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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 19, 1903. 



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FROM MANY FIELDS 



A Good Honey-Yeap. 



After a very poor outlook last springe, it 

 turned out to be a gfood houey-year in this 

 locality. I had To colonies of half-starved 

 bees, spring count, and they increased to 100, 

 and brought me over 3000 pounds of salable 

 white comb honey. Wii. Habtwig. 



St. Croix Co., Wis.,' Oct. 31. 



Bees Nearly a Failure This Year. 



The bee-business was nearly a failure here 

 this year. It has been too wet and cold. 

 From SO colonies I got about 1000 pounds of 

 honey, the most of it being comb honey. 



Well, if I live another year I will try my 

 luck with bees once more. We may get a 

 crop of honey some time, if we only hang on 

 and do not give up. Frank E. "Knapp. 



Wadena Co., Minn,, Oct. 30. 



Good Season— Bee-Paralysis. 



I started in last spring with 10 colonies, in- 

 creased by natural swarming to 16, and har- 

 vested 250 pounds of white clover honey and 

 1000 pounds of fall honey, about ITS pounds 

 of this being comb honey, and the balance ex- 

 tracted. My best colony gave me 335 pounds; 

 they were a good grade of Italians. I had 3 

 young colonies that gave me 125 pounds each, 

 besides filling up all right for winter. This 

 has been a good season for honey here. 



I have introduced four queens with good 

 success this year. One queen I got from 

 Texas, and introduced her to a small queenless 

 ■ colony in May ; they gave me 125 pounds of 

 honey. This reminds me about introducing 

 young queens to colonies that are affected 

 with paralysis. I have changed the queen in 

 3 different colonies and the disease has disap- 

 peared entirely. I think the cure is all right, 

 at any rate in my ease. I had 2 cases last 

 spring where the disease was so bad that the 

 colony nearly died out, and yet the young 

 queen saved all, and they gave me a nice lot 

 of surplus honey. 



I had a colony that lost their queen early in 

 the spring, and they reared 42 perfect queens 

 in their hive. The weather was bad, and they 

 could not swarm, so they just killed them 

 and kicked them out at the entrance, and I 

 picked them up. A. J. Freeman. 



Neosho Co., Kans., Oct. 30. 



Report for the Season. 



I cannot refrain from writing once a year at 

 least, because I never took a paper that I 

 thought was conducted quite as well as the 

 American Bee Journal is being conducted. 

 For my part, I can not see how some men can 

 handle bees without it or some other bee- 

 paper ; where they do, I surely think that the 

 bees handle them the greater part of the lime. 



Three years ago 1 wintered 5 colonies, two 

 years ago 9, and one year ago 20, and two of 

 those died or dwindled away during a long, 

 cold, wet spell we had last April. One of my 

 neighbors had 2 colonies, and wishing to dis- 

 pose of them, I traded him a hog for the bees, 

 so this made my number good again. I have 

 35 this fall to put into winter quarters, nearly 

 all being in very good condition. I think we 

 had too much rain ihis season for a good crop 

 of honey, or else I have too many bees for the 

 pasture they have. 1 don't know which, as I 

 got only about 600 pounds— 30 pounds to the 

 colony, spring count. I had one colony that 

 stored 80 pounds of comb honey; they 

 swarmed once, but I returned them and clip- 

 ped their queeu. 



I would like to keep my number about 

 where it is now, or reduce it some if 1 can, 

 and I have read of so many ways that I hardly 

 know which to adopt. This season I prac- 

 ticed cutting out queen-cells while the swarm 

 was out, and then return them, but I am quite 

 sure this would not work where one person 

 had a very great number of colonies. Toward 



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