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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Oct. 30, 1902. 



colony was at work in the fields at this time, 

 and so were the others. 



My bees are in Danz. hives. They have 

 averaged, up to date, 56 pounds per colony. 

 or 140 pounds apiece for the two that I man- 

 aged to save out of six after a 12-mile move 

 IB the spring. Those two were in the best 

 shape I ever knew bees to be in at that time 

 of the year {March 2ti), but the others were 

 only fair, but soon went almost like the wind 

 (with a rush I ; but I am well satisfied with 

 the result. I will close by giving a leaf from 

 my diary : 



LIST OF BLOOM. 



Pussy willow (pollen I March 10 



Soft maple sap March 12 



Pollen from maple March 28 



Soft maple and elm bloom,. April 8 to 12 



Brook willow April 25 to 80 



Plum (pollen) April 25 to May 5 



Cherry April 2" to May S 



Apple May 6 to 15 



Dandelion May 9 to 20 



Sassafras May 12 to l.S 



Red clover May 25 to June IS 



White clover May 28 to .July 10 



Locust .June 1 to 10 



Pigeonwood June 1 to 6 



Yellow-head clover June 10 to 30 



Whitewood June 17 to 23 



Chestnut July 1 to 12 



Sumac July 13 to 24 



Basswood July 13 to 20 



Woodbine Aug. 1 to 12 



Buckwheat Aug. 10 to 29 



Boneset Aug.22 toSept. 10 



Heartsease Aug. 29 to frost 



Goldenrod Sept. 1 to 20 



Aster (fall) Sept. 10 to frost. 



Robert J. C.\rt. 

 Fairfield Co.. Conn., Oct. 4. 



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A'ell, dom big bee mans dom bean to see 

 Dr. Gandy, an dom find he bean offul nice 

 feller. Catnip, he bean all rite for ideal bee- 

 keeper, Ijut dat feller don't vas born yet; 

 mebby him goan to com from Sveden. And 

 de catnip, he don't vas growed very much yet 

 eder. Veil, dat bean plenty bad, but now 

 don't cry, an ay tank ve can fix it up all rite. 



Ay bean have catnip here in Illenois for 20 

 years; he don't bean much for cats, but dom 

 Ijees dom vork on hiui all summer every year, 

 and dom don't vas tierd of him yet. Ay bean 

 sow him in brush-piles an hedges, an old rale 

 fens, and he grow plenty nice, an dom bees 

 hav blenty big time ven every ting e)s bean 

 pleay out, an ven da bean plenty bass trees 

 and clover, dom don't hardly hav time to vate 

 till dinner bean ready, but dom don't tell cat- 

 nip to go vay back und sit down, but dom like 

 him catnip yust so gudsome nuttingelse; but 

 dom never bean give me an pure catnip honey 

 in de up stairs. Ay tank ma be it bean so 

 gud dom feed it to dom little bees down 

 stairs, but das year dom put some in de up 

 stairs for me, but dom bean kine o' triky, an 

 mi-\ him ma smartveed honey: mebby dom 

 tank ay git smart nuf to sow more catnip. 

 Men, my ying, it bean awful good hunny — 

 youst white like paper, an ven ve ete him it 

 youst go down like to poor vater in a rat hole. 



Las fall ay bean plant von aker in to catnip. 

 Ay bean sow him tre times alreddy, an ay 

 goan to sow him vons more, den him surely 

 moste com up plenty much nex summer. Dom 

 seed bean so fine it moste be more as a million 

 in von ouns, an any von can sow lots many 

 places ma .50 cents a vort of seeds, and dom 

 ole brush-piles and ole fens som look so bad 

 can yust so veil be in catnip. Course, it don't 

 be nuf, but you better believe dom bees bean 

 plenty tickled ven da don't be nutting elst to 

 vork on. 



Now, ma name bean Yon Yonson, ay bean 

 kech bee-fever from A. I. Gleanings bout 30 

 ears ago. Gleanings he bean a offul nice ole 

 man, an he sen me abed book, an ay kech 

 bee-fever plenty bad. But Gleanings he plant 

 so much onyuns he bean plum cured l3y das 

 time. But ay tank if he stay in mishegan and 

 see dom bees vork on rossberrys an buckveat, 

 an now meby he goan to plant som catnip. 

 Den I is fraid he goan to have touch of bee- 

 fever agin. 



Bout six seven years ago ay git some prise 

 taker sets of Gleanings, an ay rais ottle big 

 onyuns, but dom don't kin cure bee-fever on 

 svede man. Now ay don't bean som offul 

 rich like Young Morgan or Vanderbilt, but ay 

 got von billion dollars nearer nuf dan all dem 

 big mans put together. Now ay bean have 

 plenty big orchard ISOO trees, pears, an all 

 kines'of frute. Now ay bean goan to take tre 

 four akers for experment station. Ay bean 

 got alreddy lots of rossberrys. My bees 

 svarmed on rossberrys das year. Ay got cat- 

 nip, sveet clover, fig wort, an some odder 

 kines. Nex year I goan to have some cleome, 

 an som phacelia. Ay tank if it pay Celia it 

 mebby pay Yon Yonson to. Ay goan to make 

 big experment ma rossbers. f?om hav ful ma 

 blossoms all summer, tree four kines. Ay 

 goan to give you fellers all de essence. Course 

 Y'on Yonson he git de honey essence, dat 

 mean experence boiled till it bean all dryed 

 up on print in merican bee-paper. 



Dom big bee-mans dom don't got time to 

 fool ma catnip or any kine of honey plants, 

 Dom youst rassel ma dem selves bout quveens 

 and diferns hives, an dom don't fine out yet 

 dat de bees don't can yust roll in de honey 

 ven da don't bean any honey to roll in. 



Mr. New York, vot make das bee-paper, he 

 live in Chicago, an don't hardly hav room to 

 hang his hat up on de vail, it yust bean town 

 all over, an dom houses bean so tick dom 

 houses purtneer to run over each odder: an 

 he bean so bissy to malt das hee-paper. an he 

 have so big apatite for new subscribers, he 

 don't could vork in de garden. t?o dom all 

 hav to depend on little bee-mans lak Yon 

 Yonson to settle das bisnes bout honey-plants. 

 Coggshall he put locality first, an man he 



