1894. 



THE AMKHWAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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Editor American Bee-Keeper — 

 Deor Sir: — Inclosed find subscription 

 to the Bee-Keeper for 1894. I have 

 taken the Bee-Keeper ever since it 

 has been published, and I would not 

 do without it. "When 1895 comes I 

 am going to send you $2.00 for five 

 years subscription, then I will know 

 that my time is out every five years. 



T have a new way of binding the 

 Bee-Keeper to make it handy to read. 

 It' anyone wants to know how or what 

 it is they may write to me inclosing a 

 2c stamp and I will send enough to 

 bind one volume of twelve numbers. 



Yours truly, Warren T. Collins. 

 Indian Fields, Alb. Co., N. Y., Dec. 8, '93. 



W. T. Falconer M'f'g Co. — Gen- 

 tlemen : I have received samples of 

 sections, and they are so beautifully 

 finished that I do not see how they 

 could be nicer. Yours truly, 



C. C. Miller. 



Editor American Bee-Keeper, — 

 Dear Sir : The year 189.*> did not open 

 vt'iv favorably for bees and bee-keep- 

 ers. Bees went into winter quarters 

 very light in stores, for we had no fall 

 honey during the fall of 1892, and as 

 a result many colonies perished during 

 the cold winter months. 



The opening of nature found our 

 bees in weak condition, as a result of 

 poor quality of honey and long con- 

 finement. 



The unfavorable weather during 

 April and May caused nearly all weak 



colonies to dwindle down to nothing, 

 and many bee-keepers who did not 

 watch with fostering care the remnant 

 that was left, lost all they had. 



About the 12th of June white clov- 

 er opened, furnishing a fair amount 

 of nectar, so that strong colonies did 

 fairly well in storing honey but all 

 hopes were blasted on our basswood 

 expectations, for the weather being so 

 dry the blossoms dried up before they 

 would open. 



However, fall flowers yielded a nice 

 lot of honey for winter stores, and 

 nearly all was sealed over, that is in 

 such localities where golden rod and 

 wild asters were plenty. 



Most of the bees in this locality 

 went into winter quarters about the 

 middle of November and are thus far 

 doing nicely, but so long as the winter 

 problem is not solved the anxious bee- 

 keeper looks forward with a feeling 

 of distrust to dame nature. 



Yours, etc., Stephen Roese. 



Maiden Bock, Wis., Jan. 10, 1894. 



W. T. Falconer M'f'g Co.— Dear 

 Sirs: Inclosed find 50 cents for which 

 please date my paper one year in ad- 

 vance. I think the American Bee- 

 Keeper is an excellent paper for the 

 young hands at bee-culture, and it 

 should be in the hands of every one 

 who expects to make a success of api- 

 culture. The past season was not fav- 

 orable in this section for bees, but the 

 majority of them are in fairly good 

 shape, or at least they were when 

 packed in the fall. 



My bees had a Merry Christmas and 

 were all out and had a good cleansing 

 flight that day. 



Wishing the American Bee-Keep- 

 er and all the best of success, 1 re- 

 main, Your friend, A. G. AMOS, 



Delhi, A. Y.,Jan. 16, 1894. 



