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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 29, 



wired down. I have used largely three 

 sizes — 4 quarts, 8 quarts, and 10 quarts. 

 These sizes hold for shipment, respec- 

 tively, 9, 18, and 24 pounds. The last 

 good crop of honey I procured, shipped 

 in this way, cleared me 12J^ cents per 

 pound, when honey was quoted in the 

 Eastern and Western cities at from 4 to 

 8 cents per pound. 



Eugene Secor — 1. One holding from 

 12 to 24 sections, single tier. 2. For 

 home market, I find nothing better than 

 glass fruit-jars — pints and quarts. My 

 grocerymen will furnish all I want to 

 fill. I don't buy them. For shipping, I 

 should be governed by circumstances. 



Jas. A. Stone — 1. Single tier, 24-lb. 

 cases, one side glassed. 2. This question 

 cannot be answered, as what will suit 

 one market, or one class of people, will 

 not satisfy another at all. Every bee- 

 keeper can educate his customers to a 

 particular package so long as it is not 

 too dear, and he sells at a figure that 

 will keep out competition. 



J. E. Pond — 1 and 2. I dou't produce 

 honey for marketing, so I have no idea 

 or practical knowledge on the subject. I 

 have kept bees for amusement, exercise, 

 and study only : usually only four or five 

 colonies, and experiments with bees are 

 always at the loss of crops. I never 

 hesitate to destroy a colony in the at- 

 tempt to prove or disprove a principle or 

 theory, and only produce enough honey 

 (and sometimes not that) for my own 

 consumption. 



(^ct)eral ltcn)s^ 



Secured a Good Average. 



The season is now over, which was A 

 No. 1 in this locality. I got 1,200 well 

 filled sections from 11 colonies, spring 

 count, and an increase of three, by 

 drawing brood in the swarming season, 

 but that was not untii August, and so I 

 didn't get any surplus honey from the 

 three young colonies, but I think 110 

 well filled sections per colony is a very 

 good average; besides about 25 or oO 

 sections half-capped over, and from 

 these on down to nothing. 



John H. Rupp. 



Washington, Kans., Oct. 19. 



Report for 1896 — May Sickness. 



In reply to the request of Mr. S. W. 

 DeBusk, on page 572, my expenses for 

 1896, besides personal expenses, were 

 about $77 for supplies ; my income from 

 bees was nothing ; and my loss in api- 

 arian capital (bees) was about 75 per 

 cent., besides getting no swarms either 

 from my own bees, or from 80 other 

 colonies run on shares, from which I was 

 to have had half the swarms. 



The cause of this unexpected reverse 

 was a mysterious malady confined to the 

 immediate neighborhood of Denver, with- 

 in a circle of about 10 miles radius. 

 During the last two months of spring 

 the bees steadily dwindled, until just be- 

 fore the flow the strongest were no 

 more than nuclei. The theory was sug- 

 gested by one of our number that spring 

 fogs or dews absorbed deleterious sub- 

 stances from the smelter smoke in the 

 atmosphere ; then being deposited on 

 the pollen of cottonwoods and other 



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plants, poisoned the bees. Later I read 

 exactly the same theory in a German 

 bee-paper, to account for what the Ger- 

 mans call "May sickness," a disease ap- 

 parently identical with paralysis. But 

 the thin feed, which the German writer 

 used with success as a remedy (to dilute 

 the poison), was tried here with abso- 

 lutely no success. 



My sentiments on specialty are of 

 course unchanged, for " life is more than 

 living." Besides, I see no reason to 

 doubt that in the long run specialty is 

 more profitable. F. L. Thompson. 



Denver, Colo., Oct. 18. 



See the premium ulfer on page 651 



Very Dry Year. 



It has been the driest year I ever saw. 

 There were but few seeds of the sweet 

 clover I ordered last spring that came 

 up, but in extremely dry weather it is 

 living yet. 



My bees have stored enough honey in 

 the last four weeks from the cotton 

 bloom for winter supplies. 



Louis Tedder. 



Alvord, Tex., Oct. 10. 



A Beginner's Report. 



I am a beginner, starting last spring 

 with four colonies, and now I have 11, 

 and they have been doing well. I took 

 200 pounds of surplus honey from them. 

 My uncle, in the next county, has 16 

 colonies, and when he went to take his 

 surplus honey off, he had but IH pounds 

 in all. Jno. Stewabt. 



Munson's Station, Pa., Oct. 12. 



Foor Season for Bees. 



Bees have done no good here. I have 

 35 colonies, and took 55 gallons of ex- 

 tracted honey — no comb honey and no 

 increase at all. We have had a good 

 flow of honey for the past two or three 

 weeks, but it is too late to get a surplus. 

 But the bees are rich in winter stores. I 

 cannot do without the Bee Journal. 



Frank Bell 



Deport, Tex., Oct. 13. 



Was It Too High ? 



I read on page 647, that Mr. Sidney 

 Sleeper, of Holland, N, Y., reports that 

 his 18S colonies of bees gathered, "on 

 Aug. 15, 1,500 pounds of basswood and 

 7,000 pounds of buckwheat honey ;" 

 and the Editor asks, " How's that for 

 high ?" Well, that's several thousand 

 pounds too high. But what puzzles me 

 is how he gets the weight to a pound ; 

 how the bees hit such round numbers 

 exactly, with not an odd pound or frac- 

 tion, more or less ; and how he kept the 

 two kinds of honey separate, so as to 

 exactly weigh each. Yours in doubt, 



Hawk's Park, Fla. W. S. Hart. 



[We shall have to call on Mr. Sleeper 

 for an explanation, as he probably is the 

 only man that can answer satisfactorily. 

 — Editor.] 



Results of the Past Season. 



I like the Bee Journal very much, and 

 find a great many useful things in it. 



I had two colonies last spring — not 

 very strong — and from them I got about 

 40 pounds of comb honey in one-pound 

 boxes. „ They stored honey only about 



