1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



203 



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We bave killed liisrh prices. Give me a trial 

 order and be convinced that good Queens can 

 be reared lor 50 cts. each. Untested, .50 cts. ; 

 Tested. 75 cts. Golden Italians. 3-Banded I- 

 talians, and Silyer-Gra.v Carniolans, all the 

 same price. Best of Kelerences given. 



C. B. BAIVRSTOX, 



13Atf CHRIESMAN, Burleson Co., TEX. 



BRITISH mm mmm mu 



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 order proves that the favorite American fence suits 

 the Englishman also. 



F;\f;c WOVEN WIRE FEKCECf . Adrian, IWich. 



When ANSWEHrNC this AoveRtisEMEhT, Mgntion this Journau 



Better than 10 °lo Discount ! 



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COITIB FOUNDATION. 



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Heavy or Medium ..45o 42c 40c .SSc 



Ligtit 4oc 44c 42c 40c 



Ttiin 50e 49c 47c 45c 



E.\traThin 5oo 54c 52c 50c 



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TEXAS QUEENS. 



If you are in need of Queens, let me have 

 your order. Price-Llst Free. 

 8A26t J. D. GIVENS, Lisbon, Tex. 



Mention the A.merlcan Bee journal. 



ber, I would advise the double 8 duly dum- 

 mli'd." Now, so far as I know, I am the 

 father of that last word— (/«)«'«(((;— but the 

 printer put an "s" in the place of the last 

 (/, and so spoiled both word and sentence. 



I now come to Juils. If any reader of the 

 Bee Journal knows how to circumvent rats 

 that are too cute to eat poison of any kind, 

 no matter bow it is mixed, or go into any 

 trap, no matter how it is set, that is the 

 man or brother I wish to hear from 

 (through this journal) right away. Let Dr. 

 Miller, who answers all sorts of questions, 

 speak; but he must keep back that '■ Don't 

 know." Let anybody and everybody 

 speak who has a plan. Never mind telling 

 me about cats as traps — I know all about 

 that — but have no cats. 



Selby, Ont. Allen Pringle. 



[If Mr. Pringle knew how we studied over 

 that new word "dummied," and from his 

 writing couldn't possibly make anything 

 but the old "dummies" out of it, he'd 

 have some sympathy for us. When a word 

 is coined, it should stand out new, bright 

 and pliiiu, then even such mortals as editors 

 wouldn't stumble over it, and get all 

 "dummied "up. We'll try, in the future, 

 to look out for new words when they are 

 " fired " at us, for we know how exasperat- 

 ing it is to have new things spoiled. — Ed.] 



Gathering Pollen. 



My bees are building up nicely. The 

 weather is fine, and bees loaded with pollen 

 are coming in. 1 started brood early in 

 January by feeding corn meal, and on Jan. 

 lU I noticed the first load of natural pollen 

 come in. I had one colony that was short 

 on stores; I fed them by filling both sides 

 of the combs with honey. A colony near 

 by robbed them, and they made no effort 

 to protect tlieir stores. The robber colony 

 was so strong that they cleaned them out 

 in one day. so I removed the hive that had 

 been robbed, and put the bees into another 

 hive, and gave them frames of sealed 

 honey. They now defend themselves, and 

 are doing nicely. I left them 50 feet from 

 their old stand. Tlie queeu I found on the 

 hive-cover on Dec, :H, that I mentioned in 

 the American Bee Journal, has left the hive 

 again, and I have failed to find her, as she 

 failed to return this time. Scbscribek. 



Waring, Tex., Feb. 14. 



■Wintering Bees. 



I think my way of wintering bees has 

 proved as satisfactory as any. I built my 

 bee-house in the fall of 1892, ami I put in (J5 

 colonies, some of tliem being nuclei. I put 

 them in Nov. 34, IS'.l'i, and took out 63 colo- 

 nies April 8, IS'.lo. It was a poor year in 

 our section for surplus honey ; the increase 

 for 1893 was to 9.5 old and young colonies, 

 which I sold down to 89 colonies; these 1 

 put into the bee-house Nov. 3.5. and took out 

 89 April 17 and IS. 1894, without any loss. 



It was a poor year here in 1894 for sur- 

 plus honey — had only about 500 pounds of 

 salable honey, and increased to 1.55 colonies. 

