Feb. (,. 19( 2 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



93 



29 Years Selling Direct. 



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 Imrnopfl. Our priri-s lOproHt'iit th« vast of nmicrlul uiiil making, pluB oiio prollt. Our 

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The Rural Californian 



Tells all about Bees in California. The yields 

 and Price of Honey; the Pasturape and Nectar- 

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The New Catalog of Prairie State lucubator 

 Co., which we have just received, is probably 

 the handsomest piece of printing ever put out 

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 printed in two colors throughout, with several 

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The Business End of the 

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M. RUMELY CO., La Porte, Ind. 



lo acm of tiuLkwheat that they did well on, 

 and »omc white and tweet clover which wai 



({o(t(l. 



By the w.iy, there i« some talk alK)ut red 

 clover (juccnH, \ find if red clovt-r d'>c» not 

 Krow loo rank the bees will work on it more 

 or less every year —at leant ihcy du here. The 

 hcvs workrd inure on the corn-ta»ftcU than I 

 ever saw them do before. 



'I'hcrc were lots of bcc^ flying around this 

 year. One man had a %warm k<^ into hi« 

 chimney; another man had one in a five-gallon 

 oilcan; and another in an old cfx>k-<itove in an 

 out house. 1 found several bcc-trce*i along (he 

 river. H. GiLBEtT. 



Jasper Co., Iowa, Jan r. 



Poorest Season in 10 Years. 



Tills lias ticiii the poorrst season f<ir lo 

 year?! in ihib locality. \\'c did not secure any 

 summer honey and very little fall honey, 



1 licf^an with 5 colonies, spring count, and 

 secured 140 pounds of extracted huncy, an 

 average of .-8 potntds to the colony. 



Bees were jiul into winter quarters in fair 

 condition, and the weather so far has been 

 very favorable for good wintering. 



I received and introtiuccd a queen all right 

 last summer. I had the colony shut down in 

 the brood-chamber, and as there was a small 

 amount of honey coming in I was endeavor- 

 ing to get some new combs built. While 

 manipulating them late one evening in a hurry. 

 the queen in some mysterious way was left 

 on top of the honey-board, and the hiyc closed, 

 and you may imagine my regret when I opened 

 the hive the next time. 



So much for hasty work. 



J. Wiley Mountjoy. . 



Anderson Co., Ky., Jan. 6. 



Anothep Poop Season. 



The past was another poor season for bees 

 in this locality. The weather was very un- 

 favorable during the spring and fruit' bloom- 

 ing; white clover was good but did not last 

 long. Nearly the only honey we got was in 

 the fall from smartweed. 



We are having spring weather here now; 

 bees are flying, and are carrying out the dead 

 ones. D. E. Evers. 



Otoe Co., Kebr., Jan. 6. 



One Season's Repopt. 



I began bee-keeping in tlie fall of 1900 by 

 buying one colony in a box -hive, which win- 

 tered in the cellar and was taken out in good 

 condition in the spring. I increased to tour 

 colonies and secured a surplus of iz pounds 

 of section honey per colony, sprinsr count. 

 They are now in winter quarters in good condi- 

 tion, with plenty of stores without feeding. 



I transferred the old colony from the box- 

 hive to an 8-frame Lang'^troth, and also hived 

 the swarms in 8-frame hives. 



The main honey-tiow here is from milkweed 

 and white clover. L. \'. Ricketts. 



\\'hitman Co., Wash., Dec. 27. 



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A Young Bee-Keeper's RepoPt. 



Last spring I started a very small co.ony 

 of bees, I should judge about 10 dozen bees. 

 I got a hive and made 8 frames but only 

 gave them 2 frames. I then gave them 2 

 queen-cells and in three days the queen was 

 hatched, and in 2\ days the hive ha'd an in- 

 crease of some more bees. Soon it had quite 

 a few more bees so I gave them another frame. 



One day my father looked in, and made 

 fun of me, but I did not care. When he saw 

 I was interested in my small lot he fixed them 

 up for me so they looked like bees to him. 



Of course they did not store enough honey 

 to winter them, but you know a greenhorn 

 can make a fortune in his mind i^ he does 

 not make it outright. When winter came I 

 put them in the cellar along with some more. 



One day last summer we had 8 swarms in 

 one day. Two of them went to the woods, 

 but my sister and brother followed them. My 

 sister was 14 and my brother S. They followed 

 them about a mi.e over creeks, hills and 

 through brush, when the bees took a rest, and 

 so did their followers. My father and I then 

 took a hive and went to get them, but it 

 being a very warm day made it bad for us. 

 We got about one-third of them in the hive 

 and then we left the hive on the hillside, but 

 we went home and in the evening we under- 

 took the task of going and bringing the hire 

 home. All the bees had gone in excepting a 

 quart. We left them and Pa carried the hive 

 home on his shoulder. When we arrived 

 home he looked as though he had been boat- 

 To make cows pay. ase Sharpies Cream Separators. Book 

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