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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug. 19, 



C^cx)eral lt€n)s^ 



Bees Did Well. 



Bees have done well 

 Mine had the swarming 

 May and June, but I will 

 surplus. 



this season, 

 fever during 

 have quite a 



L. White. 



Caldwell Co., Mo., Aug. 6. 



Introducing' Queens. 



This is almost always a more or less 

 hazardous undertaking. The usual way 

 of releasing them now-a-days is to allow 

 the bees to open the cage by eating candy 

 out of the entrance. Mr. W. H. Pridgen 

 says in his catalog that it is an improve- 

 ment to release the escort that accom- 

 panies the queen and then replace it with 

 the same number of rail yowig bees la.ken 

 from the colony into which it is proposed 

 to introduce the queen. It is more diffi- 

 cult to introduce queens to hybrid bees 

 than to any others that I have tried. 

 Sometimes I found it necessary to make 

 them hopelessly queenless before I could 

 succeed. Take away the queen and all 

 of the unsealed brood and bees will ac- 

 cept a queen invariably, unless they 

 have been a long time queenless — at 

 least such has been my experience. — 

 Review. 



The Honey Season a Failure. 



The harvest is past, and our bees have 

 not enough honey to live on until spring 

 — the first failure since I have kept bees. 

 This is the first year that I have known 

 the basswood to fail, and it is our only 

 hope for surplus honey. We have an 

 abundance of white clover, but it yields 

 no nectar, for some cause unknown to 

 me. I think that 40 per cent will not 

 cover the loss last winter in cellar-win- 

 tering ; too mu;h rain caused the cellars 

 to be so very damp, and as there was no 

 young brood in the fall the old bees had 

 to die off. We had too cold weather in 

 June, and too much rain. Last night 

 we had a storm that laid the grain low. 

 Bugs, rust and storms are playing havoc 

 with our crops, and the pro^jqects are 

 not very flattering. Nevertheless we 

 live in hopes of a better day, when the 

 " old things have past away and all 

 things are becoms new. " F. C. Smith. 



Pierce Co., Wis., July 25. 



Bearing Queens— A Report. 



In the July 15 number of Iha Amer- 

 ican Bee Journal I read Dr. Miller's ans- 

 wers to questions in regard to rearing 

 good queens. I followed his advice, and 

 I am glad to say that I have succeeded 

 in rearing four nice queens. This more 

 than pays for the " Old Reliable" Bee 

 Journal for at least three years. 



If nothing happens to prevent, within 

 a few weeks I may be able to see Editor 

 York, and also a great many others 

 whom I will be pleased to see at the Buf- 

 falo convention of the United States 

 Bee-Keepers' Union, of which I am a 

 member. 



This is my second year In keeping bees. 

 I started in last spring with i) colonies, 

 and have increast to 23. White clover 

 was plentiful this year, and my bees 

 have done splendidly. I have taken 

 about 100 pounds of nice comb honey, 

 and now they are busy on buckwheat. 



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 board cars in Chicago, at these prices : 1 can, in a case, 7K cents per pound ; 2 cans 

 In one case, 7 cents ; 4 cans (2 cases) or more, 6K cents. The Cash must accom- 

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Its'" A sample of either honey will be mailed to an intending purchaser, for 8 

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I have clipped 19 queens, and must say the 

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Dr. Geo. I.,acke, Newbursh, Ind. 



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