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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



June 2A. 



than we have had in 10 years) began 

 to bloom, and bees began to work in 

 great shape, and swarm in all parts — 

 except mine, which I prevented so far 

 by giving them lots of surplus room. But 

 now we have had cold, rainy weather 

 for three days, so that bees could not 

 gather anything. The first or earliest 

 swarm that we ever had in this part of 

 the country issued May 26. This year 

 a neighbor had one May 17. 



The sale for bee-keepers' supplies is 

 better this year than any previous year, 

 and the old-time bee-keepers are chang- 

 ing from box to frame hives, and Ital- 

 ianizing their bees. The " king-bee" is 

 DO more, and the drones don't lay the 

 eggs and hatch the brood any more ! 

 Chunk honey is not so beautiful, and 

 does not bring the high price it did when 

 the drones laid all the eggs, and the 

 "king " lost the job. 



I am using a Bingham 4-inch smoke 

 engine, and like it very well. 



It is not a very good spring to rear 

 queens now — too cold. 



I made myself a solar wax-extraotor, 

 and it works fine when the sun shines 

 bright. X saw an item in the " Old Re- 

 liable " from Luzerne county some time 

 ago. Let there be some more. 



Paul Whitebread. 



Luzerne Co., Pa., June 9. 



A Beginner's Good Beport. 



This has been a fine year so far for 

 honey. I have taken 75 pounds from 

 each colony — comb honey in sections, I 

 sell all my honey at home for 15 cents 

 per section. It is white as snow. My 

 sweet clover looks fine ; it is about 6 

 inches high. 



I use the " St. Joe " hive, and I think 

 it is fine — so simple for a beginner, like 

 me. 



This year I have taken three swarms 

 from bee-trees. This is the way I do it : 

 1 make a transferring hive that holds 18 

 Langstroth frames, and when I cut the 

 tree I take all the honey and brood 

 away ; find the queen and put her into 

 the hive, and get all the bees I can with 

 her ; leave the rest for a day or two, 

 and then take them home, transfer the 

 frames into the St. Joe hive, and all is 

 complete. Mine are doing fine. I had 

 one natural swarm April 9, and took 96 

 sections already, and the same colony 

 swarmed again May 16, and I got 2-1 

 sections in 13 days after they swarmed. 

 How is that for a beginner? Many 

 thanks to the American Bee Journal 

 and Langstroth's book for my success. 

 W. A. Pellbw. 



Nevada Co., Calif., June 1. 



Bee-Seeping in Washington. 



The latter part of April and the be- 

 ginning of May this year made my bees 

 hustle. Almost everything that had a 

 root on It was In blossom, and the bees 

 gathered about I.IOO pounds of honey 

 of the finest flavor, mostly from trees 

 and shrubs. The flow came so unex- 

 pectedly early that my bees were far 

 from ready to get the full benefit of it, 

 as I do not practice stimulating the bees 

 to early brood-rearing, only seeing that 

 they are comfortable and have plenty of 

 stores to draw from. This climate Is 

 altogether too uncertain for stimulative 

 feeding In early spring. Very often we 

 get the winter weather placed whore the 

 spring weather properly should be, and 



viccversa. Unlike Dr. Gallup's climate 

 down in Southi^rn California, where it 

 rains only at night, and where the Doc- 

 tor and his bees can run in and out of 

 their respective " hives " all day without 

 getting wet, we often have rain that 

 w'ill keep on raining night and day for 

 several months at a time, and a new- 

 comer is liable to think he must return 

 East if he ever shall keep dry or see 

 daylight again. 



White clover is plentiful, and bees are 

 working on it, but they don't get much 

 honey. It is now too dry. We are wish- 

 ing for rain. T. H. Waale. 



Clarke Co., Wash., June 10. 



Worst Season in 37 Years. 



It is now June 10, and I am feeding 

 full colonies to keep them from starving. 

 Bees havu't had a chance to work for 

 10 days, and not over 6 days in all since 

 May. When it does not rain hard it is 

 cold, windy and cloudy. In my experi- 

 ence of 37 years with bees, I never saw 

 such a bad season. 



Essex Co.. Mass. Henry Alley. 



Bees Doing Well. 



Bees are doing very well this spring, 

 altho we have had a great deal of cold 

 and wet weather. My first swarm was 

 on May 6, and I have had 14 to date. I 

 I winter my bees on the summer stands, 

 with an outside case, packt with dry 

 leaves. 1 lost 2 colonies out of 24. 



The welcome Bee Journal comes every 

 Friday at 4:30 p.m. L. Bryant. 



Wayne Co., Pa., June 14. 



Boiling in the White Clover. 



I have kept a few bees for 15 years, 

 but they didn't do much good for me un- 

 til I commenced with modern improve- 

 ments, and now, at this date, I have 

 28 colonies of 3-banded and hybrid 

 bees. They are rolling the white clover 

 honey lu. Some of them have as high 

 as 72 one-pound sections on, and are 

 mostly finisht. Silas Johnson. 



