1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



603 



Qcj^eral \\^n)S. 



A Good Honey Season. 



This has been a good season for honey 

 in this part of the country. We had 

 plenty of rain during the summer, and 

 there is a good prospect for a fall crop 

 of honey, unless we have early frosts. I 

 wintered 12 colonies of bees without 

 any loss, on the summer stands, by plac- 

 ing the hives close together, facing the 

 south, with candy on top of the frames, 

 and chafif cushions over them. The in- 

 structions in the production of comb 

 honey, by Rev. E. T. Abbott, in the 

 1895 Bee Journals, have been of great 

 service to me. 



I have taken so far this season 

 about 800 pounds of very nice comb 

 honey. 



I enjoy every number of the Bee Jour- 

 nal. Mrs. Paul Barrette. 



Prairie du Chien, Wis., Sept. (i. 



P. S.— Being a woman, I must needs 

 add a postscript. I forgot to say that I 

 increased my bees by natural swarming 

 to 26 colonies. I wish to thank you for 

 all the good things contained in the Bee 

 Journal the past year. Mrs. P. B. 



No Surplus — Introducing ftueens. 



I have been handling bees in movable- 

 comb hives for 22 years. I think I 

 made the first movable-comb hive in this 

 county. I use a modification of the 

 Quinby hive, holding eight frames 18x 

 10 inches, which I think is about the 

 right size. 



I have about 100 colonies of bees in 

 three different yards, but no surplus 

 honey this year. Bees have not made a 

 living since the first of June, owing to 

 the wet weather. There was a heavy 

 linden bloom, but not a drop of nectar. 

 Then came the buckwheat, but no honey 

 yet. The fall bloom comes next, and if 

 it fails, a great many bees will starve 

 before cold weather. 



I have tried nearly all of the different 

 races of bees, and like the Italians and 

 Carniolans the best. A cross between 

 the two races is as good a bee as anyone 

 could desire. The best yield of honey I 

 ever got in one year was in 1880, which 

 was a little over 4,000 pounds of ex- 

 tracted honey from 27 colonies, spring 

 count. 



I want to give to the readers of the 

 Bee Journal my safe plan of introducing 

 queens : Make the colony hopelessly 

 queenless, by removing the queen and 

 all of the brood and eggs, then cage the 

 queen in the hive for 24 hours ; then 

 release her and all will be well. 



A. J. McBkide. 



Watauga Co., N. C, Aug. 28. 



Com Honey — Moonliglxt Bees. 



I see 'Dr. Miller " don't know " about 

 bees gathering honey from corn. One 

 season, in Iowa, I had some 300 pounds 

 of corn honey (extracted), but it was 

 gathered from the silk. The nectar 

 fairly glistened on the silk, and it was 

 fun to see the bees scratching and dig- 

 ging into the silk for the nectar. 



Now any one that has manufactured 

 maple sugar and boiled it down hard 

 enough to grain good, and put it into a 

 wooden vessel, and let it grain without 



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