1897. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Qcrjeral licn)S. 



Bee-Fever Bunning' High. 



I have taken -l.jsi pounds of honey. 

 The bee-fever Is running pretty high at 

 this time. I had 4 acres of sweet clover 

 that grew from 7 to 8 feet high. My 

 bees are In fine condition for winter. I 

 had 17ti colonies. I put In 36 fine 

 queens the last season. 



F. J. R. Davenport. 



Ellis Co., Tex., Oct. 18. 



Not an Encouraging Report. 



My report for this year Is very poor. 

 I had 56 colonies In the spring, increast 

 to 84. One swarm went to the woods, 

 I doubled up to 80, and got 500 pounds 

 of comb honey. The forepart of the 

 summer was very cold and wet, until 

 June 10, then we had nice weather until 

 July 6, and after that it was very wet 

 and cold at night. I expect to requeen 

 all my colonies with young queens In the 

 spring, and am already placing my or- 

 ders. G- W. Bell. 



Crawford Co., Pa., Nov. 6. 



Winter Bepository— Skunks, Etc. 



This has been a rather poor year for 

 honey in Otsego County, although we 

 got some surplus honey. I doubled my 

 colonies so I now have 25 in good con- 

 dition to go into winter quarters. I 

 have just tinlsht my winter repository, 

 which I commenced early last spring. I 

 have workt at It by odd spells. It is all 

 under ground, 15x18x6 feet, and has a 

 3-inch tile drain. It is naturally very 

 dry, and the walls are 2 feet thick, mor- 

 tared at the Inside 8 inches, and at the 

 outside the same, and leaves an air-space 

 of 8 inches in the center. I also have 

 3-inch ventilators to use if necessary. 



I have been troubled with skunks quite 

 a little ; they would come regularly every 

 night and visit some of my hives. I set 

 some traps and caught them in front of 

 the hives, with no smell whatever. I 

 watcht one of them and saw him scratch 

 in the entrance with his front paw, and 

 the bees would come out and Mr. Skunk 

 would eat a very choice meal of them. 



It is reported that foul brood has made 

 its appearance in the northern part of 

 this county. If such is the case I hope 

 it will be stampt out at once. 



A. G. Palmer. 



Otsego Co., N. Y., Nov. 18. 



Extracted Honey — Hive Ventilation. 



If I am a judge of good things, I be- 

 lieve the bee-keeping brothers and sisters 

 owe me a vote of thanks. Why? Simply 

 because I have succeeded in breaking 

 Mr. Bevins' 20 year Rip Van Winkle nap. 

 Now, say, don't tell Mr. Bevins, but I 

 thought when I wrote before that per- 

 haps I might succeed, as the article on 

 page 675 tells me that I have. 



Now although Mr. Bevins admits that 

 until certain conditions are changed, 

 not every one should produce extracted 

 honey, yet he does not give us those con- 

 ditions, that is, he does not tell us what 

 they are. If I remember correctly. Mr. 

 Bevins, in his first article, leaves out all 

 "if3"and " ands," leaving us to infer 

 that under existing circumstances all 



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