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23A4t Mentimi the American Bee Journal. 



chaff, having put on Hill's device and 

 other arrangements. When put in the 

 boxes with two burlap quilts, a place was 

 cut in the first quilt for upward ventila- 

 tion, and a surplus box filled partly full 

 of chaff. In February I put a little more 

 in it — would you believe it ? — the damp- 

 ness came up through that hole ! 



Then twice or three times 1 quietly 

 removed the wet chaff. They wintered 

 nicely. I kept the entrances clear of 

 snow — some times lli inches open, then 

 4 inches, and again 6 inches. I watched 

 the mercury and the weather sharply. 

 I never had bees come through in better 

 condition. 



Another bee-keeper in the city took 

 his bees out of the cellar the first of 

 March, and packed them ; he lost 16 

 colonies. Another over the river from 

 the city, wintered his bees in the cellar, 

 or a large cave, and lost 18 colonies. 

 He put in some 60 or 70 colonies, I 

 think. I know of but two colonies left 

 in our neighborhood. 



We have had a glorious fruit-bloom — 

 calm and quiet weather, with plenty of 

 nectar in the blossoms, and we are now 

 having beautiful rains. Clover is in 

 bloom ; basswood bids to bloom splen- 

 didly. How things may go the next six 

 weeks time will tell, but the cloud that 

 hung over us last year seems now to 

 have a silver lining. 



Now, all those that I have mentioned, 

 and others who have lost a good many 

 bees, I have asked them time and time 

 again to take the "old reliable" Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, but no. I tell you, I 

 have learned many good lessons from it, 

 besides the leading works that I have a 

 good supply of. We must read and in- 

 form ourselves as young bee-keepers, 

 and as the farmers said when their hay 

 was short, and the young seeding all 

 burnt up last year, "We must sow 

 plenty of seed next year ;" and as they 

 had to feed stock to get them through 

 the winter, so in like manner I fed the 

 bees. You see I have the bee on the 

 brain, and I am going to " try, try 

 again." I still use my own feeder, and 

 it works like a charm ; no drowning of 

 bees, nor lifting quilts when I feed, but 

 sometimes I feed in the comb. 



Jacob Moore. 



Ionia, Mich., June 1. 



Has Many Things to Learn. 



I bought one colony of bees last May 

 (1895), which is all I have — noincrease. 

 They came through the winter iu fine 

 condition. I fed them some syrup this 

 spring. I have them in the old-fashioned 

 straight box-hive, so I have no way of 

 knowing how much honey they have, 

 but I think the hive must be about full. 

 The bee-business is not entirely new to 

 me, but I had, and still have, a great 

 many things to learn, and of course I 

 do not intend to do without the American 

 Bee Journal. Mh.s. E. R. Tomlinson. 



Alexander, Ark., June 2. 



Killing Off the Drones, Etc. 



Our bees have killed off the drones 

 during the past 10 days, and they are 

 working some on ripe strawberries, 

 which indicates that there is no honey to 

 be had. I am satisfied that the days of 

 bee-keeping here are numbered, as there 

 is not an acre of land that is not either 

 cultivated or pastured, and such land, 

 aside from fruit-blooni, never produces 



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BEGINNERS. 



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■4 Block of ground, some fruit, GOOD 6-rooni 

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 try-house Lover 3.000 square feet of floor], 

 100 colonies of bees in chaff hives and fully 

 equipped for comb honey, all in town of 1000 

 population and good alfalfa range and good 

 water. Price. $3,000. If unsold June 15th, 

 will unqueen. and ofl'er 2 year clioped queens 

 at 25c.: 1 year, undipped, at 50c. each. July 

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 all Italian and safe arrival guaranteed. Ihis 

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Preparation of Honey lor the Market. .. lOo 



Bee-Pasturage a Necessity lOo 



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Foul Brood, by Dr. Howard -oo 



Foul Brood, by Kohnke ■'^ 



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Bee- Keeping lor Profit, by Dr. Tinker .... 25o 

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 Bienen Kultur. by Newman [Oerman] . . . 40c 

 Winter Problem in Bee-Keepiug LPierceJ . 500 

 Bee-Keepers' Directory, by Henry Alley. oOo 

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