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TiiJHJ AMEKiCJAIN BKii JOUKNAL. 



Correspondence of the Bee Journal. 



New Cumberlakd, (West Va. ) 

 I have eighty-seven stands of bees, two of 

 them Italian. I intend to give the most of them 

 Italian qnecns next summer. 



I have a good location for bees, plenty of forest 

 and locust trees, with lots of white clover; and 

 have had good success heretofore by good man- 

 agement. I hope your Journal may en able me 

 to add a few pounds more to the product of each 

 hive, which will make a nice thing for me. 

 Yours respectfully, 



Alfred Chapman. 



Manchester, (N. H.,) Dec. 24, 1867. 

 I received the specimen numbers of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, and like them very much. 

 Inclosed please find two dollars (|2) for one 

 years' subscription. 



Irving M. Corning. 



CoLEBROOK, (N. H.,) Dec. 20, 1867. 



I enclose one dollar, ($1). Please continue 

 sending the Bee Journal. I cannot do with- 

 out it, so long as it is so interesting and Novice 

 writes liis experience in bee-keeping. 



Could we not have an article on bee-hunting 

 this winter, while business is dull? There are a 

 great many wild bees in the wood^ that might 

 be looked up, if we only knew how. 



William C. Merrill. 



Lattner's, Dubuque Co., (Iowa ) 

 Inclosed you will find two dollars for the Bee 

 Journal. I find it just the thing every man 

 ought to have who keeps a colony of bees. To 

 its columns I mainly attribute my success with 

 bees this season. I find the Italians far superior 

 to the black bees, and as I wish to Italianize all 

 my colonies next season, give us all the hints 

 you can in that direction. I will give you a little 

 of my experience. 



I received a queen from Mr. Langstroth late 

 m the season, I think the latter part of August. 

 The queen I put in a queenless colony, which 

 had no brood of any kind. I left her one day 

 in the queen cage. The next day I let her run 

 out, and she was well received. 'I'hree days 

 afterwards I found eggs in the cells of the mid- 

 dle comb. I then changed stocks with a very 



Lynn, (Mass ,) Dec. 31, 1867. 



I am a beginner in the bee business and wish 

 to get practical and scientific knowledge to as- 

 sist me in the management of my bees, without 

 which I should doubtless fail to realize success. 



I have read the works of Langsti-oth, Quinby, 

 and others, which I like very much, and would 

 not be without them for any consideration. Still j 

 I consider no bee-keeper fully armed and equip- | 

 ped for apiarian science, without the aid of your 

 valuable Journal. A periodical of this kind is 

 just what is needed to encourage and promote 

 so useful and interesting a brunch of rural econo- 

 my as bee culture; and I trust it will be sustained 

 and continued so long as apiarians make money 

 and bees make honey. 



P. R. Russell. 



strong colony, and every evening gave them 

 about two tablespoonsful of honey in the upper 

 box or super. When I noticed the black bees 

 commenced killing their drones, I examined my 

 Italians again, which was about the first week 

 in September. All the combs, except the two 

 outside ones, were supplied with eggs and brood, 

 and I observed that all the drone cells were full 

 of brood. I then took out my queen and put 

 her in a weak colony, which I had previously 

 made cjueenless. In about nine days afterwards 

 I examined the colony again, and found not less 

 than ten queen cells capped over. I cut all out 

 but two, and put them into other swarms which 

 I had also made queenless. All, save three, 

 destroyed the cell I introduced and built no 

 others. It was well I had saved the old queens. 

 M^ young queens hatched, and now I could not 

 find a black drone remaining, and not more than 

 a few hundred Italians which were all in one 

 hive. In about eight daj's I noticed that war 

 was made on them; and when I examined the 

 hive I found fresh eggs laid in the two middle 

 combs. Of my other young queens only one 

 has laid eggs up to this time. Wonder, will 

 they commence laying next spring? 



I think of pushing the Italians early in the 

 spring, and raising queens as early as they com- 

 mence laying drone eggs and pure Italians can 

 be raised. I shall give it a trial. I do not like 

 the half breeds. They are too cross for me, and 

 I believe will rob others sooner than gather 

 honey from flowers. I found two of my hives 

 attacked exclusively by that kind. 



Paul Lattner. 



Gardiner, (Me.,) Dec. 14, 1867. 



The past season has been a very good one for 

 honey, though producing few swarms. I have 

 taken 596 pounds of honey from seven hives of 

 black bees. My practice has been to feed spar- 

 ingly in the spring to promote brooding. I use 

 Kidder's double hive. I have transferred black 

 bees and introduced the Italian queen at the 

 time of transfer, with perfect success. 



Yours truly, George W. Blanchard. 



Sardinia, Ohio, Jan. 15, 1868. 

 Enclosed I send you two dollars for the ''Bee 

 Journal," one year, commencing if you like 

 with No. 1, Vol. 3. I received a sample num- 

 ber last autumn, and like the paper very well. 

 The enterprise should by all means be sustained. 



C. B. MooRE. 



Ottawa, III., Dec. 28, 1867. 

 Please send me your Bee Journal for one 

 year. I enclose the price, $2. I like the paper 

 very much. 



Baldwin City, Kansas, Jan. 17, 1868. 

 I have received a copy of the American Bee 

 Journal and am well pleased with it. I en- 

 close one dollar. Send me the paper. 



Strawberries, when in blossom, arc visited by 

 bees rather for pollen than for honey, of which 

 latter they produce comparatively little. Tho 

 pellets of pollen are brownish or ciuuamou- 

 colored. 



