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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Kov. 19. 



the excluder. Then I put on an empty 

 hive and in this placed a few sections of 

 unsealed honey. Then I tore out a little 

 bit of the paper over the cluster of bees 

 below, so as to leave one or two openings 

 in the excluder bare. This was done in 

 the early morning while the bees I 

 wished to unite were clustered on the 

 underside of the cloth which covered the 

 box. Then I shook the bees from the 

 cloth into the empty hive and put on the 

 cover. 



An hour or two later an examination 

 showed the bees clustered on the under 

 side of the cover. A later examination 

 showed them on the sections of honey. 

 An examination the next morning showed 

 that the bees were all in the lower hive 

 except the queen. She was running 

 around the openings in the zinc. I 

 placed my finger at the opening and the 

 queen ran up on it, and I threw her out 

 of the hive. 



I had an idea that the sections of un- 

 sealed honey might in some way help to 

 facilitate a peaceable union, but whether 

 they cut any figure or not I am unable 

 to say. If the bees had persisted in 

 maintaining a separate existence for any 

 considerable length of time, the honey 

 might have been of some use. If the 

 bees had not united in the course of two 

 or three days, it was my intention to 

 withdraw the newspaper and so force a 

 union. 



I may be in error, but I believe the 

 above to be a safe and sure way of unit- 

 ing. Edwin Bevins. 



Leon, Iowa, Nov. 6. 



Weather Fine Every Day. 



Bees were flying to-day as strong as in 

 August. The weather is fine everyday 

 just now, with cool nights, but no frost. 

 Bees are visiting the sugar refinery. 



R. H. Langdale. 



Vancouver, B. C, Oct. 26. 



No Surplus Honey. 



We had no surplus from our bees the 

 past season in this locality, but have 

 had to feed for winter. I have fed 1,500 

 pounds of syrup to 50 colonies in my 

 apiary of 125. J. Few Brown. 



Winchester, Va., Nov. 5. 



Bees Did Well. 



My bees did well the past summer. 

 My average was -±5 pounds per colony, 

 and all No. 1 comb honey. I get 20 

 cents per pound. I have 21 colonies, 

 and transferred six into Improved Lang- 

 stroth-Simplicity hives now ; and ar- 

 ranged for comb honey. My hives are 

 all 10-frame, 2-story, and well painted. 

 I sowed two acres of sweet clover. It is 

 something new in this part of the coon- 

 try. If it does well we will have more 

 of it. 



I hope the Bee Journal will keep on 

 and increase its subscription list. 



John H. Bechtle. 



West Norwalk, Conn., Nov. 9. 



Did Well for a Nevir Hand. 



I had 24 colonies of bees, spring 

 count,_and the average yield per colony 

 was 35}a full sections of honey and 11 

 sections per colony that were not capped 

 sufficiently for market. I attribute to 

 bad management, having so many partly 

 filled sections. We have had one of the 



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best honey seasons for three years, if I 

 had been running the bees for extracted 

 honey. It got so cold in August that the 

 bees could not build combs. I did not 

 get surplus honey of any amount after 

 July, but I think I have done pretty 

 well for as new a hand, and I credit 

 my success to the American Bee Jour- 

 nal and "Langstroth on the Honey-Bee." 

 Three years ago, when I subscribed for 

 the Bee Journal, I did not know any 

 more about a bee than a bee knew about 

 me. I receive the Bee Journal every 

 Thursday, generally read it over twice, 

 and then get anxious for the next Thurs- 

 day to come. Daniel Smethukst. 

 Seneca, Wis., Nov. 9. 



Not a Good Honey Year. 



I had 9 good colonies last spring, in- 

 creased to 18 — 5 natural swarms and 

 lost three, and built up 4 colonies from 

 others that didn't swarm, so now I have 

 18 in good condition for winter, that I 

 will put into the cellar very soon if the 

 snow doesn't go away. 



I got 150 pounds of comb honey and 

 about the same of extracted, and I have 

 a fine lot of young queens for next sea- 

 son. This has not been a good year 

 around here, as there has not been any 

 white clover, and that is our main 

 source here. G. R. McCartney. 



Winnebago Co., III., Nov. 8. 



One Pound from Ten Colonies : 



One idea in the American Bee Journal 

 is worth more than the price of the 

 paper. My bees have not done much, 

 as it has been so dry here, and as they 

 were transferred from box-hives I did 

 not expect them to do as well, but I shall 

 claim the smallest record I have seen 

 this year, viz., one solitary pound sec- 

 tion from 10 colonies, and it was a full 

 section of No. 1 honey. Who can beat 

 this ? I know of one colony in town 

 which has put up 60 pounds of surplus 

 this year, and we call that very large for 

 the northeast. I wish that bee-keepers 

 in the northeast would write more for 

 the Bee Journal. I should be pleased to 

 read some of Geo. 8. Wheeler's articles, 

 which he could write. H. A. Fish. 



S. Duxbury, Mass. 



A Beginner's Report. 



I am a beginner in bee-keeping. I 

 started this year, by buying four colo- 

 nies last winter. I could not wait until 

 apple-blossom to transfer to my new 

 8-frame dovetailed hives, so I did it in 

 April. I bought li colonies more in box- 

 hives in May, transferred, and afterward 



1 got 10 swarms from them. I cut B 

 bee-trees and saved the bees, and caught 



2 wandering swarms, the last one on the 

 eve of July 21, and the morning of Aug. 

 11 I removed three 2-1-pound supers of 

 honey, and each one of the 72 sections 

 was perfect — the only colony that com- 

 pleted each section. My crop was 5oO 

 pounds of comb honey. Next fall I ex- 

 pect to go into winter quarters with 100 

 colonies. I now have 30. 



Fulton Co., N. Y. Bkginnek. 



A Colony 114 Feet High. 



Henry county has a beautiful court 

 house, just completed, with a magnifi- 

 cent clock tower rising 11-t feet above 

 the busy little city of Paris. This house 



