November, iyo7. 



U^^^^X' ^?^) American IBec Journal 



I have little tu busy myself about, so I wrilc 

 this. U. C. Li'ACii. 



Springfield, Mo., Oct. 5. 



[The above letter is of especial inter- 

 est as coming from a man who has not 

 only reached liis "three score and ten/' 

 but has gone 10 beyond it with another 

 5 for good measure. The liand-writing 

 certainly indicates a younger man. One 

 can not help wondering whether the 

 care of those 20 colonies is not helping 

 to keep him young. — KmioK.] 



Extraordinary Honey-Year. 



In Nthraska. especially in the vicinity of 

 Lincoln, we have had an extraordinary year 

 for homy. From many colonies in my small 

 apiary I have taken 3 full cases well filled 

 with beautiful white comb honey, making 72 

 pounds to the colony. It so far exceeds any- 

 thing that we have had in the last 10 years, 

 that we feel a little jubilant over the result. 

 This, no iloubt, results from requeening my 

 apiary with new Italian (lucens. You will 

 doubtless remember a year ago I wrote you 

 that I Iiad lost nearly all my bees with foul 

 brood. ICarly last spring I took proper stej'S 

 to eradicate the disease, and was successful. 

 I was satisfied that to introduce new blood 

 was the next step to take, and purchased 

 queens of pure Italian blood from one of our 

 local dealers who is an importer of the same. 

 As an instance of what new blood in an apiary 

 will do, I increased from 2 nuclei to 6 full 

 colonies, each of wliich produced a super of 

 honey — 24 sections. This I call pretty good. 

 Locality no doubt plays a very important part 

 in production of honey. 



I am now situated something like 2 miles 

 from CoUege \'iew, on Judge Kngland's farm. 

 As the Judge is an old friend of mine, it is 

 by invitation that I am thus situated in the 

 beautiful grove of catalpa trees east of his resi- 

 dence. 



The change made in the American Bee 

 Journal from a weekly to a monthly is a very 

 important one, and, for my part, I am greatly 

 pleased with it. You have added greatly to 

 the reading matter of the American Bee Jour- 

 nal. I am pleased with it as a monthly. 



Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 3. Philip Mohi.er, 



Eastern Trip Among Bee-Men. 



In a recent trip to Vermont and New York 

 I found conditions very much the same as in 

 Iowa in regard to the honey crop. At Al- 

 burgh, \'t., I spent a pleasant hour with 

 Mr. A. W. Darby, who is an extensive bee- 

 keeper. In Albany Co., N. Y. (the buck- 

 wheat country) I was entertained by Mr. C. J. 

 Bolster, who supplies the local trade with hon- 

 ey. I was surprised to learn that the greater 

 part of his trade called for buckwlieat honey, 

 of which there would be but very little on 

 account of lack of moisture. Very few bees 

 are kept in Albany county. The New York 

 black brood has done its work very thoroughly. 

 There is very little honey in this county, 

 but bees will go into winter in good condi- 

 tion. C. H. Miller. 



Jasper Co., Iowa, Sept. 27. 



A Third of a Crop — Wintering Ex- 

 periences. 



The honey crop in this section was about 

 one-third of an average crop. Bees gathered 

 no honey until after June 10, as the weather 

 had been too cold before that time for bees 

 to fly. I wintered my 50 colonies without 

 the loss of one. I wintered a part of them 

 in the cellar and a part on the summer stands. 

 I have not lost a colony out of 50 which 

 I have wintered during the last 3 years. 

 Those that are populous with young bees and 

 plenty of stores I winter on the summer 

 stands, while my lightest colonies, or those 

 which are not so populous with young bees, 

 I winter in the cellar, giving them a midwin- 

 ter flight if the weather permits. I also win- 

 ter 6 nucleus colonies every winter in the cel- 

 lar without loss, so as to have queens for 

 queenless colonies in the spring. Each nu- 

 cleus contains 3 Langstroth frames, and a 

 hive made to hold 3 nuclei, with a tight di- 

 vision-board, and a separate entrance for each. 

 There is an advantage in this method of win- 

 tering nvicleus colonics, as the nuclei all help 

 each other in keeping up the temperature dur- 

 ing the winter. 



Bees certainly acted in a freakish manner 

 last spring. Some very populous colonies 



swarnud without having gathered any hoiu-y, 

 and during times when the temperature w.is 

 not higlur than 65 degrees, when the sun 

 would tu)t be sinning more than 10 minutes 

 out of an bcuir, and in every case these swarms 

 had virgin rineens. It is my theory that these 

 colonies that swarmed had destroyed their lay- 

 ing (|ueens some time before, as they were 

 crowded with bees, ami in some cases entirely 

 ont of stores; and as the weather was so 

 cold and wet that the bees could seldom 

 Hy from their hives, I actually believe that the 

 bees destroyed their ([ueens to keep thein from 

 laying, and then swarmed when their young 

 (luecns had hatched. I woubl like to have the 

 views of tliose better informed as to these 

 instances. James Wolfe. 



Captina, W. Va., Oct. 14. 



Subseription Price Now 50e a Year 



On July 1, 1907, when we decided to 

 change the American Bee Journal from 

 a 16-pa^e weekly tu a 32-page monthly 

 publication, we reduced the price from 

 $1.00 a year to 25 cents. We have since 

 discovered that the 25-cent rate was en- 

 tirely too low, in view of the kind of a 

 bee-paper we are making every month. 

 We do not wish to lower the standard 

 now, and as labor, materials of all kinds 

 including white paper, etc., have ad- 

 vanced in cost, we feel that the best 

 thing we can do — in fact, the only thing 

 to do — is to put the subscription price 

 at 50 cents a year ; in Chicago. 75 cents ; 

 in Canada, 60 cents; and in all other 

 countries in the Postal Union, 25 cents a 

 year extra for postage, or 75 cents. 

 These new rates began with Septem- 

 ber, 1907. 



We are sure that our hosts of readers 

 and friends will feel we are doing the 

 right thing in this, as they certainly 

 would not want us to continue at too 

 Iowa subscription price. At 50 cents a 

 year, this 32-page copy would cost the 

 subscriber only about 4 cents — two 2- 

 cent stamps — surely cheap enough, 

 when its valuable contents are consid- 

 ered. Why, "Dr. Miller's Question- 

 Box'' alone is worth many times the 

 subscription price, to say nothing of all 

 the other valuable departments. 



It is our intention to keep the old 

 American Bee Journal at the head of 

 the procession, where it has been for so 

 many years. And to do this we will 

 need the hearty co-operation of all our 

 readers. There are yet thousands of 

 bee-keepers who have never heard of 

 the American Bee Journal. Many of 

 them are your neighbors; can you not 

 show them what they are losing by not 

 having it every month ? 



On another page we offer many useful 

 things as premiums for getting new sub- 

 scriptions. W^e will be pleased to mail 

 sample copies to any names and ad- 

 dresses of bee-keepers that may be sent 

 to this office. If every present sub- 

 scriber would send in just one new sub- 

 scription during this month, by Nov. 

 1st our list would be doubled. Why not 

 do at least that much to help along a 

 good cause — your own cause ? We are 

 ready to do our part — will you. dear 

 reader, not join with us in putting the 

 monthly circulation of the old American 

 Bee Journal up to where it ought to be ? 



Apiarian Pictures 



We would be glad to have those who 

 can do so. send us pictures of bee- 

 yards, or of anything else that would be 

 of interest along the line of bee-keep- 

 ing. 



73^ 



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