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repeated, so that when the honey season 

 opened last year I had only some ;;0 colo- 

 nies to begin the season with, and many of 

 these so weak that they did not swarm 

 early, and some not at all. 



However. 1 took some 1,400 pounds of ex- 

 tracted and 200 pounds of comb honey, and 

 increast to 47. 



Buckwheat yielded well last fall, and 

 they went into winter quarters in very 

 good condition, and 1 am encouraged now 

 to find that they have all past the winter 

 safely, and seem strong enough to run the 

 gauntlet of even a cold spring, which we 

 may possibly have. 



Last season was an exceptionally good 

 one, and those who had their bees in good 

 condition in the spring reapt an abundant 

 harvest. 



Mr. Samuel Rinsey, some 10 miles from 

 here, commenced the season with 8 colo- 

 nies, took 1,000 pounds of honey, and in- 

 creast to 46. Who can beat this ? 



I use a !t',x4',j inch frame, inside meas- 

 urement, and from all I have read on the 

 subject I believe it to be as near the right 

 size for all purposes as can be devised. I 

 have queen-excluders and bee-escapes, but 

 avoid the use of them as much as possible. 

 By using full sheets of foundation in the 

 sections I can get on nicely without ex- 

 cluders, and by extracting late in the day, 

 and having some help so as to do the work 

 quickly, I need no bee-escapes. 



Last season I got some help and ex- 

 tracted after 6 o'clock, and we just had a 

 nice time — very little bother with the bees 

 in the extracting-room, and all quiet the 

 next morning, and my neighbors undis- 

 turbed. 



Dummies — I have tried these, and gave 

 them up for a bad job. Firstly, the bees, 

 after being in a day, thinking the quarters 

 too small, got up and left. I, however, cap- 

 tured them and returned them to the hive, 

 but the next day they cleared out again, 

 and were again captured, but before return- 

 ing them I took out the dummies, and they 

 went to work all right. 



I tried it with another swarm with better 

 success in that respect, but they staid just 

 14 days, left the hive nearly full of drone- 

 comb, and just 24 queen-cells. I had sec- 

 tion boxes on both these swarms, with 

 queen-excluders, so that they had room 

 enough, but did not like to be so hampered 

 in the brood-nest, and left. 



I like bee-work very much, and I am hop- 

 ing for a good season again. I also like 

 the American Bee Journal very much, but 

 just hate to send my money to be spent 

 amongst a people that are doing their level 

 best to bar us out of any business dealings 

 with them. A. Boomer. 



Ontario, Canada, March 23. 



[Well, Mr. Boomer, we couldn't help 

 smiling at your seemingly trying to think 

 that the American Ree Journal is to blame 

 for the action of our Government. Why. 

 bless you, n-e don't make the laws of this 

 country. But we are sure that if we could 

 have that privilege we'd make a few that 

 would help to clean up the country morally, 

 any way; and then the financial improve- 

 ments would follow naturally enough. But 

 don't you ever let this big country's actions, 

 in any line, cause you to deprive yourself 

 of the weekly visits of the old American 

 Bee Journal. We can't have too many 

 "Boomers" of the right kind to boom on 

 our list of readers. — Editor.] 



Honey Crops and Drouths. 



The matter of a honey crop is one of no 

 little perplexity. Sometimes it seems hard 

 to tell why bees gather no honey. There 

 seems to be an abundance of flowers, the 

 weather seems favorable, and everything 

 seems propitious, and yet the bees gather 

 no stores. In Michigan there were several 

 years of great honey-drouth, which indeed, 

 I believe, was true of most of the Eastern 

 States during the same year. In those 



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Operates two sawmills that cut, annually, eight million feet of lumber, thus 

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