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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



411 



Qei;)Gral Itenjs. 



The Dadant Hive. 



I would like to receive, through these 

 columus, an expression of how the Da- 

 dant hive compares with others, from 

 any who have them. Having nearly de- 

 cided to use a number of those hives'the 

 ensuing year, I await a reply. 



Sound Beach, Conn. E. MuNSON. 



Bees Doin^ Fairly Well. 



We had a failure here with bees last 

 season, and this spring was too wet. 

 Bees have been doing fairly well lately ; 

 some are building in sections. I have 

 75 colonies, aH in good cedar hives. 



John Uphouse. 



Sedro, Wash., May 31. 



Honey Will Soon Boll In. 



The American Bee Journal reaches 

 me promptly every week, and is well 

 read and noticed. The "Personal Men- 

 tion " department is good; lots of truth 

 in it. It takes a No. 1 expert queen- 

 breeder to rear and sell 5,U00 queens 

 in one season. Alfalfa is just commenc- 

 ing to bloom in this locality, and the 

 honey will soon roll in. 



SlGEL Brautigam. 



Cliff, New Mex., June 10. 



The Spring Problem. 



As I lately wrote under " the winter- 

 ing problem," giving some of my experi- 

 ence in wintering, I would like to extend 

 the account of my experience to the 

 present date. 



After the examination of my colonies 

 about the middle of April, I let them 

 "severely alone" until May 27, when 

 they commenced to swarm. At this 

 time just about half of my colonies have 

 cast swarms, and the other half appar- 

 ently are ready to swarm. Considering 

 that I am located in latitude 433^ de- 

 grees, on the hills of New Hampshire, 

 and that we have had a very dry spring, 

 it seems to me that these /acts show the 

 wisdom of my management. 



J. P. Smith. 



Sunapee, N. H., June 5. 



Annanias and Sapphira Stories. 



Dear, me ' Why couldn't I have had 

 that sweet plum (mentioned on page 

 362) to put in my essay — "Bee-Culture 

 for Women" — delivered at Atlanta: 

 "two women who have incomes of 

 $5,000 each, annually, selling queens ?" 

 While these women have been making 

 big money I've been fooling away my 

 time in a land of drouths and repeated 

 failures of honey crops ; while these 

 women live in an El Dorado for bee- 

 keepers, where there is a demand for 

 queens " annually." I'm getting to be 

 very credulous about women who report 

 such golden eggs as the bees lay for 

 them. I've been reliably informed that 

 they never crimp or bang their hair, 

 wear big sleeves, or gored skirts. Mrs. 

 Lizzie or Jennie are better drawing 

 cards than Johnnie or Jimmie. 



When I was a child I went to Sunday- 

 school, and read the story of Annanias, 

 and Sapphira, his wife ; it was so im- 

 pressed upon my young, plastic mind 



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