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to, unless it be In the spring. I did not 

 get a chance to help put them into the 

 cellar this fall, but father said they were 

 nearly all in splendid condition. 



I am going to school in a neighboring 

 village this winter, and get home only 

 on Saturdays, but I keep my eye on the 

 American Bee Journal. I would like to 

 hear from some more of the young peo- 

 ple through the American Bee Journal 

 this winter. Pens and paper are cheap. 

 Let us see which State in the Union will 

 have the largest representation of young 

 people in the Bee Journal this winter. 

 Now see if Wisconsin doesn't come out 

 ahead. Let's make the editor make the 

 paper larger on our account. 



Chas. W. Sanford. 



Ono, Wis., Dec. 15. 



[All right, let's hear from the young 

 bee-keepers of the different families 

 where the Bee Journal is read. Tell us 

 all something about the bees. Maybe 

 the young friends can give the older 

 ones some new and valuable ideas on 

 bee-keeping. We always have room for 

 soaething good, or new and helpful. — 

 Editor.] 



Bees Did Well — Late Swarms. 



My report for 1894 is this: 1,200 

 pounds of comb honey, and 400 pounds 

 of extracted, gathered in 25 days — 10 

 days in July and 15 days commencing 

 the 29th of August. The bees have 

 plenty for winter. I had 28 colonies in 

 the spring, and 28 in the fall. One col- 

 ony swarmed Aug. 29, which gathered 

 enough for winter, and gave me 21 

 pounds of comb honey. Also one 

 swarmed Sept. 4, and gathered 22 

 pounds for winter, and gave me 7 

 pounds of finished comb honey. If any 

 one has done better in this latitude 

 (38°) I should like to hear from him 

 through the American Bee Journal. 



A. D. Lord. 



Amiret, Minn., Dec. 13. 



Bee-Keeping in Eastern Kansas. 



I had intended to meet all of the bee- 

 keeping fraternity of the United States 

 and Canada at St. Jeseph in October, 

 but I was prevented by circumstances 

 that I could not control, and went about 

 100 miles right in the opposite direction. 

 I just consider I perhaps missed the one 

 opportunity of a lifetime, but I will go 

 when they have the National at Kansas 



City or Independence, Mo., i/ it is not too 

 far in the future. 



We have had poor honey crops here in 

 eastern Kansas for several years, but we 

 are a hopeful lot — we always think we 

 will do better next year; but we beat 

 Dr. Miller this year. I got an average of 

 a little over 13 pounds to the colony, 

 counting increase and all. I had only 

 one swarm, but made several colonies by 

 dividing. 



Our best honey-flow this year was in 

 September and October, and where I live 

 (on Marmaton river) it was all white 

 honey — I think it was from asters — and 

 it is all candied now so hard that I can 

 hardly dig it out with a table-knife. 



We are having nice weather yet— no 

 snow or cold weather, and very little 

 rain. The farmers are nearly all plow- 

 ing, and the corn is mostly all gathered, 

 but, like the honey crop, there was not 

 much of it to gather. But we are work- 

 ing hard to try to do better next year, 

 trusting in the Lord and hard labor to 

 get a crop. J. C. Balch, 



Bronson, Kans., Dec. 14. 



An Old Bee-Keeper's Report. 



Next year may be my last for the 

 American Bee Journal. I think that I 

 have taken it about as long as anybody 

 in the country. I think that I took it 

 nearly all of the time it was published in 

 Washington, D. C, and the most, or all, 

 of the time it has been published in Chi- 

 cago — about 30 years, in all. I am get- 

 ting too old to take care of bees. I am 

 now in my 85th year, and have kept 

 bees about 50 years. I have put into 

 my cellar 98 colonies, and they seem to 

 be all right yet. In hiving one swarm 

 last summer, I fell out of an apple tree 

 backwards about ten feet, with a swarm 

 in my hands ; the bees went all over me, 

 and then they came at me sharp-^d 

 first, and they stung me a good many 

 times until I got out of their way. 



Wm. C. Wolcott. 



Eldorado, Wis., Dec. 17. 



Capons and Caponizing:, by 



Edward Warren Sawyer, M. D., Fanny 

 Field, and others. It shows in clear 

 language and illustrations all about 

 caponizing fowls; and thus how to 

 make the most money in poultry-raising. 

 Every poultry-keeper should have It. 

 Price, postpaid, 30 cents ; or clubbed 

 with Bee Journal one year for $1.10. 



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