and other choice breeders: Untested, 

 75 cents each; six, J4 00; dozen, $7.50. Select 

 untested, $1.00 each; six, $5.00; dozen, $9.00. 

 Safe arrival and satisfaction guaranteed. Cir- 

 cular free. I am filling all orders by return 

 mail, and shall probably be able to do so till 

 the close of the season. 



J. P. Moore, L. Box 1, Morgan, Ku. 



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' business. Draper Pabll8hlogC«.,Chlcago,lll 

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my BEES at the very 

 low prices following. Good Italian Blood. 

 Strong colonies in 10-frame Lang-stroth Sira- 

 pUcity and Dovetailed Hives, wiih honey for 

 winter. All perfectly healthy and excellent 

 condition. Price per single hive, $4; S, at $3.50; 

 10, at $3.25; 20 or over, at $3. P.O. B. here, cash 

 with order. Reference; State Bank of Evanston. 

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Italian Quec^ns, 



Bc^es and Nuelei. 



We have a strain of 

 bees bred specially for 

 honey - gathering and 

 longevity, at the follow- 

 ing prices : 



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One Tested Queen 80 



One Select Tested Queen. 1.00 



One Breeder Queen 1.50 



Ofie - Comb Nucleus (no 



Queen) 1.00 



These prices are for the re- 

 mainder of the season. 

 Queeno sent by return mail. 

 Safe arrival guaranteed. For price on Doz. lots 

 send for Catalog. J. L. STRONG. 



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M MOUNT UNION COLLEGE, 



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eept two of the weakest nuclei were dead. 

 The bees in a fair to poor condition, each col- 

 ony having a very great percent of dead bees, 

 due, I presume, to the low temperature in the 

 cellar, causing a heavy consumption of honey, 

 which, in turn, increased the death-rate. 



I have increased to 64 colonies, with 3000 

 pounds of choice honey up to date, capped 

 snow white, and good enough to take to the 

 World's Fair. 



I would just as soon think of farming 160 

 acres in small grain without a grain-binder as 

 to attempt to manage 6 colonies of bees with- 

 out reading an up-to-date bee-paper like the 

 "old reliable " American Bee Journal. May 

 it live long with a largely increased field of 

 usefulness. J. W. Johnson. 



Stephenson Co., 111., Aug. 1". 



A Good Report. 



I had a good crop of honey this year, 60 gal- 

 lons of extracted and 300 pounds of comb 

 honey from 15 colonies, spring count, and in- 

 creased to 42 colonies, with hives now full of 

 honey, and good prospects for a fall crop. I 

 have a good home market, and can sell it as 

 fast as I take it from the hives. 



D. E. Andrews. 



Monroe Co., Ind., Aug. 24. 



Shagbark Hlckopy Bark for 

 SmokeF-Fuel. 



It may be worth while to inform your read- 

 ers that the loose, dead bark of the shagbark 

 hickory makes excellent smoker-fuel. I have 

 used it the entire season, and find it more sat- 

 isfactory than anything else I have ever tried. 

 "When well lighted it gives abundance of 

 smoke, will not go out, is very lasting, and 

 makes no sooty drip. R. L. Taylor. 



Lapeer Co., Mich. 



Honey-Flow Keeps Up. 



The honey-How keeps up, and we look for 

 quite a fair yield of honey in spite of it being 

 a backward season. Some of my colonies 

 have filled 5 supers, but others have not done 

 so well. 



The price of honey started here at 10 cents 

 to 12'.,' cents for comb, and 7 cents for ex- 

 tracted. W. J. Martin. 



Otero Co., Colo., Aug. 13. 



Results of the Season. 



The bees have been doing very well in old 

 Chautauqua County this season. I put 68 

 colonies into winter quarters, and came 

 through the winter with 61 colonies good and 

 strong. I winter them on summer stands. I 

 will get about 50 pounds of nice, white comb 

 honey per colony. Edwin Ward. 



Chautauqua Co., N. Y., Aug. 18. 



Poorest Season in Years. 



We have had the poorest season here that 

 has been known for a good many years. It has 

 been so very cold since early last spring 

 that it has been Impossible for the bees 

 to Hy much, only for a day or two at a time, 

 except a part of Juno, and then it was so very 

 dry, and the nights were so cold that the 

 clover did not amount to much; and when 

 basswood came on it was cold, bad weather 

 again, so the bees Rlored but little from that 



