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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Jan. 9, 1902. 



Bees Did Fairly Well. 



Mj bees did fairly well last summer. I got 

 80 pounds of honey to the colony'. I have 12 

 colonies wintering on the summer stands, 

 packed with leaves. Fred Robt. 



Hall Co., Nebr., Dec. 31. 



Too Wet for Bees the Past Season. 



Bees are in winter quarters once more. We 

 have to make ours as comfortable at as small 

 an expense as possible, for while we take 

 pleasure in the pursuit in a small way, we 

 have lo use economy if we want to be ahead 

 at the end of the season with anything but 

 experience. Now, experience is a very good 

 thing, hut experience blended with a few 

 shekels derived from the same pursuit makes 

 a better combination, so long as honesty pre- 

 dominates. 



Our 13 colonies went into winter quarters 

 well fortified with bees and honey. It was 

 too wet the past season for bees in this 

 locality. Our bees worked on the red clover 

 when the weather was so they could work. 



.M. P. LOWRT. 



Armstrong Co., Pa., Dec. 18. 



Aiiti= Adulteration— The Past Season 



Editor York ; — You did a good thing for 

 the " fraternity " by writing and publishing 

 the letter on page 771 (IStOl). But strange 

 the Chicago Tribune is so loth to do the bee- 

 keepers and their customers justice. Nothing 

 less than printing your letter in full in that 

 paper should have been done, I know all 

 bee-keepers will thank you most heartily for 

 the letter. 



The past season in this vicinity has again 

 been a little discoilraging. though very much 

 more encouraging than the two seasons be- 

 fore the last, which were total failures. 



Bees generally wintered well last winter, 

 coming through in good shape, but the cold, 

 wet spring retarded brood-rearing, except 

 where extra pains were taken with colonies 

 by feeding, etc, 



Apple-bloom was very scarce — a source 

 from which we usually expect much nectar. 

 Most of us were very much surprised to get 

 any clover or basswood honey, but we got it, 

 and of good quality — about half an average 

 crop. 



Buckwheat bloom and fall blossoms were 

 sure, we thought, to yield us a good crop, be- 

 cause bees were in extra-tine condition, but 

 alas, not nearly half a crop was harvested, 

 owing to the drouth, perhaps. 



Bees went into winter quarters strong in 

 numbers, with plenty of honey, but have not 

 had a flight for six weeks. 



White comb honey is bringing as high as 

 17 cents a pound, wholesale; fall honey about 

 14 cents on the average; extracted, white, 

 is 12 cents retail ; no call for it at the stores 

 to retail. George Spitler. 



Crawford Co., Pa,, Dec. 12, 



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Meltose, Again. 



We had a tine flow of honey the last two 

 weeks of June ; then the drouth came and cut 

 everything oil — pastures, meadows, and all 

 crops, about one-half, 



I got just about an even 2.5 pounds of very 

 fine comb honey to the colony, spring count, 

 and 10 swarms. Only one of the latter stored 

 any surplus, 



I doubled up and killed off, so that I now 

 have the same number in thecellar that I had 

 last winter — 26 colonies, 



I received a letter not long since from the 

 Sanitas Food Co,, some one having sent in 

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 tose or •' .Malt Honey ;" 



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I aslied tliem to explain how they could 

 truthfully claim meltose to be a juitnrnl prod- 

 uct, while they classed honey with artiflviaUy 

 prepared -sweets ?" I also Tolunteered the in- 

 formation that bees do not gather and store 

 honey with their '■ cunning little feet," And, 

 too, I ordered a sample of meltose. Five- 

 days after my letter was mailed a reply came- 

 bacli — pretty quicl< time. 



I want them to have the benefit of a cor- 

 rection in regard to the " cunning little feet " 

 of the honey-bee which, they say, was a 

 stenographer's error, and should have been, 

 ■• that cunning little thief, the honey-tjee," 



The sample of meltose has not arrived yet, 

 as I hoped it would before sending this letter. 

 Those who have tasted it call it a very palat- 

 able sweet, but I have no fears that it will 

 interfere with the honey-trade. 



By the way, they apparently forgot (') to 

 answer the question I asked, for nothing was- 

 said in their letter in regard to it, 



A, F, FooTE, 



Mitchell Co,, Iowa, Dec. 19. 



[This meltose product was pretty well aired 

 in these columns several months ago. We 

 have a sample of it, and prefer the poorest 

 grade of extracted honey to meltose. Of 

 course, tastes differ, but bee-keepers need not 

 fear its becoming a competitor of honey. — 

 Editor.] 



Poor Season in Oklahoma. 



Our season has been very poor. No one 

 except myself and one other bee-keeper got 

 any surplus. Those who are keeping bees on 

 the old style will lose most of them this 

 winter, 



I find I can't keep up with the times with- 

 out taking ijee-papers, 



F, W. Van De Mark, 



Oklahoma Co,, O. T., Nov. 18. 



Oup Editor's Den— Other Matters. 



Are we an up-to-date j^eopie i Recently I 

 visited the " Old Reliable," and will tell of a 

 few things I saw, and leave it to you. We- 

 readers know nothing about what energy is 

 required to get out the Journal; if we did we 

 would have a fit. 



There are no type-setting machines, all the 

 forms being hand-set. Everybody isasbusyas 

 bees in a good flow of nectar. 



"George" is doing the two-man act; 

 attends to all correspondence, is errand boy, 

 editor, and, in fact, does everything possible 

 to save cost, and anything that will add to 

 the improvement of the Journal— he is right 

 after it. 



While I was there I saw several double 

 armfuls of letters ready for mailing, these all 

 going to delinquent subscribers. "George" 

 told me it cost some ?80 or more to send out 

 all these statements — .^80 of wasted energy — 

 but it must be done. This waste, if it were 

 added to improving the Journal, would be a 

 good thing. 



He also said if the books were lialaneed we 

 could have a much better Journal ; he could 

 put in a type-setting machine that one opera- 

 tor could do the work of four or five type- 

 setters; the saving would go to the readers 

 in the waj* of improvement in the Journal. 



Mailing day ! Well, if all the readers could 

 see it. Why, it gave me a shamed face to 

 think we were so small as to demand a pre- 

 mium queen when sending in a new name, 

 just Ijecanse " George " said he would give it. 

 It appeared to me as if some of us wanted the 

 earth, and' fenced in. As to mailing day, 

 well, they were busy with wrappers and paste, 

 all hands and the cook — "George's" cook, 

 if you please — Mrs, York was there, not as a 

 spectator, but was at the mailing table, and 

 was as busy as any one of the other three 

 girls. 



The office boasts of a "devil," but we 

 thought him to be a rather old one. He, too, 

 was busy. The supply department looked as 

 if it needed a boy or so; they were busy with 

 the honey-trade, 



(io there as I did for five days at the den, 

 and see if you can come away without feeling 



