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Feb. 13, 



another plant could hold. It is a valuable 

 acquisition where its good qualities are 

 known. Stock learn to eat it, and fowls 

 revel in it, as it comes up so rank and 

 green before other clovers. 



There was but little surplus honey stored 

 in this locality during the past season, as 

 the early part was very wet, followed by a 

 severe drouth. The winter has been quite 

 cool, with a number of frosts, yet there 

 have been but a few days when bees did 

 not fly and bring in pollen from the 

 swamps. Intelligent bee-culture is moving 

 slowly forward. Mrs. L. Harrison. 



St. Andrews Bay, Fla., Jan. 18. 



Breeding Out the Swarming Fever. 



Mr. Doolittle has given a nice solution of 

 the question, but oh, dear! to think of 

 breeding out the swarm fever — «f!'f?-, no 

 never can this be accomplished ! Seasons 

 may change the state of afl'airs, in which 

 persons are led to believe certain theories 

 have accomplished. Mr. D. may have a 

 similar year to 1S70. Some three or four 

 years ago I had colonies that swarmed five 

 and six times, each being hived. Since 

 that time I have not had a swarm, and do 

 all I could to make them swarm, nary a 

 swarm issued. There is nothing in it. Mr. 

 D. God so created the busy little bee with 

 the instinct to swarm, the same as he cre- 

 ated in man the power of will to love God 

 or reject his salvation. J. A. Goldex. 



Reinersville, Ohio. 



Fair Crop— Wintering Well. 



My last season's crop of honey was a fair 

 one, mostly all white, from wild mustard 

 and golden-rod. The bees are wintering 

 well so far, in the cellars. 



Tracy, Minn., Jan. 28. Evan J. Davis. 



Good Report from Florida. 



My average yield for 1895, was 184 pounds 

 of extracted honey from 2G colonies of 

 hybrid bees, spring count, and increased to 

 46. H. F. Baker. 



Bristol, Fla., Jan. 31. 



Kesults of Three Seasons. 



The past was a very poor season for 

 white honey in northeastern Ohio. Bass- 

 wood buds were killed by frost, and white 

 clover failed to secrete honey. My report 

 is 2,000 pounds of honey, about 1,700 being 

 extracted (all from fall bloom), from 50 

 colonies, spring count, many of them be- 

 ing reduced to a mere handful and a queen 

 in the spring. My crop is all sold at 10 

 cents for extracted, and 12^j for comb 

 honey, besides selling 400 or .500 pounds for 

 my neighbors. I now have 60 colonies. 

 Although two of the past three seasons 

 were counted poor in this section, yet I 

 have secured a total of about 9,000 pounds 

 the past three seasons, from an average of 

 less than 50 colonies, spring count. Bees 

 are wintering well. B. W. Peck. 



Richmond Centre, Ohio, Jan. 26. 



Black Bees — Doubling Swarms. 



Dr. Miller, I was just joking about the 

 black bees. I felt good because I got a sur- 

 plus when people 500 miles south of me 

 didn't, but it is a fact that my blacks and 

 hybrids have done better than my yellow 

 beauties, and I think if you could have 

 handled my bees they would have done 

 much better. I raised 1,000 bushels of 

 wl eat. 1,200 of oats, 500 of corn, 125 of rye, 

 600 of potatoes, and made 35 tons of hay, 

 and only hired IS days' work in 1895. So I 

 think my bees did well. 



Can we put two or more swarms into one 

 hive ? My bees swarmed clear out of rea- 

 son in 1895, so I tried doubling. I put 15 

 swarms into 5 hives, put 14 more into 7 

 hives, and run 4 back into the parent hive. 

 Of the first, all came out queenless in three 

 weeks ; of the second, 2 came out queenless ; 



and of the third, I found 2 without any 

 bees, and solid full of honey when I went 

 to put them into the cellar. I had two old 

 colonies that swarmed five times each. 



S. M. Robertson. 

 Grey Eagle, Minn., Jan. 18. 



Bees Did Not Do Well. 



