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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Jan. 28, 



to help myself, for there was plenty of it. 

 I told him that I had always been told that 

 it was poison after growing wild as long as 

 those had. He laught. and said that all 

 the parsnips he had raised and ate for 

 years was from seed he gathered from that 

 place, so I got my seed from the same place 

 for years, and raised good parsnips, and 

 am alive yet, and never felt any bad effect 

 from them. 



Dr. Miller, in his answer to the above 

 question, cites a case of a physician who 

 bad eaten a full meal of wild parsnip with 

 DO bad results. I can cite two cases where 

 the result was quite different. One of my 

 neighbors, while working in bis field, pulled 

 up a root of what is known here as wild 

 parsnip, and gave to his horse. In a short 

 time the horse was taken sick and died in a 

 few hours. The other case, a young man 

 picked up a root that he had plowed up, 

 and ate some of it. In a few moments he 

 was seized with a burning sensation in his 

 throat and stomach, and severe pain. A 

 physician was called, and he named it a 

 case of poison from eating wild parsnip. I 

 am satisfied from what Dr. Miller says, 

 that there is no wild parsnip in the cases 

 I refer to, but that it is some other root, 

 therefore next summer I will send a sample 

 of the plant to the Bee Journal, and ascer- 

 tain its true name. There is one thing I do 

 know— it furnishes a large quantity of ex- 

 cellent fall honey. S. B. Smith. 



Stevens Co., Minn., Jan. 9. 



Did Very Well Last Year. 



I started in last year with one colony, 

 and have now 'i'i — a good many of which I 

 got from trees. I did very well last year. 

 F. Matthai. 



Napa Co., Calif.. Jan. 14. 



Kept Bees 20 Years. 



I have kept bees for 20 years; with few 

 years excepted they have been profitable. 

 The past year has been almost a total fail- 

 ure. Through August they would have 

 died had they not been fed. I have 34 colo- 

 nies in my home yard, and an interest in 

 another. Jeremy Greene. 



Watauga Co., N. C, Dec. 22. 



A Very Poor Season. 



We had a very poor honey season last 

 year. From 33 colonies we did not get 

 more than 400 pounds of honey, as the 

 weather was too changeable. First we had 

 too much rain, then it was warm, and then 

 it changed to cold again. But we hope to 

 have a better season this year. 



Mrs. J. Knuppel. 



Kings Co., N. Y., Jan. 13. 



A llexican Report. 



Last year's honey season, as far as one 

 can speak here about a honey season, was 

 not so good as before. The rainy season 

 was unusually long, and now we have re- 

 markably long and wet Northers. I have 

 not seen such a wet year since I came here, 

 five years ago. 1 am now preparing for 

 the crop of orange and coffee honey — the 

 most delicious in the world. They are be- 

 ginning to bloom already, and most prob- 



EGGS! EGGS!!^ 



We RUfinintee double 

 the yield when henH 

 lire fed t'reen cut bono 

 preimred on our Dew 



Only cuttur awarded -nriS' premiura at 



World'H Fitir. Ont,n easier, faater. finer 



Ihiin otherm. SiitiMfoction nuaranteed 



or mouey refuuded. Hend for our 



FUl-^E circuhir and prices. Address 



WEBSTER &''HANNUM, 



'o»* CAZENOVIA, NEW YORK. 

 IKVAi lltnlUm the American Bee Journal, 



ably we will have a big crop from both for 

 lSi)7. 



I am trying, too, to explain modern bee- 

 keeping to Mexicans through the agricul- 

 tural paper, '■ El Progreso de Mexico." It 

 is hard work for me, as I am a beginner 

 in bee-keeping, and in Spanish language, 

 but some time 1 hope to reap the fruits of 

 my efforts. I am selling mostly extracted 

 honey, which at present sells better than 

 comb. I am now watching my bees for the 

 bee-martin. I think they come down from 

 the United States, as bees cannot fly there 

 any more, and I only see them here in the 

 winter months. F. Bussler. 



