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THE 

 and 



AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



[July. 



for a breeder, and rear your own the ground and, camera in hand, I 



queens. went to the apiary. Our strawberries 



It is the most fascinating, most and raspberries were coaxed to put 



profitable, most necessary work there forth their buds in March and are now 



is to be done in the apiary. dead and gone. The bees have plenty 



Again I wish to say these remarks of stores and I hope they will stand it. 



Yours truly, 



are from personal experience cover- 

 inn- a period of over twenty years, of 

 delightful work in the apiary. 



W. R. Claussen. 



Lowville, N. Y. 



A LETTER 



FROM 

 SEN. 



DR. CLAUS- 



Waupaca, Wis., May isth, 1907. 

 Editor Hill. 



Enclosed find two photos at my 

 apiary, consisting of 70 colonies. One 

 was taken last summer and shows 



BEE-KEEPING IN AFRICA— THE 



OTHER SIDE OF THE 



QUESTION. 



Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, 

 May nth, 1907. 



The Editor American Bee-Keeper: 

 In April issue of the American Bee- 

 Keeper under the heading Bee Cul- 



DR. cLAUSSEn's apiary, APRIL 26, I9O7. 



your humble servant, his wife and a 

 little helper, the best little chap in an 

 apiary I ever saw. He is twelve years 

 old and handles bees as fearlessly as 

 any one. 



The other is taken on April 26th, 

 1907. March came nice and warm; 

 but I did not put my bees out till 

 first week in April. The weather had 

 been warm and fine and I supposed it 

 was going to continue; but the day 

 after the bees were put out it turned 

 raw and cold and the bees have had 

 but two or three good flights. 



On April 26th when I got up I 

 found about four inches of snow on 



ture in Africa, we notice a letter from 

 Mr. F. W. Drummond a bee-keeper 

 m Natal. 



In this letter be states that the bee- 

 keeping industry is not worth bother- 

 ing about, that he has expended twen- 

 ty pounds on bees and hives, which 

 amount he has given up as a bad debt. 



The reason is because he had twen- 

 ty-one sections of honey well filled, 

 and after placing them in American 

 cartoons with his name printed on 

 each, he could not get more than two 

 cents per section. 



Now two cents means in British 



