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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 1, 190.'. 



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Revised by Dadant — 1899 Edition. 



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This is one of the standard books on 

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Bees Did Fairly Well. 



Bees have done fairly well this 3'ear. 

 But few bee-keepers have done as well 

 or better than I did. The drouth in 

 June — our best month for clover honey 

 — lessened the crop, H. G. W.^lker. 



Stearns Co., Minn., Oct. 20. 



Spipea OP Verbena fop Honey. 



I would like to know about the qual- 

 ity of honey gathered from Corj-op- 

 teris mastacanus, commonly called 

 blue spirea and shrubby verbena. The 

 plant grows luxuriantly here cultivated 

 and bees fairly tumble over each other 

 in their eagerness to work it. It has 

 been in bloom full two and a half 

 months to this date. 



Our bees are working with a will 

 now on asters and ironweed. 



Wm. Crenshaw. 



Fulton Co., Ga., Oct. IS. 



Eaply Honey Crop. 



We had a good crop of honey early 

 in the season, gathered from the fol- 

 lowing sources : Maple, cherry, apple, 

 raspberry, blueberry, blackberry, and 

 one other bush, the name of which I 

 can not give, but it blossomed just 

 after blackberry, and this was the last 

 honey we got until fall. There was 

 no clover or basswood flow. Bees 

 workt on goldenrod and asters a little 

 but did not gather enough for winter 

 stores, and many colonies will have to 

 be fed, or starve before spring. 



Our best flow in this localitj' was 

 from apple-bloom, and many to whom 

 I sold this honey said it was the best 

 they ever ate. It was very thick, 

 white, and had a nice flavor. It sold 

 readily at 25 cents per pound, or sec- 

 tion, in the home market. 



Albert E. Willcutt. 



Hampshire Co., Mass., Sept. 30. 



Bees Did Pooply. 



Bees did very poorly in this locality. 

 I secured about 2,000 pounds of comb 

 honey from 85 colonies the past season. 

 The prices are verj- good — IS cents for 

 comb honey — which helps us out. We 

 hope for a better crop another j'ear. 

 Wm. M. Dick. 



Ford Co., 111., Oct. ll 



A Report fop the Season, Etc. 



The Dr. Miller (jtteen, wliich reaclit 

 me some three months ago, has proven 

 more than I anticipated. This was 

 the first queen I had ever introduced 

 to a colony. Already the hive is half 

 full of her oft'spring, which are doing 

 finely. Should they prove better 

 honey-gatherers than my several colo- 

 nies of black bees, I shall be glad to 

 requeen these with the Dr. Miller 

 stock. 



It may be of interest for me to saj' 

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