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box honey I use only the extractor. As I 

 use five colonies for my queen cells and 50 

 two-frame nuclei, which is also equivalent 

 to five colonies, I consider that the amount 

 of honey which would be obtained from 

 them would amount to 80 or $100. Now if I 

 can sell five queens a day at f 1 from April 

 1st to Istof October. (1 speak for this latitude 

 as 1 can have laying queens as soon as the 

 10th day of March,) I think this would make 

 me an amount of $915 without counting the 

 sale of tested ones. I don't consider these 

 10 colonies as a loss, but as capital which 

 has really paid more than the balance. The 

 frames of brood given to the colonies used 

 for queens, for the purpose of keeping them 

 up, could be calculated as an expense, but I 

 ■don't consider it so and the colonies furnish- 

 ing tliem can really spare them, without in- 

 convenience. I consider my loss this year 

 of several hundred dollars for not having 

 raised queens for the market, as the season 

 was poor and out of 85 colonies, I have ex- 

 tracted only three barrels of honey, which 

 netted me $105. I sold 15 colonies for 

 $112.50, total, $217.50. 



Now I wish it perfectly understood that I 

 have not written the above to enter in any 

 controversy, but only merely to speak of my 

 experience in queen raising. 



Paul L. Viallox 



Bayou Goula, La. 



®ixv %tntv ^oat. 



Palestine, 0., Aug. 31, 1877.— "I extracted 

 about 4,000 fts. of clover honey this season, 

 and expect to sell it in quart jars." 



S. S. Fetherolf. 



Riley Co., Kan., Sept. 1,1877.— "I com- 

 menced with one colony of Italians in June. 

 I divided them and now have 50 to 60 lbs. of 

 beautiful honey, and the bees are still 

 working with all their might. 1 am in love 

 with the little workers." 



Mrs. Carrie B. Heston. 



Waveland, Ind., Sept. 19,1877.—" Bees are 



f;athering some honey now, enough to keep 

 hem breeding. Some hives are gaining a 

 little in honey. I believe bees will be in 

 good condition for wintering. The later 

 swarms managed in the old way will not get 

 enough honey to winter." 



Isaac Sharp. 



Montgomery Co., Tex.. Sept. 10, 1877.— "In 

 March, 1876, I commenced bee-keeping. I 

 have now 145 colonies. I use the Tennessee 

 hive with some improvements. I have an 

 excellent range oi willow, huckleberry, 

 elder, prickly ash, linn in large forests, 

 grape, etc. Summer pasturage is not so 

 good." Thos. D. Leonard. 



Platte City, Mo., Sept. 6, 1877.—" The sea- 

 son has been a short one here in N. W". Mo. 

 The early part of the season being too cold 

 and wet, while the last of July was quite 

 dry. A couple of good rains a short time 

 since will, however, revive the bloom, so 

 that our little pets may do something a 

 while longer. Much success to your Jour- 

 nal, and long may it live." 



Thos. Moran. 



East St. Louis, 111., Sept. 1, 1877.— " My 

 honey harvest this fall promises to be boun- 

 tiful. From 30 hives this spring I increased 

 by artificial and natural swarms, to 60, and 

 have already extracted 40 gallons. The 

 new stock law has caused the blooming of 

 many fiowers here, that I did not notice 

 before; but our dependence in the fall is 

 chiefly smartweed." Cora McCrocken. 



Warren Co., 111., Aug. 27, 1877.—" I think 

 the successful introduction of virgin queens 

 very difficult. 1 have given it a thorough 

 test this summer; and find it a perfect fail- 

 ure, at least it is so with me. My bees have 

 done well, and are gathering finely from 

 buckwheat now. I am selling my honey at 

 home. Have already sold 3,000 Tbs. I 

 wholesale at 16c. and retail at 20c. per lb. I 

 use a small surplus frame, 6 of which fit in- 

 to a Quinby frame. I made frames on pur- 

 pose to hold them. Bees are so long filling 

 the side boxes of a Quinby hive that I have 

 discarded them, and take 3 of the small 

 frames and lay on a strip on the top and 

 fasten with wrought nails, one nail to each 

 section. The stick projects a little at each 

 end, so as to be easily carried. These 

 frames are just of the right height to be put 

 on the top of Quinby frames; two sets 

 making 6 little frames just the size of one of 

 the large frames. The bottom of each little 

 frame is 7-16 of an inch square, set in, one 

 edge down, to make it easy of access for 

 the bees, and not to kill them when placing 

 it in the hive. The frames are like this: 



These frames please the grocery men 

 much better than the glass boxes. Each 

 frame holds from 1 to l}4 lbs." 



L. C. AXTELL. 



Birmingham, O., Sept. 24, 1877.—" H. Al- 

 ley takes pride in quoting from the letters 

 of those who received queens from him and 

 are suited. I received one from him that 

 had been a month on the road, for ought I 

 know, as it was directed to N. Y. instead of 

 Ohio. It came round two months after the 

 time of ordering, with the accompanying 

 bees dead, and the queen nearly so. And 

 that is not all. Of the two ordered May 4th, 

 the one above mentioned was the only one 

 we received at all. The probability is that 

 the other one was mailed in the same care- 

 less manner, if at all, and went scouring 

 around the country until it was thrown out 

 of the mail. Should those who order of 

 him be the losers, when it is caused by his 

 carelessness? I have written him twice 

 concerning the lacking queen, but he 

 neither sends it nor will he answer me. We 

 have ordered queens from J. Oatman & Co., 

 and the queens arrived promptly in the best 

 possible condition." C. A. Graves. 



[Friend Alley will doubtless adjust this 

 matter to the writer's satisfaction.— Ed.] 



