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THE AMEEICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



[Oct., 



taken this season over two thousand (3,000) pounds in 

 boxes, and five liundrL-d (500) pounds wilh the 

 Extractor. — J. H. Thomas. 



Ghent, Ohio, Auirust 33. — I have read and re-read 

 every number of the Journal, and find it instructive 

 and jtrofitable. My bees wintered well, last winter, 

 in my house as described in Vol., V. pa^e 100, of the 

 Joui-nal. Last winter was with us mild and nice for 

 wintering on summer stands. I have realized two 

 liundrcd and fifty (250) dollars from thirty hives this 

 season, and have two hundred (300) pounds ol honey 

 on hand. It was all box honey. The increase was 

 t^^•ent\• -five f 35) good strong natural swarms. They 

 are all black bees except one, a liybrid queen sent to 

 me last fall, as pure, from an Eastern queen breeder. 

 Tlieyare not very sociable. The season was all one 

 coulcl wish for. Bees havediine well. The spring 

 opened just right, and continued favorable tliroughout. 

 Success to you and the readers and columns of tl:e Bee 

 Journal.— T. Pieuson. 



Eliza, Ills., August 32. — Bees have done well here 

 this season up to this time. I have some in Lang- 

 stroth h.ves that have stored one luindred and twenty- 

 five (135) pounds of honey to the hive. I enclose 

 two dollars lor the Bee Journal, as 1 cannot do without 



it.— J. BOGAIIT. 



Ler'>y, Ills., August 33.— This is the first year 

 that I have kept bees, and find it a very pleasant 

 business. Bees did not swarm here until August, 

 and then but little. I divided my old stocks in . une, 

 all of which, both old and new, are doing finely. I 

 should like to have some older head than mine s^ive 

 ine his opinion as to the plan of reducing the number 

 of my stock to one-half this fall, in ord r to have 

 them stronger and to have plenty of spare comb to 

 ciimmenee with in the spring. And, again, — as I am 

 asking favors — 1 should like to have tlie i)lan given 

 on page 109, Vol. IV., B. J., for out-door wintering 

 republished, for the benefit of new beginners geneially 

 as well as myself. The August number came just in 

 time for me to try the new plan of controlling the 

 fin- ilization of queens. I succeeded in eveiy thing 

 but liaving the queen mate in the wire case. Will 

 some one else give us his experience i I Bay three 

 cheers for the American Bee .Journal, for I take time 

 to read and re-read every aitiele in it, and find it, 

 together wilh Mr. Langstroth's valuable book, to be 

 the staff for new beginners to lean upon for aiJiarian 

 knowledge. — P. Young. 



KisiNG Sun, Ind., August 36. — We have a neighbor 

 at Vevay, Mr. W. Faulkoner, who has had great 

 success this season, with his bees. I called on him 

 1 ist week, and had the pleasure of seeing 3,500 lbs. of 

 V, hite clover honey, which with 1,.500 lbs. that he has 

 already sold, makes Jive tliouhand (5,000) pounds for 

 tliis year, lie had but forty-eight stands in the spring, 

 so that his hives have averaged over one hundred 

 ]'0unds each. Ilis increase is fifteen stands, making 

 now sixty-three, which is as many as he wants to 

 manage. His hives are a modification of the Lang- 

 stroth, allowing the use of surplus boxes on the sides 

 o! the frames. — N. U. Shaw. 



Shreve, Ohio, August 2<'i. — As I have seen no 

 CO nmunication from this place, I have concluded to 

 write and let the readers of the Bee Journal hear of 

 n)y success in the bee business. I commenced four 

 years ago with the old black beo in the old fashioned 

 way. For a few years I made only slow progress, 

 till of late I have taken more interest in it, and have 

 now increased ray slo'-k to seventy-six colonies, all 

 Italians, iu good condition. 



I was surprised when I read Novice's report of 

 honey this season ; but when I came to think over 



how much I had taken from a few hives with the 

 honey-emptying machine, and as the season was, I 

 think I too could have had a right sn^art croji, if I 

 had attended to the bees as I should have done in the 

 honey season. As it is, I shall pro' ably not get much 

 over one thousand (1,000) pounds, principally box 

 honey. I will just state, for the benefit of the bee- 

 keeping public, that I have tried a Peabody machine, 

 which woi-ks to perfection, and is what every f'ce- 

 keei)er that uses movable frames needs. As far as the 

 different hives are concerned, there is not so much 

 difference as some su pose. 1 think a plain frame in 

 a simple hive of convenient form is all that any one 

 needs. As far as reliable queen raisers are concerned, 

 1 will just state that I have dealt wilh a good many, 

 and have found Adam Grimm, of JettVrson, (Wis.,) 

 perfectly reliable and prompt in filling orders. 1 

 have got quite a number of queens from him this sea- 

 son by mail, post paid. I inclose a photograph of my 

 ajiiary, and if any of the readers of the Journal wish 

 one, I will send it on receipt of forty cents, or send 

 one on receiving one for exchange. In conclusion T 

 wish the Journal success, and all its readers good luck 

 and much pleasure in the put suit of so profitable a 

 business as bee-culture. — G. W. Stinebi!INg. 



Edgefield Junction, Tenn., August 39. — This sea- 

 son, thus far, has been the poori st, both lor swarming 

 and honey, of any for more than twenty-four years 

 that I have been in this State. We had a drouth in 

 May, followed by frequent and severe cold rains for 

 more than three weeks, by which time our clover 

 harvest for bees was nearly past. As a general thing 

 July and August do not furnish mucli forage for bees, 

 but we have every jjrospect for honey this fall. The 

 last two seasons we had a honey harvest from almost 

 the first of April till late in the fall; and on both 

 occasions, late iu the fall my liives were so filled with 

 honey that in m;'ny of them there were not a hundred 

 empty cells. I renuivcd f.om one to three fi'ames of 

 honey, placing the remaining frames half an inch or 

 more apait for winter. By doing this, and protecting 

 my hives from the cold winds, I saved them all — one 

 hundred and sixty-four in number last year, and 

 sixty-eight the year before. This season being a poor 

 one, I have not increased sock so much, thougii I 

 have made fifty-one good colonies. In July I had to 

 feed a few colonies, and found it difHcult to keep up 

 my nuclei. — T. B. Hamljn. 



West Gkoton, N. Y., August 31. — The honey 

 season has been very good here, and scientific l)ee- 

 cullure is progressing. Old fashioned bee-keepers 

 are amazed when they see the large quantity of honey 

 we got from eight colonies of bees — over eight 

 hundre 1 and seventy-five (875) pounds. 



I like the American Bee Journal very much. We 

 should not have had near as much honey, if we had 

 not had the Journal to read and study. — D. H. 



COGGSHALL, Jli. 



Fulton, Ills., September 3. — Bees are doing very 

 well here now, though the forepart of the season was 

 not generally favorable on account of the drouth. 

 Buckwheat is nf)t yielding much lujney. The second 

 crop of red clover i> in full bloom, and the bees are 

 working on it very busily. This is the first season 

 that I ha\e seen bees do much on red clover, in this 

 section, as the blossom is usually too large ; but this 

 year, owing to the drouth the heads are smaller. The 

 diflVrent varieties of the golden rod are just coming 

 into bloom, as also the wild aster; and the prospect 

 is that the bees will do well until after we have liard 

 frosts. Light frosts do not att'ect the aster. If ac- 

 ceptable, I will try to furnish some accoimt of the 

 doings, of the bees in thia section, at the close of the 

 season. — R. R. Mukphy. 



