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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



hives will be left to breed full, and as 

 soon as swai'ming time comes I will 

 put on an Alley queen trap. (By the 

 way, what a debt we owe Friend A. for 

 his invention of the queen trap; it is 

 one of the best labor-saving inventions 

 we have, no more climbing trees after 

 our swarms). As each hive swarms 

 remove trap with queen, substituting 

 a half-story hive with two tiers of sec- 

 tions on the old stand, removing the 

 old hive to a new stand, thus getting 

 most of the young and old bees with 

 the old queen, and all then work nice 

 comb honey. The old hive on the new 

 stand will raise a young queen and 

 will contain plenty of young bees and 

 stores for wintering. This way of 

 working the two systems insures good 

 returns and little labor, and also is 

 one of the best and quickest for Ital- 

 inizing to keep stock pure and keep 

 down increase. T. G. Ashmead. 

 Williamson, iV. Y. 



Gentlemen. — The American Bee- 

 Keeper for February is at hand. 

 There can be no objection to a bee 

 paper being published in connection 

 with a supply business, if the publishers 

 took no more pains than you to " blow 

 their own bugle." In many respects I 

 deem your journal ahead of any I ever 

 read. It is chock full of good and 

 practical suggestions, valuable, I 

 should say, not only to the beginner, 

 but to the older ones also. Every bee- 

 keeper in America should have it. 

 Respectfully yours, 



H. J. Rogers. 

 Stannard's Corners, N. Y, Feb. 8, 1891. 



Gentlemen: — * * * This has 

 been the coldest winter Cuba has seen 

 since 1855. From Dec. 10 to Jan. 27, 

 47 days, there was a cold north wind 



blowing all the time, and it cut our 

 honey crop short very much, so at 

 this time we have only 60,000 lbs. out, 

 but shall get close to 75,000 lbs., per- 

 haps more. Those 47 cold days were 

 right in the midst of our surplus sea- 

 son, and the bees stored very little 

 honey. It is warmer now and they are 

 doing better. I will send my yearly 

 report when the season is over. 



Yours, &c, A. W. Osburn. • 

 Punta Brava, Cuba, Feb. 8. 



We shall be glad to publish friend 

 Osburn's yearly report when it is re- 

 ceived. 



Mission of 

 Our Lady of the Sacred Heart. 



Morris Minn., Jan'y.6, '91. 



Dear Sirs: — Be so kind and send 

 me the American Bee-Keeper for 

 this year. * * * My bees are 

 doing well. Am well pleased with 

 your hives. Yours gratefully, 



Mother Superior. 

 Dear Sir : 



I see by the article on page 30, Vol. 

 1, No. 2, American Bee-Keeper, 

 that you are advocating the Hoffman 

 frame, I began to use the Hoffman 

 frame when first put out by J. H.Nellis, 

 and I have handled it more than ten 

 years. It is a good frame, and I can 

 vouch for its many superiorities, but let 

 me say that it costs no more to have a 

 full length wide end bar than it does 

 to have it wide for 5 inches, and since 

 using the wide end bar for the past 

 six years, I am forced to say that I 

 have got through with the Hoffman 

 frame, and when some of the users of 

 it go to their hives some time and find 

 the space between the end bars and 

 the ends of their hives packed full of 

 honey, they will say, "What did the 

 bees do that for ? " Now I must sav, 