Orizaba, Mexico, Dec. 29. 



A Colony in a Bedroom. 



On Dec. 10, 1890, 1 bought two black colo- 

 nies of bees in box-hives, transferred them 

 to partly-drawn combs in dovetailed hives, 

 which had no bee-bread. I took honey 

 from box-hives, masht and strained it, 

 thinned it with water and fed it. Dec. 34 I 

 lookt into the hives and they had about 

 1.5,000 capped brood each. They are draw- 

 ing out comb and building one new one, 

 having it as large as my two hands. Every 

 cell is worker. 1 keep them in a warm bed- 

 room upstairs, where the stove-pipe goes 

 through the room. 1 carry them out every 

 warm day and give them a flight. 



New York. 



A Report— Sowing White Clover. 



We have had a fine fall and no winter so 

 far. Bees have a good supply of stores for 

 winter, and gave us some dark honey in 

 the supers. The dry, hot weather nipt the 

 first crop. We do not have much chance 

 for a good crop here in a dry year. We 

 have had a good deal of rain this winter, 

 and that will help out for next year. 



I have just been reading Dr. Miller's an- 

 swer to H. C, about how much white clo- 

 ver seed to sow per acre. I have sown 

 clover seed for 40 years, and the best re- 

 sults come from sowing 00 pounds on 8 

 acres ; that is 7' j pounds per acre. 



Cowley Co., Kans., Dec. 31. S. Stout. 



Results of the Fast Season. 



Out of 41 colonies I came through last 

 winter with 40 medium ones, and increast 

 to 7'3 by natural swarming. I got 1,'300 

 pounds of comb honey in one-pound sec- 

 tions, and sold it iu my home market for 

 15 cents, or if they take 100 pounds or more, 

 14 cents in trade, or 13 cents in cash, by the 

 case of 24 sections. The dandelions and 

 white clover did not yield any honey last 

 spring, and the bees had all their old honey 

 used up. I had to melt some sugar and 

 feed a few new swarms. The last of June 

 the basswood opened, and the first of July 

 the bees filled their hives for winter, and 

 stored some surplus, but no fall honey to 

 speak of. I think they are wintering well, 

 down cellar packt on top with leaves, with 

 the entrances the same as on the summer 

 stands. Geo. H. Auringer. 



Meeker Co., Minn., Jan. 1. 



"Commercial Ratings" Unreliable. 



Editor *yoHK:— I have kept track of 

 your exposures concerning the Wheadon 

 outfit, and also the Atchley's editorial re- 

 lating to Wheadon's rating with Brad- 

 street's. Possibly what 1 have to relate 

 may throw some light on the methods of a 

 certain commercial agency : 



A prominent druggist of this town, and a 

 thoroughly reliable man, received a letter 

 from a commercial agency, a few days 

 since, asking him to send them a detailed 

 account of the commercial standing of a 

 certain business man of this place. They 

 tendered no pay for the service asked, be- 

 yond a stamp lor reply ! 



Our druggist replied that he was not in 

 the business of writing up his neighbor's 

 character, and that they would have to 



seek elsewhere for the information re- 

 quired. In speaking of the circumstance to 

 my husband, he said: 



" They tried the same dodge on me three 

 years ago. and got the same answer. What 

 a contemptible system it is, though. Now, 

 suppose 1 had been an enemy of this man. 

 what an opportunity to have ruined bis 

 business reputation. On the other hand, 

 had I been his most zealous friend, here 

 was a chance for me to have given him a 

 high, but false, rating." 



To say the least, if this is the way the 

 commercial agencies obtain their ratings, 

 they are not to be depended upon, either 

 one way or the other. Hence, " agency 

 ratings" should themselves be rated for 

 just what they are worth, and that is — 

 nothing. 



I send this in the interest of right and 

 justice. Mrs. L. E. R. Lambkigger. 



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