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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Best Year He Ever Saw. 



My bees are still booming up. This Is 

 the best year for honey that I ever saw 

 in this part of Texas. 



I am very much In love with the 

 American Bee Journal, and don't want 

 to be without it. I wish it much success 

 in the future. S. F. Ozburn. 



Meridian, Tex., Aug. 29. 



Everything Full of Honey. 



I have taken 3,136 pounds of honey 

 to date, with enough more ready to take 

 to bring the last extracting up to 1,100 

 pounds — the same as each of the first 

 and second extractings, if not more. 

 Tired? Oh, I am so tired working with 

 the honey ! I got all my vessels full. 

 Notwithstanding the terrible drouth we 

 have had, the bees are still bringing in 

 some honey. We have never had a com- 

 plete failure here since I have been in 

 the business. Last year was the nearest, 

 and then I got 1,666 pounds, and sold it 

 at 123<^ cents per pound. 



Mrs. S. E. Sherman. 



Salado, Tex., Aug. 25. 



Feeder for Inside the Hive. 



On page 182 I notice an article writ- 

 ten by Edwin Bevins on how to feed 

 bees inside the hive. I will give my 

 plan for feeding inside. I have tried 

 various ways, but none suits me as well 

 as the following : 



I take a brood-frame, make the Joints 

 true with a sharp plane, then I nail on 

 each side a board '4; -inch thick. I leave 

 the board rough on the inside so the 

 bees can get a better hold with their 

 feet. I cover about % of the depth of 

 the frame, and that will hold from 3 to 

 10 pounds of honey, according to the 

 size and length of the frame. That 



makes a narrow trough. I then take 

 out one frame of comb near the back of 

 the hive, and hang the feeder in the 

 place of the comb. 



I have used this feeder for a number 

 of years, and have fed over 1,200 

 pounds in the last three years. Put the 

 feeders in with the honey between sun- 

 down and dark, and there is no trouble 

 about robbing. I fed 900 pounds one 

 winter in this way, and did not lose a 

 single colony, and there was no trouble 

 with drowning bees. H. C. Wheeler. 



Winchester, Calif., Aug. 27. 



About 80 Pounds per Colony. 



My crop of honey this year will hurry 

 80 pounds to the hive. It is not yet all 

 off the hives. The brood-chambers were 

 contracted to % the size of a 10-frame 

 Langstroth. Then I fed extensively be- 

 fore the harvest, and kept prolific queens 

 in all hives. C. W. Dayton. 



Florence, Calif., Sept. 1. 



Sulphur a Cure for Paralysis. 



About July 3rd, I discovered that 2 

 of my 12 colonies of bees had bee-paral- 

 ysis very bad. Both the colonies were 

 of a very shiny black color, and all the 

 young bees of both colonies were affect- 

 ed the same way, and were also dying 

 very fast. I took one ounce of flour of 

 sulphur for each colony, and put the 

 sulphur in a tin pepper-box, gave the 

 bees a little smoke, then opened the 

 hives and shook the sulphur all over 

 combs, bees, brood, and all over inside 

 of hive, closed it, and in 8 days I found 

 that the bees were all cured of bee-pa- 

 ralysis, and at this writing the two colo- 

 nies are strong in bees, and are storing 

 honey in the sections. 



I send the above information for the 

 benefit of those whose bees are troubled 

 as mine were. The sulphur is a sure 

 cure, if you give them enough. Thanks 

 to the discoverer of the same. 



Wm. H. Derham. 



Rockford, 111., Aug. 27. 



Had a Good Honey-Flow, Etc. 



Our honey-flow in this part of the 

 country was good— one of my colonies 

 stored about 75 pounds of comb honey, 

 and others did exceedingly well. Swarm- 

 ing ! Well, one swarm was all we had. 

 Others had more by letting them swarm 

 for the second and third time. 



We found one bee-tree this year so 



