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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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peuter's square) and sweet clover. It we 

 could only get each and every bee-man to 

 try to help furnish bee-plants or forage, 

 our honey-yield would be much larger. 



Last year (1895) was almost a failure, as 

 I got only Ultl pounds from 33 colonies. We 

 lost most of our early swarms; they would 

 come out. wheel, and go like a cyclone. 

 Had we had a spray pump, and been right 

 there, possibly we could have prevented 

 their leaving. 



Our market is flat — about as others re- 

 port it. Extracted, 13,'., cents; fancy white, 

 one-pounds, ■ 15 cents— have been 30 cents 

 heretofore. 



I use the dovetail hives, and make them 

 myself, I tier up, and hive upon full brood 

 sheets and starters, but I will use full 

 sheets in each next year. I am on a farm, 

 and I find it keeps one very busy to care 

 for 30 or 35 colonies of bees and make a 

 hand in the field. But I so dearly love 

 honey and to handle the bees, and be with 

 them, that I am getting careless of my 

 stock, P, A, Newcomer, " 



L Beuna Vista Co,, Iowa, Dec, IS. 



Sells Granulated Honey. 



I see in the proceedings of the Illinois 

 State Bee-Keepers' convention a discussion 

 on granulated extracted honey, 1 prefer 

 to sell all of my honey granulated, as my 

 customers then know it is pure. The only 

 trouble I have is to granulate it soon 

 enough. The way I granulate it is to heat 

 it moderately, and keep it in a refrigerator. 

 It candies very nicely. If anybody knows 

 a better way, I wish they would tell us 

 through the Bee Journal, I sell all of my 

 honey in the home market, and can't sup- 

 ply my customers, I get from 15 to 20 cents 

 per pound, I think that extracted honey 

 should be sold only in a granulated state, 

 which will prove to the people that it was 

 not adulterated, J. J, Mater, 



Vigo Co,, Ind, 



Open Winter — Hunting. 



My bees are all alive so far, but I suppose 

 I will have to feed some of them, as we 

 have such an open winter, and bees con- 

 sume lots of stores. My bees did not store 

 any surplus honey the past season, and as a 

 matter of fact, I cannot feel as happy as 

 does Dr, Miller with his 10,000 sections of 

 comb honey. Good honey crops are seldom 

 here; failures are plenty. Still, I can't 

 afford to do without the American Bee 

 Journal, for it is a great help to me, and, 

 besides, it is dirt cheap at -^LOO a year. 



This is the time of the year when the bees 

 should not be disturbed, and the bee-keep- 

 ers have not much to do, I, for one, love 

 sport, and so I spend most of my time in 

 hunting, I have a new gun that cannot be 

 excelled for shooting qualities, having al- 

 ready killed a great deal of game with it 

 this winter. Our list shows 10+ rabbits, 50 

 squirrels, 40 quails, etc, F, N. Blank, 



Cooper Co,, Mo., Jan. 23, 



Against Adulteration, Etc, 



I am deeply interested in, aud admire the 

 stand the Bee Journal has taken in regard 

 to adulteration, and frauds generally. Ig- 

 norance and dishonesty are the backers of 

 all frauds. No intelligent, honest man can 

 object to having a law compelling all man- 

 ufacturers of food products to sell the same 

 under their true names. 



1 located here last spring, coming from 

 Oklahoma Territory. 1 have a splendid 

 range for bees. The bluffs of the White 

 river are covered with basswood, and the 

 pastures with white clover. The clover did 

 not do very well the last few years, owing 

 to drouths, but we had plenty of rain 

 last fall and this winter, and all available 

 ground is carpeted with it now. The bass- 

 wood failed last year, but smartweed 

 yielded plenty of winter stores, and some 

 surplus. I piirchast one colony of bees last 

 spring, and it is in the cellar, in good condi- 

 tion, 



I am contemplating taking a near-by 



widowj^s apiary on shares the coming sea- 

 son. She has 10 colonies, an extractor, and 

 supplies enough to run them this year, and 

 says I can have them on my own terms. 

 There are comparatively no bees in this 

 locality now. There were a good many, 

 kept on the haphazard plan, but the last 

 three disastrous years have about cleaned 

 them out. Rufus Williams. 



Lawrence Co., Ind., Jan, 25, 



Prospect for a Good Season. 



Bees in this locality are wintering splen- 

 didly. The weather is mild, and their 

 stores consist mostly of heart's-ease honey, 

 which seems to suit them splendidly. There 

 are upwards of a hundred acres of clover in 

 my immediate vicinity, and the prospects 

 for a good season here are very promising. 

 Enw. Smith. 



Madison Co., 111., Jan. 18, 



Report for 1896. 



The past season has been a fairly good 

 one for bee-keepers in this part of the 

 State. I had T colonies last spring and in- 

 creast to 32. I took off about 200 pounds 

 of extracted honey and 300 pounds of comb, 

 in one-pound sections. My honey was 

 mostly from white clover, I did not get 

 any surplus honey from the fall fiow, and 

 the bees had a hard time to get what they 

 needed for winter stores, 



I find the American Bee Journal a great 

 help in my bee-keeping. A, W, Wilson, 



Dakota Co,, Minn,, Jan, 15, 



Introducing' Queens. 



The article by Dr, E, Gallup, on page 2, 

 is a shoulder-striker. I have just been hav- 

 ing a little experience in this line. On 

 July 8, 1896, I sent to an Illinois breeder for 

 a tested, 5-banded Italian queen, and she 

 arrived all right on July 18, and was intro- 

 duced the next day on frames of hatching 

 brood, as the "A B C of Bee-Culture" said 

 that was the only sure way of introducing. 

 Well, it was a weak colony in the fall, 

 and the other day I examined them, and 

 there was only a pint of bees; I thought I 

 would try to save the queen, which was a 

 good one, so I put her into a cuge. After 

 having removed a black queen, and waited 

 24 hours, I put the Italian queen over the 

 brood-frames, and the next day .she was 

 balled. Then I took her out and waited '24 

 hours longej, and then I filled my pipe and 

 got it going in good shape, and I made 

 those bees think that it was the best queen 

 they ever saw, in about 10 seconds, I 

 think if Dr, Tinker were introducing a 

 queen here the first of January he would 

 have to do it some other wey besides hatch- 

 ing brood ; and if the tobacco smoke 

 method was a success when the type was 

 set for "A B C of Bee Culture," "it was a 

 success Nov, 7, when Editor Root, in his 

 comments in Gleanings, said it should be 

 condemned. 



The article mentioned above is only one 

 of the many good things that the readers 

 of the Bee Journiil get for their dollar. 

 Also, stay with the dishonest commission- 

 men, Mr, York, like a hybrid bee to a be- 

 ginner in bee-keeping. Ray Sullivan. 



Columbia Co., Oreg.. Jan. 14, 



Bee-Keeping in Utah 



I see a great many articles printed about 

 queens, I have had my bees over 12 

 years, and I have never had any queens ex- 

 cept such as my bees are willing to rear. 

 Of course I do not depend upon bees for a 

 living. Last year they practically swarmed 

 none at all, tor out of nearly 75 colonies 

 there was but one swarm, and that clus- 

 tered so high I gave it to a person for tak- 

 ing it down. 



1 had so much to attend to, that I got my 

 oldest son to take oil' the honey, but he did 

 not start in until everything was full, and 

 some of the colonies were building on the 

 outside. He took out five barrels of over 



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