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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Apr. 15. 



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...,.„.-,,,,,,,,,. I. ini',' a li Ti... tliat will 1:1st; oii.> « 

 Ijmt caniiul be blown down; lih.> tlint caimut . 

 bum up, aiKl which will turn all kintlR or « 

 stock, from thesinallfst pig: to theloriti'st bull . 

 "1- horse. .Such a fence la the KEYSTONK Z 

 5'"KNC'K. More about it in our FKr.K l)( ok on ^ 

 f«Mice building;: T 



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RIfi MONEY IN POULTRY 



llPet Stock iind Iiicutxitnrs if conducted 



iVcordiiin to "The Chautauqua 

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'lMi;it is t he I'UKO foncc ('.xporietice of a [ininiiin-nt 

 liiiMl (iwntT III MichluJin. and its t hi! real sccii't cif 

 our success wit h ail classes. When tin individual (ir 

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 (jueslHiM Willi liieiii tin- at least one Keiieruilou. 

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bloom now. and the box-elders have not 

 opened their blossom-buds, but are swell- 

 ing out nicely. The elms are budding out 

 also, and the grass is so pretty and green. 

 I think that the white clover will yield 

 some nectai this j-ear, as we have had none 

 for three years to amount to anything. 

 With the abundance of rain we have had I 

 think this will be a good year for the bees. 

 D. C. McLeod. 

 Christian Co., 111., April 1. 



Practically All the Bees Lost. 



We had bad — yea. the worst luck in win- 

 tering our bees, and simply have to com- 

 mence anew. F. L. Ricuter. 



Cass Co., N. Dak., April 1. 



Wintering' Finely. 



My bees have wintered in fine condition 

 without 3 per cent. loss. They are carrying 

 in pollen quite lively to-day from pussy- 

 willow. 



I am well pleased with the stand the 

 American Bee Journal is taking against 

 dishonest commission merchants and other 

 frauds. And if the editor gets into any 

 trouble I will do ray part to help him out. 

 Long may he prosper. L. E. Evans. 



Lenawee Co., Mich., March 3L 



Wintered Without Loss. 



I am taking three bee-papers, and would 

 not like to spare any one of them. How a 

 bee-keeper can get along without taking at 

 least one, is more than I can understand. 



My 48 colonies have come through this 

 far without losing any. 



I tried Mrs. A. J. Barber's candy recipe, 

 on page 169, and I tell you it is " boss." I 

 forgot to put in the soda at first, so I melted 

 some over again, put in the soda, and I was 

 surprised. It increast the amount (in bulk) 

 about one-third, or nearly that. 



Israel Overholt. 



Ontario. Canada, March 31. 



A Beal Canadian's Report. 



EiiiTOR York; — I seldom see any reports 

 in the excellent American Bee Journal from 

 Canada, altho I fancy most of our bee- 

 keepers are subscribers. I have had some 

 questionings as to whether I should renew 

 my subscription or not. The very un- 

 friendly and selfish attitude assumed by 

 the United States Government towards this 

 Dominion in its legislation, towit: the 

 alien labor, and the new tariff bills — 

 only too clearly show that you want to 

 have nothing to do with us. You, of course, 

 are a mighty big country, and so long as 

 England opens freely her markets to you, 

 I suppose you can get along without us, 

 and this prompts us to say that we can get 

 along without you, and narrowing this 

 down to the case in point, we have a very 

 good bee-journal of our own— the Canadian 

 Bee Journal— and if all our bee-keepers 

 would support it aud stay away from you, 

 it would soon be much better. 



I have been keeping bees for a nuiuher of 

 years with somewhat varied success. Three 

 years ago I had about 100 colonies, and in 

 the spring of 189,5 my prospects were never 

 brighter, but ou May 10, and following 

 nights along until the 20th, we were visited 

 with unusually severe frosts that killed the 

 clover, and so completely destroyed the 

 basswood growth that it was thought that 

 even the trees would die. This was fol- 

 lowed by extreme drouth and heat, and 

 everything that bees could work upon be- 

 came so completely dried up that on Aug. 

 1 we found that we not only had no crop, 

 but that the bees were starving in the hives. 

 I could not undertake to feed so many, so I 

 killed off some, gave away others, and then 

 doubled up until 1 reduced to .50. These I 

 fed three barrels of sugar, and then only 

 about one-halt of them were tit for wiuter, 

 and altho most of them came through thoy 

 were mostly so weak in bees, and so many 

 ([ueeuless, that the doubling up bad to be 



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