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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL.. 



honey, outside of the linden ; while back 

 in the interior, and where it is hilly and 

 rolling, like Bee county, we get just as 

 much honey as they get in Brazoria 

 county, and all white honey, and of tine 

 flavor and quality. Bees that we ex- 

 amined through the eastern counties are 

 mostly in fine condition for winter. But 

 one mistake I think the people are mak- 

 ing, is in not Italianizing their bees, as 

 nearly all the bees found in Brazoria 

 county, except a few apiaries, are the 

 common black bees. 



Jennie Atciiley. 



Motherwort— Dry Weather. 



Mks. Atchley : — I send you by this 

 mail some motherwort seed. It blooms 

 from August until frost ; the last 

 bloomed here Nov. 1. 



My bees are in splendid condition for 

 winter. It is very dry here in this part 

 of Kentucky. We have to drive our 

 stock two miles to water. Our springs 

 are all drying up, and we just get rain 

 enough to keep small grain alive. I like 

 your lessons very much in the American 

 Bee Journal ; but would like them bet- 

 ter if they came every week. It is now 

 cold — away below zero. 



J. W. Crutcher. 



Jett, Ky., Nov. 19. 



Friend C, I wish to thank you for the 

 motherwort seed. I shall try it here, 

 and if it grows and does well, I will re- 

 port it through the American Bee Jour- 

 nal. 



It makes me alniost shiver to hear you 

 say it is below zero, while we have had 

 no frost yet to kill our garden stuff. We 

 have snap-beans right off the vines now. 

 It is dry here, too— no rain for two 

 months, but that is common here, and 

 nothing is thought of it. Water is plen- 

 tiful here everywhere. 



Jennie Atchley. 



Old If ce .loiirnsils.— We have quite 

 a number of old copies of the American 

 Bee Journal, extending back perphaps 10 

 years. We will send these out at one cod a 

 rjq/ii, all to be different dates, and back of 

 Jan. 1, 1894. Remember they are odd num- 

 bers, and you must let us select them. We 

 cannot furnish them in regular order, that 

 is, one or two months' numbers without a 

 break, but will mail you as many single or 

 odd copies as you may wish, upon receipt 

 of the number of cents you want to invest 

 in them. They will be fine reading for the 

 long winter evenings, and many a single 

 copy is worth a whole years' subscription. 

 Better send for ten or more copies, as a 

 sample order. Only a cent a copy, back of 

 Jan. 1, 1894. 



Oranulated or Brown Sugar for 

 Spring Feeding? 



Query 952.— Taking into account the dif- 

 ferent cost, is it better to use granulated or 

 brown sugar for spring feeding ?— Iowa. 



Granulated. — J. A. Green. 



Granulated. — J. P. H. Brown. 



" I don't know." — Jas. A. Stone. 



I prefer granulated. — B. Taylor. 



Granulated sugar. — Dadant & S(Jn. 



I use granulated. — G. M. Doolittle. 



Granulated, I think.— W. G. Labra- 

 bee. 



Whichever is the cheaper. — .T. M. 

 Hambaugh. 



I should rather risk the granulated. — 

 S. I. Freeborn. 



I always use granulated sugar when 

 obliged to feed.— H. D. Cutting. 



I've always used granulated, so I never 

 had a chance to compare. — C. C.Miller. 



I think that granulated sugar is the 

 cheaper and better at all times. — Emer- 

 son T. Abbott. 



I don't know. I never used the latter 

 for that purpose. Suppose you try both. 

 — Eugene Secor. 



We feed granulated, and think it 

 enough better to make up the difference 

 in price.— E. France. 



I would not use granulated at all. I 

 would use a fair article of white sugar, 

 A or C coffee.— M. Mahin. 



I think granulated sugar is the cheap- 

 est, as well as the best, for bee-feed at 

 any time.— C. H. Dibbern. 



Neither, in this locality. I cannot 

 tell which is best, but I think there is 

 not much difference. — P. H. Elwood. 



I do not know. Why not use granu- 

 lated sugar and cheap honey, half and 

 half? I have been doing this in Califor- 

 nia.— A. J. Cook. 



T use the common brown sugar, and 

 like it best. It comes right from the 

 open pans or kettles, and is not refined 



