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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 2, 1905. 



Reports anb 

 (Sxpcricnces 



Bees Wintering Well, 



We have now 10 colonies in 8-frame, dove- 

 tailed hives. To-day being a fine day we 

 looked through them and found them all in 

 fine condition, strong in bees, and with the 

 exception of two all had plenty of stores. 

 Until ChristEQas we had fine weather, but now 

 have had a few cold days but no snow yet and 

 bees can fly almost daily. C. H. Koektz. 



Cleburne Co., Ala., .Jan. 31. 



Weight of Sections— Fapmep 

 Bee-Keepers. 



One Sunday morning I had a caller to whom 

 I gave a section of honey. He ate it all and 

 went to church. A young man asked a gro- 

 cer if he would give him as much honey for 

 35 cents as he could eat. The grocer agreed, 

 and this man ate 3 sections, and said he 

 <!Ould eat one more, but he didn't want to be 

 " hoggish ". 



I sold 3 shipping-cases of honey to a large 

 family in our village. One weighed 33 and 

 the other 34 pounds. One of the boys said to 

 me: "My brother — S years old — can eat 3 

 sections at a time." 



Last fall I sold extracted honey to a country 

 woman. She saw comb honey on the table 

 And said: "We can't afford to buy comb 

 honey, for one section would not be enough. 

 We are 5 at our table.'' 



I write this because in the Colorado con- 

 vention report appeared something to this ef- 

 fect: that 13 ounces would be enough in a 

 section ; people want honey on the table but 

 once. Are the millionaires the greatest 

 honey-consumers ? 



Tears ago I wrote to the American Bee 

 Journal that selling honey by the piece for a 



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