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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 28 



ties shall be to keep posted through corre- 

 spondence with bee-keepers — members of 

 the Association in particular— in all parts 

 of the country: 1st. the exact condition of 

 the honey market in their particular local- 

 ity ; 2nd. the outlook of the incoming 

 honey crop, especially as to its probability 

 of congesting the local market, and here 

 the exchange man can prove his ability, in 

 such suggestions to shippers as will enable 

 those living close to a congested market to 

 ship to a locality where the yield is not so 

 heavy that season ; iird. by knowing how 

 much honey each member has. or would 

 have, for shipment, and with a knowledge 

 of the consumption of each market annu- 

 ally, it would be more easy to get a uni- 

 form figure for the year's product, by 

 judicious shipments; and. 4th, lieing in 

 close touch with every large producer, and 

 with producers living in every city, a 

 knowledge of the commission men could 

 soon be gained, that would lessen the losses 

 through dishonesty. 



These suggestions will bear enlarging, 

 and, in fact, new ones may very profitably 

 be added. John Wii.cock. 



Philadelphia Co., Pa. 



Report for 1896. 



In the fall of 189.5 I had 46 colonies in 

 chaff hives, and wintered 39, but two were 

 tjueenless. I increast to 60 colonies, artifi- 

 cially, and took 1,S00 pounds of extracted 

 honey— 600 from clover, 1,100 from bass- 

 wood, and 100 pounds from fruit-bloom. I 

 fed 100 pounds of sugar for winter stores. 

 How is that for Buffalo ? 



Wm. H. McKinlet. 



Erie Co., Pa., Jan. 9. 



Not an Entire Failure. 



I started in the spring of 1896 with four 

 colonies of Italian bees, had one natural 

 swarm, and 137 pounds of comb honey. We 

 think it first-class, being from alfalfa and 

 spider-plant, with a few wild flowers. My 

 bees are iu fair condition, wintering on the 

 summer stands. I have been reading the 

 Bee Journal for 1.5 months, and would not 

 attempt to keep bees without it. 



P. R. Hobble. 



Southwest Kansas. Jan. 11. 



Fair Season in 1896. 



The honey season of last year was very 

 fair in this vicinity. From four strong col- 

 onies, spring count, increasing to 10, I 

 took off over 700 pounds of surplus honey, 

 3.J of which was No. 1 clover honey, the re- 

 mainder first quality amber. From one 

 young prime swarm I took 4 supers of 32 

 sections each, all prime honey, perfectly 

 sealed, with the exception of one super in 

 which there were 10 sections imperfectly 

 sealed. 



I put the bees into the cellar Nov. 6 in 

 good condition. My bees are blacks— 

 equally as good for their fighting qualities 

 as their honey-gathering. L. J. Peck. 



Anoka Co.. Minn., Jan. 11. 



A Case of Swarming. 



I practice dipping queens' wings in the 

 spring, ami did so last spring. When 

 breeding was well started I found one hive 

 that contained nothing but drone-brood, 

 even in worker-comb. The queen was prob- 

 ably a very fine one. but probably reared 

 late in the fall before, and not mated. 



May 1.5 1 hived a swarm on old combs, 

 and placed it on the stand where the hive 

 from which it came stood. June 23 a swarm 

 came from it and returned, as I was away, 

 and the old queen, being dipt, was |)rob- 

 ably lost, for on July 4 a swarm came from 

 the same hive, and after pulling off the 

 head of the drone-laying queen, I hived 

 them in her hive, and all seemed well 

 pleased. But what surprised me was to 

 have a swnrm come from the hive these 

 bees came from, the three succeeding 

 days, making tour swarms from the same 



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hive, four days in succession, and I put 

 them all, with the bees, with the drone-lay- 

 ing qneen, and they all seemed satisfied 

 and did good business in gathering honey. 

 I have had something to do with bees for 

 nearly, or quite, 70 years, but never knew 

 a case Mke this in all my experience. 



The last was a fine honey season here, 

 and honey of excellent quality. 



Rutland Co., Vt. E. L. Holden. 



Thinks Weevil Injure White Clover. 



I see a good deal in the Bee Journal 

 about bees not working on "white clover. I 

 think the reason is they cannot get the 

 honey. It is there all the same. We find 

 in almost every blossom a weevil which 

 prevents the bees getting the honey. Be- 

 fore the weevil began to bother we got 3 to 

 5 bushels of seed per acre ; now we get but 

 i.j to 2 bushels per acre. Sol Harpst. 



Mercer Co., Pa. 



Good Results in a City. 



EiiiTOR York:— I am glad to hear that 

 the next national convention is to be held 

 in Buffalo this year. I would like to have 

 you call upon me when you come, and see 

 my bees. They did very well last year. 1 

 started with 16 colonies and increast to 

 20. I extracted about 1..S00 pounds, and 

 took about 100 of comb honey. I think a 

 crop like that is pretty good for being in 

 the heart of a city like Buffalo. 



I winter my bees on the summer stands, 

 with outside cases, which are packt with 

 straw and one thickness of burlap over the 

 frames, with chaff cushions on top. I have 

 lost but two colonies in three years win- 

 tered in the same way. 



The bees had a good flight on New Year's 

 day. and seemed to be in fine condition. 



I think the Bee Journal is just what every 

 bee-keeper ought to have, if keeping but 1 

 or 100 colonies. M. M. Rickard. 



Erie Co., N. Y., Jan. 11. 



[Thank you, Mr. Rickard, for your kind 

 invitation. If we have time, and all being 

 well, we should be very much pleased to 

 visit you during the next convention. — 



EliITOR.l 



An Experience with Bees. 



A little more than 25 years ago (the last 

 year of my living in New York before I 

 moved to this State) I bought a colony of 

 bees in a boxhive, and the experience I had 

 that season, with that colony and one that 

 came from it, is all I ever had until last 

 spring, when, very much against my incli- 

 nation at the time, I was obliged to take 

 three colonies of bees — two good ones and 

 one poor one— on a debt. I bad never seen 

 a frame of comb and bees taken from a 

 hive, and didn't know one cell from another. 

 But I thought I would make the best of my 

 purchase, and try to get my money out of 

 it. 1 found my old book— •• Quinby on the 

 Honey-Bee"— that I bought when I had the 

 colony 25 years ago. which had been en- 

 tirely useless all these years — and went to 

 studying it. Then I subscribed for the 

 American Bee Journal, which I also took 

 25 years ago, and to it I owe much of my 

 success, for in every number 1 find some- 

 thing I need to know. When I had occa- 

 sion to write to our good editor, I .sent him 

 the names of all the bee-men that 1 thought 

 did not take our paper. All through the 

 summer, and at the present time, let me 

 work ever so hard on my farm, when 

 Thursday night comes, and the Bee Journal 

 with it — one as regular as the other — I 

 never make a practice of retiring until I 

 have finisht the paper. 



Last fall I got •• A B C of Bee-Culture," 

 aud I was never before so interested in any 

 business in my life. I had been in a very 

 monotonous routine of farm work, for 

 nearly 25 years, and this novel employment 

 opened up to me a new department in the 

 old world around me, that I had hardly 

 ever noticed before, and I was delighted. 



I also found, iu reading the Bee Journal, 



