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Feb. 6, 



also. I sowed with oats. I also tried them 

 alone, without any other crop. With oats 

 the crimson clorer did the best, but if we 

 had had some rain, and not so much frost. 

 no doubt they would bolb have done better. 



The crimson bloomed and made seed in 

 the summer; fell down and made young 

 plants in the fall. The old plants look well 

 now, as though they would bloom out in 

 the spring. 



Where it was sowed alone they did much 

 the best, but the labor of mowing three 

 times and getting no crop, proved to me it 

 was not the way to do. 



White clover looks better than it has for 

 years in this locality. The fall rains gave 

 it a start, and these winter rains will. I 

 think, insure honey from it in the spring. 



Those who sowed red clover in this 

 locality last spring have as good a stand 

 and as fine a growth as I ever saw. 

 . Cooksville, 111. E. B. Ellis. 



Hive-Numbering Plan. 



I am not satisfied quite with any explana- 

 tion so far given as to numbering hives, 

 and will therefore give my way of doing it: 



I number the queen by placing the num- 

 ber on a board 4x6 inches, or any size de- 

 sired. Put the same number on the back 

 of the hive, and hang the board on a nail 

 driven into the back of the hive. When I 

 remove the queen for any cause, I take the 

 board with her. If she comes out with a 

 swarm. I remove the board with the swarm. 

 I keep the record on the board, removing 

 such as I see fit with my jackknife or plane. 



When winter comes, and I wish to cellar 

 my bees, I gather all the boards into a box, 

 put them away, and in the spring there is 

 no trouble to tell where they belong, by the 

 corresponding numbers on hive and board. 



Glendon, Iowa. (J. P. Miller. 



Mountain Laurel Honey. 



In the Bee Journal of Dec. 26, 1895, I no- 

 ticed in an extract from the New York Sun, 

 the report that a family in Trenton, N. J., 

 was poisoned from eating mountain laurel 

 honey. I am much surprised at the state- 

 ment, inasmuch as I have kept bees for 15 

 years, and they have had access every sea- 

 son to hundreds of acres of mountain lau- 

 rel, and I have never known or heard of 

 any one being made sick from eating the 

 honey secured in this locality. 



Tracy City, Tenn. I. L. Parker. 



A Fruit-Man that Values Bees. 



After having read the Bee Journal more 

 or less for a year. I must say that it fills the 

 bill more to my satisfaction than does that 

 of nearly 16 papers I take on other subjects. 

 I have 30 colonies of hybrid bees. 5 of pure 

 Italian, and two 5-banded, and three that 

 are .3-banded. I will test them all the com- 

 ing season, when I shall increase them 

 largely. My honey returns have been very 

 satisfactory the past summer. Fruit is my 

 main industry. After next season I will 

 have 40 acres in orchard. I am somewhat 

 amused at seeing some of our horticultural 



papers fighting the bee-keepers. I consider 

 bees one of the grandest and best helps we 

 have in this valley. Without them we 

 would not have nearly the amount of fruit 

 that we do. We have about 10.000 colonies 

 of bees in this valley, principally hybrids. 

 Next Saturday we will organize a bee-keep- 

 ers' association — the first in this valley — for 

 our mutual protection. . 



James U. Harris. 

 Grand Junction, Colo., Jan. 1. 



The Season a Failure. 



The past season has been a failure here. 

 I had 40 colonies of bees last spring, and 

 lost all except 23. which I put into winter 

 quarters very light in both bees and honey. 

 1 did not get a pound of surplus honey the 

 last season. Jesse B. Lewis. 



Westons Mill, N. Y., Dec. 10, 1895. 



Arranging the Hives. 



Query 99S suggests the idea, and though 

 it be of but little or no interest to others, I 

 will give my plan of arranging hives: 



Place them in pairs with the backs within 

 two inches of each other, and the entrances 

 10 inches apart, giving 3,' .j to 3 feet between 

 the pairs. 



Another row with the entrances in the 

 opposite direction, can be placed .just to the 

 back of the first, and no two very near 

 each other, fronting exactly the same way. 



Creek, N. C. W. H. Phihgen. 



Report from N. W. Pennsylvania. 



The past season was a complete failure as 

 to white clover or basswood honey. Buck- 

 wheat was the largest of large redeemers 

 this year, for it gave us a large surplus and 

 plenty for winter. The story will be told 

 this winter, whether buckwheat honey is 

 good to winter bees on. 



Never since 1 have kept bees— 11 or 13 

 years — did the prospect for a large honey 

 crop look so promising as last spring, but, 

 alas! Jack Frost spoiled it all. Bees, last 

 spring, filled the brood-nest with honey ; 

 colonies were very strong, but had nothing 

 to do but consume their stores. There were 

 but few early swarms, but in August — 

 hello ! but didn't they swarm ? — and sting ? 

 Never were bees so cross. 



Last Friday (Dee. 13) we had zero 

 weather, but to-day it is thawing, and the 

 snow nearly gone. Geo. Spitler. 



Mosiertown, Pa., Dec. 18, 1895. 



A Beginner's Experience. 



My three colonies are in chaff hives— two 

 in old-fashioned chaff, and one in a new 

 dovetail chaff hive. I started with one col- 

 ony last May. I got two. I hived and 

 drove the others back as they swarmed. I 

 got about 10 pounds of surplus comb honey 

 in shallow extracting-frames. They would 

 not work in the sections. I tried all ways to 

 induce them to. Some I put some brood in 

 one section. It hatched out and went be- 

 low. The three hives were full of bees and 

 30 or more pounds of honey in the brood- 



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