THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Voift's from niuoii!? the Hives. 



Mill Creek, Utah— Sept. 20, 1875.— 



"Bees have done well in Salt Luke couuly, 



I'tah, this season. In other portions of 



the Terriior}' they have not done so well." 



J. Morgan. 



Hei^ry Co., Ind.— Oct. 21, 1875.— "I 

 look upon every copy of the American 

 Bee Journal as being worth the entire 

 year's subscription to bee-men or those 

 contemplating embarking in the business." 

 'J'hos. Reagan. 



Point Coupee, La.,— Sept. 8, 1875. — 

 "Bees quit gathering honey August (iih, 

 and at this date are without any honey to 

 extract and many entirely out; yet they 

 are very strong. Expect honey aafaiu in 

 10 days." W. B. Rush. 



Wyoming Co., N. Y.— Oct. 4, 1875.— 

 " Dear Sir : — Packages of Journal came 

 all right, and were carefully distributed 

 at the Slate Fair. I could have distributed 

 500 eacli of the bee-publications to good 

 advantage, for of the hundreds of bee- 

 keepers, I conversed with .but few who 

 took any of the i)eriodicals devoted to 

 bee-culture. There was a fine display of 

 honey — botli comb and extracted. I ob- 

 tained the first premiums on both kinds. 

 The second was awarded to Peter Miller, 

 Chatauqua Co. My comb-honey was ex- 

 hibited m my glass boxes." 



■ C. R. ISHAM. 



Cedar Creek, N. J. — Oct. 1, 1875. — 

 " I would suggest a few such questions as 

 these, to be answered by the subscribers 

 to the American Bee Journal for inser- 

 tion in some number during the winter. 



1st. Describe the kind of hive you pre- 

 fer for box-hone}'. 



2nd. What size of frame do you use. 



3rd. State your choice as to side or top 

 boxes; also whether bees will store more 

 honey with boxes at the ends of frames 

 like the Allej', Farmers' Friend Hive, etc., 

 than they will with boxes at tlie sides of 

 the frames, like the Quinby and Jasper 

 Hazen hives." E. Kempton, M. D. 



Columbia, Tenn.— Oct. 1, 1875.— "No- 

 ticing in the American Bee Journal an 

 advertisement of "German Bee Sting 

 Cure," price $1.00 per bottle. I sent Sept. 

 9th, to Mr. Adair, Hawesville, Ky., for a 

 bottle. Waited several weeks and heard 

 nothing from him ; wrote again and heard 

 nothing from him. If others meet with 

 the same luck that I have, I would advise 

 all to give him the " go by." 



Wm. J. Andrews. 



Will Gen. Adair please "rise and ex- 

 plain" this matter? Did the letters. mis- 

 carry, or what was the cause. We feel 

 sure that the matter can easily be cleared 

 up, and our columns are open, of course, 

 for that purpose. Publisher. 



North Wayne, Me.,— Sept. 30, 1875.— 

 " My bees have done well this s^eason. 

 One colony has made sixty-five H.s. in 

 boxes. There are several bee-keei)ers in 

 this vicinity, but none but myself take 

 any paper devoted to bee-culture." 



M. Smith. 



Maysville, Ky.— Sept. 9, 1875.— "To 

 show how easy it is to procure a sub- 

 scriber for the American Bee Joi'rnal, 

 I will state that to-day a gentleman came 

 into my place of business — (which is 

 about a half mile from where I live.) About 

 noon I noticed an Italian worker on the 

 window. I remarked that it was a long 

 distance for bees to follow their keeper. 

 He wanted to know how I knew it to be 

 one of my bees. I told him that it was 

 an Italian; that mine were the only Ital- 

 ians that were in the neighboihood ; for 

 that reason I knew it was my bee. He • 

 said he was a bee-keeper; he got up and 

 took the bee on his finger, and looked at 

 its yellow bands. He was surprised to 

 hear that Italians could be raisid from a* 

 queen. He subscribed for the Journal." 

 Wm. W. Lynch.^ • 



Malone, N. y.— August 17, 1875. — We 

 have had a short but good honey season 

 while it lasted. White clover being the 

 principal source. I havi' been testing the 

 "New Idea Hive" during the past tw# 

 seasons, with veiy satisfactory results! 

 Bees wintered well in them, and I fin/ 



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them much the handiest to use extracto 

 on. I use 20 frames, 13i^ by 12 in. € 

 have the onlj- extractor in this part of 

 the State, and find a ready home market 

 for the honey, at 25 cents per pound. I 

 have also been testing John Long's Comb- 

 Foundation, and can say, they are all that 

 could be desired. The bees building out 

 the combs and the queen laying in them 

 in four days. Thej^ are just the thing for 

 beginners, like myself. I find the sim- 

 plest way to fasten Foundation in frames 

 is to fit a thin board inside the frame 

 with cleats projecting beyond it. The 

 board just thick enough to allow the 

 foundation to rest in the center of the 

 frame. Then pour a little melted rosin 

 and bees-wax along the edge of Founda- 

 tion and the top bar of the frame. The 

 bees will soon finish the job. 



O. L. Ballard. 



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"Notes and Queries " are crowded out 

 of this number. 



The report of the Maury Co. (Tenn.) 

 Bee-keepers' Society, is received, and will 

 appear in our next issue. 



Many articles intended for this number 

 of the Journal are crowded out by the 

 Universal Reports for 1875. They will 

 appear in our next. 



