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VJEE HERE, Fiiend Bee-Kceper, the best 

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 prices are none too low lor the present times. 

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nirs. Ii. C. AXTELL, 

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mometer stands at 7:^ degrees now, but we 

 expect a little cold weather before winter 

 is over, which will be about March 15 to 25. 

 X lost three colonies since September, IS'JO. 

 One lost its queen tlien, and could not rear 

 another, there lieing no drones; another 

 was killei in the first cold snap, and the 

 third died from want of stores. I have one 

 colony that is a good one. I made it by in- 

 crease (artificial) Inst spring. While it did 

 not give me any honey, it gave me about 

 20 frames of brood, which I used to build 

 up weaker colonies. It workt all summer 

 drawing out foundation and batching bees, 

 and went into winter quarters with seven 

 frames of goldenrod honey. It was the 

 quietest colony in the yard — I had to wake 

 them up last week. They were so quiet 

 that I thought they, too, had been frozen, 

 but I found that they dccupied six frames, 

 with plenty of bees and about 30 pounds of 

 sealed honey. I am going to rear all my 

 queens from that colony this season, and 

 have them fertilized by drones from an- 

 other colony. I expect to have drones 

 about March 20, as I am working for them 

 now. James B. Drury. 



Orleans Co., Feb. 31. 



Wintering All Right. 



My bees are in the cellar, and they ap- 

 pear to be doing well. We have had a very 

 mild winter so far. There has fallen con- 

 siderable snow, but it is so warm that it 

 melts off the roads about as fast as it falls. 

 D. C. Wilson. 



Linn Co., Iowa, Feb. 18. 



Good Prospect for 1897. 



I have only five colonies of bees, but in- 

 tend to increase to ."jO or 60 as soon as I can. 

 Bees did fairly well here last year, and as 

 there is an abundance of white clover, the 

 prospect is good for 1897. J. I. Whiting. 



Allegany Co., N. Y.. Feb. 17. 



A Bee-Keeping Report. 



I first bought a colony of bees in an old 

 box. in 1875, at an auction. It wintered 

 fairly well. Then I made three or four 

 movable-frame hives, and transferred it in 

 the spring. I increast until I had nine col- 

 onies ; then there came a hard winter and 

 they all died. Then my father-in-law gave 

 me a colony, which I increast to 40. Last 

 spring I had 20 colonies, spring count; they 

 swarmed two or three times apiece; I got 

 only about 100 pounds of honey from the 

 entire lot. fit for market. I think it was 

 too wet. I have four or five hundred unfin- 

 isht sections, partly drawn out, that I think 

 I will use next season. I can sell all the 

 honey I can produce around home. I win- 

 ter my bees on the summer stands. X am 

 using the S-frame dovetail hive, and H. D. 

 Cutting's 9-frame Star hive. I pack the 

 supers with wheat chaff over a burlap 

 blanket. There are but very few bees in 

 this section, none within five or six miles. 

 Henry Witherell. 



Washtenaw Co., Mich., Feb. Ifi. 



Expensive Honey-Shipping. 



On page 105 is an editorial on "More 

 Honey Commission Frauds," where the 

 editor asks when bee-keepers will learn 

 not to ship honey to new firms with doubt- 

 ful recommendations ; and why they do 

 not, before shipping, inquire of the pub- 

 lishers of the bee-paper they take and read. 

 " But perhaps the majority who have been 

 caught don't take a good bee-paper, think- 

 ing they know it all, anyway. Well, it 

 may be heartless in us to say it. but, 

 really, if some bee-keepers would rather 

 give lots of their money (honey) to fraud- 

 ulent commission-men than to pay a small 

 subscription price for the bee-paper, they 

 simply must take the consequences." 



Now X hope Mr. York will use me more 

 " white " than another publisher did. I 

 started bee-keeping a few years ago ; in the 

 spring of 1896 I bad 12 colonies, and I sub- 



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