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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Feb. 1, 1906 



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DES MOINES, IOWA. 



box, when they are easily lowered to the 

 ground and carried to the hive. 



I don't take a spade, dig a hole in the 

 ground and set the pole "stationary" as I 

 would a fence-post, but handle as described 

 above. A. F. Foote. 



Riceville, Iowa, Jan. 1. 



Retailing Honey 



I would report a fairly successful year with 

 the bees, and tender my thanks to the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal for its valuable assistance. 



I wish to urge the pushing of the matter of 

 advancing the price of retailed comb honey. 

 I know from experience that 25 cents per sec- 

 tion is as easily obtained as 15 cents, provided, 

 of course, that the honey is first-class. My 

 second-grade honey, which weighs 12 to 14 

 ounces, and is fully as good as the average 

 '•farmer's honey." sells harder at 20 cents 

 than the first-grade at 25 cents. I began years 

 ago to sell at 20 cents, and so speak from ex- 

 perience. 



But don't forget the matter of quality. 

 Three times I have bought decent-looking 

 "farmer's honey"' when short myself, but in 

 every case 1 was obliged to take the honey 

 back and refund the money, and so I shall 

 never try it again. It is not a fair price, but a 

 poor article, that maRes a good customer kick. 



Every 25-cent section bears this stamp : 

 "Byfield." And the guarantee is followed up 

 to the limit ; any defect being good for the 

 money back on sight; but so far it has never 

 happened with honey from my own hives. 



I wish we could hear again from the corres- 

 pondent who advanced the theory of the more 

 rapid flight of black drones. I have reason to 

 believe there may be something in it. 



George W. Adams. 



Rowley, Mass., Jan. 12 



Light and Heavy Weight Sections 



The honey crop was rather disappointing 

 last season in Prowers and Bent counties ; in 

 fact, the poorest I am told for the past 17 

 year6. The maximum returns were about 40 

 to 50 pounds per colony. The largest returns 

 came from apiaries worked for extracted and 

 comb honey. John S. Sbmmens. 



Lamar, Colo., Dec. 30, 1905. 



Two Queens in a Hive 



Dr. Bohrer, of Kansas, reported the case of 

 two queens in the hive at the same time. I 

 bought a fine queen in 1002, that I used as a 

 breeder. As I was getting brood from her 

 last July, I found a capped queen-cell, so I 

 kept watch of them. They lived together, 

 each laying eggs. I still think they are to- 

 gether, for I looked to-day (Nov. 19), and 



found them both together; yet if they winter 

 together I shall take the old queen out next 

 spring and give her a nucleus to breed from. 

 She has not had any wings in three years, 

 as the bees gnawed them off, so she is easily 

 known. J. G. Goodnee. 



Big Springs, Tenn. 



Thinks This Journal Necessary 



I am going out of the bee-business and so 

 will not need the American Bee Journal any 

 longer. But I will send you a new subscriber 

 in my place. The Journal has been a great 

 help to me, and I think it a necessary com- 

 panion to all interested in the bee-busine6S. 



Ridge Farm, 111. Isaac Vaught. 



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 my subscription. F. Jay Lewis. 



Oak Park, Calif. 



Rain in Southern California 



We have had a nice rain. Prospects are 

 very bright for the honey crop in San Diego 

 county this year. (J. F. Merriam & Son. 



San Marcos, Calif. 



Bees All Alive in January 



My 112 colonies of bees all showed up alive 

 today. All but a very few colonies flew 

 strongly and long. The general look and 

 appearance Is also hopeful. E. E. Hasty. 



Toledo, Ohio, Jan. 20. 



Honey in California, Etc. 



Editor York :— For many years I have read 

 the writings of Prof. Cook in the columns of 

 the American Bee Journal, and felt very much 

 disappointed on my recent visit to Southern 

 California not to be able to see him at his 

 home. He was absent, as he was in Europe 

 at the time. However, I met many bee-keep- 

 ers in that lovely land of fruit and flowers, 

 where the roses are in bloom all the year 

 around, and the bees could be seen in vast 

 numbers in the pepper-trees towards the mid- 

 dle of December. At this same time of the 

 year the people could be seen before sunrise 

 in the mornings sitting in the parks reading 

 the papers. 



There was one thing which Prof. Cook's ar- 

 ticle, on page S80 (1905), brought out very for- 

 cibly. That was the absence of honey on the 

 tables in England, Ireland, Scotland, France, 



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