THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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believe they have stretched. Why one 

 colony has already made seventy pounds of 

 comb honey besides about twenty pounds 

 of extracted — just removed to give the 

 queen a chance. All, too, from these same 

 asters, together with golden-rods, sun- 

 flowers, etc. A. J. Cook. 



Corpus Christi, Texas, Aug. 21, 1876.— 

 "Bees have not done so well in this section 

 as last year, owing to drouth, but they have 

 paid a siood profit. I have sent you several 

 subscribers this year and will send more." 

 J. W. Dunn. 



Pointe Coupee, La., Sept. 9, 1876.—" I 

 shipped my honey to New Yoi'k this week. 

 Increased tK) per cent. ; had an average of 15 

 combs built to the swarm, and obtanied an 

 average of 70 lbs. of extracted honey to the 

 hive. All common bees in Langstroth 

 hives." W. B. Eush. 



Shelby Co., Ky., Sept. 12, 1876.— "I had 22 

 stands of bees last spring. Sold 2 in April, 

 leaving 20, Obtained 1,700 lbs. of comb 

 and extracted honey and increased to .56 

 stands. I sell my honey at 25 cents per lb. 

 Who says bee-keeping is not profitable? Of 

 these 56 stands I sold 6 at ■'515 each. I have 

 a fine stand of bees that has two queens; 

 one of them has no wings; they both lay 

 eggs and live happily together. Can you 

 explain that?" Fr. Kjiueger. 



[Many cases, especially of late, are re- 

 ported of two queens in one hive. Usually, 

 if not always, the old queen is about to be 

 superseded.— Ed. J 



Tioga Co., Pa., Sept. 8, 1876.— "Bees have 

 not done as well here as 1 thought they 

 would at the commencement of the season. 

 We had so much rain during white clover 

 blossom that the honey was very thin, and 

 the bees did not cap it over till after buck- 

 wheat commenced to bloom; and then they 

 filled up the cells with buckwheat honey 

 and capped them over, making half the 

 entire crop of honey in this section mixed 

 and the other half, buckwheat. On account 

 of the drought of the past two months buck- 

 wheat did not yield half the usual amount 

 of honey, although there was double the 

 usual amount sown in this section, and the 

 grain is even a poorer crop than the honey." 

 John Atkinson. 



Chillicothe, Mo., Aug. 17, 1876.— "On Mon- 

 day afternoon I took 50 tt>s. of white clover 

 honey from my prize colony of Italian bees. 

 No. 47. This makes 175 lbs. it has given 

 this year up to the middle of August. Be- 

 sides this good yield of honey it has been 

 allowed to cast one swarm; the old queen, 

 "Betsy Ann." I sold to Dr. Dice, of Dawn, 

 for $5. If the weather should be reasona- 

 bly fair from this on, I shall get at least 125 

 lbs. more, making the enormous yield of .SCO 

 fts. of honey, a good swarm, and a §5 queen 

 from oxir colony in one year. I have a num- 

 ber of other colonies that will turn out 

 about as well and maybe better than "47." 

 I had over 100 lbs. from each of some new 

 colonies made about June 1; I expect to get 

 as much as 200 lbs. of nice box honey from 

 a good many hives; but the largest yields 

 are produced from two-story hives with the 

 extractor." J. W. Greene, M. D. 



Piatt Co., III., Aug. 22, 1876.—" I started 

 last spring with 2S stocks; increased, mostly 

 by natural swarming, to 02, and sold three 

 swaruis. Young swarms are generally full,, 

 one-half of them gathering surplus. 1 have 

 had about (500 lbs. of comb honey, and ex- 

 pect to take enough more to make 1,500 lbs. 

 this season. White clover is our main de- 

 pendence heie. We have some basswood 

 and fruit bloom in the spring. In the fall 

 we have smartweed, Spanish needle, gold- 

 enrod, buckwheat, and a white blossom 

 that they are now at work on. I don't 

 know its name. It grows about 3 feet high, 

 a single stem with top like flax. It grows 

 exclusively in the timoer and atfords a good 

 supply of lioney." J. Keenan. 



Posey Co., Ind., Aug. 16, 1876.— "In April 

 last I took chai'ge of 11 colonies of native 

 bees, 3 in the Wilkinson hive and 8 in the 

 old fashioned gums, and transferred the 8 

 into the W. hive in April, while fruit trees 

 were in bloom. At the last of May I in- 

 creased the 11 by artificial swarming (ex- 

 cept one that volunteered a natural swarm 

 on Simday) to 22. From those three that 

 were already in the W. hive I have, up to 

 this time, about 50 lbs. each of nice comb 

 honey. From two of the others, about 30 

 lbs. each, and from the balance none, for 

 they were very weak in the spring, while 

 those in the patent hives with no better 

 care last year came through the winter 

 strong in bees and full of honey. Oui* 

 honey season ends with June generally, but 

 our fall honey harvest is about commencing 

 now. I opened some of my hives to-day, 

 and find tliat they have commenced build- 

 ing in the supers, and if it continues season- 

 able till "Jack Frost" comes, I hope to have 

 a better report to greet you with, for I have 

 not "managed my bees to death," but have 

 got every one of my 22 hives crowded with 

 the little laborers to gather the harvest in, 

 when it comes. I have not tried the Italian 

 bee nor the extractor yet, but think if I am 

 successful this fall and winter I'll try both 

 next year." Jacob Copeland. 



Old Fort, N. C, Sept. 16, 1876.— "You ask 

 for information about honey plants. Well, 

 I have sown buckwheat for 3 years, and 

 although it always yields honey and pollen, 

 yet I am very sure that any (luantity less 

 than ten acres will not make an appreciable 

 diiference." Rufus Morgan. 



Trumbull Co., Ohio, Sent. 18, 1876.- "This 

 has been a good season for this section. 

 Last fall I put 10 stands in the cellar, and 

 left 9 on their summer stands, well packed; 

 one starved in the cellar and one out-<loorSj. 

 and 6 dwindled in the spring, leaving 11. I 

 increased them to 19 (mostly natural 

 swarms), managed on Butler's plan, and I 

 have sold SllO worth of extracted and comb 

 honey, and they are now in better condition 

 than last year. I made a pair of scales last 

 winter and set a hive on them last spring. 

 It gained most on fine days after fruit blos- 

 soms till middle of June, when they swarm- 

 ed but went back. They had on two tiers 

 of boxes (6 each) 6 in. sciuare by 5 in. deep. 

 I took all the brood and honey from the 

 main hive and filled up with empty comb. 

 They gained 10 fts. the first day. S lbs. the 

 next, and 5 and 6 lbs. for several days after: 

 they finished all the boxes and gained 

 weight during August." J. Winfield. 



