THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 121 



Editor Am. Bee-Keeper, Dear 1 found it hard to travel hack and 

 Sir : Inclosed please find pay for your forth so much and so I subscribed for 

 paper. It has come, asking me to sub- a paper. I kept the bees two years 

 scribe. It is well printed on good saving $300.00, raising all extracted 

 paper, neat in appearance, full of in- honey and doing all the work myself, 

 struetion and far ahead of the Advance although I was a broken down woman 

 (its predecessor.) and the price is only 55 years old. I increased to 50 colo- 

 a trifle. We that keep bees ought to nies and Mr. Bird told me I was the 

 be willing to support our friends and only woman in the world that could 

 institutions. Last year was a poor have done as well. This greatly en- 

 one in northern Iowa for bees, as they couraged me as I knew he was a man 

 were hardly able to support them- competent to judge. I think a lack of 

 selves, but it looks now as if this year encouragement while my son kept the 

 would make up for the loss. bees was one of the causes why he 



Some have said that it does not left them ' as l had deemed it a very 



pay to publish a bee paper as there ordinar y business and had been dis- 



are so many , but bee-keepers increase, a PP°™ted that he had chosen such a 



the business enlarges, and why not P<>or vocation, when I had educated 



help the children. The old have been him fo y a teacher or some literai 7 



helped and will soon pass away, and P rofession - 



let us not be partial but give the A year ago this season was a very 

 young ones a chance that are coming good year to build up ; my son came 

 tip to fill their places. We do not home and raised queens and we multi- 

 wish to lay aside the weekly paper plied the bees for the honey harvest 

 that has kept us posted so long, nor and in doing so had to feed a thous- 

 will we go without Gleanings, as there and pounds of honey. The honey 

 is where we exchange views about harvest was very light so that we had 

 bi>es and religion, having a sermon no honey to sell, and my son went to 

 twice a month to bring us a knowl- Wisconsin to work at printing leav- 

 edge of the truth that secures us a ing many nucleus colonies to build up 

 home after we are through keeping on the Fall honey. But the Fall flow 

 bees. was also short, and while 8100 worth 



Fourv ars ago I started alone with of su S ar would have saved a11 m - v 



30 colonies of bees and was entirely bees, I did not feel able to spend so 



ignorant of how to keep them. My mudl and run the risk of ailother 



son gave me the bees saving 1 could 1"""' ■ ve:,l '< so fifteen ot the colonies 



have them to earn money for myself died last winter Ieaviu g l,ut ,hi,t . v '- 



if I could save them. I had not 'real- five D0W ' which are (1 "* n - well « 

 ized that I needed a paper much, as The honey is coming in freely and 



John Bird, a pioneer bee-keeper of lam working for comb honey mostly 



this county, lived about one-half mile now. My son has not returned but 



away and I used to impure of him, has gone to keeping bees away, and I 



but finally concluded that it was not will have to learn the business more 



right to bother him so much, besides perfectly, and these new papeis are 



