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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



January 



Bee-Keeper very much. In my judg- 

 ment, it is the best bee-paper publish- 

 ed for the beginner. We have had a 

 very poor season here this year. Next 

 season I shall move my bees about 40 

 miles to vi^hat I think a better range. 

 The farmers near here have discontin- 

 ued the raising of buckwheat, so that I 

 now get but about half a crop. 

 Very truly yours, 



L. H. Perry. 

 (Mr. Perry's article, referred to 

 above, will soon appear in these col- 

 umns; and we are pleased to present 

 "his experience with the Carniolan- 

 Italian cross to our readers. — Editor.) 



Meadville, Pa., Dec. 15, 1902. 

 Editor American Bee-Keeper: 



Dear Sir: The advertisement which 

 you inserted in The Bee-Keeper has 

 sold my entire stock of Italian bees, for 

 which you have my thanks. Also I ex- 

 tend thanks to the W. T. Falconer Mfg. 

 Co., for the kindness, and the elegant 

 and neat supplies I have received from 

 year to year, while keeping bees. Their 

 promptness in shipping and the superi- 

 ority of their goods cannot be surpass- 

 ed. Your American Bee-Keeper has 

 been everj^thing to me. I could not 

 have gotten along without its help in 

 ll'C ai.;ary. iX-nv. thi t I am out of the 

 bee business, I must ask you to stop 

 sending it. It am sending you a list of 

 bee-keepers to whom you can send 

 samples and get others to take my 

 place. I remain, 



Yours truly, 



P. A. Birch. 



Cincinnati, Dec. 3, 1902. 

 Editor American Bee-Keeper: 



Enclosed find remittance for next 

 year's subscription. 



All the honey I sold this season 

 went direct to the consumer. Out of 

 four hives I took 72 pounds of comb, 

 and 19 gallons of extracted honey. I 

 did not increase. I kept them all in 

 their homes close to work, hence good 

 results. I am getting ready for next 

 season, extending the height of my 

 hives 12 inches above the extracting 

 super, for three tiers of comb cases. 

 I've learned a point or two by experi- 

 menting with one hive. Next season 

 they'll all be on the same principle. 

 The said hive had four stories of sur- 



plus, one extracting, three comb honey 

 cases of 24 sections apiece, jammed to 

 the roof with honey. A prominent bee- 

 keeper of our town after seeing my 

 comb honey said he never thought I 

 had such neat, clean and full sections. 

 This is the second year of bee-keeping 

 for me. The first year not a spoon- 

 ful of honey on account of the drouth, 

 the second year, a signal success. 

 "Stick to it," is my maxim, "nothing 

 succeeds like success." Next year I'll 

 double my colonies, not by swarming, 

 v.t by bu3ang full colonies from so- 

 called bee-keepers, of which I know a 

 number. Eight colonies and no honey, 

 one colony and no honey, and so on. 

 Such are the reports we hear here and 

 there from unscientific bee-keepers. 

 Those are the kind I buy from; they 

 are glad to sell out. As long as their 

 bees are in good health and halfway 

 strong, I buy them. After I have them 

 they are built up ready for the field. 

 Respectfully yours, 



Henry Reddert. 



POOR LITTLE WILLIE. 



A swarm of bees chased Willie 



Till the boy was almost wild; 

 His anxious parents wondered 



Why the bees pursued the child. 

 To diagnose, they summoned 



Their physician, Doctor Ives, 

 "I think," he said, "the reason's clear. 



Your Willie has the hives." 



— Irish Bee Journal. 



Gleanings says there is a greater 

 scarcity of honey this fall than has ever 

 been known before. 



J. F. Garratt, in American Bee Jour- 

 nal, says there are over ninety liee- 

 keepers in Uvalde county, Tex., and of 

 these about one-half are specialists, 

 and that apiaries average about 1"0 

 colonies. "On account of the drouth," 

 says he, "this has been the worst year 

 for bee-keepers in the history of the 



