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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



miles south of tlie railroad to^^ard San 

 Barnard in o. 



Land there, good for fruit, etc., is high; 

 but there j'ou can raise something that 

 way, by irrigating, while in this country 

 you can't raise anything but cactuses one 

 year in five. 



Harbison gives his men $20 a month, 

 the first year; $40 per mouth, the second 

 year, and an interest the third year. Do 

 not know the interest. 



You might buy 100 hives, bees, and 

 ranch, with a shanty, worth $50, for 

 $3,C00. I think no one ought to come 

 with less than $3,000, gold, for the first 

 year's work. You might obtain employ- 

 ment — I can't, and dozens of others of 

 us are here doiug nothing; canl't get 

 work for our board at anything — though 

 I profess to undr-rstand the bee business. 



I think this whole business overdrawn. 

 Because last year was a splendid success, 

 they thought to make their fortunes ; but 

 this year most are losing money. 



G. F. M. 



For the American Bee Journal. 

 What has Become of Gallup? 



As I see a good many inquiries as to 

 Gallup's whereabouts, let me give the 

 readers of the American Bee Journal 

 some information regarding him. He has 

 left the bee business, and has received the 

 title of " h3dropathist." He is perform- 

 ing some remarkable cures, having treated 

 over thirty cases of fever this spring, with- 

 out the loss of one, and says he never ex- 

 pects to lose any. 



I have charge of his bees and will say, 

 for the benefit of your readers, that one 

 of his large twin hives threw off" a large 

 swarm, on the 20th of May, full three 

 weeks ahead of any other bees in this 

 vicinity, showing the advantage of giv- 

 ing a queen a chance of spreading her- 

 self. He has fifteen of these large hives 

 nearly all remarkably full of bees. Swarm- 

 ing commenced on the 16th of June, but 

 cold rains set in and there was no more 

 swarming. Bees do not gather enough 

 to eat now. 



I am very much pleased to read the 

 articles on wintering from so many bee 

 keepei's. We get much information by 

 exchanging views. I put seventy-two 

 colonies in my cellar, and, after remain- 

 ing there one hundred and forty days, I 

 took out seventy-two colonies, in good or- 

 der, and have them yet. I left three of my 

 strongest swarms on their summer 

 stands, covered with quilts and surround- 

 ed witl\ sawdust. Tiiey are very weak. I 

 will give my plan for wintering, in Sep- 

 tember or October, as I think it is safe 

 for Northern countries. 



SOMETHING SINGULAR. 



I had a colony that had been queenless 



twenty-four days. I cut some brood out of 

 a honey box, and left it on the top of a 

 hive ; three days after, 1 found a queen cell 

 in my queenless colon\', with larvte in it. 

 They sealed it, but I gave them a queen 

 before it hatched. Question : Did they 

 transport the larvae? 



Mr. Gallup received some samples of 

 artificial honeycomb, from some unknown 

 person, which he gave to me to test. I 

 have inserted it in a hive, but as the bees 

 are not making comb now I cannot report. 

 It is a very ingenious piece of work, and 

 promises to be very valuable. 



J. W. LiNDLEY. 



Mitchell, Iowa, June 19, 1875. 



For tne American Bee Journal. 



How a Beginner Succeeds. 



My wife subscribed for the American 

 Bee Journal, about one year ago. I 

 have carefully read each number, as they 

 were received, and have become consid- 

 erably interested in bee culture. I have 

 constructed eight hives with frames, and 

 am now assisting my wife to get them 

 properly stocked ^with bees and straight 

 combs. I am greatly delighted with the 

 ease with which bees can be handled 

 when tlie operator follows the Journal's 

 instructions, and am astonished to see so 

 much ignorance exist with the common 

 people in this vicinity on the sulyect of 

 bee culture. I think that time will effect 

 a great change in the minds of the people 

 as regards the profits of bee culture, for 

 we certainly have abundant resources for 

 honey in this section. Bees winter well 

 here on their summer stands, and com- 

 mence gathering pollen from flowers in 

 February and March. We have trees 

 and plants flowering considerablj^ all 

 through tlie growing season. Bees are 

 kept by quite a number of the citizens, 

 and geuerallj^ to little profit, just for want 

 of knowledge such as the American Bee 

 Journal would impart if they would sub- 

 scribe for and read it. 



I will give you the names of some of 

 our honej^-yielding trees and plants. 



Of trees we have poplar, black locust, 

 honey locust, black gum, yellow wood, 

 white thorn, red, and black ham, sugar 

 maple, red maple, wild grape, red, white, 

 and slippery elm. We have also fruit 

 trees of the common sorts of fruit. 



Of plants we have white clover, red 

 clover, wild black and raspberry, and a 

 large number of plants, the names of 

 which I do not know. We have a white 

 flowering weed growing in low land, 

 which trrows about 4 feet high, and com- 

 mences tlowering about the end of sum- 

 mer and continues until frost. The bees 

 gather lioney rapidly from it. 



T. E. Shelton. 



Russellville, Ky., June 23, 1875, 



