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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 16, 



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YOUR PAST, 



PRESENT, 

 AND FUTURE. 



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You have suffered much in the past. 

 ' Many of your days have undoubtedly 

 been darkened by the shadow of sick- 

 ness and ill health. You have often- 

 times felt gloomy and despondent. At 

 the present moment you may not be feel- 

 ing just as well as you ought to feel. 

 Perhaps you are experiencing the first 

 symptoms of some serious ailment which 

 is lurking in your system. Unless it is 

 promptly checked there may be a long 

 siege of illness in store for you. Now is 

 the time to 



STOP AND THINK 



about the actual state of your health. 



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Mention the American Bee journal. 



SAVE 

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W^l.'^'J'^y^'i^^ ITALIAN QUEENS 



Foundatiou at Wholesale Prices. Hives, 

 suited for the South, or SUPPIjIEIS, send for 

 Prlce-Llst— to 



A.XJOTJSTA., 

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J. P. H. imm, 



raisins East, and I find invariably that if 

 the market drops a little, the consignee will 

 try to get out of fulfilling his agreement. 

 So it is with our wine, oranges, lemons, 

 etc., until, in desperation, we are obliged 

 to form combines or unions, and sell only 

 for cash at our stations. The wine pro- 

 ducers and orange-growers have the strong- 

 est unions, and the result is our crops of 

 that class are now selling for enough to 

 pay cost of raising them. Previous to this, 

 the more a man had to sell the worse he 

 was off, and plenty of men were bank- 

 rupted. 



Our California honey men are on the 

 right track, and if the proper effort be 

 made, we will have a union that will pre- 

 vent a few commission men from gobbling 

 the whole crop at their own price. 



At this writiug bees come in loaded with 

 pollen and honey, and colonies are all very 

 strong, and in fi'ne condition, but we have 

 not yet had rain enough to amount to any- 

 thing, and unless we get a good one this 

 month, we will have little honey next year. 



Mr. J. M. Hambaugh, formerly of Illinois, 

 has bought about .50 acres of land in this 

 valley — l^o miles south of me — has built a 

 barn, and will soon build a bouse, and be 

 " one of us." 



The editor seems to be on the right track 

 to get at the market prices of honey. We 

 look to the bee-papers to keep us informed 

 as to the quantity produced generally over 

 the country, and the prices in the different 

 cities. These prices ought not to vary 

 much, and if they do, we think there is 

 something wrong. Out here we do not ex- 

 pect any more for our honey than Eastern 

 men get for theirs of equal quality, but we 

 think we ought to get as much, gross. Of 

 course, we have more freight to pay, but 

 we expect that. Southern California. 



Dec. 5, isa5. 



First Year's Experience— Sweet Clover 



Last spring 1 purchased six colonies of 

 bees in box-hives. Later I got some 10- 

 frame Improved Langstroth Simplicity 

 hives. I now have 13 colonies in these 

 hives, all in good condition for winter. 



The last was a poor season for bees in 

 this locality, as the bees did not work on 

 white clover here. I harvested about 300 

 pounds of nice comb honey. I think I shall 

 try sweet clover for my bees. Last spring 

 I received a small package of sweet clover 

 seed, which I sowed on April llj; it came 

 up nicely, and reached a growth of about 3 

 feet. I think I shall grow it more exten- 

 sively next spring. But here are questions 

 for any one who feels disposed to answer: 



If sweet clover is mown about July 10 or 

 1.5, will it produce a second crop of blossoms 

 which will yield nectar ? For bee-pastur- 

 age alone, how much seed should be sown 

 per acre ? C. Wtnn. 



RoUa, Mo., Dec. 7, 1895. 



8-Fraines — Fastening' Foundation. 



I commenced in the spring of 1805 with 

 13 colonies, 6 of which were in the S-frame 

 hives, 3 in the 10-frame, and 4 in box-hives. 

 I now have 18 colonies, with all but 3 in the 

 movable-frame hives. I prefer the 8-frame 

 Langstroth hive, tiered up three stories 

 high for extracted honey, for this reason : 

 If you don't use the perforated zinc be- 

 tween the frames of the bottom and top 

 stories, you are certain to have some 

 patches of brood in the center frames of 

 the second story, whether you use the S or 

 10 frame hive, it makes no difference. At 

 least this is true with me. So the point I 

 wish to make is this : If you want the sur- 

 plus honey free from patches of brood, you 

 must give the bees some directly above 

 them instead of on each side as you must 

 do with the 10-frame hive of two stories. 



