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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Sept. 20, 1900. 



openings show. Now grasp them in 

 the left hand, and pour cold water from 

 a common teakettle in the grooves. 

 Hold them tight together to keep the 

 water from going between them, and 

 lay them down in a pile with grooves 

 up. To fold them, turn the bunch over, 

 and all is well. C. Crank. 



Oscoda Co., Mich. 



Cpop Failure— A Yellow Weed. 



The honey crop in this immediate 

 vicinity has been a failure this year. 

 I got only about ISO pounds (in the 

 spring) from 20 colonies. Usuallj' the 

 bees are working busily at this time on 

 the yellow weed I mentioned once be- 

 fore, but altho the ground in every di- 

 rection is covered with its yellow 

 bloom, the bees are doing no good. 

 Fig. 133, page 387, of Dadant's Lang- 

 stroth, is an exact cut of this yellow 

 weed, which is there called " Helenium 

 tenuifolium," the honey of which Dr. 

 J. P. H. Brown is quoted as classing 

 poisonous ; but if it is, it must either 

 be very slightly so, or vary with local- 

 ity. During the past winter we ate 

 over 100 pounds of it without the 

 slightest ill effect, but the flavor is 

 rather disagreeable, in addition to its 

 bitterness, which also seems to vary in 

 amount. ALBERT E. Isaac. 



■ Morgan Co., Ala., Sept. 5. 



Fairly Good honey Crop. 



The honey crop has been fairlj' good 

 here, strong colonies getting SO pounds 

 each of extracted honey. I expect to 

 get that much more when the fall flow- 

 ers bloom. 



My premium Dr. Miller queen re- 

 ceived some weeks ago, is doing nicely. 

 Her workers are two and three banded. 

 I liberated her immediately upon arri- 

 val, in a queenless colony, with no 

 trouble. They are getting strong now 

 for the fall. S. Cheatham. 



Edgefield Co., S. C, Aug. 30. 



Paper Bag Feeders Printers' Ink. 



There was very little honey produced 

 in this part of the country this season. 

 My bees didn't average 10 pounds of 

 surplus honey to the colony, but they 

 are filling up nicely with fall honey for 

 winter, and they are rearing a nice lot 

 of young brood for next spring. I had 

 the queens caged in about 100 hives 

 during the buckwheat flow. I don't 

 like August bees for wintering, so I 

 thought I would try September and 

 October bees, and new hives and 

 combs, for a change ; so I caged the 

 queens for 9 or 10 days. To try such 

 an experiment on so many hives was 

 rather a risky thing — I should have 

 tried it on four or five hives first, but I 

 suppose I will know more about it 

 when the cherry-trees are in bloom 

 next spring. 



I had no idea that printers' ink was 

 so poisonous to bees, but a case that 

 came under my observation lately 

 proved it to be true beyond a doubt. 

 I have been in the lazy habit of using 

 for feeders small paper bags — the kind 

 that storekeepers use for tying up gro- 

 ceries. Whenever I found a colony 

 that needed feeding, I poured four or 

 five pounds of honey or thick syrup 

 into a paper sack, and placed it on top 

 of the frames, with an empty super 

 and tight cover on top of the hive. 



H. G. Quirin, the Queen -Breeder, 



Is as usual afain on hand with his 

 improved strain of 



GOLDEN 



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The A. I. Root Co. tell us that our queens are 

 EXTRA FINE. We obtained thru special cor- 

 respondence a breeder from Doolittle.who savs, 

 " If there is a queen in the U.S. worth $1 0(1, this 

 queen is." Queens bred from her, soon as they 

 begin to lav, SI.Oi.) each. 



Queens p'roraptly by RETURN MAIL. We 

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Bees from thete Queens all 

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Has no Sag iu Brood-Frames. 



Thin Flat-Bottom Foundation 



Has no Fishbone in the Surplus 



Honey. 

 Being- the cleanest is usually workt 

 the quickest of any foundation made-. 



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Sole Manufacturer, 

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The Emerson Binder 



This Emerson stifif-board Binder with cloth 

 back for the American Bee Journal we mail for 

 but 60 cents; or we will send it with the Bee 

 Journal for one year— both for only $1.40. It is 

 a fine thing to preserve the copies of the Jour- 

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When removing- the empty bags I 

 almost always found more or less dead 

 bees around on top of the frames. I 

 thought at first that the bees got to 

 fighting among themselves about the 

 pin-holes that I made in the bags for 

 the syrup to run thru. There was 

 surely no chance for robbers, as I al- 

 ways feed in the evening. I have come 

 to the conclusion that it was " J. D. 

 Reeser & Co., Dry Goods, Groceries, 

 Millinery, Etc.," tliat was printed on 

 the paper bags that was the cause of 

 the trouble. I don't know what I'll 

 do, but I think I will have to get some 

 feeders made to order, without any 

 printing on them. Wm. Keknan. 



Sullivan Co., Pa., Sept. 5. 



Bees Did Fairly Well. 



My bees have done fairly well so far 

 this season, but we had too much rain 

 until recently. We look for a heavy 

 fall crop of honey. I have 90 colonies 

 i<i twc-story Simplicity hives, but I 

 ran out or hives toward the last and 

 put one hive in a drum coal-stove, and 

 they are as happy as if they were in a 

 S5 hive. D. F. M.\rrs. 



McLennan Co., Tex., Aug. 25. 



Did Fairly Well on White Clover. 



Bees did tolerably well on white clo- 

 ver for a time here, then it turned off 

 dry, and the flow ceast. Now they are 

 doing fairlj' well on Spanish-needle, 

 smartweed, goldenrod, etc. I have 

 sold some honey at IZ'i cents per sec- 

 tion, and more at 13 cents a pound. 

 Bees will secure enough and to spare 

 to winter on. I have 41 colonies, and 

 want to increa:se as fast as practicable 

 to 100. Daniei, Jones. 



Marshall Co., 111., Sept. 7. 



Honey Crop a Total Failure. 



The honey crop is a total failure 

 here this season. I will have to feed 

 to get the bees thru the winter. 



J. C. Bergen. 



Humboldt Co., Iowa, Sept. 6. 



Blooming of Alfalfa. 



In a recent issue of the American 

 Bee Journal a mistake is made in 

 teaching that alfalfa does not bloom 

 the first season. If it is planted by 

 the 4th of July it will get ripe before 

 frost, and frost comes early at this 

 altitude. James H. Wing. 



Prowers Co., Colo., Sept. 1. 



A Beginner's Experience. 



I am a beginner with bees, having 

 bought three colonies in the spring, 

 which have increast to nine. I have 

 been greatly helpt by taking the Am- 

 erican Bee Journal, and expect to take 

 it as long as I keep bees. 



I bought a black colony of bees last 

 spring which was six years old, and 

 had never ca.st a swarm. It was ordi- 

 narily strong and had lots of honey. 

 I wanted to work for increase, so I 

 divided the colony, taking three frames 

 of brood and bees and placing them in 

 another hive, gave it one of Dr. 

 Miller's queens, and it is doing fitie. 

 The old colony soon filled up the brood- 

 chamber and started to fill the super, 

 but all at once it failed to work. I left 

 them for a few days and they became 



