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longest they had been without a flight 

 up to Jan. 10th. 



I see so much about non-swarming 

 and non-swarming bees. My experience 

 is this : Any device that has a tendency 

 to cripple or hinder natural increase or 

 production, has a tendency to non- 

 swarming, and whilst they are hindred 

 in this way, it must have something to 

 do with honey-gathering. 



Bees are usually kept here in box- 

 hives and round "gums ;" when frames 

 are used, the combs are as immovable as 

 they are in the old-fashioned box-hive, 

 with only a few exceptions. 



I asked a man, who has a few colonies 

 of bees, how they are doing. The an- 

 swer was, " I don't know. I don't pay 

 any attention to them ; don't think they 

 pay, though i brimstoned one before 

 Christmas, and got 60 pounds of nice 

 honey, and quite a lot that was dark 

 and mixed with bee-bread." 



"Didn't you hate to kill them?" I 

 asked. 



He replied, " No ; no worse than any 

 other thing that it is to be eaten, that 

 has to be killed first." 



Mrs. Atchley, I am a reader of the 

 Ameeican Bee Journal, and am well 

 pleased with it. The question depart- 

 ments are grand ; the correspondence is 

 very interesting — some articles being 

 worth the whole subscription price to 

 the Bee Journal for one year. The 

 biographical department was immense. 

 I cannot but help feel grateful to Friend 

 York for his prompt and excellent man- 

 ner of conducting the Bee Journal. 

 What a vast store-house of knowledge I 

 failed to get by not being a subscriber 

 to the American Bee Journal from 

 1861 to the present time. 



Bee-keeping has not been a gold or 

 silver mine of wealth in this section for 

 the last few years, neither has farming 

 and stock raising, but they are not dis- 

 couraged. The farmers were plowing 

 here nearly every day from September 

 to Jan. 10th. W. A. McGee. 



Rockville, Mo. 



Xhe Amateur Bee-Keeper, 



is the name of a neat little pamphlet 

 designed for the class its name indicates 

 — amateurs and beginners in bee-keep- 

 ing. It is written by Mr. J. W. Rouse, 

 of Missouri, a practical apiarist an/4 

 helpful writer. It contains ove.r '60 

 pages, and we will send it postpaid for 

 25 cents ; or club it with the Bee Jour- 

 nal for one year — both for' only .f 1.15. 



Feellm for BuMlng Ub for Fall-Flow. 



Query 915.— Where the apiarist has a 

 honey-flow in June, and another in October, 

 with almost none at all the three intervening 

 months, will it pay to feed through the month 

 of September in order to build up for the fall 

 flow ? or will the bees build up anyway, 

 where they have plenty of stores ?— Enthu- 

 siast. 



I have had no experience. — P. H. El- 

 wood. 



Keep the colony in good condition. — 

 Will M. Barnum. 



Try feeding, for I presume it will pay 

 you. — J. H. Larrabee. 



If I had the time and means I would 

 feed. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Stimulative feeding at the right time 

 will be beneficial. — A. B. Mason. 



If the bees have plenty of stores, they 

 will be strong enough for any fall flow 

 that may come. — G. L. Tinker. 



I would think it would pay. I would 

 begin to feed five or six weeks before the 

 beginning of the honey-flow. — M.Mahin. 



It is very doubtful if it would pay. 

 Under the circumstances they would 

 build up pretty well, anyway. — R. L. 

 Taylor. ^ ' 



It wovild be an advantage to feed a 

 little regularly to promote breeding, but 

 not en^tiugh for the bees to store away. — 

 J. P. H. Brown. 



That's outside of my experience, but I 

 shoiild think it depends on what that 

 "a'lmost" means. If breeding stops, 

 theln feed. — C. C. Miller. 



That is one of the questions that you 

 can best test by a thorough trial. Us- 

 ually, I think, the bees would be in good 

 condition for such honey-flow. — C. H. 



DiBBERN. 



If the bees have used up the June 

 honey before the October flow com- 

 menced, then feed. If they have plenty 

 of honey at any time, they don't want 

 feeding. — E. France. 



