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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 6, 1902. 



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 TiieflojuBee 



Revised by Dadant — 1900 Edition. 



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ISABELLE HOFiTON. 

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dom little bees to ride In hive-vagon all time, 

 veu das nice hunnys vat dom make it Ijiean fit 

 to adorn any king's table. Ay bean look 

 aroun' an ay don't fine it beanany bee-farmer 

 vat plant his hole farm for da bees like dom 

 do for da hogs, how kin dom tell ven dom 

 never bean try it ! It look like dom all bean 

 fraid, an dom vant some von else to try it 

 first. Now, ven ay ete a vatermelon ay don't 

 svaller hole ting to vons. Mine goodeness, 

 nol But ay take little bite to see if it vas 

 sveet, den a lak little bigger, an by an by it 

 bean all ete up. So das vay moste ve du try 

 vat bean best for our locality, den tak bigger 

 bite ; but it ve tak very big bite ve moste 

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Yell, if ve have nice vedder ay bean come 

 over next veek. YoN YoNSON. 



Pear-Blight Not Caused by Bees. 



In regard to pear-blight, I can say that bees 

 have nothing to do with it. If they have, they 

 must have come some 10 or more miles to 

 blight the trees here some years ago, and the 

 trees where bees were, 12 miles from here, 

 were full of fruit and no blight. 



Ontario, Canada. Tnos. Archer. 



Craves a Warmer Clime. 



Last year, about the same time of the year 

 that you were at Denver this year, I made a 

 trip into the mountains, and I also went up 

 to Silver Plume, as well as up Pike's Peak, so 

 I have been there, and know how to appre- 

 ciate what you have to say about the grandeur 

 of the nionntains. I now think some of 

 spending three months in California next win- 

 ter (after New Year's) if nothing prevents. I 

 do not like our cold and windy winters. It 

 was all right when I wasyoung, and for many 

 years from 185T onward I enjoyed hunting on 

 the plains, even in the winter. But that good 

 time has passed long ago. I am nearly 72 

 years old, and the fire of youth is vanishing, 

 so that I l.iegin to feel it. I crave for a warmer 

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Hall Co., Nebr., Oct. 24. Wm. Stollet. 



Little Surplus -Robber-Bees. 



Bees here did store a little surplus honey 

 late this fall. But there is not half the honey 

 this year that there was last. It is nice, clear 

 honey. The moths bother some. Neighbors' 

 bees have robbed some, but mine did not rob 

 or get robbed yet. that I know of. Some 

 neighbors lost some colonies that were rob- 

 bed. Chas. Ellis. 



Newton Co., Ind., Oct. 2r. 



No Surplus Honey. 



This has been the poorest honey season I 

 have had in .50 years' experience in bee-keep- 

 ing. The bees started out fine in the spring, 

 commenced to swarm about April 1, and quit 

 on May IS. I was not expecting them to 

 swarm, as the most of them had given up the 

 swarming craze. I had SO first swarms, but 

 am doubling and trebling all of the colonies, 

 and will have to feed them. No surplus honey 

 from any of the colonies. D. C. McLEor>. 



Christian Co., 111., Oct. 3". 



Large Queens and Hives. 



I notice first and last there is considerable 

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 queens are the most rolific, the longest lived, 

 will lay earlier in th sjiring, and their work- 



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