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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



March 26, 



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best comb honey during the time that the 

 honey is pure sweet clover, as it is whiter 

 and thicker, and has a flavor that is not ex- 

 celled by any. 



Isn't it j)ossible that Mr. Carlzen has 

 some weed in his neighborhood that spoils 

 his sweet clover honey ? 



There has been a strong prejudice here 

 against the plant, as it takes possession of 

 ditches and fence-corners and every waste 

 nook. Some of the farmers have tried 

 making hay of it, and those who cut it at 

 the proper time found that stock would eat 

 it in preference to alfalfa. Those who put 

 it up after it got woody and strong, declare 

 that it is a bad weed, and that we 

 ought to have a law compelling people to 

 exterminate the pest. So it seems there is 

 a difference of opinion about it outside of 

 the quality of its honey. 



Mancos, Colo. Mrs. A. J. Baebeb. 



Bees in Good Condition. 



Beautiful day, this. Bees are out having 

 a jollification, all in apparently good condi- 

 tion. Jas. W. Williams. 



Appleton City, Mo., Feb. 16. 



Report for 1895. 



I have 40 colonies on the summer stands, 

 packed on top with dry leaves. I think they 

 are wintering nicely. I got 900 pounds of 

 nice comb honey last season. I have kept 

 bees 30 years, and think they pay when 

 properly cared for. S. M. Cox. 



Angola, Ind., Feb. 19. 



Bee-Keeping in West Virginia. 



My bees are on the summer stands, and 

 have been wintering very well. At this 

 time they are very strong. I had S3 col- 

 onies that went into winter quarters; most 

 of them were in good condition. Bees 

 swarmed very much here last summer, 

 some colonies swarming as many as two or 

 three times, which kept the parent colony 

 from storing much surplus honey, but there 

 was a good sugar tree, basswood and tulip 

 or whitewood bloom here, and bees did 

 well. A great many swarms went to the 

 woods. J. c. Williamson. 



Williamson, W. Va., Feb. 15. 



Leather-Colored Italians, Etc. 



Referring to Dr. Miller's comment on my 

 article on page 39, in regard to non-swarm- 

 ing bees, I may say that I am not a large 

 bee-keeper, my average being from 5 to 10 

 colonies, as I have not time to attend to 

 many. Of course, if I kept a large number 

 I have no doubt I would have some swarms, 

 as I do not claim that my bees are any dif- 

 ferent from others of their kind ; they are 

 what are called "leather-colored Italians," 

 but I might say here that they are not like 

 the Italians I had at one time, awav back 

 in 1870 — when the drones and bees were out 

 in full force it was like a shower of gold in 

 front of the hive. 



Now for the size of the hive I use: It is 

 18 inches long. 13 inches deep, and 131o 

 inches wide indside, with 13 frames placed 

 across the hive. I like them better than 

 the frames lengthwise, as I find them 

 handier for extracting, which I do alto- 



gether, as it pays me better than comb 

 honey. The supers are the same as the 

 hive, and are interchangeable, and if the 

 queen happens to go up and fill 4 or 5 

 frames, as she sometimes does, they come 

 in handy to start a nucleus, giving it the 

 queen, letting the old colony rear another. 



I have no doubt if I went in for produc- 

 ing comb honey, I might want a different 

 hive, and would probably have the same 

 trouble with swarming as many others 

 seem to have. Jno. McKimmie. 



Niagara, Ont. 



Not a Cold Winter. 



This has not been a very cold winter here 

 so far, but the bees have not had a chance 

 to fly since Nov. 30. 



I would like to correspond with some of 

 the readers of the American Bee Journal 

 living in the State of Washington, on the 

 west side of the mountains. 



Luce, Mich., Feb. 13. Wm. Craig. 



Prospects in Washington. 



We have just had three days of freezing, 

 down to SO degrees above zero, which is 

 quite an extreme for us to have, especially 

 at this time of the year. So far we have 

 had fine weather, and it is fine now except 

 it is cold. Our gardens are in flue shape. 

 Roses had a 1'; inch growth on them March 

 1, but to-day is a little warmer, and I ex- 

 pect to-morrow the ground will be soft 

 again. Bees have been bringing in pollen 

 since Jan. 15; usually they commence about 

 Feb. 30. Clover is coming up finely all 

 around. G. D. Littoot. 



Tacoma, Wash., March 8. 



Bee-Keeping in Arkansas. 



I commenced in the spring of 1895 with 50 

 good colonies and 40 nuclei. From all that 

 were in good condition I got about 100 

 pounds to the colony, all comb honey in 

 one-pound sections. My honey was all 

 gathered in the month of May. It rained 

 the month of June, but we didn't get any 

 basswood honey last year. Our basswood 

 commences blooming about June 10, so our 

 crop was from holly, black-gum and ratan. 

 I missed a fall crop for the first time in 10 

 years, as it was so dry here that the peas 

 and mint did not yield any nectar. 



I closed the season with 130 colonies. My 

 honey netted 10 cents a pound in my home 

 market. 



We have had a nice winter — the tempera- 

 ture has gone down to 14 degrees above 

 zero only twice, with an average of 44 de- 

 grees through January and February. 



My golden Italians are in the lead with 

 the 3-banded or Carniolans. 



Ozan, Ark,, Feb. 13. J. W. Taylor. 



Answers to Some Questions. 



Dr. Miller calls me out again on page 73, 

 to answer questions, which I will try to do. 

 I can tell only on an average (but that's 

 all), as I only worked with the bees after 

 coming from work after 5 o'clock. 



In June the average was about 10 fiames; 

 August, from 13 to 14 frames in all of them. 

 This brood was in the two lower stories. 

 Occasionally some greedy queen would lay 



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