Nov. 13, 1 )02. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



733 



the separators, Imt full ahiiulH uf comli foun- 

 dation is not thi' remedy. The starter I liavo 

 t)een usint,^ for tlie last ei^'"lit yoarH is a V- 

 sliaped j)iece, reaeliirit; nearly tlic entire 

 len^tli of the soctio]! at tlie lop, and extend- 

 iiiH to within an ineli of tlie lioltoin. It snr- 

 Ijrises ino to see it advocated by old bee-keep- 

 ers to put a bottom starter in the section in 

 ■order to ^jet tlie condis fastened. I do not use 

 such a starter at all, and ouV of 1(1(1,000 sec- 

 lions of comb honey, I do not believe 100 sec- 

 tions were not fastened to the bottom solid. 

 A. C. F. Bautz. 

 Chippewa Co., Wis., Nov. M. 



Wet Season— Carniolan Bees. 



Strantje things have occurred here in ]'.W.i. 

 As I reported some time a{2:o, we had a tine 

 flow last spring, but we have had one of the 

 dryest, liottest summers ever known here. 

 It seems strange to read what Northern bee- 

 keepers say about cold, wet weather when we 

 are burning and drying up. 



The droulli lasted from May :il to Aug. HO, 

 •when the rain came. Nearly everything was 

 dried up, and most of the bees verging on 

 starvation. I am glad to say, after the rain 

 came, everything started anew, and the bees 

 went to work rearing young brood like they 

 do in the spring. 



Some of the bees have four or five gallons 

 of honey to the colony, and are still working. 

 But we will soon have frost. 



The most of my colonies have a tine lot of 

 young bees to go through the winter. 



I have read with interest all Dr. Gallup has 

 said about rearing queens. I believe the Doc- 

 tor is nearer right than some of our bee-men 

 are willing to admit. I have tried to rear 

 ([ueens in weak colonies several limes this 

 year, but I failed nearly every time to get a 

 good one. I do not see how it is that so many 

 report failure with queens they buy; I have 

 bought several, and they have all done very 

 well except one. I must say a good word for 

 the (Jarniolans: during the dry weather they 

 kept rearing bees. When the honey-tlow 

 came they had plenty of bees to gather the 

 honey, but the blacks were too weak to do 

 much. If you want to build your bees up 

 fast, just get one or two Carniolans and rear 

 all the queens you want. .1. S. Patton. 



Hale Co., Ala., Oct. 31. 



Asters. 



I enclose two flowers on which the bees 

 work so much— one with white (lowers and 

 the other with yellow and blue flowers. What 

 are they * F. J. Gunzel. 



Poinsett Co., Ark. 



[Both are Asters : the one with white flow- 

 ers is Aster-Belgii, commonly called white- 

 weed ; the other is Aster Uevis. These are 

 valuable honey-plants, and are among the lat- 

 est flowers to attract bees. — C. L. Walton.! 



Results of a Wet Season. 



I never saw as much wet weather as we 

 have had this year; it has rained as often as 

 every other day since last April, and has been 

 quite cool. 



I started in this spring with 11 colonies of 

 bees, and increased to 22. I have taken off 

 1057 pounds of nice honey. 



We had about 4 weeks of nice white clover 

 bloom ; the bees worked well on it, notwith- 

 standing the wet weather. They are well 

 provided for the winter with nice honey, and 

 are in fine shape. 



I am selling my No. 1 honey by the case for 

 1432' cents per pound, and the light weight 

 lor '2 sections for 25 cents, and my extracted 

 at 13 cents a pound, with good sales. I have 

 bought nearly a ton of honey of my brother 

 bee-keepers, so I have honey to supply my cus- 

 tomers. 



Bees have done very well here in the Lake 

 Champlain valley. I have reports from others 

 only about two miles from here, and they say 

 their bees are starving. 



I have had orders for honey from Pennsyl- 

 vania. I find thai fair dealing and honest 

 weight, and putting the honey up in cartons, 

 with name and address on them, bring me 



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