Jan. 11. 19C6 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



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pounds of section hooey this year, it being a 

 very poor year for honey, so the old bee-keep- 

 ers say, perhaps one-third of a crop. 



I also found a bee-tree on a neighbor's 

 farm, buying it for 75 cents and putting the 

 bees in a frame hive, and then I bought 

 another colony, making 4 in all, which I am 

 wintering on the 6ummer stands, but I had to 

 feed all of them, as they did not gather 

 enough this fall to winter them. 



I decided when I began bee-keeping to 

 adopt the Danzenbaker hive, but I have 

 changed my mind, and will try the dovetailed, 

 as I think the latter has the most good points 

 in its favor. 



I am a subscriber to 7 bee-papers, and 

 think a person can not get too many ; also I 

 have a few bee-books, and intend to get the 

 rest as soon as possible. 



This is not a very good bee-country, but I 

 think I can do better next year by using bet- 

 ter management. 



Honey usually sells in the grocery stores 

 here for about 10 cents per pound or section, 

 but it is in very poor shape, as the majority 

 use no fences, and some sections of honey are 

 big and some small, and 1 do not know of any 

 extractor in the country. There are perhaps 

 Ml colonies of bees within a circle of 5 miles 

 of me. The chief source of honey is alfalfa, 

 white clover perhaps next, and smartweed 

 and corn. Joseph W.Jackson. 



Blaine, Kan , Nov. 27. 



Results of the Past Season 



Reading Prof. Bigelow's report encouraged 

 me to send mine. I started last spring with 3 

 colonies, and found several bee-trees during 

 the summer; these I cut down and transferred 

 the bees. I bought a few colonies in box- 

 hives, and had all together 13 colonies. At the 

 close of the honey season I discovered some 

 cf the colonies were short of stores, and some 

 were too weak to winter, so I united down to 

 9 colonies. I procured quart cans with fric- 

 tion tops (such as table syrup is sold in) , 

 punctured the tops full of fine holes with a 

 darning-needle, and had a very good home- 

 made feeder. I fed the needy colonies sugar 

 syrup in the proportion of half and half, just 

 at nightfall. They would carry it down dur- 

 ing the night, and in a few days would have 

 it nicely sealed. Only 2 colonies gave any 

 surplus. This surplus I placed over needy 

 colonies, and by isolating it from the brood- 

 chamber with a quilt with a small hole in one 

 corner, I got them to carry it down into the 

 brood-chamber. 



I think I got a few more stings than Prof. 

 Bigelow, also I got 6cared so badly several 



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times that I don't think I will ever grow any 

 more. The worst part of it is I am still 

 hungry for honey. If I could have gotten a 

 little for my injured feelings I could have 

 overlooked the stings and scares. I think I 

 feel something like the boy that put his fist 

 into the bumble-bees' nest where there was no 

 honey. However, I think I will " try, try 

 again," and live in hopes if I do die in despair. 



I have the bees on the summer 6tands with 

 cushions filled with forest leaves packed 

 above the brood-frames. 



We are having delightful fall weather, and 

 the bees are flying nearly every day. The 

 wet fall we had has favored the white clover 

 so it is going into the winter in prime condi- 

 tion. The subsoil is stored full of water, so 

 with anything like a favorable spring I look 

 for a fine crop of clover next year, and, in- 

 cidentally, some of my honey that I didn't 

 get this year. Freeman Davis. 



Center, Mo., Nov. 26. 



CONVENTION NOTICES. 



Nebraska: — The annual meeting of the 

 Nebraska State Bee-Keepers' Association will 

 be held on Wednesday, Jan. IT, at 2 p.m., at 



the Experiment Station Building of the Ne- 

 braska State Farm, at Lincoln, Neb. The 

 meeting will be of interest to all bee-keeper6. 

 E. Kretchmer. of Iowa, will read a paper on 

 "Bees and Fruit;" H. F. Smith, Assistant in 

 Department of Entomology of the University 

 of Nebraska, will read a paper entitled, " The 

 Relation of Robber-flies and the Honey-Bee." 

 A general discussion will give all present an 

 opportunity to discuss subjects of interest. 

 Lincoln, Neb. Lillian E. Trester, Sec. 



Minnesota. — The 11th annual meeting of 

 the Fillmore Co., Minn., Bee-Keepers' Asso- 

 ciation will be held in the Court House at 

 Boston, on Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 

 17 and 18, 1905, beginning at 1 o'clock p.m. 



Canton, Minn. P. B. Ramer, Sec. 



Colorado.— The Colorado State Bee- Keep- 

 ers' annual convention will be held in the 

 Chamber of Commerce Building, Denver, Jan. 

 30, 31, 1906. This will be during " Farmers' 

 Week," when many farmers' organizations 

 will be in the city holding conventions. We 

 are assured of low railroad fares from all 

 points of the State. We are planning for our 

 usual good convention. R. C. Aikin, Sec. 



Loveland, Colo. 



