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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Dec. 3, 1903. 



PUBLISHED WE«?KLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK 8 COMPANY 



144 & 146 E. Erie St ., Chicago, III. 



Entered at the Post-Office at Chicacoas Second- 

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EDITOR, 

 OE30K,a-BJW". "SrOK-IC. 



DEPT. EDITORS, 



Dr.C.C.Mii,i,er, E.E.Hasty, EmmaM.Wilson 



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FROM MANY FIELDS 



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A Good Wisconsin Report. 



1 summered in Clark Co., Wis., last year, 

 but not liking the country, I moved back to 

 Grant Co., Wis., last .January. I went back 

 in March after my bees, and brought down 26 

 colonies, but when I came to look at them 4 

 were queenless, and some of the rest were very 

 light, so in May I bought 5 more colonies, 

 making 26 in all. From 4 of them I did not 

 get much honey, but from 23 colonies I got 

 4000 pounds of extracted honey, and 350 

 pounds of comb honey. Pretty fair, I think, 

 for Wisconsin. 



I paid SI" tor the 5 colonies I bought, and 

 sold i;64.00 worth of honey from them. From 

 one colony that did not swarm at all I ex- 

 tracted 336 pounds of honey, I had 2 top 

 stories on them ; I had only 1 top story on all 

 the rest of my hives- If I had had 2 or 3 sto- 

 ries I believe I would have had 300 pounds of 

 honey to a colony, I lot them swarm just as 

 they wanted to, then let the new colonies store 

 comb honey, I had one colony that stored 

 255 pounds of extracted honey, and swarmed 

 twice. Only about half of my bees swarmed 

 at all. 



I have 41 colonies in tine condition for win- 

 ter, none weighing less than 60 pounds, hive 

 and all, I hope next year will be half as good 

 as this year was, U, S, Botd, 



Grant Co,, Wis,, Nov, 10, 



Bees Did Fairly Well. 



My bees did fairly well last season, Ihad 5 

 colonies; from 4 I got about 130 pounds of 

 comb honey; from the remaining one a swarm, 

 but very little honey, A neighbor about i^ 

 mile away, who has kept bees for many 

 years, says that it was a poor year ; he got al- 

 most no surplus at all; sol think I made a 

 success, and hope to do better next year. 



Wm. K, Martin. 



Washington Co., Pa,, Nov, 23. 



Results of the Past Season. 



We started with .54 colonies of bees last 

 spring; they swarmed and increased to 112 

 colonies, and we got 2363 pounds of comb 

 honey, and SOI pounds of extracted honey. 

 We have sold .^30 worth, and have some on 

 hand j'et, Marion F, Andrews. 



Des Moines Co,, Iowa, Nov, 16. 



Light Crop of Honey. 



I have just put my 220 colonies of bees into 

 the cellar for their winter sleep. We had a 

 light crop of honey this year, 



I. A, Travis, 



Wood Co., Wis., Nov. 16. 



Report fOF the Season of 1903. 



As the bees will not store any more honey 

 this season, and it is cold enough to put them 

 into the cellar, I will make a short report. 



I started in the spring with 70 colonies; 2 

 were queenless, so I lost them. The rest 

 built up quite fast, and commenced to swarm 

 May 12, and if I was going to guess at the 

 number of times they swarmed I would put it 

 at about 50,000; but there was not that many, 

 but I increased to 130, I returned as many 

 swarms as I could make stay in the hive, and 

 more than 20 went to the woods. After June 

 1 I could be with them awhile only in the 

 afternoon, as I made a specialty of strawber- 

 ries, and strawberries and bees are in season 

 about the same time, 



I use only the S-frame dovetail hive, with 

 shallow super for both comb and extracting, 

 I got a little over 13,000 pounds of honey, 

 counting the salable sections each 1 pound, of 

 which 3500—1 sold them at wholesale at 10 

 cents apiece; retail at 12,'., cents; the rest 

 was extracted, all white except 1200 pounds 

 was white and amber,mixed,Ljl use the 3'\x5 



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