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whether you dissolve it in cold or boiling 

 water. 



But it saves work to dissolve it cold. 

 And if Mr. Davenport will try it, I am 

 sure he'll find he can save work over his 

 plan by using the percolating feeder. If 

 he has never tried it, he doesn't know 

 how much easier it is to just pour in the 

 dry sugar and then the water. No 

 daubing with syrup. 



I like his way of using feeders better 

 than using crocks, if a body has the 

 feeders. My bees take the feed just as 

 quick with the percolating feeders as if 

 I fed syrup. 



I wish Mr. Davenport would turn 

 some of his feeders into percolators, and 

 then tell us which he likes best. You 

 see he can't tell which he likes best till 

 he tries both. A, Beeman. 



Ogrenma, Ohio. 



Bees Did Very Well. 



My bees have done very well this year, 

 as my honey will bring me $200. I 

 had 63 colonies. In all I had but 13 

 swarms, and one left for the woods, or 

 some other place. Thomas Ash. 



East Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 4. 



Kesults of the Season, Etc. 



We have now 22 colonies of bees, hav- 

 ing taken about 300 pounds of honey 

 from 17 colonies, and increased to 22. 

 They all have stores for the winter. 



We have had a disease among our 

 bees, which we thought was foul brood, 

 so ray husband killed the first colony, 

 thinking it was so. But after awhile we 

 saw they all became cured of it them- 

 selves. We also had seen a similar case 

 mentioned in the American Bee Journal, 

 so we knew it was all right. 



Mks. J. Knuppel. 



S. Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 20, 



Early Spring Shipping: of Bees. 



This has been the poorest season for 

 honey since bees have been brought to 

 this country — 16 or 18 years ago. I got 

 only about 6,000 pounds of comb honey 

 from 200 colonies, being X of an aver- 

 age crop, but we never have had any 

 total failures here, nor any bee-diseases 

 of any kind, no winter losses or spring 

 dwindling, nor do wo ever have to feed 

 bees at any time in the year, and no 

 preparation for winter is required. Our 

 first honey comes from friiit-bloom, 

 about the last week of February, and 



there is always something for the bees 

 up to the first of November. 



By the way, why would not this be a 

 good county for our friends up North, 

 that want to buy bees in the spring, to 

 get their bees from here as early as they 

 want them ? Shipments from here would 

 have to be made about the first of April, 

 and not later than the 15th, as then our 

 swarming season commences, and by 

 May 1 the hives are nearly a solid mass 

 of brood, and boiling over with bees. 

 May is generally the best honey month 

 in the year here. Eight-frame dovetail 

 hives, with a slat bottom super, are used 

 almost exclusively in this part of the 

 " Great American Desert." 



J. G. Stewart. 



Las Cruces, N. Mex., Nov. 20. 



The Season of 1894. 



May 20 found me with 25 colonies, 

 strong in brood and bees, being the same 

 number I put into winter quarters the 

 fall before— minus one, which, somehow, 

 became queenless. From May 20 to 

 June 10 the weather was so cold and 

 wet that the bees were confined to their 

 hives the most of the time, hence the 

 latter date found them reduced in brood 

 and honey. This made swarming late. 



Our crop of white or spring-stored 

 honey was very light. Between bass- 

 wood and the fall flowers the bees, as is 

 usual in this location, had a vacation. 

 The fall flowers, especially golden-rod, 

 yielded fairly well. There was no great 

 flow, but a continuous one for weeks. 

 The weather was fair and dry, so that 

 every day counted. The honey gathered 

 was very thick and rich. Almost every 

 colony had sufficient stores for winter — 

 some had a surplus. J. P. Smith. 



Sunapee, N. H., Nov. 30. 



Past Season's Report. 



I commenced last spring with 8 colo- 

 nies, and got 650 pounds of honey, after 

 I had cleaned it all up and picked out 

 all the partly-filled sections; and I did 

 not know anything about a bee two 

 years ago, when I subscribed for the 

 American Bee Journal. We have had a 

 very poor season here for honey, for 

 everything was burned up in tiie sum- 

 mer, and just as the fall flowers were 

 commencing to bloom we had the worst 

 hail-storm within the memory of the 

 oldest inhabitant. It swept everything 

 before it for about 4 or 5 miles wide. 



I put my bees into the cellar Nov. 16. 

 I am afraid that I was a little too fast, 



