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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Webster Co., Iowa, July 8, 1876— " Bass- 

 wood is in full bloom. Bees are busy. I 

 expect to extract on Monday. I have 33 

 stands, and they never have done better 

 than this spring." E. A. Taylor. 



Piatt Co., 111., July 11, 1876.— "Bees are 

 doing well here this season. I prize The 

 JouKNAL very highly, and hope soon to 

 send you a few more new subscribers." 



J. Keenan. 



Harrison Co., Mo., July 7, 1876.— "Bees 

 never did better in this county than now." 

 Isaac S. Bkyant. 



Windsor, 111., July 6, 1876.— "Bees are do- 

 ing unusually well in this neighborhood. 

 Our surplus is usually obtained in the fall 

 only, but I have already taken 800 lbs. of 

 white clover, about half comb and half ex- 

 tracted." H. F. Smysek. 



Madison Co., Iowa, June 24, 1876.— "I had 

 full 2,000 lbs. of honey last season. Our 

 bees averaged 50 lbs. or more to the colony, 

 last season. I lost none from disease in the 

 winter." Moses Bailey. 



Indianapolis, Ind., July 8, 1876.— "I have 

 had good success witli my bees. I wintered 

 40 colonies, and lost but one, and that was 

 queenless. I sold 2 early stocks for $40, be- 

 fore increasing: since tlien, have sold 15 

 more at $16 tacli, and have extracted 1,000 

 tt)S. of honey. I have now 120 stocks in 

 good condition, which I can dispose of at 

 $10 each. I wish the old American Bee 

 Journal much success." 



W. A. SCHOFIELD. 



Buchanan County, Iowa, June 27, 1876.— 

 "My bees are doing well. I lost but one 

 swarm in wintering. In the spring of 1875 

 I had 7 swarms. I sold $80 worth of box 

 and extracted honey, and put 21 swarms In 

 the cellar last fall. I got 20 to 25 cents per 

 pound for the honey. The Journal has 

 been of great service to me. I could not get 

 along without it." E. P. Brintnall. 



Douglas Co., Kansas, July 14, 1876.— "My 

 bees are doing finely. Have 40 stands Ital- 

 ians and hybrids." C. E. Dallas. 



Marshall Co., 111., July 17, 1876.— "I have 

 now 41 stands of bees, and they have done 

 well this season. I am making wliat I 

 tlilnk is the most convenient liive. I have 

 been thinking of sending one to tlie Jour- 

 nal office; but as it is not patented don't 

 know tliat it would pay me to do so, unless 

 some might wish to make otliers from it- 

 only buying my sample. I have sold over 

 2(M)'hives to one man for his own use. 



.John Kobkrts. 



[ If you send us one, we will examine it, 

 and state what we candidly think of it.— 

 Ed.] 



Hancock Co., July 17, 1876.— "My boes are 

 doing well. 1 started with 16 colonies this 

 spring, and now I have 52 colonies in good 

 condition." William Thomas. 



Fulton Co., Ky., June 11, 1876— "My bees 

 are doing well this spring. From a few 

 stands I got 120 S>s. nice extracted honey; 

 obtained from a small white clover, the first 

 I ever got from such. Some stocks were 

 weak in the spring, owing to the effect of 

 cheap hives. 1 always get my main crop in 

 the fall." G. Ilisch. 



Warren Co., Pa., June 7, 1876.— "I cannot 

 consent to forgo the pleasure of the month- 

 ly visit of your excellent Journal. With 

 the exception of one or two numbers, I 

 have a complete file from No. 1, Vol. I, to 

 the present time. I have ten Vols, bound, 

 and I prize them highly. My 150 colonies 

 of yellow Italians make melody in the val- 

 ley of the Brokenstraw, among the hills of 

 the old Key-Stone State, with their busy 

 hum. Long live The American Bee 

 Journal!" W. J. Davis. 



Hadley, III., June 17, 1876.— "I have kept 

 bees for the last 20 years and I never knew 

 that the common speckled grass frog would 

 eat bees till to-day. I saw one sitting on 

 the bottom board; I caught him: he had a 

 number of bee stings in his mouth. I look- 

 ed around the bee yard and I caught four; 

 all had bee stings sticking in their mouths. 

 Henceforth, I shall send all frogs caught in 

 my bee yard to the frog land. My bees 

 commenced swarming last week. The pas- 

 tures are white with clover, and it is yield- 

 ing honey this year. We are having a great 

 deal of high wind for this time of the year. 

 I have 94 stands; the most of them in fine 

 condition. Some of the best ones worked a 

 little in boxes during fruit blossoms. My 

 bees are almost all" pure Italians. It looks 

 now as though we were going to have a 

 good season once more." F. Searles. 



Sangamon Co., 111., June 1.5, 1876.— "We 

 have a remarkable white clover crop, and 

 where bees were in a condition to gather, 

 there are no lack of good results, but many 

 colonies derived but little from a nrofuse 

 fruit bloom, in consequence of early cool 

 weather; they were too feeble to take the 

 floods of nectar that perfume the atmos- 

 phere in this section. Tliere has been much 

 swarming from box hives and the smaller 

 brood chambers, but where 2,000 cubic 

 inches of brood cliamber are provided, it is 

 more rare. With me there has been a ter- 

 rible fatality witlf queens, having lost 5 out 

 of 12 colonies since I put them on their sum- 

 mer stands. In some cases it was too early 

 to raise queens and I doubled up the swarms. 

 Three at least, did not die of old age. I 

 have blacks, hybrids, and Italians, but tlie 

 'golden bands' will keep ahead." 



July 5.— "Honey flows abundant. Bees 

 scarcely halt for dripping honey, if at all. 

 and where properly managed (not managed 

 to death) will make handsome returns for 

 spring and summer. Have had fatality 

 with queens tlial has jmzzled me— unless 

 the almost uni)iuallele(l niunber and variety 

 of birds is an answi'r, for young queens. 1 

 am satisfied that bee culture can be made a 

 success here, though but little forest range 

 within reach of us. Am pleased at the bet- 

 ter spirit that prevails ni the fraternity. 

 liCss nobbies and more truth-seeking, more 

 live and Ut live. Ye editors have nuich to 

 do for the general weal." 



W. W. Curnutt. 