And as to tiering up the 10-frame hive 

 three stories high, you must have an extra 

 early swarm, and a rousing big one, and 

 give them full sheets of foundation if you 

 want the hives filled at all in this locality 

 in one season. So the S-frame hive is 

 quicker and surer in results. CU j 



Now, don't misconstrue my words, and 

 think I want all my hives of the S-frame 

 pattern, for if a colony gets too populous 

 for an 8-frame hive, why, I just transfer 

 them into a 10-frame hive during a good 

 honey-flow, and add the extra 4 frames 

 with full sheets of foundation in the center 

 of the top story, and by-and-by a third 

 story is added. Also, as the transferring 

 process is going on, I cut out all the queen- 

 cells so as to have no swarming during that 

 honey-flow, wlrtch means twice as much 

 honey as if they had swarmed. 



As I do not produce comb honey, my esti- 

 mates are for extracted entirely, as fol- 

 lows: 



Poplar 36 pounds, linden 334 pounds, and 

 buckwheat 108 pounds ; total, 468 pounds, 

 from 13 colonies, averaging 39 pounds per 

 colony. I am not in love with buckwheat 

 honey at all : I consider it second quality. 



I see a writer from Tracy City, Tenn., 

 asks Dr. Miller how to fasten foundatiou to 

 frames, so I send a good, cheap way: 



If the frames have a comb-guide, lay the 

 foundation with the edge on the comb- 

 guide, as you wish it to hang in the frame. 

 Now take a common porcelain bed-caster, 

 wet it well and roll first a little spot at each 

 end of the comb-guide, then in the middle, 

 then between these three spots, to get it 

 stuck all along. Now roll back and forth 

 with the caster till you see the foundation 

 shine, and the work is done. I have tried 

 this plan with satisfactory results. 



J. A. Bearden. 



Cyruston, Tenn., Dec. 7, 1895. 



ftuilts on Hives — Placing Hives. 



My 14 colonies were put on five Lang- 

 stroth frames each, standing on end and 

 packed around with granulated cork, with 

 cork cushion on top, about Oct. 10, 1895, in 

 first-class condition. 



I see so much in the Bee Journal about 

 " the quilt," "turn up one corner of the 

 quilt," " remove the quilt and take out the 

 combs, etc.," " after returning the quilts, 

 etc." What do people use quilts on top of 

 the frames for ? What do they do with the 

 quilts when they get covered with propolis 

 on both sides and stick to the cover, and 

 stick to the frames so that if you want to 

 look at your bees it comes off rip, rip! 

 crack ! ! ker-r-r-r ! I ! rack ! ! ! ! There, it's 

 off, and the bees are crazy mad, and "Git 

 for shed "is in order, and leave the bees 

 uncovered until they cool down. I got 

 gloriously over that " quilt " business years 

 ago. 



The poem against low-down hives, on page 

 7T9, suits me exactly. I've been there and 

 left for good. What any one wants to work 

 all day with his back bent double for, is 

 more than I can tell. I have had boards 

 from the alighting-board to the ground for 

 heavy-laden bees that couldn't make the 

 entrance, to crawl upon, but I have never 

 seen a bee alight six inches from the en- 

 trance that did not fly again to get in. 

 About 13 or 15 inches is the right height 

 from the ground for comfort. 



My bees got their usual quota of light 

 honey last summer — about 40 pounds per 

 colony — and fall honey enough for winter; 

 and I have enough combs full put away for 

 spring. Tnos. Thurlow. 



Lancaster, Pa., Dec. 13, 1895. 



Season of 1895 — Honey-Plants. 



I took out of the cellar last spring 30 col- 

 onies, one afterwards swarmed out or was 

 robbed, leaving 19 colonies, mostly in good 

 condition, with a good supply of honey and 

 well stocked with bees. In May there were 

 hard frosts which seemed to destroy all the 

 nectar in the willow and wild fruit blos- 

 soms, and the bees, after using up the 

 honey they carried over winter, were al- 

 most in a starving condition, but with what 

 they gathered, and what sugar syrup they 

 were fed, they came through alive. The 

 scarcity of supplies did not stop them from 

 breeding. 



They commenced swarming the last of 

 May, and kept it up till late in August. 

 Five or six swarms left for parts unknown. 



