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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 18, 190O. 



most 1. 000 pounds of extracted A No. 1 mel- 

 ilot (sweet clover) honey, and also some 

 section honey. Having considerable dark 

 honey on hand from last fall. 1 fed that, 

 mixt with the best quality of sugar syrup, 

 and thus I could sell all my melilot honey. 



I now have the same number of colonies 

 I had the commencement of the season— 37 

 colonies in my standard hives with Ameri- 

 can frames, and 6 colonies in the new Hed- 

 don hives, with 12 queens of 1898 and 21 

 queens carefully reared in 1899. 



Wm. Stollet. 



Hall Co., Neb., Dec. 23, 1899. 



_7 A Beginner's Experience. 



~I bought five colonies about two years 

 ago. and have increast in the two years to 

 1.3. They are the first I ever owned, and I 

 have had to learn by experience and the 

 help of the American Bee Journal. My 

 bees did but little good last season. I am 

 not able to take the care of them that I 

 would like to. I put the hives on a bench 

 in winter, made about six inches high, set 

 them as close together as I could, and put 

 sacks on top and around them. 



1 sold my fall crop of honey at 15 cents a 

 ponnd in the town of Asheville. 



J. W. Hawkins. 



Buncombe Co., N. C, Dec. 27, 1899. 



Cedar Hives— Motlis. 



f I find in the American Bee Journal an 

 enquiry as to red cedar for hives. I have 

 used over .50 in my apiary for several years, 

 and shall never use any other, no matter 

 what the cost. There are several points of 

 excellence in cedar hives— 1st. they don't 

 swell and shrink like those made of other 

 lumber; 2nd, they keep drier; 3rd, they are 

 lighter; and 4th. they don't warp as badly 

 as pine. Give them a good coat of paint, 

 and you will find them all right. 



As to moths, keep good Italian bees, 

 strong and healthy, and the moths won't 

 bother. R- G. Haun. 



I, Kittitas Co., Wash. 



Bees Not Profitable for Him. 



Bees have not been very profitable for em. 

 1 started with one colony three years ago, 

 and have bought six colonies, all in box- 

 hives, so I had to transfer to movable- 

 frame hives. The first two years I didn't 

 read any bee-literature, and I see now I 

 made some grave mistakes. Every one 

 who has only one colony of bees should 

 read good literature on bees. A good bee- 

 paper is very instructive whether a man 

 keeps bees or not. I have read several this 

 year, and decided the American Bee Jour- 

 nal comes nearer to what I need than any 

 I have seen. J. R. Scott. 



Lamar Co., Tex., Jan. 1. 



A Dry Season— Wiser Marauders. ^ 



The past season was the driest that we 

 have ever had— not one rain from the mid- 

 dle of April till the middle of September- 

 net more than a five or ten minute dash. 

 Corn, beans, potatoes and hay were about 

 half an average crop; clover was conspicu- 

 ously absent. 



My 70 colonies stored about 60 pounds of 

 surplus, and I gave them 60O pounds of 

 granulated sugar for winter stores. 



I have kept an out-apiary of 13 colonies 

 at a Mr. Light's, who then ran a custom- 

 mill. While b% was grinding my feed I 

 would look after the bees. He moved away 

 last fall, and the family that expected to 

 move into his house in a week or two failed 

 to do so. About the middle of January, 

 during zero weather, some young men and 

 boys were cutting and drawing ice from the 

 pond near the apiary, and some of them 

 opened the hives, took out frames of honey 

 and jammed others out of place, and left 

 off some of the covers, so the bees were in 

 bad shape when I found them, except two. 

 I did not dare to leave them there, so [ 

 moved them home Jan. 20. 



I did not make much fuss, but found out 



who were at work there, and] whc were 

 looking on. By the middle of April all but 

 three colonies were nearly d'ead. but the 

 boys had said enough so I found out some 

 of them that had disturbed the bees. I saw 

 a good lawyer, and told him to write each 

 one and give them a week to come and set- 

 tle with me. They sent a man, and found 

 out what I would take, and after some 

 quarreling among themselves, they raised 

 the S.50 and paid me. >D. L. Files, g 



Monroe Co., N. Y., Dec. 27, lS99.'i!.' CIZIJ 



CouveutioulNotlces. 



Minnesota. — The Southern i Minnesota Bee- 

 Keepers' Association will meet in Winona, Jan. 

 23 and 24, 1100. E. B. Huff.man, Pres. 



Homer, Minn. 



California. — The tenth annual convention of 

 the California State Bee-Keepers' Association 

 will be held in the Chamber of Commerce, at 

 Los Angeles, Feb. 21 and 22, 1000. It will be 

 called to order at 1:jO p.m., Feb. 21. At this 

 time the railroads will sell rouud-trip tickets to 

 Los Angeles and return for one and one-third 

 fare, on account of the Industrial, Mining, and 

 Citrus Exposition, which will be held in Los 

 Angeles. Tickets good for 10 days. Let every 

 bee-keeper bring some hive, tool or experience 

 that he has found valuable, and we will have a 

 good convention. J. F. McIntyre, Sec. 



Sespe, Calif. 



Wisconsin. — There will be a joint convention 

 of all Wisconsin bee-keepers' societies at the 

 loth annual meeting of the State Bee-Keepers' 

 Associ,ation, Feb. 7 and 8, 1900, in the State Cap- 

 itol, at Madison, Wis. Many prominent bee- 

 keepers will be there and take part, c^ CS 



Excursion rates of a fare and one-third for 

 the round-trip, for railroad tickets purchast in 

 the State, for over 50 cents each. Be sure to 

 bring a certificate of each ticket purchast so it 

 can be signed Feb. 8, in Madison, and entitle 

 the holder to a third fare return. ;~ 1 



The State Horticultural and State Cheese- 

 makers' Associations will meet on the same 

 date in the Capitol. 



Don't forget the date— Feb. 7 and 8. It will 

 pay you to attend. N. E. France, Sec. 



Platteville, Wis. 



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By paying for a year's sub- 

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