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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Feb. 6, 19C2. 



riding and the boat had capsized. It being a 

 good season we were well paid, for this swarm 

 filled 140 sections. 



One day, about a month later, myself and 

 my sister and brother were out in the woods 

 digging ginseng, and we came to the place 

 where the swarm had settled. I spoke of a 

 quart remaining; well, those bees had built two 

 pieces of comu about five inches wide and 

 nine inches long on the ground. How or why 

 they remained I do not know, but I got the 

 honey and bees and brought them home. 



A\"e have 150 colonies of bees, of which 

 59 are in the cellar and 91 are on the winter 

 stands, and both lots are doing nicely. The 

 past season we got 13,000 pound of honey, and 

 sold the most of it within ;o miles of home, 

 and could have sold twice as much. 



I sent some to Washington, D. C, and some 

 was taken to .New Mexico, so you see we 

 have quite a large trade of our own. 



I am 13 years old. Fred Banker. 



Brown Co., Minn., Jan. 12. 



A Beginner's Report. 



I became interested in bees by reading the 

 columns on bees in the agricultural papers. 

 Last fall I ordered the "A B C of Bee-Cul- 

 ture," a smoker, and some other fixtures, with- 

 out having a single colony of bees. I read 

 the book, and made a few 8 and jo frame 

 Langstroth hives last winter. About the last 

 of February I bought a colony of black bees 

 in a box-hive from a neighbor, and later three 

 colonies of Italian bees in 8-frame dovetailed 

 hives from a bee-keeper 20 miles away. On 

 the first of May I transferred the black 

 Dees into a Simplicity hive. 



My bees did well considering the poor 

 season, increasing to 16 colonies, and pro- 

 ducing considerable honey. They averaged 

 about 20 pounds per colony from goldenrod 

 and asters in October. 



In August I subscribed for the American 

 Bee Journal, and received a red clover queen, 

 which • I successfully introduced to the only 

 colony of blacks I had. While the weather 

 was warm, the last of October, I packed them 

 up snug for winter. 



I think this a fine locality for bees, there 

 being an abundance of sourwood, whi.te clover 

 and poplar, and in the fall many fields are 

 fairly white with asters. There are a great 

 many minor plants, such as catnip, sumac, 

 horsemint, goldenrod, etc. C. L. S.\ms. . 



Madison Co., N. C, Dec. 23- 



Hoping for Better Things. 



The last two years have been poor, with 

 only one swarm with an average of 30 colonies 

 in the two years, and not enough honey for 

 family use. But I am hopeful the next will 

 be better. James Coe. 



\'an Buren Co.. Iowa, Jan. 2. 



: Loss from Spraying in Bloom. 



I have lost most of my bees by people 

 spraying orchards while in full bloom last 

 spring. We had to force them to stop spray- 

 ing, some of them saying they would rather 

 pay their fine than stop the pump. We 

 walked them out of their orchards, but they 

 "laid out" lots of our bees before we knew 

 they were doing that kind of work. 



C. H. Lake. 



Wayne Co., X. Y., Dec. 2;. 



Bees Did Well. 



My bees did excellently well last year. From 

 8 colonies I extracted close to 600 pounds of 

 as nice honey as I ever took from them, but 

 it is slow sale here. I keep my bees as near 

 the yellow stock as I can, and I think it pays 

 big. Kearly all my queens were superseded 

 in August; I cannot say why, because they 

 were nearly all young. A. J. Freeman. 



Neosho Co., Kans., Jan. 0. 



Report for 1901— Spring^Feeding. 



I am one of the small bee-keepers. I 

 started in last spring with to colonies and 

 had only two swarms. I took from 8 hives 

 about 1200 pounds of extracted honey and 

 about 300 pounds of comb, and as nice as I 

 ever saw. We had a fine yield of white clover 

 in this part of the country, and the aster 

 crop can't be beat. 



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 plenty to live on, though I see them bring 

 out quite a lot of dead bees, _when it is 

 warm enough to fly. I am afraid they will 

 he very weak in the spring. About what time 

 should I commence to feed them? 



Some Golden queens that I got last sum- 



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Giles Co., Tenn., Jan. 14. 



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Outlook " A Dry Year." 



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Los Angeles Co., Calif., Jan. 8. 



Winteping Bees— A CoPFeetion. 



I wish to correct one statement in "An Old 

 Timer's ^Methods," on pages 45 and .^6. I do 

 not want it to go out that I put a board in 

 the rabbets on top of the super and place 

 that on top of bees, leaving the whole super 

 space open above the bees, as I was made 

 to say. for that would be reckless. But 1 cut 

 a board to fit inside the super to rest on the 

 tins, as do the section-holders, making only 

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A Good Report. 



^ly bees produced about $Soo worth of 

 honey this year. I sold all of it for 14 and 

 15 cents per pound. It was nearly all white 

 clover honey. My bees are in good shape for 

 wintering, and all in the cellar. I have over 

 100 colonies. C. W. Anderson. 



Bureau Co., 111., Dec. 30. 



Small Honey Crop. 



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 year on account of drouth, but the bees went 

 into winter quarters in good condition. 



Lewis Lloyd, Jr. 



Columbia Co., \\^is., Dec. 30. 



Did Fairly Well on White Clover. 



Decs did fairly well the first of the season 

 on white clover, then the drouth set in and 

 the>: stopped very suddenly. They stoped 



some rather dark honey in the fall, but I 

 don't know where they got it. They seem in 

 good condition for wintering. 



We have had quite a cold snap, 12 degrees 

 below zero, with 4 inches of snow. It was 

 50 degrees above zero yesterday, and bees 

 were out. T. Q. Garman. 



Gentry Co., Mo., Dec. 23. 



Fears Heavy Winter Loss. 



^ly crop of extracted honey this year was 

 6000 povinds, from 100 colonies, spring count. 



I am wintering go colonies in chaff hives, 

 and they seem to be all right so far, but I 

 fear there will be heavy loss this winter on 

 account of their not rearing any young bees 

 since September. 



F. B. Farrington. 



Clayton Co., Iowa, Dec. 18. 



A Swarming Expepienee. 



Tilly 1 5, 1900. as I was at work with a 

 sliuvtl-plow hilling up potatoes, I saw a swarm 

 of bees coming straight towards the horse and 

 me. perhaps 20 or 30 rods off. I tried to 

 hurry the horse on, but she stood still until 

 the bees were all around us in no time. I 

 went to try to unhitcli the horse, and in 

 doing so she switched her tail, which took 

 my hat off. In an instant the bees were all 

 over my head and the horse was off to the 



