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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



March 5, 



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Appreciating' the advantages for procuring- Basswood Lumber, and the splendid Shippinn- 

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TWm HMRSHFlEEf© MFG. CO., 



Dec. is 1893. 1TIARSHFIEL.D, Wood Co., WIS. 



6Ctf Mentitm the American Bee Joumalc 



per colony of only 1 2-9 ounces per day. 

 The largest amount cousutued by any one 

 colony was 2 ounces, the least was 1 ounce. 

 The strength of the colonies was a fair 

 average for this locality. I contend that 

 at this rate of consumption the 25 to 30 

 pounds usually claimed to be necessary in 

 the standard works would be superabun- 

 dant here ; however. I admit that consump- 

 tion witb the beginning of brood-rearing 

 will be much more rapid, but it remains to 

 be seen how much. 



Several of our membership, who bad at- 

 tended the International Bee-Congress at 

 Atlanta, were present, and it is something 

 surprising how looking upon the faces of 

 such veterans as A. I. Root, Poppleton, 

 Demaree, Fooshe. Benton, Osteen, Hart, 

 the Browns. Danzenbaker, Calvert, Hub- 

 bard, and Mrs. Harrison, and listening to 

 their words of wisdom, can fire the enthusi- 

 asm of their younger brethren. No trouble 

 to look around and tell who had visited the 

 Congress. I feel sure these meetings are 

 good for the fraternity. 



Fetzerton, Teun. W. C. Copeland, tiec. 



Bro. Ben's Report for 1895. 



Increase of bees 1.50 per cent. Average 

 per colony, spring count. 100 pounds of ex- 

 tracted honey of fine quality. Main source 

 of honey supply, basswood. buckbrush, 

 sweet clover, wild cucumber and fruit- 

 bloom. 



Red clover and most kinds of grass may 

 be kept very green, by putting into the 

 barn in alternate layers of the grass and 

 dry oats straw — layers about one foot thick, 

 beginning and ending with a layer of the 

 straw. I see no reason why the same would 

 not preserve sweet clover, at least it is 

 worthy of a trial. Bed. Ben. 



Grant Centre, Iowa, Feb. 10. 



From a Young' Lady Bee-Keeper. 



The past season was a poor one, freezing 

 and drouth being the cause. We started 

 last spring with 15 colonies of bees and in- 

 creased to 55. So far this winter we have 

 not lost any. From the 45 colonies we got 

 4.000 pounds of extracted honey and 600 

 pounds in sections. We have all our bees 

 in chaff hives on the summer stands. Almost 

 all the bees had a good flight Jan. 29. Two 

 laying queens in one hive were mentioned 

 recently by G. W. Williams. We also have 

 two queens in one hive. We call them 

 " mother and daughter," but they were 

 there only in the summer; in the fall the 

 old queen was gone. The 2-queen hive was 

 3 Langstroth 10-frame bodies, filled with 

 brood, and 3 for surplus honey. This made 

 5 Langtroth hives, or one hive and 4 upper 

 stories, or 50 frames with honey and brood. 

 We took 3S5 pounds of extracted honey 

 last year from this hive, and it had 40 

 pounds for winter. This colony did not 

 swarm. We would be pleased to bear from 

 Mr. Williams again, whether his 2 queens 

 live through the winter. My pa takes the 

 Bee Journal. I am only 9 years old. My 

 name is — Miss Emma Banker. 



Golden Gate, Minn. 



What the Bees Worked On. 



I had six colonies in the spring of 1895, 

 three of them being strong and three me- 

 dium. I took from them, in September, 

 427 pounds of comb honey, an average of 

 71 pounds per colony ; this by actual 

 weight, not by sections. 



Now, when I see a honey-yield reported I 

 always want to know whrir it raine from, 

 and I report accordingly. 



The first flowers to which my bees had 

 access in eifrly spring were those of the 

 tag-alder. After four or five days these 

 were killed by frost. Shortly after, the 

 willows offered them a fine field for over 

 two weeks. We have both the swamp and 

 upland willows. The latter grow on the 

 pine plains, and are rich in honey and pol- 

 len. Just as the huckleberry bushes and 

 fruit-trees came into bloom, a big snow- 



