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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



the bees of got only 60 pounds of honey 

 in sections. He used no foundation in 

 the sections. He has 13 acres in small 

 fruit, and won't keep bees. I have 68 

 colonies in my cellar this winter in the 

 very best condition, and they are win- 

 tering finely. I have lost only 2 colo- 

 nies in cellar wintering for 6 years. « I 

 think I have one of the very best plans 

 for Minnesota wintering. 



C. A. GOODELL. 



Mankato, Minn., Jan. 10, 1893. 



Bees Wintering' Nicely. 



My 27 colonies of bees are wintering 

 nicely. The honey crop was very light 

 last year — about 300 pounds from 22 

 colonies. I took out 6 pounds to-day, of 

 tolerably fair honey. The prospects are 

 good for next season. 



Apple Grove, Ala. 



John M. Ryan. 

 Jan. 6, 1893. 



Good Cure for the Blues, Etc. 



I wonder if the most of the readers of 

 the American Bee Journal have 

 learned by personal experience that 

 these words by our Lord Jesus were 

 true, that it is "more blessed to give 

 than to receive." It is true, I am sure 

 it is true. I know from experience. I 

 don't believe there is a better cure for 

 the blues than to go to work with all 

 one's might to help some one more un- 

 fortunate than ourselves. 



If we are too poor to have much 

 money to give, there are thousands of 

 other ways of doing good. Jesus said : 

 " Gather up the fragments, that nothing 

 be lost." In almost every home there is 

 clothing that we can spare as well as 

 not, and if mended and laid away in a 

 box kept for that purpose, it would grow 

 beautifully full before the year closed. 

 There are thousands of such homes 

 where such clothing would make happy 

 hearts. 



Some people say, "Oh! I would not 

 hurt people's feelings by offering them 

 such clothes !" I would not give to such 

 people as are too proud to receive them. 

 I can tell you where you can send such 

 clothes, and they will be very thank- 

 fully received. It is to a Christian In- 

 dian Orphanage, that has been recently 

 established at Swenndale, near Vinita, 

 Indian Territory, under the care of 

 Evangelist Wolf. I could mention many 

 other places, did space permit. 



IJces in this vicinity are wintering 

 well, 1 think ; especially those in the 



cellar. The bees out-of-doors have not 

 had a good flight for about eight weeks, 

 but the weather has not, until now, 

 been severe on them — not much cold 

 winds thus far this winter, which is, I 

 think, harder on bees out-of-doors than 

 quite cold weather. White clover, also, 

 seems all right. 



I wish to thank the editor for the 

 honor conferred upon me by placing at 

 the head of the editorials, on page 719 

 (1892), the poetry ending with letters, 

 copied from Oleaninys. •> Honesty sug- 

 gests to me that I should write and in- 

 form the readers that it was not my own 

 composition. I found the lines in "The 

 Yankton Student," as selected poetry ; 

 no name given. I thought it applicable 

 to our beloved pursuit, and so I quoted 

 them. Mrs. L. C. Axtell. 



Roseville, Ills., Dec. 14, 1898. 



S&vere Winter in New York. 



We have-had the most severe winter 

 here since the 23rd day of December, 

 that I ever remember at this time of the 

 year. On the day alluded to, the wind 

 sprung up from the northwest, whirling 

 snow filled the air, roads were block- 

 aded, and the mercury sank to below 

 zero, so each one of us had our Merry 

 Christmas around our own fires, and 

 the many Christmas trees, houses, boats, 

 etc., were nearly or quite failures. 



On New Year's day it thawed just a 

 little bit near night, but the next day 

 found us in the midst of another zero 

 wave, and the mercury has scarcely 

 been above since, staying from 2^ above 

 to 6° below, with high winds most of the 

 time. There is about 14 inches of snow 

 on a level in the center of large pieces 

 of woodland where the wind cannot 

 reach, but elsewhere the lots are bare, 

 with the snow-drifts anywhere from 2 

 to 10 feet deep behind fences, in the 

 roads, etc. I have been four days shov- 

 eling on the roads, and now they are 

 hardly passable, in many places. 



All of my bees are in the cellar except 

 7 colonies, I was in there two weeks 

 ago, and those in it were very nice, so I 

 have no fears for them. 



G. M. DOOMTTI.E. 



Borodino, N. Y., Jan. 18, 1893. 



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