THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



The hives 1 use are made 21 inches 

 long by 14 inches wide, (outside meas- 

 ure,) 10 inches deep. 1 use eight 

 frames in each hive and use full sheets 

 of light brood foundation in each 

 frame, 



The past season was not an extra 

 good one here. For a while white 

 clover gave a very fair harvest; the 

 basswood was far behind and in fact 

 was almost a failure. 



My honey is stored in one pound 

 sections and the sections are removed 

 before they become travel stained. 

 I have no trouble in markeimg them. 

 Several other bee keepers here put 

 their honey up in 2 lb boxes made of 

 red pine and let them remain on the 

 hive until they are dark colored and 

 then sell them with the glass, weigh- 

 ing the glass and all, to the customer, 

 but people do not like to pay 12 1-2 

 cts. per lb for glass that they cannot 

 use, so such bee keepers find very 

 little sale for their goods. I believe 

 if all bee keepers would put their 

 honey in good attractive shape and 

 then try their home market first, 

 looking up new customers who would 

 take their wearly supply from them , 

 it would in a great measure help 

 prices in the city market. As long 

 as 1 can have good success in sellihg 

 honey at 12 1-2 cts. per lb. as I have 

 had in the past year I will not trouble 

 the commission men in the city' 



I have had no experience in queen 

 rearing, transferring, etc., and so 

 cannot write intelligently obout them 

 but would like to hear from others 

 on this subject. Yours truly, 



C. H. Peterson, 

 Crary Mills, N. Y. Dec, 15th. 



I From New York Tribune) 



PROGRESS IN BEE CULTURE. 



What Fifty Years Have Done For Apicul 

 ture 



BY A. I. ROOT. 



A little more than fifty ^^ears a2;o 

 man employed by ray father to brim 

 stone some skeps of bees in orde r to g€ 

 the honey. I was then three or fou 

 years old, but 1 was so carious abou 

 bees and honey that I stayed out dooi 

 on a cold autumn day until I caugli 

 such a cold that it came very nea 

 spoiling this chapter. I was alway 

 an eager questioner, and I persuiue 

 asked more questions about bees an 

 other insects in a few minutes tha 

 all my relation could answer in a 

 many years. When I became old er 

 ough to form an acquantance with th 

 ants in the anthills near my home 

 questioned ray friends so eagerly an 

 intently that when some of my oldt 

 brothers and sisters stirred up my aui 

 hill just to bother me there would hav 

 been a free fight all around had it nc 

 been for my good mother. When 

 was ten years old I became the owne 

 of a hive of bees, but when sprint 

 time came a colony belonging to 

 nearby neighbor, came inandcleane 

 out my hive — bees, honey and al 

 This aroused my curisoty again, an 

 I wanted more bees; but my goo 

 father objected, on the ground th? 

 they would sting people and raak 

 trouble, and would not gather an 