 In the fall I shook the bees out of 13 heavj- 

 colonies, which left me 143, which I put into 

 the bee-house Nov. '^ij, and in April, 1895. I 

 took out 141 in g(jod condition, the one 

 dying for want of honey. I put on some 

 sections May 8. which the bees took hold of 

 in good earnest— they put as high as 15 to 

 3(1 pounds in some of the supers, and on 

 May 11 it was dark and lowry, on the 13th 

 cold and snowy, and at night it froze the 

 ground one inch or more on the beet beds 

 in the garden. This put a damper on honey- 

 gathering, for the white clover, Alsike and 

 raspberry were past commencing to bloom ; 

 they were frozen black as could be, and it 

 froze all the young growth on basswood, so 

 I do not think there was a basswood bloom 

 in our town. There was no honey coming 

 in for some time, until white clover and 

 white daisy sprouted again; by this time 

 the bees had consumed most of the honey 



they had stored, and what they had in the 

 hive. I had to put in some frames of honey 

 to supply their wants. 



I sold b(l colonies the day after the freeze, 

 and traded others for work, and so reduced 

 my bees down to about 84 colonies. My first 

 swarms for 1895 were on May '39 and 31. 

 Bees did not store any surplus honey to 

 speak of, only 800 or 900 pounds from 84 

 colonies, spring count. They increased to 

 110 colonies and 10 nuclei, which I put into 

 the bee-house Nov. 37. most of them being 

 very heavy with honey, but I think not as 

 heavy with bees as they should be, on ac- 

 count of the long spell of dry weather that 

 we had, and no fall flowers for the bees to 

 work on so as to keep up breeding. 



Our home market for honey is only S 

 cents per pound, and slow sale at that. 1 

 have not seen a section of white honey in 

 our vicinity that was stored in 1895. Our 

 surplus houey was mostly froni buckwheat, 

 with the exception of the first that was am- 

 ber in color. I think one thing our poor 

 seasons here are due to, is that there are 

 too many bees kept for the territory they 

 occupy ; there are nearly 300 colonies be- 

 sides mine within a radius of 4 miles 

 around my bee-yard. 



My bees seem to be wintering finely so 

 far, and I am looking forward to the sea- 

 son of 1896 to be a good one for honey. 



Andrew M. Thompson. 



Canaseraga, N. Y., Jan. 29. 



■Wintering Well. 



Bees seem to winter well, better so far 

 than usual. The weather is warm for this 

 time of year— ,50 degrees above to-day. We 

 have bad only three or four days of sleigh- 

 ing this winter, and but little snow is left, 

 C. Theilmann. 



Theilmantou, Minn., Feb. 33. 



Wintering Nicely. 



I started last spring with two colonies, 

 increased to six, and got 03 pounds of comb 

 honey, mostly buckwheat. There was not 

 much early honey on account of the frosts. 

 My bees had their last flight Jan. 18, and 

 are wintering nicely. 



Herbert C. Towle. 



Northwood Narrows, N. H., Feb. 30. 



Sweet Clover in Texas. 



I have 10 acres of sweetclover now sown, 

 and will sow 5 acres more next week. 1 

 think I will have sweet clover honey 

 another year. I have had from one to two 

 acres of sweet clover for the past four 

 years. It is a perfect success here, and 

 bees work on it with great vigor; but I 

 have never had any pure sweet clover 

 honey. J- D. Givens, 



Lisbon, Tex. 



Sweet Clover Honey in Colorado. 



I was surprised when I read the article 

 on page 78, by S. M. Carlzeu, in regard to 

 sweet clover honey. He says: "Herein 

 Colorado we despise it, because it spoils the 

 sale of our alfalfa honey, if mixed." My 

 experience is just the reverse. The bee- 

 keepers here prize sweet clover above all 

 other plants, both for the quality and 

 quantity produced. 



I have produced thousands of pounds of 

 both alfalfa and sweet clover honey, as 

 well as a mixture of the two. I have sold 

 honey all over this corner of Colorado, and 

 have never had any honey rated as any- 

 thing but first-class. When people have a 

 preference it is always for the sweet clover. 



At our altitude (7.000 feet) our alfalfa 

 begins to bloom the first week in July. For 

 three weeks we have pure alfalfa houey. 

 About the last week in July the sweet 

 clover comes in, and we get a mixture for 

 about two or three weeks. Then the alfalfa 

 in waste-places dries up, the first cutting of 

 alfalfa is all up. the second has not bloomed, 

 and we have absolutely no other plant in 

 bloom but sweet clover. We count on our 



