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bee-keeper last week, and fouud that 10 

 out of 11 colonies were dead ; the one 

 that is living has plenty for winter. He 

 said he had hived three swarms this 

 year, but had not taken any honey. His 

 neighbors, he said, were in the same fix. 

 Waring, Tex. A. G. Anderson. 



Did Well This Year. 



Bees did well here this summer, run- 

 ning from 50 to 13 pounds of comb 

 honey per colony. The price is from 12 

 to 18 cents per pound. L. Bryant. 



Waymart, Pa., Sept. 29. 



Flow from Alsike and White Clover. 



The honey crop has been a failure 

 here for three years, on account of 

 drouth killing all the honey-flora; but 

 the first two weeks of this mouth we had 

 quite a flow from Alsike and white clo- 

 ver, which was revived, as we have been 

 having considerable rain this season. 



Poneto, Ind., Sept 28. J. W. Cook. 



Very Poor Honey- Year. 



It has been a very poor honey-year 

 here. My colonies averaged only about 

 half what they did last year — I got only 

 -too pounds from 30 colonies. They 

 got little or no honey from clover. The 

 honey-flow this year was mainly from 

 basswood. I hope next year will be bet- 

 ter. W. B. Skuse. 



Geneva, N. Y., Oct. 2. 



Very Iiittle Surplus Honey. 



1 wish someone in northeast Colorado 

 or southeast Wyoming that has bees for 

 sale would advertise in the Bee Journal 

 the price per colony, as I am thinking of 

 moving to western Nebraska, and the 

 Express company asks ^21. OO per 100 

 pounds for taking bees there from here. 

 As I am only a beginner, that is too 

 much to risk. Dry weather cut the 

 honey crop short here — very little sur- 

 plus. Bees are very slow of sale here 

 at .$2.50 per colony, in movable-frame 

 hives. C. C. Beers. 



Pacific Co., Wash. 



iTO"vsr "VSTE tlj^-^:hi it \ 



Enlarging Hives and Frames. 



About 35 years ago we commenced 

 keeping bees; bought one colony in a 

 box-hive, and soon thereafter we paid 

 $5.00 for an individual right to use the 

 Langstroth (then patent) frame, and 

 bought a sample 10-frame hive with 

 portico front and fast bottom. We soon 

 sawed off the portico front, and knocked 

 off the fast bottom; thus improved, we 

 have been using the hive ever since. 

 Not that it has been satisfactory, but we 

 hesitated to make a change, having our 

 fixtures complete. 



We have repeatedly suffered heavy 

 winter losses and spring dwindling, not- 

 withstanding we have tried the cellar 

 repository, and double walls with pack- 

 ing out-of-doors ; but after reading the 

 articles of the Dadants and others, pub- 

 lished last winter, advocating larger 

 frames and hives, we have pieced down 

 our hive-bodies two inches at the bot- 

 tom, and did likewise with the frames, 

 cutting out nearly all the drone-cells, 

 and filling in with worker-cells. This 

 will give us quite an addition to our 

 brood-frames, leave more room along the 

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