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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 22. 



fact, I have never known an instance 

 where a colony left with the virgin 

 queen when she tool? a bridal trip, and 

 doubt very much that such an instance 

 has ever occurred. I do not say that 

 such has never been the case, but I have 

 never seen proof of it. 



Eev. M. Mahin — I have never person- 

 ally known the bees of either a full col- 

 ony or a nucleus to swarm out when the 

 young queen came out on her bridal 

 trip. If a colony should do so I would 

 not expect them to return, unless the 

 queen and the bees should get separated, 

 which they would not be likely to do. 

 But this is only my guess. 



Qerjeral Itetrjs^ 



Good Prospects for Next Year. 



My crop this year is not very large — 

 about 500 pounds of comb honey from 

 25 colonies, spring count, and increased 

 to 40. The prospect for another year is 

 good ; there will be lots of clover. A 

 year ago it was very dry here, so that 

 clover was a failure. L. M. CuDNEr. 



Flint, Mich., Oct. 6. 



Appreciated All Around. 



I expected my paper would stop soon 

 after roy subscription expired, and was 

 greatly surprised to meet it every week 

 as usual, and I was highly pleased, too, 

 as the " Old Reliable " is like celery^the 

 more you get of it the better you like it ; 

 and it has grown to be a most intimate 

 friend of mine. I must thank you for 

 sending it right along, and trusting to 

 the honesty of an entire stranger for 

 your pay ; although, when a person is 

 trusted like that, he must indeed be a 

 sneaking thief to beat an editor out of 

 his pay. E. B. Tyrrell. 



Davison, Mich., Oct. 10. 



Good Season — 10-Frame Hives. 



The past season has been a good one 

 with me. I commenced with 60 colonies, 

 increased to 118 by natural swarming, 

 and secured 3,000 pounds of honey, all 

 of which is clover and basswood. Eighty- 

 five colonies have queens which were 

 reared this year. 



All of my bees are in 8-frame hives. I 

 do not like them as well as the 10-frame, 

 having been forced to the conclusion 

 that in this locality bees will winter bet- 

 ter and give larger swarms if kept in 10- 

 frame hives. 1 have tried them both, 

 side by side, but dropped the 9 and 10 

 frame hives because 1 had introduced 

 the 8-frame hives in large numbers, 

 supposing that they were superior to 

 the others. ;1 would change back to the 

 lOframe hive were it not for the cost 

 of doing so. G. F. Tubes. 



Annin Creek, Pa., Oct. 7. 



Sweet Clover Cut Down. 



I spe in the " Editorial Comments " for 

 Oct. 1, that a Wisconsin bee-keeper has 

 a patch of sweet clover growirig on his 

 farm, and that he has been ordered by 

 the Weed Commissioner to destroy it. 



Well, I am also a Wisconsin bee-keeper 

 (though my post-office is in Illinois), and 

 I have a similar case on hand. I have 



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Has for a Fifth of a Century 

 Cured all forms of . . . 



KIDNEY and LIVER DISEASES. 



TH£ DREAD 



BRIGHT'S 



Disease 



is but advanced Kidney Disease. 



Either is Dangerous. 



Both can be Cured 

 if treated in time with Warner's 

 Safe Cure. 



Large bottle or new style smaller 

 one at your druggist's. Ask for 

 either and accept no substitute. 



WHEN ANSweniNO THIS AOVEnTISEUEftT. MENTION THIS JOURNAL. 



RAIL 

 ROAD 



LANDS 



For Sale at I^o>v Prices and 

 on Easy Xernis. 



The Illinois Central Railroad Company offers 

 for sale on easy terms and at low prices. 1.50- 

 000 acres of choice fruit, gardening, farm and 

 grazing lands located in 



SOUTBERPi ILLIKOIS. 



They are also largely interested In. and call 

 especial ati ention to the 600.000 acres of land 

 iu the famous 



YAZOO VALLEY 



OF MISSISSIPPI 



lying along and owned by the Tazoo & Miss- 

 issippi Valloy Railroad Company, and which 

 that company offers at low prices and on long 

 terms Special inducements and faci llies 

 offered to go and examine these lands, both 

 in Southern Illinois and in the *' Yaz o Val- 

 ley." Miss. For further description, map, and 

 any information, address or call upon E. P. 

 SKENE, Land Commissioner, No. 1 Park 

 Row. Chicago. 111. 3,3D6t 



Bee-Keeper's (Juide— see page 685. 



some sweet clover growing on my farm, 

 and was ordered to cut it, but not com- 

 plying, the Weed Commissioner cut it, 

 and I presume he has put in a charge 

 against me on the tax roll, for destroying 

 a plant that I want to grow on my land. 



I am a member of the National Bee- 

 Keepers' Union, and wrote the General 

 Manager about it, but he does not seem 

 to want to do anything about the mat- 

 ter ; he thinks the way to do is to change 

 the law. I think the case ought to be 

 tried by the Union. It is a subject that 

 all bee-keepers are interested in. 



C. H. Stordock. 



Durand, 111., Oct. 6. 



[We may be wrong in the matter, but 

 we think that the quickest way to get 

 such obnoxious laws repealed, is for the 

 Union to come forward and make a test 

 case of the matter. It is sure to win, 

 and probably only one successful case 

 would be necessary in order to wipe out 

 all such laws in other States. Surely, it 

 is a matter in which every bee-keeper is 

 interested. We hope the Union will yet 

 see its way clear to " take a hand " in all 

 such cases, and push them to a satisfac- 

 tory settlement. — Editor.] 



Bees Did Well. 



Bees have done well here this year, 

 there being a good fall flow of honey. 

 Comb honey sells at 123^ to 15 cents 

 per pound. There was no honey ex- 

 tracted here that I know of. 



6. H. Dennis. 



Weeping Water, Nebr., Oct. 5. 



Bee-Hunting Experiences. 



I have thought for some time of giv- 

 ing the readers of the Bee .Journal 

 some of my experience in hunting wild 

 bees, which has been very extensive, 

 and a thing that I have taken a great 

 glory in. I have in soTue seasons made 

 it very profitable, especially in that of 

 1 869, when 1 took a job of working in' 

 the timber on Indian creek, Morgan Co., 

 III., 12 miles north of Jacksonville. 

 This was the greatest honey season I 

 ever saw. I found a tree close to my 

 cabin, cut it, and put the bees into a 

 large box-hive. I would work in the 

 cool part of the day, making about 

 Sl.OOinthe morning, then take a bee- 

 hunt for a few hours, after finding a 

 bee-tree, and as many as three, say from 

 10 a.m. until 2 or 3 p.m.; then take my 

 axe and make five more railroad ties, for 

 which I got 20 cents each ; or cut a 

 cord of wood, for which I got §1.00. I 

 have often thought I was in the " tallest 

 clover" that season, of any year of my 

 life. 



Indian creek was the best stream for 

 the size that I ever saw, for fish. My 

 wife and 1 would take our hooks and go 

 out on the bank of the creek, and in a 

 few minutes have a fine mess of catfish, 

 weighing from one-half to three pounds. 

 But our good time drew to an end when 

 fall came. We both took the chills; we 

 shook, and we shook, and shookety 

 shook, shuck, until one was not able to 

 give the other a drink ; but, as good 

 luck would have it, we had a good old 

 neighbor, bythe name of John Chandler, 

 that would always go with me, gener- 

 ally at night, to cut the bee-trees, or 

 rather saw them down, as I had to get a 



