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Bees Boiled in the Honey. 



It was very dry here the past summer. 

 I had to feed one of my colonies in June, 

 but after the basswood flow began it 

 was a delight to see them roll in the 

 honey. I got 700 pounds in one-pound 

 sections, and 200 pounds of extracted 

 honey from 3 colonies, spring count, and 

 increased to 10 colonies 



I like the " Bee Journal " very much. 

 Petek J. Klein. 



Greenwood, Wis., Nov. 16. 



Bees in Good Condition for Winter. 



Bees that survived last winter gath- 

 ered very little honey here this year, but 

 what are living now are in good condi- 

 tion for winter, with plenty of stores. 

 Mine are on the summer stands, with 

 about 30 pounds of honey to the colony. 



Give us more of the "St Jo." conven- 

 tion through the "Old Reliable." We 

 fellows that could not go, like to read 

 about it. R. H. Humphries. 



Galatia, 111., Nov. 12. 



Trade Ruined by Sugar-Honey. 



I would like to caution against feed- 

 ing sugar syrup to produce honey. Two 

 years ago a bee-keeper who lives about 

 four miles from me tried this on quite a 

 large scale, and a large lot of sugar- 

 honey, both comb and extracted, and 

 sold large quantities of it to his own cus- 

 tomers and to a good many of mine. 

 The result was, that he ruined his own 

 trade and nearly did the same to mine 

 around home, and I had a very large 

 home trade. Most of the people seemed 

 to be able to tell that it was sugar-honey, 

 and some of his neighbors had seen him 

 feed sugar in large quantities during the 

 summer, and a very big fuss was made 

 over the matter. The local newspapers 

 took the matter up, and two or three 



articles about it were copied by other 

 local papers. 



Now, I have never sold a pound of 

 sugar-honey, but a good many people 

 knew that I fed a great deal of sugar 

 every fall, for winter stores for the bees, 

 and I was thought by most people, or at 

 least a good many, to be as bad as my 

 neighbor. I explained matters the best 

 I could to my customers, and I am get- 

 ting some of my home trade back, but it 

 is slow, hard work. C. Davenport. 



Chatfield, Minn. 



Blooming Flowers and Growing Grass. 



The weather here is just delightful. 

 We have not had any frost yet. The 

 gardens are full of flowers of all kinds. 

 I do not remember seeing such a profu- 

 sion of flowers in our gardens at this 

 time of the year. The grass that started 

 about the first of October is now about 

 six inches high. It is not every year 

 that we have such tine grass as we have 

 at this time. W. A. Pryal. 



North Temescal, Calif., Nov. 12. 



Poor Year — A Late Strawberry. 



I see in the "Bee Journal" the an- 

 nouncement of a bee-convention to be 

 held at Middlebury, Vt., Jan. 30 and 

 31. It is only about 20 miles from 

 here, and as I never have attended any 

 bee-convention I intend to go and get 

 acquainted with some of my brother bee- 

 keepers. I have about 75 colonies. 

 They did not do extra well this year. I 

 got only about 1,000 one-pound sections 

 uf honey this year, as it was a pretty 

 poor year here. But I am hoping, if we 

 have a good year next year, and with 

 the help of the "American Bee Journal," 

 that I may get good returns from the 

 bees. 



I saw In the number of the "American 

 Bee Journal" for Nov. 8, that dandelions 

 were in bloom in Chicago on Oct. 31. 

 Mr. D. W. L. Moore, here in Ticondero- 

 ga, N. Y., picked a ripe strawberry in 

 his garden on Nov. 13, that measured 

 nearly three inches. Mr. Moore sent 

 the berry to his mother in New York 

 city. G. H. Adkins. 



Street Road, N. Y., Nov. 16. 



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 neighbors who keep bees, and we will 

 send them sample copies of the Bee 

 Journal. Then please call upon them 

 and get them to subscribe with you, and 

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