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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Sept. 



1900. 



Tll6Be6-K6eD6r'S 



Or, Manual of the Apiary, 



BY 



PFOF. A- J. COOK, 



460 Pages— 16tli 1899 Edition— 18th Thou- 

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A description of the book here is quite unnec- 

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 No bee-keeper is fully equipt, or his library 

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This loth and latest edition of Prof. Cook's 

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 Prof. Cook's book alone sent for $1.25, or we club 

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weak ones, died, and one short of 

 stores left for parts unknown. So 

 much for inexperience with bees. 



At this point I purchast a copy of 

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 practiced the clip-wing plan, and put 

 the swarm on the old stand ; two colo- 

 nies never swarmed. So starting with 

 12 colonies, I increast to 25, and one 

 second swarm took leave of me. 



I harvested 700 pounds of comb 

 honey this season from 12 colonies, 

 spring count. There will be no fall 

 flow on account of drouth. My colo- 

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 the winter. I have already made sale 

 of the greater part of my crop thru 

 the home market at a satisfactory 

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So with my first year's experience, I 

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Leslie H. McCue. 



Albemarle Co., Va., Sept. 11. 



Drouth and Grasshoppers. 



While in some portions of this State 

 this season the honey-flow was all 

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 there has not been over half a crop, 

 and in some places, owing to drouth 

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 bee-keepers. As an illustration of the 

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 a cold spring, we had a good honej-- 

 flow later, but many colonies of bees 

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 tion to gather it ; but this 3'ear we had 

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