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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Sept. 16. 



YORK'S 



OWN TESTIMONY 



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AFTER 18 MONTHS' USE. 



Chicag-o, July 27th, 1897. 

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to removal and prevention of return of 

 bees to the old stamping grounds ? Can 

 the work be best done at night ? Ought 

 the hives to be kept closed for any 

 period of time, or may the bees be al- 

 lowed to fly at ouce ? 



I desire to move my bees perhaps one- 

 eighth to one-quarter mile over to the 

 other side of a canyon. As the distance 

 is short, there may be some difficulties I 

 have not apprehended. If so, I shall be 

 glad to know them. Geo. H. Stipp. 



Santa Clara Co., Calif. 



[As Mr. Stipp's questions can be more 

 satisfactorily answered by a Callfornlan, 

 will any of our subscribers out there, 

 who have had experience along the lines 

 Indicated, kindly send us their replies 

 for publication ? If they have photo- 

 graphs of the honey-house, and will 

 kindly send them, we will endeavor to 

 have them accompany the descriptions. 

 Especially the interior arrangement 

 should be shown. — Editor.] 



Report for the Season. 



This has been a fine honey year. I 

 have sold over 1,000 pounds of honey 

 from my bees. I started with 7 colo- 

 nies, and increast to 14. I got two 

 Italian queens from Texas, in June, and 

 now I have two fine Italian colonies. I 

 tried J. E. Pond's way of Italianizing, 

 and It workt like a charm. 



Out of the old honey I got last spring 

 when I transferred my bees, I made 

 some vinegar, and now I sell it for 40 

 cents a gallon. The people. around here 

 never heard of honey vinegar before. 



The honey season Is over now, except 

 what the bees gather from the fruit. 

 We have never had such a fruit year — 

 the trees are all breaking down with 

 fruit. 



I see in the Bee Journal something 

 about it raining so much that the bees 

 can't work, in so many places. They 

 can work here ; we have had only one 

 shower since March 28. How Is that 

 for California ? I wish you would send 

 some of your rain this way. This sum- 

 mer has been fearfully hot here. 



W. A. Pellew. 



Nevada Co., Calif., Aug. 31. 



Anent the Sale of Honey. 



I have read with great Interest the 

 various opinions advanced in the Ameri- 

 can Kee Journal regarding the proper 

 procedure in establishing a home mar- 

 ket, and I feel that. In return, I owe to 

 my benefactors a brief recital of my first 

 and recent experience. 



I live amid at least a dozen groceries, 

 each ready to sell honey. This to show 

 the competition In trade. A month ago 

 I took off about 100 pounds of comb 

 honey. I gave some away — a doubtful 

 procedure — and encouraged my neigh- 

 bor's boy to sell the rest — for a consider- 

 ation, of course. 



Charlie Is a boy with an eye to busi- 

 ness, and In two days of selling, from 

 door to door, disposed of my little stock. 

 Yesterday I took off another 50 pounds 

 (I have four colonies), and the same 

 Charlie has sold nearly half, and will 

 finish selling every section this week. 

 If I had four times as much, it would 

 soon be gone. 



Now to the contrast I wish to call at- 

 tention. All my informers say — and 

 very justly, in a general sense — " have 

 every section perfectly clean and pre- 

 sentable." Is this advice not subject to 

 exceptions ? Here Is my point : Being 

 a novice in the honey line, I used old 

 sections in the supers — a thing I will not 

 do again. The result was that my sec- 

 tions, when filled, did not look well, es- 

 pecially as I did not scrape-off the prop- 

 olis. Sold them just as they came out 

 of the super. 



I have a good neighbor who Is much 

 better posted than I In bee and honey 

 lore. His sections are the perfection of 

 neatness, and the honey in them is 

 about the finest I ever saw. Yet note 

 the results — so queer is human caprice: 

 The same boy sold some of his sections, 

 but they are so clean that it seems to in- 

 vite the suspicion that the honey is 

 "manufactured," and, the boy says, is 

 less salable than mine. These are the 

 facts; draw your deductions. 



Cook Co., III. Emm Dee. 



Too Dry Since June. 



Bees did well here the forepart of the 

 season, but It has been too dry since the 

 latter part of June. 



(Rev.) H. H. Flick. 



Dauphin Co., Pa., Sept. V. 



A Colorado Report — Ants. 



We have had a pretty good honey-flow 

 and increase. After the spring, I had 

 24 colonies. They increast to 42, very 

 suddenly, and then the swarming quit 

 just as quickly. I afterwards got word 

 of a very large swarm having settled on 

 a tree near a neighbor, about Aug. 10, 

 and I hived It on the ground. They had 

 their hive three-fourths full of honey, 

 and the balance of space in eggs In one 

 week exactly. I never saw a finer look- 

 ing queen — not yellow, but leather-col- 

 ored, showing scarcely any black. 



I made a mistake last spring, I think, 

 in not getting a stand and roller ready 

 to put in wired foundation. I used the 

 old combs bought in the hives, tying 

 them in with thread, which they often 

 cut before they had the combs fastened. 



While I was poorly, I had one swarm 

 become queenless, and get laying work- 

 ers. As It was weak, I smoked them 

 both, and turned the bees into another 

 after-swarm, with a fine queen, which Is 

 doing well. Since then I found one col- 

 ony — an old one — queenless, and while 

 straightening the frames and putting in 

 a frame of eggs and brood, robbing be- 

 gan, and I failed to stop It, and the bees 

 found another in the same shape, and 