Marshall Co., W. Va., June 14. 



Bees Doing Well — New Union. 



My bees are doing well at present, 

 altho the season has been very backward. 

 Up to date bees have built up strong. 

 There are plenty of bees in the colonies 

 that are left. In many instances people 

 lost a great many bees last winter, and 

 I attribute it to the poor honey-flow last 

 fall. Bees in many instances went into 

 winter quarters without sufificient honey 

 to keep them through the winter. From 

 the first of last August until winter sot 

 In, bees did not make a living, and con- 

 sequently all late swarms went into win- 

 ter very weak. 



Having had some experience with 

 commission men, and knowing that the 

 American Bee Journal Is a defender of 

 the right, I think every bee-keeper 

 should be a subscriber to it. 1 hope be- 

 fore many days to become a member of 

 the New Union, as I believe It is calcu- 

 lated to rectify many evils that now ex- 

 ist, such as adulteration of almost all 

 kinds of food, especially honey. But we 

 will keep up the war on commission 

 men, such as Horrlo and Wheadon, un- 

 til they are exterminated. 



E. B. Huffman. 



Winona Co., Minn., June 11. 



Preservation of Farm Profits. 



— Competent judges place the saving in 

 labor resulting from the use of the Low 

 Handy Wagon at sl2.5 to *1.50 per year on a 

 farm of 160 acres. We submit that such an 

 item is well worth the saving in such strin- 

 gent times as these, when such a suna may 

 frequently represent the difference between 

 profit and loss in farm operations. Any- 

 thing that will save labor will save money. 

 The difference between the high lift neces- 

 sary to load a wagon on high wheels and 

 the labor required to load the Low Handy 

 Wagon represents so much vital force and 

 physical energy ; the man who saves that 

 energy and forve, other things being equal, 

 will live longest. Why do a thing the 

 hardest way when there is an easier and 

 quicker way X 



The Low Handy Wagon referred to is 

 being supplied by our advertising patrons 

 —The Electric Wheel Co.. of Quincy, III. 

 Those people manufacture the wheels them- 

 selves, and are supplying the gear at cost 

 in order to introduce the wheels, which are 

 of the modern wide-tive pattern with stag- 

 gered oval steel spokes. This will a§ford 

 our patrons the oppoitunity of securing one 

 of these most useful implements at the 

 lowest possible cost. The Electric Wheel 

 Co. also make wheels that will fit any 

 wagon you have on hand, or any cultiva- 

 tors, drills, etc. Write them for a copy of 

 their book, "The Preservation of Farm 

 Profits,'' which will be sent free to all 

 readers mentioning the American Bee 

 Journal. 



Ke ot Oood Courage.— The situa- 

 tion does not begin to be as bad as it looks. 

 Sit down and look the facts in the face, and 

 do not let them scare you. Something is 

 wrong with you. At times your pulse flut- 

 ters and your heart jumps. Your skin is 

 pallid and swollen just beneath the eyes. 

 You look much older than you are. After 

 bending over your desk a liltle while you 

 feel a pain in your back, and you are slow 

 in straightening your body on rising. You 

 are fidgety, irritable and "blue." Some- 

 where you have read that these symptoms 

 show kidney disease. Is that what ails you ? 



More than likely, and you would have 

 good reason for fear did you not know that 

 Warner's Sate Cure is obtainable at the 

 drugstore on the corner. You also know 

 that this remedy is so powerful as to have 

 robbed even the once-dreaded Bright's dis- 

 ease of its terrors. 



Warner's Safe Cure allays inflamma- 

 tion of the kidneys, so that the blood passes 

 freely through. 'Effete matter is no longer 

 dammed up in the body. The pallor gives 

 place to healthy color, and the heart-beat 

 is once more regular. 



Take Warner's Safe Cure and be of good 

 courage. 



Page I^ever :\ee«ls It. — Qentkmen : — 

 When driving lately, I noticed a neighbor 

 repairing his fences. One day he was work- 

 ing on one made of ribbon wire with plank 

 at top. At another time on one made of 

 liarb and plank at top. I stopt and askt 

 him if he had repaired that fence, pointing 

 to about 80 rods of Page that has been up 

 four years or more. He said, " What fence, 

 the Page V I said, " Yes." He replied, 

 "No, indeed! that never needs any, and I 

 only wish my landlord would put it all over 

 the farm, as it would save me so much 

 work that I have to do every spring." I 

 told him I was glad I did not have any fence 

 repairing, as my whole farm was enclosed, 

 and fields divided with Page, and as I used 

 nothing but red cedar and locust for posts, 

 think it will be a long while before they 

 will need replacing. I have no trouble to 

 (ind my stock when turned out, as they are 

 always in their place. Until I had all Page 

 I had much trouble to keep mine home and 

 others out. Henuy Rieman. 



Tunis Mills, Md. 



Bec-Kccper's Guide— see page 382. 



