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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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By Expert J. T. BRIERLEY. 



A Simple and Concise Method of Practical 

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With instractions 

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 and Forms used in a 

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 Entire Set of 

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 Actual Transac- 

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How to take off 

 a Trial Balance 

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 Close and Balance 

 Accounts; Equa- 

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 Metric System of 

 Weights and 

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 „ ... , — , hounrt in Flexible 

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Bee-Keeper's Guide— see page 733. 



in all. One of my uncles, living a mile 

 from me, had 1.5 colonies in the spring, 

 and never had a swarm. Another neigh- 

 bor had 36 colonies, and had no swarms. 

 Also another man, living nine miles 

 away, told me that he had 50 colonies, 

 and had no swarms the past season. 



It was very wet here in the spring and 

 summer, and bees did no good until fall. 

 My bees have done well this fall, though 

 they have worked very curiously. They 

 have filled the body of their hives to the 

 bottom with honey, and capped it over, 

 and but 4 or 5 of the colonies put any- 

 thing in the upper story. I have 7 pure 

 Italian and 8 hybrid colonies, and the 

 former averaged fully double what the 

 hybrids have in increase of honey and 

 brood. I had one Italian colony that 

 never swarmed ; before I robbed it, it 

 weighed 121 pouuds gross. 



W. W. BucY. 



Calloway Co., Ky., Nov. 2. 



Very Poor Season. 



I have 27 colonies, and secured 725 

 pounds of comb honey. We had a very 

 poor season this year. 



Alfred E. Smith. 



Mt. Vernon, Ind., Nov. 2. 



Honey Season Almost a Failure. 



The honey season was almost a failure 

 here this year. I got but a litllesurplus 

 honey. It was too wet for the bees to 

 gather honey. They got about enough 

 from fall bloom for winter stores. 



Jacob Frame. 



Sutton, W. Va., Oct. 27. 



Report from Southeastern Nebraska. 



The honey season is now over for 



1896, and is about an average annual 

 yield. It was a little too wet this year, 

 and a little too dry last year. It should 

 be remembered that many of our honey- 

 plants will not secrete honey in a wet 

 season, and I think that sweet clover 

 secretes more nectar in a dry season. 



I had -4.5 colonies, spring count, in my 

 home apiary, and increased to 100, 

 which stored 2}4 tons of comb honey, 

 which I have mostly sold at 15 cents 

 per pound, making $750 from honey, 

 and .S275 in increase of bees ; taking 

 out 8100 for expenses, leaves me .$925 

 — a little over $20 profiton each colony, 

 or over 400 per cent. 



My out-apiaries have paid from 10 to 

 50 per cent, profit. Some others here 

 have done better than this, but many 

 not so well. One colony stored 175 

 pounds ; another swarmed once and 

 stored 120 pounds. I believe the 10- 

 frame hives the best for this community 

 — at least I got the best results from 

 them. J. L. Gandy. 



Richardson Co., Nebr., Oct. 28. 



How to Sell Your Honey Crop. 



I will tell how I disposed of my crop 

 of honey this year, and it worked to per- 

 fection. 



In the first place, I made up all my 

 shipping-cases and then branded tliem 

 with a rubber stamp with my name and 

 address on each case. Then I managed 

 to get the names of a few of the best re- 

 tail merchants in four different cities. I 

 then wrote to each one, asking them if 

 they handled honey in their business; if 

 so, I would be pleased to send them a 



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