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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEIER. 



we have a good sale for our honey at 

 home at 15c and 16c a pound. Our 

 hives have turned out from 25 to 70 

 lbs. of honey each. We bought a big 

 chaff hive at a sale last spring full of 

 bees and 25 lbs of comb honey in sec- 

 tions for $1.25. We filled the hive 

 with sections in April and it took in 

 80 sections, but it was the poorest hive 

 we had. It was full of bees all the 

 time, and they swarmed in May and 

 everything looked promising all sum- 

 mer, but no honey hardly. What do 

 you suppose ailed it? They were pure 

 Italians. The young swarm from it 

 made 40 lbs. We have all togethei 

 27 colonies this winter. Down here 

 we do not have many days at a time 

 when the bees cannot get out some, 

 and we winter them all on summer 

 stands. Yours truly, 



John Field. 

 Tennent, K J, Jan. 18, 1892. 



Ed. Am. Bee- Keeper, Dear Sir : 

 I desire to protest against the chang- 

 ing of the " usual width " of sections 

 from 1 15-16 to 1£. I think thick 

 cakes of honey taste better than thin 

 cakes. The same wax is required for 

 bases and cappings for shallow cells as 

 for deep ones. There are too many 

 standard widths of sections kept in 

 stock. Let the supply dealers unite 

 and give notice that hereafter no nar- 

 rower sections than If will be kept in 

 stock, and that all persons wishing 

 narrower .sections than If will have to 

 order them as odd widths. That would 

 discourage, and perhaps do away, with 

 the extremely narrow sections and de- 

 crease the number of narrow widths 

 now on the list. I would advise that 

 all the other widths from li to 2 ins. 

 be kept as they are for the present. 



Yours, &c, Philo S. Dilworth. 



Ingram, Pa., Jan. 5, 1892. 



Ed. Am. Ree Keeper, Dear Sir: 

 Papa has been sick and neglected to 

 send in the names of bee-keepers that 

 he promised, so I send them for him. 

 He says that he cannot take time to 

 read much this year, for he has sixty 

 swarms of bees and the Niles City 

 flour mills to attend to. He has to 

 work until 11 o'clock at night some- 

 times. 



I am a little girl only eight years 

 old and have two swarms of bees, but 

 I can tell you some of papa's tricks 

 about the bees and will be a corres- 

 pondent for your paper. My two 

 swarms are the banner swarms of sixty. 



I will close for this time. 



Yours truly, Ollie Jones. 



[We thank Ollie very much for the 

 list of names and hope she will write 

 again and tell us how her bees get 

 through the winter. She is quite a 

 little girl to take care of bees, but 

 perhaps her papa finds time to help 

 her.— Ed]. 



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It is said that the death-roll of train- 

 men in the United States is greater 

 every year than the death-roll of Get- 

 tysburg or Waterloo. Apropos of 

 this the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge has 

 contributed an article in the February 

 number of the JSorth American Revietv. 

 The same number will contain A Year 

 of Railway Accidents, by Col. H. G. 

 Prout, editor of the Railroad Gazette. 



FAR-FETCHED. 



A Monticello, 111., man claims to 

 have crossed Indian bees with light- 

 ning bugs so successfully that the 

 hybrids gather honey at night, while 

 the buzz made by their wings plays the 

 tune, " We Won't Go Home till Mora- 

 ine:." — Exchange. 



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