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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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cents wholesale; fall honey 13 cents, and in 

 demand. Extracted honey, that is strictly 

 fine, sells for 12 cents to customers who ap- 

 preciate a good article. The yield per col- 

 ony was from nothing, in some apiaries, to 

 about one-third of an average crop. There 

 was but little strictly first-class white 

 honey. One thing encouraging about the 

 " luck " is that bees have gone into winter 

 quarters with plenty of good stores. 



Geo. Spitlek. 

 Crawford Co., Pa., Dec. 13, 1899. 



Her First Year of Bee-Keeping. 



This is my first year at keeping bees. I 

 bought one colony last spring, and I got 48 

 pounds of comb honey from it, and built up 

 another little colony that we bought Aug. 

 1, so there are two good colonies now. The 

 first colony I paid $8 for; the second, $3. 

 Sept. 1 I bought three colonies for $18. I 

 had to feed some in October. I bought an- 

 other colony for $0; it is very small, sol 

 took out three of the brood frames and 

 packt woolen carpet on each side, and fed 

 syrup until it filled the five combs about 

 four-fifths full. 



We have had a dry, warm fall, and my 

 bees are flying to-day. They are on the 

 summer stands yet, but I will put them in 

 a frame house when the weather turns 

 cold. I have all the hives covered with 

 carpet. 



We have 36 acres of alfalfa clover. I 

 want to sow all kinds for the bees. We are 

 ten miles from town, and five miles from 

 other bees. 



I planted some mignonette in the garden, 

 and the bees workt on it until frost, which 

 was Oct. 22. I saved a pound of seed to 

 sow next spring. Mrs. Ben. Ferguson. 



Ford Co., Kan., Dec. 1, 1899. 



Last Winter Cold for Bees. 



My bees are getting along first rate so 

 far. They averaged 75 pounds of honey 

 per colony. I had only four colonies. I 

 am wintering only two colonies, as one 

 died, and the other I killed and sold the 

 honey for 15 cents per pound. 



All the bees in this neighborhood froze 

 out last winter. I bad seven colonies packt 

 with two feet of straw all around them, 

 still they froze. They all had honey left. 

 I saved two colonies out of seven. I think 

 packing is a humbug. It was so cold here 

 last winter that if you would take a bucket 

 of water and spill it, it would freeze just as 

 soon as it toucht the ground. It was 40 de- 

 grees below zero for about a week. The 

 ground was crackt and everybody's pota- 

 toes froze. It was the coldest known here 

 in 45 years. B. F. Schmidt. 



Clayton Co., Iowa, Dec. 8, 1899 



Intpoduelng Queens, Etc. 



We are having pretty nice weather here. 

 The bees are still flying a great deal of the 

 time. Sept. 2 I got a premium queen whict 

 I caged for eight days on a one-pound sec- 

 tion of honey on which I put wire screen 

 on each side so she was secured safely. I 

 then took out a center brood-frame, cut 

 out a piece of the comb in one corner of the 

 frame as big as the section, and then in- 

 serted the section on the bottom-bar ; I 

 then tightened a piece of wire around the 

 frame to have it all secure, as the bees kept 

 on building queen-cells. I left her that 

 way till the seventh day, then took the 

 queen, put her into the old Peet cage, as 

 the bees showed anger every time I opened 

 them, and left the job for the bees to re- 

 lease her themselves. The next day they 

 had her releast and accepted her all right. 

 I tell you, she is the finest breeder I ever 

 saw, and her bees are just yellow all over. 

 They are just like queens themselves. I 

 would not take .*2 00 for her. 



How is this ? Some years ago I had my 

 bees away from home. I was down look- 

 ing at them the latter part of August, and 

 found, to my surprise, an after-swarm 

 hatching perfect workers except the heads, 

 which were just like drones' beads. The 



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