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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



A ugust 



Des Moines, Wash, July 13, 1896. 

 Editor American Bee Keeper — 

 Will you please let me kuow through 

 the " Bee Keeper " what I shall do 

 about my bees. Last January I pur- 

 chased a stand o£ Italians ; The col- 

 ony was a strong one and wintered 

 well ; In February they began gath- 

 ering pollen ; They have not swarmed 

 yet this summer, and they seem much 

 decreased in number an a bee will not 

 be seen going in or out of the hive 

 oftener than once in five minutes. 

 In the afternoons of the bright sunny 

 days, quite a number of bees fly out 

 and play around the hive, those I am 

 quite sure are young bees. They are 

 not hatching any more now than they 

 were a month ago and that was, just 

 in one of the middle Brood Frames. 

 It is at the height of the honey season 

 here now and it is a good honey year. 

 Beekeepers here report much surplus 

 honey, and much swarming, while my 

 bees haven't filled over a dozen cells 

 with honey this year, and they had 

 those filled a month ago. They have 

 a queen so that is not the trouble. 

 Yours truly, 



(Miss) Anita Byers. 



[We think what is needed is a new 

 queen. Either your queen is an old 

 one or is not prolific, try requeening. 

 Possibly, however, there is some other 

 cause for' non-swarming and perhaps 

 some of our readers can name the . 

 cause and suggest a remedy, if so, let 

 us hear from them, Ed.] 



W. T. Falconer Man'f'g Co., — 

 Gentlemen : Inclosed find 50c for 

 which date my subscription to the 

 '' American Bee Keeper " one year in 

 advance. Although times are hard 

 for farmers and beekeepers yet they 

 cannot afford to be without good pap- 

 ers. Bees seem to be doing finely this 

 year and have been working on bass- 

 wood for the past two weeks consider- 

 ably. As you have not heard from 

 me lately do not think that the bee 

 business is dead, for I never had more 

 bees than I have to day. I got a sup- 

 ply of sections and hives last year and 

 failed to get any honey, so this year 

 we have them both. 



Thanking you for past favors, I 

 remain, Yours respectfully, 



A. G. Amos- 



Delhi, K Y., Julv 25, 1896. 



W. T. Falconer Man'f'g Co.,— 

 Gentlemen : Yours of June 2ord at 

 hand stating that goods had been 

 shipped, and the goods came to hand 

 last evening in good order, and every- 

 thing satisfactory. Many thanks to 

 you for the reduction in prices. The 

 sections are all you claim for them in 

 every respect and surpass anything 

 of the kind we ever handled. The 

 foundation is also very nice. * ^t' * 

 Yours very sincerely, 



H. & W. J. Adams. 



Clarenceville, Pi Q., July 3.rd, '96. 



We will send the American Bee- 

 Keeper one year with the Cosmopol- 

 itan for $1.25. The Cosmopolitan is 

 a monthly magazine containing an 

 average of over 100 pages and 80 il- 

 lustrations each month. 