The last two years the bees did not do 

 well on account of the drouth. In 1894 

 they did not get enough, so I had to feed 

 them to get them through the winter. The 

 spring of 1895 .started out finely till the 

 frost came about May 10, which killed all 

 the blossoms, and the white clover was 

 frozen out so badly that there was hardly 

 any left. But the fall was good, and the 

 bees had 275 pounds of surplus honey. I 

 have 12 colonies. I pack them in two boxes, 

 8x3, and 3 feet high, and then put chaff all 

 around. 



We have had a nice winter; it is so 

 warm to-day (Jan. 22) that the bees are 

 flying. Louis Harting. 



Arthur, Iowa. 



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Tlie National Bec-Keeperslijioii 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 



The canvass of all the votes received 

 up to the time of closing the polls, on 

 February 1, 1896, showed tliat 153 

 ballots were received, and they were 

 given to the Judges of Election to 

 open and count. The following is 

 their Report : 



Chicago, Feb. 5, 1 896. 

 We, the Committee on Ballots of 

 the National Bee-Keepers' Union, find 

 the votes cast as follows, for Officers 

 for 1896 : 



Total numberof votes cast, 153, of which 

 one was blank. 



For President — 



Hon. R. L. Tavlor, 100; Dr. C. C. Miller, 

 17; Prof. A. J. Cook, 8; Hon. Eugene 

 Secor, 5 ; A. I. Root, 5 ; G. M. Doolittle, 2 ; 

 R. F. Holtermaun, 2. — W. Z. Hutchinson, 

 James Heddon, Geo. W. Brodbeck, G. W. 

 Demaree, P. H. Ehvood, C. P. Dadant, C. K. 

 Decker, Chas. Dadant, C. P. Muth, Dr. J. 

 P. H. Brown and Frank Benton, 1 each. 



For Vice-Presidents. 



Prof. A. J. Cook. 116; G. M. Doolittle, 

 115; Dr. C. C.Miller, 109; Hon. Eugene 

 Secor.lOl; A.I.Root,91; G.W. York, 19; 

 C. P. Dadant, 16; R. F. Holtermann, 16; 

 Hon. R. L. Taylor, 14 ; E. R. Root, 14 ; C. F. 

 Muth, 13; Geo. W. Brodbeck, 11; P. H. 

 Ehvood, 9; Dr. A. B. Mason, 8; G. W. 

 Demaree, 8 ; Frank Benton, 7 ; W. Z. 

 Hutchinson, 6 ; James Heddon, 6 ; Charles 

 Dadant, 5; Hon. Geo. E. Hilton, 5; J. H. 

 Martin, 4.— Jas. A. Stone, B. France, Thos. 

 G. Newman, Rev. E. T. Abbott and Mrs. 

 J. Atchley, 3 each. — Wm. McEvoy, J. A. 

 Green, C. A. Hatch and R. Wilkin, 2 each. — 



B. Taylor, R. McKnight, Bob IngersoU, 



C. S. Burlev, G. G. Baldwin, James Arnott, 

 H. G. Acklin, H. C. Wheeler, J. LaRue, 

 O. C. Blanchard, M. H. Mendleson, Captain 

 J. E. Hetherington, Wm. Muth-Rasmussen, 

 C. Theilmann, L. A. Aspinwall, J. C. 

 Wheeler, Dr. .1. P. H. Brown, D. P. Steven- 

 son, E. A. Boone, J. T. Calvert, Mathias 

 Hettel, D. C. McLeod, O. M. Pierson and 

 A. W. Spracklen, 1 each. 



For General Manager. Sec. and Treas. 



Thomas G. Newman, 142 : Geo. W. York, 

 4.-C. C. Miller, J. A. Green, J. T. Calvert, 

 M.H. Mendleson and R. Dumphmore, 1 each. 

 RespectfuUj' submitted, 



C. C. Miller, I Committee 

 Geo. W. York, f ^"nmitiee. 



The old Officers are therefore all re- 

 elected, to serve for another year. 



Thomas G. Newman, 

 147 .South Western Ave., Chicago, 111. 



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