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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Marcli 26, 



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 Advanced Bee-Culture, by Hutcuiuson. .. 50c 

 5 Honey as Food and Medicine 25o 



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li'PV ^e have a large amount of Pure 

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Convention i^otices. 



Texas.— The Texas State Bee-Keepers' con- 

 vention will be held on April 1 and 2. 1896. 

 All bee-keepers are invited. 

 L. Blossom, Tex. W. H. White. Sec. 



Utah.— The Utah Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will hold their semi-annual meeting In Room 

 54. City and County Building. Salt Lake City. 

 Apr. 6. 1896. at 10 a.m. All are invited. "In 

 union is strength. By industry we thrive." 

 Come, and bring your friends, and enjoy a 

 good time. A full program in the interest of 

 the industry will be presented. The Associa- 

 tion needs your aid ; then let every one do his 

 full duty for our own Interest and self-pres- 

 ervation. Geo. E. Dudley. Sec. 



Provo, Utah. 



sowed a little piece of crimson clover every 

 month last season to test it. 



It I have any success with the clover, or 

 discover anything about it that I think 

 would be of any interest to the bee-keeping 

 fraternity, I will report it. 



Scott LaMost. 



Jarrett, Minn., Feb. 25. 



Another House-Apiary, Etc. 



I have been a reader of the " Old Relia- 

 ble "two years, and would not think of 

 trying to get along without it. I have 26 

 colonies of bees, wintering in the cellar. I 

 have a two-inch cold-air pipe, and all are in 

 fine condition. I keep them in a building 

 throughout the gathering season. My 

 building is a copy of H. P. Langdon's. of 

 New York, with two exceptions, viz. ; mine 

 is one foot wider, and instead of a board 

 floor, I filled within the walls stones, cov- 

 ering them nicely with coarse sand. I can 

 walk about or work at anything, and do 

 not jar the hives in the least. Everything 

 is handy, and what a comfort it is, indeed, 

 to care for them in this way ! One can per- 

 form the work for four times as many colo- 

 nies in the same time as when kept out-of- 

 doors, and surely more honey is secured. 



I nearly forgot to mention that I use this 

 building for poultry in the winter, and in 

 the sprmg, after having cleaned and puri- 

 fied this sand Hoor, no one can tell that 

 fowls had ever been inside of it, for no 

 roosts or nests are near enough to the 

 building so that it could in any way be 

 soiled. 



The building cost S.50, is l'3x25 feet, nicely 

 made, within 2 rods of our house, thus 

 making it very handy in both winter and 

 summer. I have had poultry in it this 

 makes the second winter; the first winter I 

 sold .f.2S.90 worth of eggs, and I will do as 

 w ell this winter. My bees occupied it last 

 summer, for the first time. My crop of 

 honey was l.OSil pounds in one-pound sec- 

 tions, and sold at 15 cents. S. E. Rood. 



Fertile, Iowa. Feb. 21. 



Bees in Fine Condition. 



The prospects here for a honey crop are 

 very poor, as we have had less rain so far 

 than any other year since I have been in 

 the State, which is seven years. Bees are 

 generally in fine condition. 



F. C. Wiggins. 



San Diego, Calif., Feb. 15. 



Bees Had a Joyful Time. 



This has been a beautiful day, the mer- 

 cury at sunrise being 29degrees above zero; 

 at 10 a. m., 42 degrees ; in the shade at noon, 

 45 degrees, and in the sun, 55 degrees. My 

 bees had what I call a "melee;" they were 

 out in full force — every hive seemed to send 

 out a joyful anthem, as they have not had 

 such a flight since last November. My bees 

 were on the summer stands packed in chaff, 

 outside cases. I use the 10-frame hive. 

 When they swarm it means bees, but my 8- 

 frame hives gives small swarms, and not 

 many left at home to keep house. 



Ionia, Mich., Feb. '26. Jacob Mooee. 



Warm Weather in "Virginia. 



Our bees have wintered nicely so far. but 

 it has been so warm that they have eaten a 

 lot of honey — so much that I thought best 

 to feed some of the weak colonies, if it was 

 late for feeding. February 13 I fed the 

 weakest of them. After feeding I had about 

 nine pounds of syrup left, which I put into 

 a kettle and put some hay in it, so that the 

 bees would not drown. I put it in the api- 

 ary so that all the bees could get some. 

 Would you believe it ? — a colony, queen 

 and all. left its hive and clustered on a 

 board standing by the back of a hive, close 

 to where I had the syrup. Not knowing it 

 was a colony at the time. I thought they 

 were waiting their turn to get at the syrup, 

 there being so many bees on it all the time ! 



Tlie Bee-Keepers' Guide: 



Or Manual of the Apiary, 



By Prof. A. J. Cook. 



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