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white flies, and which I suppose was the 

 cause of their yielding no nectar in this 

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We generally get most of our honey crop 

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 but as the high water stood on the bottoms 

 too long for a good field of flowers, some of 

 the honey-plants never showed up at all, 

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 any nectar. All the colonies were light in 

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Last fall we had lots of rain, and white 

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We put our 88 colonies in the cellar Nov. 

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I hope that the two Unions will unite, 

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In one respect it was a streak of luck that 

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Winona Co., Minn., Jan. 14, 



Experiment — Difference in Colonies. 



It seems that we Texas folks have no 

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 would perhaps conclude that the bee-keep- 

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 further south, got rich, and had gone into 

 the railroad business. Such is not the case. 

 Many of us are still kicking against great 

 odds and little ends. 



Bees are in fair condition, the winter 

 mild, rain plentiful, and the outlook for an 

 early houey-flow from horsemint is excel- 

 lent. The whole earth, in this locality, is 

 covered with the plant. 



The writer and a neighbor — Uncle John 

 Cams — have conducted an experiment rela- 

 tive to the cause of such a vast difference 

 between colonies situated in the same yard. 

 The results of our experiments have proved 

 very conclusively, to my mind, that if all 

 queens are well developt, not older than 

 two years, purely bred, all comiis straight 

 in the brood-chamber, sufficient supplies 

 for brood-rearing in early spring, all run 

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 cannot claim to have reduced apiculture to 

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We frequently hear bee-men say that 

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 did nothing, and will have to be fed. In 

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 the immediate execution of the old one. 

 C. B. Bankston. 



Burleson Co., Tex., Jan. 37. 



Results of the Last Season. 



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 and :i weak ones— one had lost its queen ; 

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 that time. My (|ueeus began to lay, so I 

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 queeucell, and the queen was hatcht, but 1 

 had received my queen. This was near the 

 first of June; I made a nucleus, putting the 

 queen which I had received therein. In 

 two or three days I opened the hive, 

 and to my surprise not a beeijwas to be 



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