Dec. 17, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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LEWIS C. & A. Q. WOODMAN, Grand Rapids, Hich. 



main honey-How is)?«nerally from fall flowers. 

 1 never saw eo many tiowers in my life as 

 there was this year, but It was too cold and 

 wet for the bees. 



A great many young colonies have already 

 starved. I put my bees in the cellar last 

 week; there were 15.") colonies In rather poor 

 condition. H. H. 1'okter. 



Sauk Co., Wis., Dec. 1. 



From An Old Reader. 



I have taken the Bee .Journal nearly 30 

 years. I have owned bees over :ii> years, and 

 have sold a great many tons of honey, all of 

 my own producing, the most in any one year 

 being 3 tons. I have on hand from lOUO to 1200 

 pounds of honey, some light, some buck- 

 wheat, and all in one-pound sections. 1 have 

 130 colonies of bees to keep through the win- 

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I shall be 71 years old .Jan. 11. Well do I 

 remember Mr. Newman, the former editor of 

 the American Bee .Journal, that so lately 

 passed way. Not to underrate Mr. Newman, 

 I will say that the .Journal has taken quite an 

 advance step since he left it. 



C. Ale.xander. 



Onondaga Co., N. Y., Nov. 2S. 



Good Year for Bees. 



This has been a good year for the bees with 

 me. I have 23 colonies, and got 1500 sections 

 of comb honey, and 30 gallons of extracted 

 honey. Edgar Eastman. 



Buena Vista Co., Iowa, Nov. 30. 



Bees Did Well. 



I have 10 colonies of bees, and they did well 

 this season. On account of the dry, cool 

 weather they did not swarm very much — 4 

 swarms but of 10 colonies, and 2 of them out 

 of one. I think the bees will do well here in 

 a short time. G. W. Mourn. 



Harvey Co., Kans., Nov. 2". 



Goldenrod and Asters in Illinois. 



An editorial says, " Surely goldenrod and 

 asters should have some bacterium in Illi- 

 nois." Asters are of the composite family, 

 and do not require any bacteria. Only plants 

 of the legume family require bacteria. There 

 are about 100,000 species of flowering plants, 

 0500 species of the legumes. All the clovers, 

 all the peas, beans, vetches, lupines, etc., be- 

 long to the legumes; also the sensitive plant 

 and the locust trees belong to this family. 



I think we do not get goldenrod honey in 

 Illinois, because we do not have enough of 

 the right kinds. Here we have only two kinds 

 that I know of. In the East they have 20 or 

 more kinds; some kinds probably produce 

 honey better than others. .J. E. Johnson. 



Knox Co., 111., Nov. 25. 



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