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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Dec. 20, 1900. 



colonies or more, but they are kept in a slip- 

 sliod manner, as the bee-lceepers liave the 

 impression that they know all about keeping 

 bees, and have no use for any bee-papers. I 

 think it is safe to say that 90 percent of them 

 never lieard of foul brood, and many will not 

 believe 'that it amounts to anything, altho 

 they have lost nearly all their liees from the 

 effects of it. 



I am trying to save some of mine and have 

 been very successful by putting them in clean 

 hives filled with foundation, but it is time and 

 money almost thrown away, so long as my 

 neighbors will not take any precautions to 

 prevejit spreading it. If I can succeed in sav- 

 ing some of them until the overwise bee-keep- 

 ers are bee-keepers no more, and their bees 

 are a thing of tbe past, perhaps I can then rid 

 them of disease, and do something with them, 

 but this is a very poor locality for bees, at best. 



The present outlook for bee-keeping in this 

 vicinity is very discouraging, but I enjoy read- 

 ing the Bee Journal, and will take it one year 

 more at least, bees or no bees. 

 nTioga Co., Pa., Dec. a. A. D. Watsox. 



Results of the Season of 1900. 



Bees did next to nothing this year. I se- 

 cured about 800 pounds from 24 colonies. 

 They never started out better than they did 

 last spring, but the weather was first cold and 

 then dry to extremes. 



I received the premium Dr. Miller queen all 

 right, was much pleased with her, and had no 

 trouble in introducing. 



I have 40 colonies in tbe cellar, but seveial 

 of them are light. We hope for better results 

 next year. C. A. Fairbanks. 



Jones Co., Iowa. Dec. 12. 



Poop Season for Bees. 



We have been doing some bee-keepiug in 

 this neck of the woods the past season, but 

 huney-gettbiij has been almost a total failure. 



The early spring was very promising. 

 Bees built up splendidly, and when white 

 clover should have bloomed they were ready 

 to gather in the harvest. But, alas ! a drouth 

 such as the writer has never seen so early, set 

 in, and never did vegetation stand as still as it 

 did then. The result was, of course, not a bit 



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oJ surplus white clover or basswood honey in 

 most localities in this county. There were a 

 very few localities where the bees gathered a. 

 little surplus white honey. I have been 

 obliged to disappoint my customers as never 

 before. 



There was some fall honey gathered, and 

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Tho the bees did not store any surpltis 

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Crawford Co., Pa., Dec. 7. 



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 12th. Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Peoria Co., 111.. Dec. 10. 



Results of the Season, Etc. 



I commenced tlie season with about 77 colo- 

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 500 pounds of comb honey and 3000 pounds of 

 extracted, and get 15 cents per pound for the 

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In preparing the bees for winter I fed, I 

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