1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



299 



work last year. From 8 colonies, spring 

 count, I took over 300 pounds of nice comb 

 honey in one-pound sections. At the same 

 time I inoreast, liy natural swarming, to 

 14, but might have doubled if 1 had had the 

 necessary means. I use 8 and 10 frame 

 dovetail hives, and winter the bees on the 

 summer stands. I am ready for them now, 

 by having on hand 35 8-frame hives, also 

 an extractor. 



I sowed Alsike clover seed this spring. 

 and intend to sow sweet clover. I also in 

 tend to Italianize all my colonies. The bees 

 at present are working on the bloom, and 

 are very busy. 



Your scheme of exposing fraudulent 

 dealers and adulterators suits me ■■ to a t.'' 

 Since I have read your editorials, my eyes 

 have been opened. In many grocery stores 

 I see those glass tumblers filled with a syrup 

 to keep a little hunc-ij-comh from granulat- 

 ing. When people get the genuine honey 

 they will not buy that adulterated stuff. 

 May the " Did Reliable" live long, and be 

 used for exposing adulterators and other 

 frauds. Joun W. Albektson. 



Luzerne Co., Pa., April 8. 



Poor Season for Honey in 1896. 



I did not have very good results from the 

 bees. I got about 4.000 pounds of broken 

 comb honey last year. I have about 125 

 colonies now. Last year was a very poor 

 year for honey. J. Z. Rhodes. 



Wadena Co., Minn., April 28. 



One Hundred Pounds Per Colony. 



1 have now 150 colonies, and they have 

 begun to swarm. I have several colonies 

 that have stored over 100 pounds of honey 

 each this month— since the 3rd. when I put 

 the first super on. W. H. H. Laurence. 



Monterey Co., Calif., April 23. 



Selling Bogus Honey. 



Some time this spring there were two 

 men canvassing Monmouth— a town 12 

 miles from here, of about 1,200 inhabitants 

 —selling extracted honey. They had been 

 canvassing other towns before they came 

 here. They went to a hotel and took rooms, 

 then ordered sugar. One groceryman said 

 he sold ■*12 worth himself to them— they 

 ordered *I2 worth of white sugar sent to 

 their hotel, where they had it melted up 

 into syrup, then they out up strips of nice 

 honey and filled a pail with it— syrup and a 

 few bits of honey— and put a ladle in it 

 that held about a pound, and went from 

 bouse to house selling it as honey. They 

 sold a great deal of it, and then past on to 

 another town. If it had been called sugar 

 syrup and a little honey, it %Tould have 

 been all right, I think; but it should not 

 have been called honey. 



Mr. Axtell thinks the prospect is that we 

 will have a good honey-year, as the white 

 clover, after so much moisture and rain, is 

 abundant, and bees are strong. Wells are 

 most full of water, and cellars, too. 



Mrs. L. C. Axtell. 



Warren Co.. 111., April 17. 



Practical Suggestions to Beginners. 



EuiTOK York: — The American Bee Jour- 

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