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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



[Nov., 



H. B. Rolfe, Westfield, N. Y., writes Oct. 7, 

 1878 : 



Our honey season here was short. From 

 forty five stocks I received l,1001bs in three lb 

 boxes, which I sold for 30c at my apiary. My 

 be(.8 wintered well, except the winters of '71 

 and '72, when I followed writer's instructions, 

 (removed the honey-board,) and lost over half 

 my bees. 



R. L. Curry, Cincinnati, 0., writes Oct. 11, 

 1873: 



This has been a good season. My colonies aver- 

 aged 16()lbs extracted honey per hive. I can 

 dispose of my surplus from 35c to 30c per lb. 

 From experiments I have made I am satisfied 

 we get at least four times as much honey by 

 extracting, as we would comb honey. All our 

 honey was gathered within twenty days. Some 

 days averaged thirteen pounds to the hive. 



Chas. D. Hibbard, Auburn, N. Y., writes Oct. 

 18, 1873 : 



My bees wintered on the Shultz plan in a 

 clamp. Have given me 12001b8 box honey, and 

 twenty-four swarms increase. Had thirty-six 

 first of May. Basswood did not bloom this 

 year with us. I feel that I have done well, con- 

 sidering the season, and the mortality of last 

 winter that deciminated whole apiaries. I 

 have such confidence in the method of winter- 

 ing practiced by me that I shall hazard all my 

 stocks in the clamp again this winter, 



T. Smith, Kingsville, Ont., writes Sept. 27, 

 1873: 



My bees, although they had a good start this 

 spring, have done nothing all summer, and will 

 not have sufficient stores to winter on unless 

 fed. An exceedingly dry summer, killing out 

 all the white clover, and a failure of blossom on 

 the basswood (linden) trees is the cause. The 

 basswood is our best pasture, and I expected at 

 least a ton of surplus honey this season, but only 

 took about thirty pounds, which I will have to 

 return in the shape of syrup. Not one bass- 

 wood tree in five hundred here had any bloom 

 on them. I can't tell the cause, unless it was 

 the severe cold of last winter. 



A. W. Lundy, Frenchtown, N. Y., writes Oct. 

 8, 1873. 



Bees have not done very well here as regards 

 honey — the honey harvest being chiefly buck- 

 wheat. Stopped suddenly while in the hight 

 of storing in boxes. The increase in swarms 

 has been about an average for fair season. I 

 have read so much about the loss of bees in 

 wintering in different parts of the country that 

 I thought I would just mention that no such loss 

 in wintering has occurred here. Out of thirty 

 swarms, I only lost one. and that was the only 

 one that I neglected to give upward ventilation. 



I will also say that my bees were nearly all win- 

 tered on their summer stands without any pro- 

 tection. 



Geo. W. Maryatt, Milton, Wis., writes Oct. 

 11, 1863: 



I have two Vols, of the A. B. J., Langstroth 

 on the Honey Bee, and Gleanings. By foUow- 

 lowing them I started last spring with an apia- 

 ry of forty-five swarms with queens, and six that 

 were queenless. Although this has been a poor 

 honey season, I have taken 5,0001bs of nice ex- 

 tracted honey, and sold five swarms in July and 

 August, and have about one hundred colonies 

 now, all Italians, with honey enough in their 

 hives to winter. I made twenty-five double 

 swarms. They gave me six barrels of honey — 

 3,000R)s in twenty days. Will swing my hat 

 and hurrah for the A. B. J., Langstroth on the 

 Honey Bee, and Gleanings. 



J. F. Temple, Ridge way, Mich., writes Oct. 6, 

 1873: 



The season here has been first rate since warm 

 weather. I shall sell about 6001bsof box honey 

 from eleven colonies and their increase, all that 

 is left of one of the finest apiaries in southern 

 Mich. Two years ago I had 165 colonies. Of 

 that number I saved only four, in the two past 

 winters. 161 died of disease. At times I have 

 been quite discouraged, butam now determined 

 to try again, but am fearful as winter approach- 

 es that I shall lose again. I winter on the sum- 

 mer stand. I am reading the back numbers of 

 the A. B. J. for the purpose oflearning.it there 

 is any better way I would willingly expend 

 two hundred dollars, or twice that sum, if I 

 could find how to winter safely. 



J. D. Kruschke, Berlin, Wis., writes Oct. 11, 

 1873: 



I am well satisfied with this season's product : 

 bought thirty stocks in the spring, and increas- 

 ed them to sixty-one; obtained lOSOlbs box, 

 and SOOfbs extracted honey. Shipped 9001bs to 

 Chicago at 27c per pound. My extracted honey 

 I sell in small quantities at 16c per pound, but 

 sells very slow. I wish we had as good a mar- 

 ket for extracted honey as Novice, we would 

 then make but little comb honey. I consider 

 this but half a season for honey. I see a report 

 from R. Dart, of our neighboring city, Ripon. 

 He calls the past season a poor one. It must 

 have been where he resides, because there are no 

 lindens in reach. My bees worked eleven days 

 on it, and in that time some stored fifty pounds 

 comb honey. Immediately after, we had buck- 

 wheat, from which they gathered honey stead- 

 ily for four weeks. My best stock gathered 

 ninety-five pounds and throwed a swarm (which 

 was put into a hive filled with dirty comb) 

 which gathered forty two pounds ; so the profits 

 from this hive, swarm included, amounts to 

 about forty-two dollars. 









