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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 17, 1903. 



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FROM MANY FIELDS 



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A Good Beginner's Report. 



I have had a good year, and the honey is 

 still coming in. The weather is not the best 

 just now. Turns cold so easily. But when 

 they get a chance, the bees are working well. 

 I started in March with two colonies, and in- 

 creased to eight. My strongest colony has 

 given me ::iOO pounds of honey. I drew on it 

 for increase also, but used the other with 

 which I started in the spring for increase. I 

 sum it all up thus: 400 percent increase in 

 colonies; .50 percent income on investment, 

 plus all that a family of five can eat and what 

 I have given away. And these last two items 

 are of considerable importance. If I can do 

 as well every year I thinlc I would like to 

 keep bees all the time. 



But something tells me that it would be the 

 part of wisdom to buy a barrel of sugar for 

 next year with part of the proceeds of this. 

 R. B. McCain. 



Grundy Co., 111., Sept. 8. 



Nevada Bee-Notes. 



The past season has not been up to the aver- 

 age. The first crop from alfalfa was more 

 than an average gathering, but the second 

 bloom was light and we secured but little. Our 

 crop will be about 150 pounds per colony, 

 spring count. 



This locality — the Big Meadow plain — will 

 produce this season about ten or twelve car- 

 loads. The honey is water-white. 



Foul brood is everywhere around the Big 

 Meadow country, and we are now preparing 

 to fight it. 



Nevada has a good foul brood law, copied 

 after the McEvoy plan, but as yet we have no 

 inspectors appointed. Nevada Ai-iakist. 



Humboldt Co., Nevada, Sept. 3. 



Season's Report— "Shook" Swarms. 



The season being nearly closed I will re- 

 port the results. I have 17.5 colonies, spring 

 count, 2000 pounds of No'. 1 comb honey, 300 

 pounds of No. 2, and 3800 pounds of extracted 

 No. 1, all gathered after .July 15 from blue 

 thistle. It all came up and blossomed after 

 the rains which followed our terrible drouth. 

 Increase, none. Swarms cast, 10; 3 hived 

 themselves in hives of combs stacked up be- 

 side the honey-house; seven hived on three 

 frames and dummies, and the three frames 

 given to other colonies last week. I did not 

 divide any this season, as there was not over a 

 quart of bees in the best colonies June 1. 



I notice a great deal about "shook" 

 swarms. That has been my practice ever 

 since I commenced using frames, about 25 

 years ago. I mark all my hives, just what 

 they produce ; the next spring I take brood 

 from those that did not do well, and build up 

 those that were the best, unless they are very 

 strong. When I see any inclination to swarm 

 I get an empty hive and put it in place of the 

 old one, find the frames with the queen, go to 

 a colony that did not do well the previous 

 year, draw out about four frames and put 

 them in with the one frame and queen, and 

 flW up the hive with frames of comb of thp 



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