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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Nov. 13, 190?. 



A New Edition. 19th Thousand. 



Froi.6oolCsB66-K66D6r'S Guide 



Or, Manual of the Apiary. 



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all dun an'dora viraensnhaviblak-das stove an 

 set das table, den ve goan to sit down an 

 have big feast, an ay tank ve goan to prove 

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If das hogs don't git out, or some ting go 

 rong, ay bean come over nex' veek. 



Yon Yonson. 



PROF. A. J. COOK. 



This standard work on practical bee-keeping has just 

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Bees Did Fairly Well. 



My bees have done fairly well this season. 

 I got 200U pounds of comb honey from 33 

 colonies, spring count, and increased to 38. 

 They are in good shape for winter. This is 

 getting to be a very fair place for bees, and 

 they do as well here as anywhere. 



F. H. Miller. 



Barton Co., Kans., Oct. 31. 



He Apppeeiates tliis Journal. 



The American Bee Journal is just the paper 

 for any one keeping bees. I fail to see how 

 any person can do without it and make a suc- 

 cess keeping bees. I got my experience from 

 it by putting what I read to practical use. 

 W. J. Brown. 



Skagit Co., Wash., Oct. 27. 



Honey Crop Almost a Failure. 



The honey crop was rather a failure in this 

 locality. A bee-keeper in this neighborhood, 

 having 450 colonies, had nothing to extract, 

 although the bees have the hives heavy now, 

 which insures at least good wintering. There 

 is at present a good Mow of honey from vari- 

 ous fall flowers. In some places the ground 

 is covered for acres with yellow flowers; it 

 seems they belong to the sunflower family. 



I extracted 360 pounds of honey from S col- 

 onies, and increased to 18; but I have to feed 

 some of them. Otto Suelsenfuss. 



Bexar Co,, Tex., Oct. 28. 



Only a Fair Yield. 



Although the weather the past summer was 

 too chilly and wet I secured a little overlOO 

 sections of honey from U colonies, and they 

 were all sold to private families. They all 

 came after the honey. J. W. Leib. 



Franklin Co., Ohio, Nov. 4. 



Building Comb to Separators. 



I know from actual experience with hun- 

 dreds of colonies, that the starter hasn't any- 

 thing to do with building comb to the sep- 

 arator whatever, unless it breaks loose. 



I have been wondering for some years past 

 why so many bee-keepers advocate full sheets 

 of comb foundation in sections, when, in this 

 country, half and quarter sheets produce just 

 as good results. I think that the advocating 

 of full sheets of comb foundation is either 

 advertising for the foundation, or else an 

 ignorant statement ot those making it. I 

 think the same is true with fence separators. 

 1 have produced thou.samls and thousands of 

 sections of comb honey, with plain separators, 

 with sections partly tilled with comb founda- 

 tion, and very seldom have any attached to 

 the sei):irator. They hiive been as white as 

 snow, and as straight as a board, so much so 

 that I have taken preiiiiuius five or six times 

 in succession, at the Northern State Fair, over 

 any sections ; the fence separators are no ex- 

 ception. J ,1. . , M 



When I see a statement made that tun 

 sheets of comb foundation will do away with 

 brace-comb, it makes me feel badly, not for 

 those who make the statement, but for the 

 poor beginners, who, like myself, seek a rem- 

 edy for their troubles, and will invest heavily 

 in the things recommended through the bee- 

 papers, only to be disaj .pointed. 



1 am not able, however, to give a remedy to 

 prevent the bees from attaching the combs to 



